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So this one afternoon, I was turning on my PS3 and ready to play some Saints. After I chose my profile (I share my PS3) it didn't show the menu, it went straight to the game. I didn't care much - less effort. The game showed the Volition logo then Game Spy - nothing strange here - but I KNEW something was up when as it loaded it showed the Saints symbol on the screen in a kind of gold. It flashed red and made the voice you hear when Male 1 (my character) gets lit on fire. "Wow."
I was at the main menu. Instead of playing a random Hip Hop song it played Ghosts of Perdition by Opeth. This scared me out of shock of just hearing screamo the minute it turned on.
"Probably just a gli- wait!" I saw at the top of the screen where it SHOULD say 'Saints Row 2' it said 'The Saint'. What was this? A hidden game? Whatever, continue game. This is where I knew this was a different game. Instead of showing images from the cutscene of my last mission, it showed:
- Shogo Akuji burying my character
- Mr. Sunshine with my character's head, and
- Mearo dragging me from his truck.
What the hell!? How come I was the one dying!? OK, loading is done and my character looks fine. Time to activate cheats. I open the phone and instead of showing 'Ultor' it showed a Saint symbol in a red graffiti kind of style - rough on the edges and slightly dripping - and went straight to the cheats. There were the regular categories but there was one more; 'Saint'. I looked in there and saw only
- Give 'Saint Fist'
- Give 'Saint Pistol'
And one for each type of weapon. OK, what are THEY like? I chose Saint Shotgun and the most interesting, Saint Grapple. Saint Grapple? Once I get it its in the 'special section' of the inventory and all it has as an icon is two gold hands. On my character, his hands were gold! Awesome! But hey, if its melee why do I have a crosshair?
Or is it... I aimed at someone and when I fired, my character slid across the floor REALLY fast with a blurry trail and absolutely WAILED on that person - punch to the head, grabs them neck and faceplants them, then picks them up and throws them straight into the wall. What the fudge? I do it again on another person. This time, my character puts them into a hostage position and kicks them through the chest. Honestly, my characters leg came out the other side! Yucky!
Next, the Saint Shotgun. The icon showed a golden Tombstone (a type of shotgun in the game) and when it was out, the crosshair was a Saints symbol. OK fine. It didn't show an ammo counter so I assumed it had unlimited ammo. I shoot someone and they get LAUNCHED in the opposite direction. This wasn't a shotgun, it was a cannon! A few Sons of Samedi later and I choose the next one.
The Saint Pistol. Its a golden .44 Shepherd with the same Saint symbol crosshair.Again, no ammo counter. I shoot someone in the head and they do a backflip. Ouch. I then shoot a car, the door i shot falls off. That gave me an idea, what does the Saint Shotgun do when I shoot a car?
It instantly explode. But without any debris. It just explodes and disappea- oh wait, there it is. All the way in the direction I shot, crushing the poor cop unfortunate enough to be in the way of a speeding shot car. Hold on a sec, no notoriety level? Whatever......... OK. Next weapon. What else do I have?
I choose the Saint Fist. Same as the Saint Grapple but with out the crosshair and I need to do the regular 3 hit combo to pull off the finishers. The R2 attack is a right hook and the L2 attack is a high kick, much like the Ronin fighting style kick. The R charged was a two handed uppercut that sent them flying and the L charged was a dropkick. Mad! After an L, R, L combo my character just gets his foot up to the head and 'slaps' them 3 times then jumps and does a skull crackin backflip kick. Ho-ly shit. This is awesome..... I couldn't wait to use-
The Saint Sword. As I'd guessed, its a golden katana. I wonder what awesome finishers this has! The regular attacks were the same as the regular charged ones but less energetic. The L was a simple downslice without the jump and the R was a simple left to right slice. OK down to the combos. I did it twice. The first time my character sliced an X into the chest then a stab to the face. Wow! Then the second time was a stab into the gut then a hard yank upwards making the sword slice all the way up through the head. Oh, yuck.
Last, before my PS3 crashed, the Saint Rocket. This one was the least impressive. It was a silver rocket launcher that shot rockets with a bigger explosion and a bigger kick. 3 shots and the game crashed. I wanted to keep using Saint weapons! So I hastily turned on the PS3 and went straight to Saints Row 2 again. I never got to use those weapons again...


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For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It's like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates.
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www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html, posted Apr '13 by peter in environment health politics traffic travel
The velomobile -- a recumbent tricycle with aerodynamic bodywork -- offers a more interesting alternative to the bicycle for longer trips. The bodywork protects the driver (and luggage) from the weather, while the comfortable recumbent seat eases the strain on the body, making it possible to take longer trips without discomfort. Furthermore, a velomobile (even without electric assistance) is much faster than an electric bicycle.
