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That's just how white folks will do you

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:17:01 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: Some nice information about his ties to ACORN as well.

A 1995 piece in the liberal Chicago Reader basically refutes Obama's statements that he never heard Pastor Jeremiah Wright invoke his racist rants and also provides some additional insight into Obama's early years in politics.

"That's just how white folks will do you," Obama writes.

"We have some wonderful preachers in town--preachers who continue to inspire me--preachers who are magnificent at articulating a vision of the world as it should be.

"The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it's always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility.

Collectivist? Check:

But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations."

Tags: obama, racism, wright, religion, politics

Howard spent more than whitlam on education

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:08:06 GMT

clipped by: thepipingshrike

Clip Source: andrewnorton.info

While in the library, I thought it would be interesting to do a comparison with Gough Whitlam as well. He doesn’t qualify as a radical neoliberal, but Whitlam’s per capita spending record in the 1975-76 Budget is enough for me to indulge in some Whitlam nostalgia of my own. For education, spending per person was 18% lower under Whitlam, health was 45% lower, and social security was 59% lower. Overall spending per head was 39% lower. Howard the canny conservative social democrat has taken taxpayers’ money and Labor’s agenda, without many of either group even noticing.

Tags: education revolution

It's The Laws

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:10:48 GMT

clipped by: mooner-one

Clip Source: naucon.net

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.

Happiness is merely the remission of pain.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.

Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.

Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.

If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

All things being equal, fat people use more soap.

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

One-seventh of your life is spent on Mondays.

By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

Dual-display laptop design has wings

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:58:19 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Dual-display laptop design has wings

by Thomas Ricker, posted Aug 15th 2008 at 1:50AM

Perhaps it's just that nostalgia for the ThinkPad 701 but there's something about this dual-display reference design that's causing optical interrupts all over Engadget editorial. It's certainly not as elegant as some other dual-display laptops we've seen, but what it gives up in looks, the Electronic Keyboards, Inc. design makes up for in practicality. They're currently pitching it to OEMs and will gladly sell you the related US patents if interested. Though given our choice, we'd be more interested in patents related to an elongated trackpad which doubles as a secondary glass display or e-Ink informational widget. Hey, a boy can dream can't he?

Via The Raw Feed

Tags: computer

solastalgia

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:30:14 GMT

clipped by: kroqben
clipper's remarks: when home isn't.

Clip Source: www.seedmagazine.com

What Is Solastalgia?

Solace + desolation + nostalgia

\sō-lä-stál-jə\ n.: A pain or discomfort caused by the present state of one's home environment.

Around the turn of the millennium, residents of the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, started to express concern to environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht about the extensive coal mining in their home environment. Albrecht, who visited the region to confirm the destruction, realized that these people were experiencing a specific kind of distress: a homesickness felt at home. Albrecht coined the term "solastalgia" — a mash-up of "solace," "desolation," and "nostalgia" — to describe the inability to derive comfort from one's home environment due to negative environmental change.

Russian media

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:25:05 GMT

clipped by: sillysam
clipper's remarks: None of this is or should be about Russia or the Russian people. All of it stinks of Soviet propaganda, Soviet brutality, Soviet morality, and Soviet nostalgia. It is the handiwork of the siloviki clique that currently monopolizes power in Russia through authoritarian politics, kleptocratic economics, and media manipulation. This clique must be shown that war crimes do not pay. The Russian people, too, need to learn that nostalgia for Soviet imperialism is a dead end for Russia.

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Throughout this calculated aggression, the Russian media has played an inglorious but technically brilliant role. They have used the most modern techniques of journalism and marketing to broadcast the worst lies of the Kremlin. Those lies themselves have been cleverly designed to imitate the West’s own justifications for the Kosovo intervention: “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide.” Doubtless the Georgian forces committed crimes in their incursion into South Ossetia. There are plausible reports that they shelled villages. But they were overwhelmed so quickly that they simply could not have committed crimes of the scale alleged by the Kremlin. Besides, Russia’s long patronage of South Ossetian attacks, its invasion across internationally recognized borders, and its relentless bombing of a country that has retreated and offered a cease-fire deprives it of any right to make such accusations. Russian policy is a war crime in itself.

Dean of USC Architecture School Rails Against Preservation

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:44:17 GMT

clipped by: presohio

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

A city built on impermanence -- and that's OK

'Most of them are so superbly ugly that they're exciting." That's what Qingyun Ma, dean of the architecture school at USC, told me last Tuesday afternoon when I asked him what he thought of this city's remarkable explosion of skyscrapers.

Ma sheds no tears for the quaint buildings that have given way to thousands of new structures -- and they aren't all ugly by any means. In fact, he barely conceals his disdain for architectural nostalgia. "The concept behind historic preservation is foolish," he said. "It assumes that there is infinite space for future generations. We have to allow people in the future to build their environments based on their own needs and intelligence."

It turns out that L.A.'s lack of historical sentimentality is one of the reasons Ma enjoys his adopted home. "L.A. is for the future," he said.

Tags: preservation, philosphy

Trine Thorsen

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:48:49 GMT

clipped by: Chrissychris
clipper's remarks: http://citified.blogspot.com/2008/07/time-worn-nostalgia.html

Clip Source: www.dezeen.com

Tags: office, design, home

Man in ‘hugging lion’ video reveals its secrets

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:22:10 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Man in ‘hugging lion’ video reveals its secrets

One of animal’s owners tells story that still tugs heartstrings after decades

By Mike Celizic

TODAYShow.com contributor

Video

The decades-old footage of a full-grown lion joyously embracing two young men like an affectionate house cat has made myriad eyes misty since it recently landed on YouTube. What is it about the old, grainy images that has attracted millions of clicks around the globe?

