Matt Cherette — Last night, CNN’s John King moderated the first Republican primary debate of the 2012 election season. High on theatrics, like King’s stupid "This or That" questions for each candidate, the debate had many critics. And as you’ll see in the above clip from tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart wasn’t all that impressed [...]
You and your friends simultaneously leave posts on someone’s Facebook wall. Once you “reserve” a block of posts, change your profile pictures to a letter, spelling out anything you want. Let’s Letterbomb.
VISIT LINK: The Internet is for revolution – We must make it so that a country, if it wants to turn off Internet-enabled revolution, must turn off the Internet itself.
The Giving Pledge is an effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. VISIT LINK: The Giving Pledge – 40 billionaires vow to donate half their wealth (tags: charity economics design economy information inspiration money people philanthropy politics social teaching bill_gates buffet [...]
The last eight presidents have gone on television and promised to move America towards an energy-independent future. VISIT LINK: An Energy-Independent Future (The Daily Show) (tags: 2010 economics energy funny government history humor news politics tv usa videos video dailyshow daily_show barackobama autos …)
Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday. On Monday, he said, the Treasury Department will issue a general license for the export [...]
If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold? Repetitive newspapers comics joke is repetitive… (tags: blog funny images humor media politics comics environment science bd cartoon cartoons change dumb globalwarming stupid climate satire algore gore …)
Donate to Wikileaks today Wikileaks is a global platform for Whistleblowers, in which internal documents can be published. The idea is that arcane knowledge becomes common knowledge and the world a better place. The project could play in the same league as success stories like Wikipedia or Indymedia. Interview of Julian Assange, the most prominent [...]
"Alive In Joburg" – The short before "District 9" directed by Neill Blomkamp (tags: video film politics movies 3d district9 short d-9 Blomkamp NeillBlomkamp …)
Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait "Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that [...]
The Billion Dollar Gram Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. It's all relative right? (tags: design business inspiration graphics image politics interesting graphicdesign statistics map visualization information war money economics data usa crisis economy color iraq dollar infographics graph chart visualisation billion infographic billions …)
How a PR firm contracted to Monsanto appears to have played a crucial but invisible role in shaping scientific discourse "Monsanto knows better than any other corporation the costs of visibility. Its clumsy attempts, in 1997, to persuade people that they wanted to eat GM food all but destroyed the market for its crops. Determined [...]
Umberto Eco – Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be [...]
Is China crowing too soon? Private vs state business: It’s quite hard to compete when you’re playing against the referee. In his book ‘A Century of Ebb and Flow’, author Wu Xiaobo argues that entrepreneurs’ problems pre-date the founding of the Communist party 60 years ago. Under the Qing emperors and the Nationalists who succeeded [...]
How China 50 Cent Army Could Wreck Web 2.0 The CCP has hired thousands of freelance Internet propagandists whose job is to infiltrate chat rooms, message boards and comment areas on the Internet posing as ordinary users to voice support for the agenda and interest of the CCP. They praise China’s one-party system and condemn [...]