February 2009
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“Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget airline, might start...”
– Ryanair may charge for toilet use on planes - Yahoo! News UK
Is it April 1st already?! In their words from this very same week: “Lunatic bloggers can have the blog sphere all to themselves as our people are far too busy driving down the cost of air travel”. I can see how they are...
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“The NY Metropolitan Museum has 2,5 visits per artwork, compared to Rhizome with...”
– Discussing the Crisis in New Media Art @ ARCO Madrid by Geert Lovink
Every time I’ve met Geert Lovink, at one conference or another, I have disagreed with most of his views. But in this, I have to agree with him: there is a need for a new paradigm in art exhibitions. It is not just necessary...
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This Side of the Pleasure Principle , Brian Joseph...
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WatchThe Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela’s life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez’ Danzón No. 2. The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra is the national high-school-age youth orchestra of El Sistema, made up of the best young...
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“I wish you would help create and document a special training program for at...”
– TED Prize » José Abreu
Before Abreu got the TED Prize, I was involved in a proposal to bring this very same system to the United Arab Emirates. They were not ready for it (I won’t get into detail because let’s just say it’s been a pretty frustrating path). Now I wish there...
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A little respect, Erasure.
Because Friday is the...
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“Failure is, according to the course prospectus, “a graduate critique seminar...”
– The Chronicle of Artistic Failure in America » The Syllabus of Failure (A course by California College of the Arts)
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“From the 17th through the early 20th century, capitalism needed greed, and...”
– Judith Levine on thrift, religion, money and American culture | Salon Life
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Besame Mucho, Cesaria Evora (Señor Coconut...
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“Ryanair can confirm that a Ryanair staff member did engage in a blog discussion....”
– Ryanair spokesperson (via jhnbrssndn)
Moreover, the original Ryanair staff had this intelligent exchange with the original blogger: “Later that afternoon, someone calling themselves ‘Ryanair Staff’ posted the following comment, which we’ve published in all its...
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AFP: Former Vatican State Secretary is "intimately... →
The article is in Spanish (I couldn’t find an English translation yet), but that’s not the point. I just linked it because Angelo Sodano, the former State Secretary of the Vatican used a certain expression to describe how he feels about the whole Holocaust denial fiasco: he said he is “intimately hurt”. And then I realized, how much language from erotica/ sex does the...
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Amazing Grace, Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson...
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La Femme Naturelle, Le Mal d’Archive
The...
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bebelestrange:
what’s going on tumblr? i can’t see any photos…is it just me?
No, not just you. I was just testing the same thing in another computer and all yield the same result: no photos.
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European Creationists Take On Darwin
In June 2007, the Council of Europe’s Committee on Culture, Science and Education released a report entitled “The Dangers of Creationism in Education.” According to Anne Brasseur, a member of the council who collaborated on the report, its goal was to firmly anchor the theory of evolution in school curricula.
The report was prompted by resistance to teaching Darwin’s...
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“After the sun has set in the Swat Valley, small groups of men furtively enter...”
– Bowing down to the Taliban | Salon News
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Who would you want to narrate your life?
branduponthebrain:
Ira Glass or Werner Herzog Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, and Morgan Freeman would be second tier candidates.
That’s an easy one: David Lynch. Wim Wenders from his early works as well (nothing, and I mean, nothing after Paris, Texas). And on my tacky days: John Waters. I wonder how he would portray my Spanish mother. Along those lines, Pedro Almodovar would probably...
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Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's... →
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“What we’ve had over the last forty years is an ideology in academic life...”
– Denis Dutton, founder of Arts and Letters Daily in the new edition of Edge
There is also a video of the interview, well worth the watch.
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