The Economics Of Girl Talk
blog.priceonomics.com/post/47719281228/the-economics-of-girl-talk, posted Apr '13 by peter in business copyright dinosaurism music politics toread
The current legal system around sampling is outdated and broken. It was created in 1991 by a judge throwing Bible quotes around who (more importantly) failed to consider the doctrine of fair use. Treating all samples the same unfairly burdens producers who use samples to create unique and original work. They system has been maintained by the economics of how it benefits players in the industry with the most time, money, and lawyers. The claims of producers like Girl Talk - that sampling constitutes fair use and is in line with copyright law - should see its day in court. Until it does, the music industry will continue to be hampered by ambiguity that stifles creativity. Clearing samples can be impossible for all but the biggest stars, which leaves the music industry's dreamers facing a hard choice between restricting their creativity or making music with the nagging fear of a lawsuit. A law that makes it impossible to play by the rules is not a good one.
Diamonds Are Bullshit
blog.priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit, posted Mar '13 by peter in business politics propaganda usa
We covet diamonds in America for a simple reason: the company that stands to profit from diamond sales decided that we should. De Beers' marketing campaign single handedly made diamond rings the measure of one's success in America. Despite its complete lack of inherent value, the company manufactured an image of diamonds as a status symbol. And to keep the price of diamonds high, despite the abundance of new diamond finds, De Beers executed the most effective monopoly of the 20th century.
Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/02/cars-and-robust-cities-are-fundamentally-incompatible/4651/, posted Feb '13 by peter in environment politics science traffic usa
The headline isn't really backed up in the article, but interesting nonetheless:] For our study, recently published in Urban Design International, we analyzed a dozen historically dense, small cities from around the country in which the shares of residents getting to work by automobile range from 43 to 91 percent. We compared the rates of automobile use to the number residents and employees per square mile. We found that cities with higher rates of driving have fewer people – a difference of more than 4,000 people per square mile for each 10 percent change in automobile use. As the Penn model suggests, this has to do with the amount of land used to move and store all those cars. [As I'm always saying to people who complain that Swedish cities aren't sufficiently accessible by car: building more roads makes things worse, not better.
The long drive to school: ignoring the new normal - Strong Towns Blog - Strong Towns
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/10/12/the-long-drive-to-school-ignoring-the-new-normal.html, posted Jan '13 by peter in opinion planning politics traffic usa
We are enamored with the automobile and most still see it as a ticket to the good life, not a burden on the checkbook. We're entrenched in 70 years of a psyche that proclaims our prosperity as a nation is tied to our road system (and how fast we can get to the Applebee's). The end result comes with the caveat that you have to burn a half-gallon of gasoline to pick up a half-gallon of milk.
Myth of individualism fuels US massacres - Globaltimes.cn
www.globaltimes.cn/content/750898.shtml, posted Dec '12 by peter in opinion politics usa
Last week's mass slaying of 26 schoolchildren and teachers in a Connecticut elementary school has cast a familiar pall over the nation. While particularly gruesome because of the setting and age of the victims, these killings are only the most recent in a series of similar incidents.
In a number of fundamental ways, this kind of gun violence is connected to the structures, institutions, and ideology of the US. In particular, mass killings and our reaction to them represent Americans' fraught relation with public power and individual rights.
Swedish School De-emphasizes Gender Lines - NYTimes.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/world/europe/swedish-school-de-emphasizes-gender-lines.html?_r=0, posted Nov '12 by peter in parenting politics stockholm sweden toread
Sweden is perhaps as renowned for an egalitarian mind-set as it is for meatballs or Ikea furnishings. But this taxpayer-financed preschool, known as the Nicolaigarden for a saint whose chapel was once in the 300-year-old building that houses it, is perhaps one of the more compelling examples of the country's efforts to blur gender lines and, theoretically, cement opportunities for both women and men.
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Here are my top five summer pool party songs to listen to by the pool with a tropical drink. I love Flight Facilities, for the last three summers they have had my heart.
The ladies of Haute Beat rocked the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas for the launch of Modern War Fair GHOST.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain."
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Trust to not sleep on this electro punk duo. Release date March 4th.
Sexy and I Know it (Cover) - Noah:
Wow. There seriously was an outcry from mothers about Beyonce's performance at the Grammys. Really? Scared of a little booty power? What is more romantic than singing a love song in front of the world and having your husband there with you.
Here is a nice cover of halo by indie band CEO:
Last Dance Idea: This song is so cool and romatic:
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My favorite song on the Disclosure album plus Mary j Blidge = heaven. Love this so much.
In 2013 the ladies of HMD hosted a little weekly dance party at the Hudson. Here is a mini sample of what it sounded like:
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Janet Jackson, Animation, Portugal The Man (Passion Pit Remix), Motocity Soul (Mario Basanov Edit), Disclosure, Prince, Siouxsie & the Banshees, MSTRKRFT, Lorde (Thomas Jack Remix), Nick Gilder, Daft Punk vs Genesis, Montel jordan, Heavy D (Cookin Soul Remix)...
