December 2011
11 posts
Economic Downturn Took a Detour at Capitol Hill →
barelyconcealednuance:
Today, Mr. Pastor, a miner’s son and a former high school teacher, is a member of a not-so-exclusive club: Capitol Hill millionaires. That group has grown in recent years to include nearly half of all members of Congress — 250 in all — and the wealth gap between lawmakers and their constituents appears to be growing quickly, even as Congress debates unemployment benefits,...
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Watchbashford:
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Personalize its shape.
Change its behaviour on the web or your iPhone.
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You and Mark Aren't Friends
thenewinquiry:
Facebook’s Timeline turns your old updates into an unexpurgated biography
by Giovanni Tiso
Timeline is the story of your life.
—Mark Zuckerberg
Nine beef consommés, one iced cucumber soup, one mussel soup
—Georges Perec, “Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Ninteen Hundred and Seventy-Four”
Four months...
Live SOPA Coverage →
morningstar:
Watch our Huxleyan society morph into an Orwellian society, live on the soon-to-be-censored internet!