Is it simply that a lion, whimsically named Christian, remembered the two men who raised it and then released it into the wild?

Is it nostalgia for a simpler time 39 years ago, when you could walk into Harrods department store in London, stroll through the “exotic animals” section, and buy a live lion cub?

“Oh, my God,” Rendall exclaimed from Australia when told how popular the video has become. “If it’s made people more aware and more interested in conservation and the protection of the environment, we’re very pleased.”

Tags: news

Memory and Intelligece test

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:53:58 GMT

clipped by: happininjen
clipper's remarks: AWESOME

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Explore your memory, Sniffing the decades, What kind of thinker are you?

Answers to questions about memory, Fish oils and brainpower, Memory champion's diary, Smells and nostalgia, Intelligence - Hot Topic

Toys of the 1950s

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:01:33 GMT

clipped by: ClipMe123
clipper's remarks: I love the classic toys, like Hula Hoop, Silly Putty, Mr. Potato Head, and Barbie.

Clip Source: www.toysofthe1950s.com

Toys of the 1950s

Tags: toy, toys, 1950, 1950s, vintage, classic, nostalgia, nostalgic

Wild Wild Web being fenced in?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:52:32 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.firstamendmentcenter.org

At some point in history, America’s Wild West became the Less-Wild West — with the rule of law taking over from the justice of the six-shooter, with codified norms of society replacing the often-unbridled ethics of frontier life.

We just may be seeing something of that kind of change beginning in the Wild West of the 21st century — the World Wide Web, with its Cyber Age pioneers who have been communicating freely for nearly 15 years. Such change would have dramatic implications for free speech, privacy and copyright laws.

The signs are there, like the spread of barbed wire that ultimately fenced in the open range.

Nostalgia and romantic notions didn’t stop the fencing in of that idealized vision of a wild, open country. For good or bad, a combination of legislation, court decisions, self-imposed restrictions and private vendor rules are creating limits in and around the Web’s wide-open speech country in much the same fashion.

Tags: internet, free speech, cyberspace, legal, privacy

Audiotools: music toolkit in your browser

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:19:50 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: This looks way cool. When I have some real time to kill, I'm going to fool around with it.

Clip Source: drawlogic.com

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Andre Michelle Brings It with Audiotools and Re-Makes Rebirth Alive and Better with AS3 Flash and Java

If you ever were a fan of Rebirth and Rebirth 2, this was a music kit that had two 303s, a 909 and an 808 kick drum (beastie says mmmmmm-m-m drop!). Well Andre Michelle has re-ignited that awesomeness and upped it with the Audio Tools from hobnox!.

This not only has the famed 808, 909 and 303 (conveniently covered with stickers of love) but also sorts of channel mixers, pedals and sweet interface that mimics the inputs and outputs as well as customization on nearly every aspect of the audio creation with these tools. Use your mouse to move things around, connect ins and outs and move the whole setup around.

Tags: music, tools, web, check_this_out

7-UP Collectibles

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:33:22 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.soda-pop-collectibles.com

7 UP

1963 7-Up soda machine manufactured by s-v company

1961 Original Vintage Metal 7 UP sign 4 ft x 4 1/2 feet

Vintage Metal Sign Mr. PAM TOP Pickup Covers 3 x 5 feet

Original 7 UP Sign, 7-UP by the Stout Sign Co.

7-up bottle

7 UP ILLUMINATED SIGN STILL IN THE BOX MINT

Vintage Oak 7-UP Themed gumball Peanut machine LOOK!!

VINTAGE 7UP BOTTLE SIGN SUNBURST UNCOLA TIN SODA

7-UP SODA ROUND THERMOMETER VINTAGE SIGN 669-J

7up quartz clock large

1964 7- UP CLOCK WORKS

CANVAS retro COLORFUL 31X24 7-UP soda poster

Vintage 7-Up Electric Lighted Clock

OLD UNCLE SAM 7 UP 7UP 50 CAN COMPLETE COLLECTION

rare & UNIQUE sparkly 7UP CHRISTMAS DOLL ELF

1950s 7 Up Company Delivery Truck Photo

1950s 7 Up Logo Flip Top Lighter

1940s 7 Up "Peacock and Bottle" Matchbook

1930s 7 Up Counter Top Sign with Bubble Girl Bottle

1930s 7 Up Highballs Counter Top Cardboard Sign-RARE

1943 7 Up War Bonds Die Cut Sign w/Pretty Girl

1930s 7 Up "Real" Large Easel back Sign

WOW!! FULL 6 pack of 7-up king size 12 oz bottles LQQK!

Tags: 7-up collectibles, shopping, old stuff, nostalgia, soda pop

Reminisce - On-Line Scrapbook

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:26:45 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.reminisce.com

Visit Our On-Line Scrapbook

We’ve partnered with another web site for seniors called BackWhen.com to bring you an interactive scrapbook filled with personal recollections of the good ol’ days. You can easily select a category such as “Our Old Kitchen”, “Growing Pains” or “Fads & Doodads”, then scroll through the pages to enjoy short stories from fellow Reminisce readers and other seniors.

If you’d like to add your own story to the scrapbook, simply use the “click here to share your stories” link. Type in your name (or a nickname if you’re bashful), your e-mail address (optional) and your story...then click the “submit” button at the bottom of the page. Visit again later to see your story “in print” in the scrapbook! (It may take a few hours for your story to appear in the scrapbook, so please be patient.)

Ready to go? Click here!

Tags: on-line scrapbook, reminisce, scrapbooking, nostalgia