- Esquire for $8 a year. 83% off. http://amzn.to/hZgPPs
- “Doctors in Yemen say nerve gas used on protesters.” http://bit.ly/hB30tp
- The beautiful mind of Jonathan Jansen: http://thedm.biz/gVpQXg
- Our Universities: How Bad? How Good? The New York Review of Books http://ow.ly/49scE
- How Cynthia Breazeal Is Teaching Robots How to Be Human: http://bit.ly/dRXDXL
Five Links:
Five Links:
- via @TuftsOSS — In 2010, 82% of the world’s largest companies, reported their climate change strategies and emissions data: http://bit.ly/a6vPPJ
- via @rachelbotsman — Harvard Business Review: Collaborative Consumption is not a niche trend, & it’s not a reactionary blip to the recession http://bit.ly/cuyXBO
- via @wonkroom — Elizabeth Warren leaps into the fray by looking to simplify mortgage-disclosure documents http://bit.ly/bdBjuR #cfpb
- via @nytimes — Eileen Nearne, Wartime Spy, Dies at 89 http://nyti.ms/dk3mDb
- via @bookbench — Electricity, security, and the economy: on the challenges of owning a bookstore in Iraq: http://bit.ly/98wnzS
Five Links:
- On Background. (TNR.)
- “It now takes 18 months for the planet to generate what we consume in 12.”
- Egyptian Youth Using Social Media to Close the Gap. (Global Voices.)
- “Journalism can exist outside of time.”
- A relative oldie but still very much a goodie — “Screens, Buses, Kegs and Cranes.”
Five Links:
- Old Moscow – wonderful vintage photos from a private Russian archive: http://bit.ly/9fYg86 (via @brainpicker)
- Israel to deport hundreds of children of migrant workers; most were born there and speak Hebrew: http://lat.ms/91CGxG (via @latimes)
- The British economy expanded by 1.1% during the three months to the end of June: http://econ.st/dkyzIT#economist #britain #economy (via @theeconomist)
- iPad used by UK troops in Afghan operations: http://tinyurl.com/27vnrgw (via @internethaiti)
- Japan Proposes Holographic World Cup 2022: http://is.gd/dT3nf (via @weirdnews)
Five Links:
- The new division of labor: adding profits, subtracting workers.
- The stories of one Brooklyn block.
- What’s the fastest ISP in your city? Look it up here.
- via wdjstraw (UK) — The coalition’s £6bn of so-called “efficiency savings” are decimating young people’s services http://bit.ly/cGfTds
- Watch the entire McCartney show at the White House here.
Some Green News:
While I swing to this, here’s a quick update —
- In Portland — RT @sarahmirk Standing ovation for @MayorSamAdam’s promise: “By the end of the week, we will have a draft ordinance out that will ban single-use bags.”
- Spain overtakes US with world’s biggest solar power station http://bit.ly/abZCM6
- Monitor Your Electricity Usage: 1 Million in Southern California Already Have a Smart Meter. http://bit.ly/9LtTLO
Five Links:
- @wyntonmarsalis: This video is from our 2008 rehearsal of “Billie”, composed by master accordionist Richard Galliano http://bit.ly/dztSSK
- Argentina – beautiful new travel photo gallery by @NatGeoSociety http://bit.ly/aAvCf5 (via @Marilyn_Res)
- No full Social Security benefits until age 70?: http://bit.ly/9vvgnN
- New MP and former Oxford historian Gregg McClymont has written a blog on Hardie and the Liberals for Keir Hardie Day: http://bit.ly/bLs1GR
- Ed Kashi On Photographing Pakistan http://n.pr/dqeKBq
Five Links:
- Forty Great Ad Campaigns.
- Martin Clark on Grime/Dubstep.
- New Chilean President supports a decrease in its GHG growth of 20% by 2020 http://bit.ly/aLW7rc #cop16 #climate
- Women of The Daily Show Speak.
- ROMA in Buenos Ares / Escif in Spain.
Five Links:
- Bordwell’s great book “Ozu and the Poetics of the Cinema” is downloadable free in a beautiful pdf file. http://j.mp/bWAdAp
- The first-ever recorded video of Ghandi, circa 1947 http://bit.ly/dwLrmx
- In Haiti, Tent Cities Are Becoming Rape Epicenters: http://bit.ly/cjN16Y
- Still homeless from Haiti earthquake, thousands fight forced evictions http://bit.ly/csAYl9
- A post-Katrina school needs help getting books. Pitch in: http://readthisbook.us/2010/06/28/help-a-post-katrina-school-re-make-its-library/
Mid-year review: Unposted Links:
We’ve done a round-up of all the music we’ve posted during the past six months. Here’s a collection of links we’ve collected but haven’t yet posted ‘til now —
February:
U.S. Intelligence Warns of Genocide in South Sudan — McConnell Fighting Effort to Block Spending by Foreign Corporations — Amazon Rain Forest Near Tipping Point — Requiem for La Journal Hebdomadiere — Iraqis: Adjusting to America, Or Not — America’s Cocaine Habit and Haiti — G-7 Officials Promise Continued Stimulus (Hah!) — Some Pakistanis Are Very Angry with the U.S. — “The President himself does not have to sign off on kill orders.” — 1 in 4 Americans: Employed to Guard the Wealth of the Rich? — Insurers Enjoying Record Profits as they cut Millions from their Rolls — The Compelling Case for the Cable Car — Journalist deaths reach ‘record level’ in 2009 — 41% of the Peruvian Amazon is covered by oil and gas companies, the highest number in the country’s history — Death in Gaza — Covering Washington like Kabul — Building a City With A Soul in Jordan — Great Foods of London: Beard Papa’s — Lost Landscapes of Detroit — Global Lives Video Installation — Wind Farm Cost Reductions Since the mid-90’s — Berlusconi likes weathergirls, a Miss Italy contestant, and a showgirl turned dentist as electoral candidates — Millenial sea change — 7 business ideas from Spiegel Online — the static universe in the middle of entropic universes —