It's a new year but I still can't forget some of the re-edit gems from 2013. I would like to start the new year by passing on the free download links for these superb re-edits by the one and only Baron Von Luxxury. If you are not familiar with the awesomeness of this man please take the time to check out the links below.
THURSDAY : Miss Aubrey Henderson in west Hollywood at the Hudson
FRIDAY : DJ Lady Sinclair in the Hollywood strip at The Lexington House.
Journey with DJ Lady Sinclair this week while Miss Aubrey curates the launch of Hotel Nomandie
Yup. Valida and DJ Lady Sinclair will be drinking hot tod...huhum .... Cocos and playing tunes for festive shopper Friday evening.
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Walmart does have a craft section and does sell yarn online (and ship to store, etc) - you could try places like knitpicks.com, etc for online yarn shopping? It's not quite the same since you don't get to compare colors against each other, feel it before you buy, etc, but... it's something?
We've got Micheals and I can go there. I may end up starting to order off the Mary Maxim website again. We have one in Paris, Ontario so I don't have to worry about duty.
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For myself, DH, DSil, DN and his girlfriend, we were in Toronto doing some shopping for Black Friday, and had to stop at a Walmart, and there was a Popeyes Louisiana Chicken in the plaza, so we decided to stop in and have a bite to eat. Well where do I start? Let me see, I had ordered a 3 piece WHITE MEAT combo MILD with mashed potatoes NO gravy, I see the lady putting gravy on my potatoes, I remind her, I requested no gravy, no big deal, right? I asked if I could please have some butter for the potatoes and biscuit, as the lady ahead of me was offered some for her corn, but the clerk SNAPPED at me, WE DON'T HAVE BUTTER, ok, no biggie. We get to our table, I discover that I was given ALL WINGS, so I bring my order back, explain to the counter person that I had ordered all white meat, and she got all snotty with me, trying to tell me that what I got WAS white meat, and then tried to back pedal and say that oh, you have to pay $1.30 extra for white meat. Keep in mind here, I had specified when I ordered, that I wanted all white meat. She then took one of the wings and replaced it, I get back to the table, she gave me spicy chicken! I didn't bother going back after that fiasco, turns out she and another employee were gossiping about DH and I VERY loudly in front of customers! Oh yes, DSIL's poutine was ice cold and wasn't any better when she asked for a replacement. We did ask to speak to a manager, but of course there wasn't one available, how convenient! Tried calling the phone number on the receipt, but there was no store number on there either.That was my first time at a Popeyes, and definitely my last time!
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XC biking on the flume trail
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Finding awesome machines (this one is amphibious)
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The only negative for my family is that we didn't stay long enough. The house, beach, pool and caretakers were fabulous. Our group consisted of my daughter and myself along with my 2 sons and their girlfriends and the accommodations fit all of our needs to a tee. Olivia and Cristobol were the sweetest caretakers providing service everyday along with great margaritas and food. They were amazing as was the snorkeling and just hanging out in the hammocks. The actual house is very well maintained and very clean and the bedrooms are air-conditioned which we definitely needed. We ate at several great places ( Zuma, La-Zebra to name a few) but Olivia's food is fabulous. We will definitely choose this piece of paradise for our next trip and recommend it to anyone looking for a very relaxing vacation while experiencing the culture that Tulum offers. Thank you Arul for all of your assistance and if you ever decide to sell the house, let me know!!!!!
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* Those who do not study history will have their wise decision ratified by bean-counting administrators: One of the 17 University of North Carolina campuses could stop offering degrees in physics, history and political science. If you read that sentence and thought to yourself, "gee, I bet that's a historically black college," give yourself a prize!
* MLA Reports Modest Decline in Job Ads Posted in 2012-13. The State of the Academic Job Market, by Discipline.
* 'I Wish I Were Black,' and Other Tales of Privilege.
* The Logic of Stupid Poor People.
* What The U.S. Would Look Like If It Mirrored The Main Characters On Prime-Time Network Television.
-Half the population would be white men.
-Five percent of the population would be black men.
-Just 1.9 percent of the world would be Asian or Latino men.
-Overall, 57 percent of the population would be men.
-34 percent of the world would be white women
-3.8 percent would be African-American women
-And 3.8 percent would be Latino or Asian women
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* What they are defending is a system in which wealth is passed off as merit, in which credentials are not earned but bought. Aptitude is a quality measured by how much money you can spend on its continual reassessment.
Students whose parents pay tens of thousands for SAT tutors to help their child take the test over and over compete against students who struggle to pay the fee to take the test once. Students who spend afternoons on "enrichment" activities compete against students working service jobs to pay bills – jobs which don't "count" in the admissions process. Students who shell out for exotic volunteer trips abroad compete with students of what C Z Nnaemeka termed "the un-exotic underclass" – the poor who have "the misfortune of being insufficiently interesting", the poor who make up most of the US today.
