July 2009
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Fastest Rendition Of “Hello Dolly” On A Moving Piano, from the Universal Records Database, where everyone can break a record.
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Eco-villages, video-surveillance cameras, spirituality, biotechnologies and...
– The Coming Insurrection
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Bank Sues Itself →
“Extreme economic problems require extreme solutions, and Wells Fargo Bank has come up with a good one. They have decided to sue themselves. Wells Fargo holds the first and second mortgages on a condominium that is going into foreclosure. As holder of the first, they are suing all other lien holders, including the holder of the second, which is Wells Fargo. It gets better. The company has...
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The Devil is in the Retail
The privatization of public space, and what to do about it.
‘The city has become a visually-branded backdrop to retail in which life is not lived but product is consumed. The Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg, who has been responsible for a number of innovative interventions in the Caracas favelas, eloquently addresses the problem as the need to “move from a city of seeing to a city...
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We stand on the nodal point of a great, creaking, crunching change in historical...
– I studied print journalism. Now what?