February 2012
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Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made...
– NBC News president Lawrence Grossman
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In the next election, I’d vote bloc sooner than I’d vote...
– a good friend
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January 2012
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Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution
adventuresinlearning:
“Once you’ve recognized that textbooks are just an assemblage of resources and that, in a digital world, there’s no reason to bind it together and publish these en masse, then I think you can see a path to liberation from that industry model. You can disassemble, reassemble, unbundle, disrupt, destroy the textbook. It is truly an irrelevant format.”
Apple and the Digital...
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Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens and...
– St. Augustine, 408 AD
December 2011
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Know what’s weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon,...
– Calvin // Calvin & Hobbes (via whenyouholdmyown)
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Celebrity culture is not a convergence of consumer culture and religion, but...
– Chris Hedges summarizing Neal Gabler, Empire of Illusion, p. 16
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Daniel Boorstin writes that in contemporary culture the fabricated, the...
– Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion, p. 15.
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This changes what fun can be... →
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Ecology became a criticism and even a denouncing of the functioning of modern...
– Ingermar Hedström, Swedish social ecologist who has lived many years in Costa Rica
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The Rich DO have more rights! →
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Where to buy shoes:
http://www.oliberte.com/story/
Oliberté manufactures its wide selection of very cool fair-trade footwear in several African countries, from locally sourced leather, and they retail at 50 stores across Canada.
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/blackspot
Adbusters’ Blackspot skate sneaker, made in a sweat-free factory in Pakistan and sold online only.
http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/
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Good News for Cyclists
Testing out protected bike lanes:
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What's the deal with crop circles?
I mean really… has this ever been answered?!
UFC clubs in Toronto Schools? →
fundamentaleducation:
Doug Ford thinks its a good idea.
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Hungary bans homelessness →