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February 9, 2010

The World Capital of Killing - New York Times Op-Ed

Nicholas Kristof, on Congo

One of the people the militia had kidnapped was a doctor who was forced to treat the soldiers. The doctor, seeing that Jeanne was close to dying in obstructed childbirth, cut her open with an old knife, without anesthetic, and removed the stillborn baby. Jeanne was delirious and almost dead, so the militia dumped her beside a road.

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Notice when your design is flawed (via rands)
…and this is what going mad feels like.

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mrgan:

WW2 Dazzle Camouflage, intended to confuse German vessels as to the size and direction of ships. You have to imagine it in crazy neon colors. (via Cocoia)

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February 8, 2010

Polish Posters Shop

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Bruce Sterling’s keynote on atemporality, at Berlin’s Transmediale

If progress is to go beyond the banal indulgences that give rise to a never-ending array of car shell designs then we need to analyse our present time with regard to its aesthetics and its media.

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“ One thing you have to understand about this gadget is that the gadget disappears pretty quickly. You’re looking into pure software.

David Carr gets it.

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xkcd

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Wooster Collective: Seen On The Streets Of Dublin

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“ And also there’s this intense sense of futurity, in that if you opened up your newspaper or laptop tomorrow and it said,”They’ve cloned six South Koreans successfully and they’re all named Kim,” you would believe it, there would be no surprise there. Anything could happen. […] So we live in this world of anticipation of strangeness, of change, rapidly accelerating change.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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curvedwhite:

“Woolly Mammoth” by Josh Brill

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“ Anonymous rude comments are the coolest way to anonymously tell the world you don’t think you are very important.

Kelly Oxford (via marco)

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February 7, 2010

Emanuela De Paula for Wish Report Brazil
foto_decadent

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(via yimmyayo)

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“ The only connection I would make between porn and advertising is that both refer to and play off deep needs, which are then translated into an extremely bland and superficial mass language where no depth is allowed — thus in a way violating the humanity of the need.

Mary Gaitskill (via)

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February 6, 2010

James Cameron: The Right Way Forward On Space Exploration - Washington Post

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