* …a recent Twitter thread started by a popular feminist blogger examines a dark side of that cliché in real-life academe, one in which professors' advances – intellectual and otherwise – feed a need for validation and flattery, and at times cross the line into sexual harassment.
* By the numbers: Sex crimes on campus.
* The New York Times spends 36 hours in Milwaukee.
* A collective narrative of trying to make it on $17,000 a year: bargaining testimony from a UCSC student-worker.
* Colorado Counties Ban Sale of Marijuana, Want Share of Proposed State Sales Tax Anyway.
* Obama's going to be super-mad when he finds out about the nonsensical security state procedures his administration has been using in lieu of actual oversight. And breaking into Yahoo! and Google? Why didn't anyone tell him!
* Ripped from the pages of Philip K. Dick! Pentagon weighs future of its inscrutable nonagenarian futurist.
* Pennsylvania law protects pregnant women from unwanted belly rubbing.
* The Chronicle follows up on last year's PhD-on-food-stamps, who is now in a TT position at Martin Methodist College.
* How Not To Take The GRE With a Non-Standard-English Name.
* The richest country in history: The Number Of Homeless Students In The United States Hits A Record.
* "Riots always begin typically the same way": Food stamp shutdown looms Friday.
* Perry Anderson accidentally writes a whole issue of New Left Review.
* 20th Century Headlines, Rewritten to Get More Clicks.
* How the Koch Brothers laundered illegal campaign contributions.
* They're marketing the Veronica Mars movie as a love triangle. This is my skeptical face.
* Sesame Street parodies Homeland.
* The chart that explains the world.
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* People Who Live Downwind Of Alberta's Oil And Tar Sands Operations Are Getting Blood Cancer.
* BREAKING: Student Debt Is Making All Your Life Choices Worse.
* Matt Zoller Seitz completes his series on video essays on Wes Anderson films. Bring on The Grand Budapest Hotel!
* PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 27: Princeton's freshmen again have chosen Adolf Hitler as "the greatest living person" in the annual poll of their class conducted by The Daily Princetonian.
* The coming Terry McAuliffe landslide as proof the GOP brand is in serious disrepair.
* And it looks like they've finally (almost) proved that Darth Vader wasn't always going to be Luke Skywalker's father. Gotcha Lucas! You can run but you can't hide.
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* 20 Things the Matter with MOOCs.
* Also from Richard: What do asteroids, MOOCs, and medical records have in common? All are examples, currently in the news, of the way in which public policy in the US is driven not by the common good or professionals or expert knowledge, but by the generation of mediashock in the service of the entrepeneurial desire of cybercapitalism to monetize data.
All of us that use the internet are already practicing Drone Ethnography. Look at the features of drone technology: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Surveillance, Sousveillance. Networks of collected information, over land and in the sky. Now consider the "consumer" side of tech: mapping programs, location-aware pocket tech, public-sourced media databases, and the apps and algorithms by which we navigate these tools. We already study the world the way a drone sees it: from above, with a dozen unblinking eyes, recording everything with the cold indecision of algorithmic commands honed over time, affecting nothing—except, perhaps, a single, momentary touch, the momentary awareness and synchronicity of a piece of information discovered at precisely the right time. An arc connecting two points like the kiss from an air-to-surface missile. Our technological capacity for watching, recording, collecting, and archiving has never been wider, and has never been more automated. The way we look at the world—our basic ethnographic approach—is mimicking the technology of the drone.
* The ACLU on what Rand Paul achieved.
* Six-Month-Old Baby Dies From Gunshot Wounds In Chicago.
* "Defense attorneys believe the girl, who lived across the river in Weirton, W.Va., made a decision to excessively drink and — against her friends' wishes — to leave with the boys. They assert that she consented to sex," reports the Cleveland Plain-Dealer's Rachel Dissell. Richmond's attorney, Walter Madison, is getting specific, citing "an abundance of evidence here that she was making decisions, cognitive choices … She didn't affirmatively say no." She was unconscious at the time.
* I think it's possible Natalia is the reckoning of Girls.
* The Herbalife war: Hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman has vowed to bring down Herbalife, the 33-year-old nutritional-supplement company, which he views as a pyramid scheme. With his massive shorting of Herbalife stock, the price plummeted, prompting two fellow billionaires—Ackman's former friend Dan Loeb and activist investor Carl Icahn—to take the opposing bet on Herbalife. As the public brawl rivets Wall Street, William D. Cohan learns why, this time, it's personal.
* The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters, where artists range from Philip Roth to Jasper Johns and categories include music, literature and visual arts.
* New data confirms that the unsatisfyingly named "Higgs-like particle" announced at CERN last year really is a Higgs boson.
