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27Jan/100

Gee, If Only I Was With the Party for the “preservation of powerful, monied interests”…

...I'd enjoy FOX NEWS more.

The institutional dynamics of American politics favor doing less in general, and yet more in the pursuit and preservation of powerful, monied interests. Nobody familiar with the long, slow, costly political battles for abolition, labor equality, consumer protection, civil rights and women's rights would dare argue otherwise.

via FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: This President Ought to Know Better.

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23Dec/090

STEAM sale is happening…

Screenshot of the wonderful BRAID

The wonderful BRAID

Folks, there are some really great games available over at STEAM, and they're marked down for the big Holiday Sale.  I can't speak for all of them, but I can recommend BRAID (only $2.49 !!), MACHINARIUM (beautiful game, for $9.99), and MIRROR'S EDGE (at a ridiculous $4.99).

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22Dec/090

Film Inspiration

Still image from LA JETEE

Still image from LA JETEE

Film often runs in parallel with life and it feeds off it but I don't think it necessarily nurtures it. I don't think it necessarily contributes in the way we think it does. We, in our world, in our bubble that we work in, imagine that it does but I am not sure that it does. - Danny Boyle

Nice article in THE INDEPENDENT regarding films that inspired directors: The movie that mattered to me - Features, Films - The Independent.

From the book:  Screen Epiphanies: Filmmakers on the Films that Inspired Them

Tip 'the hat to Kottke for the link...

16Dec/090

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14Dec/090

Twitter Updates for 2009-12-14

  • Ha. This looks like Liz Lemon's bed (go Millennium Falcon! Go!) http://bit.ly/8V2IOy (if only it rotated and made 'whooshing' sounds' #fb #
  • Holiday Giving // Give a thought to one of my favorite charities: Friends of New Orleans - http://shar.es/a8l6m #fb #

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12Dec/090

Twitter Updates for 2009-12-12

  • I might start a band just so I can call it "Turkey Sandwich Team Captain" // defective yeti — Haircut 2.0 - http://shar.es/a8bX8 #
  • Braved ice storm tonight for History Dept potluck party. Tamales were tasty, so totally worth it. #

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