January 2012
CBC - Day 6 ~ YAOGUN: Chinese Rock N Roll in Ten... →
Drummer and author Jonathan Campbell thinks the West deserves more yaogun (yow-GOON). That’s what you might call chinese rock and roll.
The rock and roll scene there is a mere 25 years old. And it’s evolution says plenty about how China has grown in those years.
Caught this segment of today’s Day 6. Really fascinating stuff, particularly Lonely China Day (which I now...
December 2011
JournoGeekery: Realignment. →
journo-geekery:
I’ve changed corporate parentage, in an interesting turn of events. Today was my last day at msnbc.com. I start at the New York Times by February, after taking a bit of time to see family and move cross-country. Expect pretty much the same here, though the reblogged parental content* may shift…
Today’s been the full-court-press of making sure all folks know my...
The Daily: The hackers of tomorrow →
thedailyfeed:
Cybercrime in 2012 is a whole new ballgame.
McAfee, the computer security firm, warns that in 2012, hackers and other cybercriminals will likely take advantage of consumers’ increasing affinity for mobile shopping by targeting smartphone apps that handle financial transactions.
The…
The FJP: Censorship, Surveillance and Hackers →
futurejournalismproject:
A great article in Forbes on Telecomix, a group of hackers that have aimed their sites, and hacking chops, on free-speech starved countries. The group has also exposed western (mostly American) technology firms whose products have (knowingly or unknowingly, depending on who you…
Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for... →
Lost the via on this one—apologies.
The Ethical Guide to Dining Out
utnereader:
Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant kitchen knows the backbreaking work, the questionable conditions, and the meager rewards. Now, it’s easy to find the restaurants that treat their employees right with the 2012 National Diners’ Guide, presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). The guide outlines the pay and benefits of 186 of the country’s most...
No One Is Above The Law « The Baseline Scenario →
…three years later, the megabanks are even bigger, as is the risk they concentrate (see my recent testimony to the Financial Institutions subcommittee of the Senate Banking Committee for details.) Curiously, their precariousness, as much as their power, is shielding these behemoths from the enforcement of financial fraud laws.
Thankfully, this lawlessness – and it is that – nettles some...
THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION... A SUCCESS
arewepayingattention:
If the 1960s saw America’s first tentative steps towards social equality and distributive justice, the Right-wing gained power in 1980 with the Reagan Revolution, determined to undo all that… and more.
They succeeded. Big time. Look at the numbers. They succeeded so well that the economy is imperiled by the inequality they sought and attained.
So thorough is their...
“Sure, gender roles can be restrictive — but so can these rebellious-princess...”
– Pixar’s girl problem, by screenwriter John August (via hellbox)
“A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...”
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story
(via wreckandsalvage)
“The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a...”
– Joshua Kopstein, Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (via drinkyourjuice) This friends, is the most important article you’ll read today. (via shortformblog)
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Agreed.
(via vicemag)
In Syria, Surge in Killings Reported Before... →
Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist... →
And yet with action films, the moral and political ideas in play are surpassingly easy to spot. What about the entertainment films that came later, during the era of CGI – the big-budget films primarily generated from more imaginary fare, such as the apparently numberless comic book franchises of Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Captain America, et al? In these...
“Vaclav Havel has pointed out, in the spirit of a warning, how easily language...”
– Jeremy Campbell, The Liar’s Tale: A History of Falsehood (via wwnorton)
Wyden-Ryan is not a compromise proposal - The... →
Ezra Klein, doing what he seems to do best: cutting massively irritating problems down to bite-sized understandable, teeth-gritting problems.
Searching for secrets at Yahoo… →
In short, after going to some lengths to hide a lot of information about its pact with Microsoft, Yahoo has gone to still more effort to disclose a smidgen of almost utterly meaningless additional information about it. This doesn’t seem to be at the SEC’s behest, because no staff comment letters are on file since July. (Though thanks to the SEC’s sometimes lengthy delays in disclosing comment...
Columbia Ideas at Work : Feature : Like Daughter,... →
Via @hellbox. Lots of thoughts in response to this, ranging from the icky continued patrimony of “protecting” a girl-child to irritation that the wife/girlfriend of said CEO isn’t female motivation enough compared to the potential earnings of a child.
Yet I’m still glad it happens if it results in the right thing.