* Exhumation of Pablo Neruda's remains set for 8 April.
* The Law Graduate Debt Disaster Goes Critical.
* Ezra Klein gets it very wrong.
* The US Senate: Where Democracy Goes to Die.
* Here comes the asteroid mining.
* The insane plan to rescue Napoleon from St. Helena by submarine.
* 14 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Philip K. Dick as Free Audio Books and Free eBooks.
Monday Links
* This weeks's denunciation of the dissertation, yours at the Chronicle.
* The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden… Is Screwed. Esquire has been publishing some really interesting journalism lately.
"No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job," Barack Obama said last Veterans' Day, "or a roof over their head, or the care that they have earned when they come home."
But the Shooter will discover soon enough that when he leaves after sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis, tendonitis, eye damage, and blown disks, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:
Nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family.
* marquette.edu is your source for Danny Pudi news.
* Rick Nolan, Minnesota Democrat, Unveils Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United. Sold.
* Artist claims to create 3D facial renderings based on discarded cigarette butts. I am extremely skeptical!
* DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared.
* Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle is coming to Syfy.
* An Occurrence at the O.C. Bridge: "Arrested Development" is George Sr.'s death row fantasy.
* Couple engrossed in their wireless devices ignore each other (1906).
* And Slate asks the unthinkable: what if not every show premise can sustain itself forever?
'Read the Exegesis If You Must'
Despite being a major fan of Dick's work, I have to admit that I question whether this manuscript should have seen print at all, given its often embarrassing rambling and autodidactic fanaticism, with Dick latching onto any stray thread to spin out his cosmogonic web. I certainly find it hard to imagine that there is a widespread audience for this strange assemblage of obiter Dick-ta, even among PKD's more hardcore followers.
What redeems the work for me, finally, is Dick's abiding skepticism about his own revelations. Seemingly endless passages of portentous nonsense — such as a lengthy attempt to conscript Julian Jaynes's crackpot bestseller The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mindinto the warp and woof of his own fixations — suddenly give way to agonizing reappraisals and poignant spasms of self-doubt, as when Dick admits that "I was taken over by my own S-F universe":
The AI voice [i.e., VALIS] is a special kind of hallucination: one of wish-fulfillment and need, due to loneliness: emotional starvation and grief and ill-use. I just can't endure life without that lonely voice guiding me, so I regress…. The AI voice is my imaginary playmate, my sister, evolved out of childhood…. I was so unhappy and afraid; like R. Crumb, so behind the 8 ball, so filled with anticipatory dread.
Well, damn it — I don't regret it. It made a barren, fearful life meaningful and bearable….
Crazy people generally don't know they're crazy, and Dick's abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure, struggling heroically in these pages through madness towards sense, like the sadsack, put-upon protagonists of so many of his novels.
Rob Latham reviews the Exegesis for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
'The Trouble Is, Any Revelatory Messages Are Embedded in More than 900 Pages of Impulsive Theorizing, Much of Which Is Self-Referential'
The New York Times reviews Philip K. Dick's Exegesis. I worked on this book as a researcher, so my feelings about it, unsurprisingly, are much more positive than the reviewer's—but I think this may also have something to do with my position as an academic as well as a fan. The book is emphatically not some new, undiscovered PKD novel; it's something very different, and as Platt warns, that something may just not be for everyone. But for the people that it's for the Exegesis is a treasure.
From Out of the Pages of Philip K. Dick
Friday Wrapup
Because we were forced to spend a miserable 60 hours in an airport this afternoon, I have acquired a ton of links:
* The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded on Friday to three women from Africa and the Arab world in acknowledgment of their nonviolent role in promoting peace, democracy and gender equality. The winners were President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia — the first woman to be elected president in modern Africa — her compatriot, the peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner.
* Ben and Jerry endorse Occupy Wall Street. I'm calling "Occupy Walnut" as the flavor, though "The 99% Moooo-vement" is my dark horse.
* "Right Here All Over": a short film on Occupy Wall Street by Alex Mallis.
* Naomi Klein on the scene: We all know, or at least sense, that the world is upside down: we act as if there is no end to what is actually finite — fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb their emissions. And we act as if there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually bountiful — the financial resources to build the kind of society we need. The task of our time is to turn this around: to challenge this false scarcity. To insist that we can afford to build a decent, inclusive society – while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.
* 10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America.
* Tweet of the week: Romney: I will reverse Obama's massive defense cuts. Def spending, 2011, $739 b; 2010 $721b; 2009 $698b; 2008 $696b; 2007 $626b; 2005, $506b
* Obama and Holder are still messing with marijuana dispensaries. Mayor Curley in the MeFi thread on this has a chilling vision of the future:
I hope that the 2012 presidential contest is between Obama and Mitt Romney. I wouldn't vote for either of them, but it would be hilarious. Both of them take whatever position their staff believes to be most salable at the moment, even if it's in direct, obvious conflict with their stated position of a week ago.
