January 2010
37 posts
“Here’s what changed for me: the whole calculus of risk,” he said....”
– I believed beyond doubt that Iraq had WMD, Tony Blair tells inquiry | UK news | guardian.co.uk
94,902 – 103,549 violent civilian deaths as a result of the Iraq conflict. According to www.iraqbodycount.org
“In today’s vapid celebrity culture these heroes of yesteryear have shone...”
– Howard Zinn’s lesson to us all | Victoria Brittain | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
WatchHoward Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove
Oh no. I completely missed this. A truly great man.
sleephouseradio:
Matthew Young - ‘Objects In...
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Lido Pimienta - ‘Mueve’ (Mp3)
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Sleephouse Radio - Podcast...
Sylvia Plath: You're | Books | The Guardian →
This is gonna be quite the experience.
dontmakelists:
#340 - Acoustic Ladyland - Salt...
Four Tet - There Is Love In You - SoundCloud →
sleephouseradio:
Preview the whole new Fourtet album right here.
Got it on now - it’s sounding good…
fucking good.
sleephouseradio:
1. Vic Thrill - ‘Brevia Buzz...
LBJ ORDERs SOME NEW HAGGAR PANTS →
Amazing phone recording of LBJ ordering pants.
“An anti-capitalist political movement can start anywhere (in labor processes,...”
– David Harvey: Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
I think the key point here is to think about how long the process from feudalism to capitalism actually took. Given that we’ve only had roughly 100 years of communist experiment, I think there’s a fair amount of hope to be...
standardgrey:
songz:
This is a track from my...
k-punk: "This is not the time to score political... →
towerofsleep:
“The response by some commenters to Peter Hallward’s essential piece on Haiti shows once again why The Guardian’s Comment Is Free is so often one of the most depressing sites on the net. In a swamp of middle mass complacency like CiF, you’d expect the howls of “Half-witted pseudo-marxist gibberish”, but what of the staggering: “You can’t bring history into this.” Then there’s the...
“I think the two biggest things happening around then that got me going were from...”
– Kieran Hebden (via piercethenight) (via pgwp)
yeah, innit?
pgwp:
dontforgetthecoffee:
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Vancouver engineers its own urban dream -... →
I want to read this. Blogged for later.
Also, I am really down about North America and Canada recently (after years of looking westward). For some reason, I believe Europe is where it’s at currently. Why is this?
Dear Steve Jobs →
i like the way the swedes get stuff done.
Watchtumbledore:
Eirik Solheim filmed from the same spot in his Oslo backyard once a week for an entire year and made a time-lapse video with the footage. The video isn’t sped up in typical time-lapse fashion, with an entire year seamlessly passing in 120 seconds.
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Oslo might be the most expensive city in the world but it sure is pretty (unless you come from Bergen, of course).
towerofsleep:
fallingandlaughing:
“Dub Will...
sleephouseradio:
Issue 12: Vic Chesnutt Tribute
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BBC iPlayer - The Monday Documentary: Defining the... →
Fuck me - it’s a fucking grim perspective looking back at that last decade. Good riddance.
