January 2011
7 posts
On Computers, Profusely | Back to the World →
towerofsleep: Just read Chris Randle’s post about Lil B. It’s really good.
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
Georgia Straight: Sign of a spreading Arab... →
notablynovelty: Abdelkaer’s tweet states: “revolution-inspired hashtag dates already being planned for the rest of the Arab world - Sudan #Jan30 Yemen #Feb3 Syria #Feb5 Algeria #Feb12”. If poor young Arabs rise up against their governments in Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Algeria on those dates, it will indicate once again that it’s tougher for dictatorial regimes to keep a lid on protests in ...
Jan 31st
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Fuck the fucking Canadian government →
davidsmind: skittleguy: 25 GB is nothing.  This fucking blows. I hate this goddamn country. Fuck this extra-hard, as I lost my job with a small ISP because of this ruling. Shit, that’s tough. So sorry to hear that… :(
Jan 27th
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n+1: Revolt of the Elites →
towerofsleep: What would elite culture look like if you forgot about class for a second? Essentially an opposite point of view to Bourdieu’s was offered by Ortega y Gasset in his 1929 classic The Revolt of the Masses (which foresaw that European variety of politico-cultural populism known as fascism). The beautiful blindness of Ortega’s analysis was to ignore social distinctions in favor of...
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Happy 10th Anniversary of the Actual Millennium
Jan 1st