By the end of the campaign, their positions would be absolutely indistinguishable, because between the two of them they would have taken every possible mainstream stance on every issue. But partisans would still be bitterly insisting that one was superior to the other purely by nature of the political brand attached. It would be the ultimate "Coke v. Pepsi" political race.
* Speaking of chilling visions of things to come: The Amazon Dieback Scenario.
* Speaking of Coca-Cola: The purpose of this communication is to remind you that the hot weather is here and that Coca Cola is one of the best drinks to fight the Hot Weather with and we Soldiers dislike to admit defeat, but to win our struggles we must have the material to work with, the things to contest our enemy with, must be at hand, and unless we have Coca Cola we will have to admit defeat at the hands of Enemy Heat & Thirst.
* And the headline reads, "DHS Launches 'Minority Report' Pre-Crime Detection Program." Philip K. Dick could not be reached for comment.
Tuesday Morning
* 10 Films You Should See at the Raindance Film Festival 2011. My cousin Chris's brilliant Afghanistan documentary Where My Heart Beats clocks in at #9.
* Europocalpyse now: Greek Default Almost Assured. More here.
* And speaking of money: David Graeber vs. the Austrians.
* In these two books, we have two versions of school reform. One is devised by Wall Street financiers and politicians who believe in rigidly defined numerical goals and return on investment; they blame lazy teachers and self-interested unions when test scores are low. The other draws on the deep experience of a compassionate teacher who finds fault not with teachers, unions, or students, but with a society that refuses to take responsibility for the conditions in which its children live and learn—and who has demonstrated through her own efforts how one dedicated teacher has improved the education of poor young people.
* Bringing the number of planets discovered outside our solar system to 645, the 50-planet haul includes 16 super-Earths (planets with a mass between one and ten times that of Earth), including one that orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star). Sounds like it's time to bring freedom to the HD85512bians.
* PKD Watch: The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen.
* And North Carolina really is going to try to ban gay marriage. Again.
State law already bans same-sex marriage, and opponents of a constitutional amendment contend that it is unnecessary. North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without such a provision in its constitution.
We cannot allow a discrimination gap. Rally in Raleigh this afternoon. Unfortunately I have a commitment on campus at noon or I'd go myself.
I Want More Life, F*cker
Ridley Scott will make a totally ill-advised sequel to Blade Runner. No word yet on how many "Final Cuts" he's contracted for.
Instead His Novels Feel Like Labor, as Though They Are Tabulating the Results of Some Desperate Experiment
The Adjustment Bureau
The Philip K. Dick short story "Adjustment Team" that inspired The Adjustment Bureau has already passed out of copyright, so you can read it here or here. I was talking about the film a bit on Facebook earlier tonight and was forced to admit that when it comes to PKD film adaptations my aesthetic judgments are simply unreliable: so help me, I like them all, even if they're all bad.
The film version is essentially a by-the-numbers thriller, in which our heroes are chased by a sinister supernatural conspiracy that hides in plain sight. They are functionally omniscient; they can manipulate chance events; they can travel the city using ordinary doors as wormholes. It's all stuff we've seen before. In this respect the film is a bowdlerization of the paranoid logic of Dick's original, which (true to its science fictionalization of schizophrenia) has the conspiracy operating through much more oblique means:
The dog studied the house. The shades had been let up. The kitchen light was on. Beyond the lace curtains dim shapes could be seen, stirring around the table. A man and woman. They were drinking coffee.
"There they are," the dog murmured. "The man, you say? He's not going to be harmed, is he?"
"Of course not. But he must be at his office early. Usually he doesn't leave until after nine. Today he must leave at eight-thirty. He must be within Sector T137 before the process begins, or he won't be altered to coincide with the new adjustment."
The dog sighed. "That means I have to summon."
"Correct." The Clerk checked his instruction sheet. "You're to summon at precisely eight-fifteen. You've got that? Eight-fifteen. No later."
"What will the eight-fifteen summons bring?"
The Clerk flipped open his instruction book, examining the code columns. "It will bring A Friend with a Car. To drive him to work early." He closed the book and folded his arms, preparing to wait. "That way he'll get to his office almost an hour ahead of time. Which is vital."
In this way apparently disparate events are revealed to be intimately connected, once the dots have been connected and the paranoid totality has been grasped: the Clerk requires the dog's bark at a precise moment to summon the Friend, and when the dog barks a minute late a life insurance salesman is summoned instead. As a result of this misstep Ed misses the Adjustment at his firm, discovering first the Adjustment Team reorganizing the office and later recognizing the subtle (and not-so-subtle) changes:
Ed said nothing. He advanced slowly into the inner office. The office had been gone over. He could tell. Things had been altered. Rearranged. Nothing obvious — nothing he could put his finger on. But he could tell.
