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2012-01-10
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Tunisia’s ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is to be tried in absentia on June 20.
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2012-01-08
Vernacular Video with Bruce Sterling
Analog television was a centralized, one-to-many broadcast medium. Television splintered when cable and satellite fragmented the audience. Then digital video fragmented analog television. Now video is being pulverized into zero-cost mix-and-match applications, where devices in purses and pockets can have global reach in minutes. What does that mean, and how is that going to feel?
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Wanderlust: The best thing I've read on nomadism since Bruce Chatwin.
A friend sent me the essay “On Being an Illegible Person” by Venkatesh Rao. The title first got my attention: I took “illegible” to mean the way we become when we have moved around the world so much that the traits that make us culturally identifiable, like accent, dress, apparent educational…
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2012-01-07
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2012-01-06
EM Update: 2011 Homeland Security Grant Regional Regional Stakeholder Grant Meetings scheduled
The Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs and Homeland Security and VDEM have scheduled a regional meeting in each of the seven VDEM regions during the month of August. The meetings will assess national and state priorities for the DHS 2011 Homeland Security Grant Program and provide a brief grants…
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2012-01-05
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2012-01-02
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation… It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.
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2011-12-31
Scuzz TV Blog: Win a Kramer Guitar and guitar lessons from Sylosis shredders Josh Middleton
Josh Middleton
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2011-12-30
Our new favorite coffee bar (not quite a café, certainly not a Starbucks) is Coutume at 47 rue Babylone, a short walk from Les Invalides or the Musée Rodin or Bon Marché (take your pick). These folks are deeply into the artistry of coffee making, as you can see from the bags and roasters in the back, and the way Kevin Ayers (late of Iowa City) is blowing life into this infernal machine. The staff is welcoming, knowledgeable and international. But Coutume, which opened just last March, is now so popular that you’d best call ahead to make reservations: 33 1
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