Joe Kent greeted him uneasily. "What's the matter, Ed? You look like a wild dog. Is something — ?"
Ed studied Joe. He was different. Not the same. What was it?
Joe's face. It was a little fuller. His shirt was blue-striped. Joe never wore blue stripes. Ed examined Joe's desk. He saw papers and accounts. The desk — it was too far to the right. And it was bigger. It wasn't the same desk.
The picture on the wall. It wasn't the same. It was a different picture entirely. And the things on top of the file cabinet — some were new, others were gone.
He looked back through the door. Now that he thought about it, Miss Evans' hair was different, done a different way. And it was lighter.
In here, Mary, filing her nails, over by the window — she was taller, fuller. Her purse, lying on the desk in front of her — a red purse, red knit.
"You always. . . have that purse?" Ed demanded.
Mary glanced up. "What?"
"That purse. You always have that?"
Mary laughed. She smoothed her skirt coyly around her shapely thighs, her long lashes blinking modestly. "Why, Mr Fletcher. What do you mean?"
Ed turned away. He knew. Even if she didn't. She had been redone — changed: her purse, her clothes, her figure, everything about her. None of them knew — but him. His mind spun dizzily. They were all changed. All of them were different. They had all been remolded, recast. Subtly — but it was there.
The wastebasket. It was smaller, not the same. The window shades — white, not ivory. The wallpaper was not the same pattern. The lighting fixtures . . .
Endless, subtle changes.
Ed made his way back to the inner office. He lifted his hand and knocked on Douglas's door.
"Come in."
Ed pushed the door open. Nathan Douglas looked up impatiently. "Mr Douglas –" Ed began. He came into the room unsteadily — and stopped.
Douglas was not the same. Not at all. His whole office was changed: the rugs, the drapes. The desk was oak, not mahogany. And Douglas himself . . .
Douglas was younger, thinner. His hair, brown. His skin not so red. His face smoother. No wrinkles. Chin reshaped. Eyes green, not black. He was a different man. But still Douglas — a different Douglas. A different version!
Nothing in the film captures, or even approaches, the story's wonderfully hallucinogenic sense that reality itself is slowly but surely breaking down…
And Barely Scratching the Surface
Some Wednesday Links
* Arizona Bill Would Force Hospitals To Check Patients' Immigration Status.
Before a hospital admits a person for nonemergency care, a hospital admissions officer must confirm that the person is a citizen of the United States, a legal resident of the United States or lawfully present in the United States.
* Having accomplished its long-term goal of destroying the independent bookstore in the U.S., Borders prepares to close up shop.
* Nothing good happens after 2010: 2011 Will Break The All Time Record For Movie Sequels.
* Okay, one good thing happening after 2010: Ubik will be adapted as a film.
* Comics news today: A comic retelling of the origins of the Comics Code Authority and irrefutable proof that comics, not Twitter, caused this week's Egyptian uprising. Here's another link via a friend who turns out to be the grandson of the original author.
* And Leo Grin hates contemporary fantasy. Via MeFi. I'm not a huge fan of fantasy either, but this is almost enough to get me reading it again:
Soiling the building blocks and well-known tropes of our treasured modern myths is no different than other artists taking a crucifix and dipping it in urine, covering it in ants, or smearing it with feces. In the end, it's just another small, pathetic chapter in the decades-long slide of Western civilization into suicidal self-loathing. It's a well-worn road: bored middle-class creatives (almost all of them college-educated liberals) living lives devoid of any greater purpose inevitably reach out for anything deemed sacred by the conservatives populating any artistic field. They co-opt the language, the plots, the characters, the cliches, the marketing, and proceed to deconstruct it all like a mad doctor performing an autopsy. Then, using cynicism, profanity, scatology, dark humor, and nihilism, they put it back together into a Frankenstein's monster designed to shock, outrage, offend, and dishearten.
In the case of the fantasy genre, the result is a mockery and defilement of the mythopoeic splendor that true artists like Tolkien and Howard willed into being with their life's blood. Honor is replaced with debasement, romance with filth, glory with defeat, and hope with despair. Edgy? Nah, just punk kids farting in class and getting some giggles from the other mouth-breathers.
Liberals! Bah! Will their foul treachery never cease?
Monday Monday
* FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense.
Q: Do I have to kill the snake?
A: University guidelines state that you have to "defeat" the snake. There are many ways to accomplish this. Lots of students choose to wrestle the snake. Some construct decoys and elaborate traps to confuse and then ensnare the snake. One student brought a flute and played a song to lull the snake to sleep. Then he threw the snake out a window.
Thanks Tim.
* You had me at "Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident." Thanks Dad.
* The Jossless Buffy reboot is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. EW has Joss's reply.
* The New York Times reviews Anne Dick's PKD biography.
* 23 years old, $200,000 dollars of student loan debt. Related: Is Student Debt the Next Front in the Consumer Debt Crisis? Via MetaFilter.
* LOL denialists: An influential 2006 congressional report that raised questions about the validity of global warming research was partly based on material copied from textbooks, Wikipedia and the writings of one of the scientists criticized in the report, plagiarism experts say.


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How Soviet Kitchens Became Hotbeds Of Dissent And Culture
After Stalin's death, people in the Soviet Union could begin to debate politics again without fear of repression. This "thawing" took place in private kitchens, where music and art flourished, too.
Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders
The research project would place electronic devices in the brain in an attempt to combat post-traumatic stress, depression and other problems that have plagued many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pfizer Drops $119 Billion Bid For AstraZeneca
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been circling its smaller rival for months. AstraZeneca has rejected every offer saying Pfizer undervalues the company, and that it wants to remain independent.
A Simple, Elegant Invention That Draws Water From Air
The WarkaWater is shaped like a vase and looks like an art exhibit. By gathering condensation, it's providing water to Ethiopian villages and could be a solution for thirsty communities worldwide.
Celebrating 100 Years Of Ham Radio
This will be a special year for the hundreds of enthusiasts who converge annually on W1AW, a small station in Newington, Conn., known as "the mecca of ham radio," to broadcast around the globe.
Who's Using The Data Mined From Students?
Information tracked by educational software can be of great help to teachers. But as Politico's Stephanie Simon explains, private companies can also monetize the data by selling it to marketers.
On Memorial Day, Revisiting Stories Of The Fallen In Afghanistan
At Arlington National Cemetery, President Obama honored the sacrifices of those who died while serving in the military. We remember the stories of some of those who died in America's longest war.
What We Know About The Man Behind The Isla Vista Killings
Scott Gold, senior writer for The Los Angeles Times discusses Elliot Rodger, the man who police say went on a stabbing and shooting rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., last week before killing himself.
At Indian Prime Minister's Inauguration, A Historic Pakistani Presence
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was among the guests at Narenda Modi's inauguration. It's the first time the leader of one of the archrivals has attended the swearing-in of the other.
India's New Prime Minister Sworn In
Narendra Modi officially takes office as India's new prime minister in a ceremony in New Delhi that broke with the past. More than 3,000 guests witnessed India's most elaborate oath-taking.
Remembering The 'Father' Of G.I. Joe
Donald Levine, an executive at Hasbro when the idea for the action figure was first hatched, served in the U.S. Army in Korea and thought the toy would be a way to honor veterans.
Pope Francis Ends Historic Mideast Trip
Pope Francis wraps up his trip to the Middle East, where he addressed some of the region's tough political issues and cast some dramatic images at its most sensitive spots.
Voting Begins For Egypt's Next President
Former military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is expected to emerge victorious from Egypt's two-day polling, which began Monday. But the country remains divided.
Singing Star Of All-Black Cowboy Movies, Herb Jeffries, Dies
Herb Jeffries was the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies in the late 1930s, which garnered him the nickname the "Bronze Buckeroo." He died Sunday in California, at age 100.
In France, Remembering The American Flyboys Of World War I
A century after World War I started, the French pay tribute on Memorial Day to the "Lafayette Squadron," American pilots who fought with the allies before the U.S. officially entered the war.
Violence Returns To Eastern Ukraine
A day after Ukraine's tumultuous elections, pro-Russian militants in the country's east took over part of an airport in Donetsk, prompting airstrikes by the government.
Mass Collection Of Student Data Raises Privacy Concerns
States are centralizing record-keeping and tracking student progress, while online educational software sheds light on how students learn. But many worry about how this information could be misused.
The Man Who Brought G.I. Joe To Children Dies At 86
Donald Levine brought the first G.I. Joe action figures to U.S. shelves 50 years ago after rejecting other possible names for military figures, like Salty the Sailor.
The Blind Woman Who Sees Rain, But Not Her Daughter's Smile
When Milena Channing was 29 years old she was blinded by a stroke. But the injury left her with connections from her eyes to the part of the brain that detects motion.
In California, Life With Parole Increasingly Leads To Freedom
Until recently, inmates with life sentences — most for murder — were rarely released from prison, regardless of their behavior. But a 2008 court case and a new governor have changed their odds.


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Work is officially underway on a new public housing complex in Rock Island.
The housing authority broke ground this afternoon on "Lynden Lane" to be built on the old manor homes property. The complex will include 55 single family homes and duplexes for rent.
"I don't see us as an isolated element, I see us as a part of the community as a whole and trying to upgrade our portion of the community," Housing Authority chairman Vernon Winter said.
Forty-three of the homes will be rented to low-income families. People are expected to move in this December.
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