Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online. Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years. It was a compelling talk that challenged the notion that personal information is on a binary spectrum of public or private. To help underscore her points...
Something tells me that most every Medal of Honor trailer between now and its release is going to feature the kicking-the-booby-trapped-torture-victim-out-the-window sequence. It's compelling, sure, but not after seeing it the second time. More »
Continuing a recent trend of bizarre Israeli commercials , a supermarket chain has cashed in on the January assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Actors in a new television advertisement for Mahsanei Kimat Hinam are shown wearing outfits taken from the infamous CCTV footage of the al-Bustan Rotana hotel, which caught the alleged Mossad assassins on tape.
An actor w...
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Elizabeth Warren, Chair, The Congressional Oversight Panel
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
Eidos has finally released a video for Deus Ex 3. An opportunity to see the hero and the platform announced, that is Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Hopefully, more details will come at E3.
"I came to Washington. D.C. as a student at Georgetown University in the fall of 1968. At that time, Washington was a very different city. There were virtually no cars in the city on the weekends, and my classmates and I would walk from Georgetown up to Capitol Hill and barely encounter anyone. In those days, there was no security and all areas of the Capitol, including the subterranean chamb...
The Hit for Haiti 2 made a million dollar donation to Haiti, but it left me with a sour taste in my mouth.
7 millie g damned hits in 3 days. 1 = me. You've seen this. You don't know you have, but you have. Lady Gaga hired a botnet in China with her Vigin mobile money and in-video product placement and loaded this on your computer while you were asleep. Haha, she's crazy like that. If I may be so bold, I'd like to offer up a short commentary at this point. The song, in itself, pretty much sucks. But t...
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Miss Platinum erupted on to the scene in 2007 with her chart topping single (in Romania) called " Give me the food ". Busy P and his buddy DSL from Ed Banger gave her some synth cookies and beatwaffles and created this masterpiece.
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Graziella Bertocchi , Marianna Brunetti , Costanza Torricelli , 13 March 2010 Does marriage make people less averse to risk? This column argues that this is the case for women, but not for men. But married women's different attitude towards risk has fallen over time as the prevalence of marriage in society has faded. For women who work, marriage makes no difference. Full Article: Why are marr...
Couldn't resist these:
At least he's wearing a shirt this time.
For years now we have all found solace and joy in Charlie Schmidt ’s “Keyboard Cat,” a musically inclined feline with Beethoven-sick skills and a mischievous mien. Now, a new kitty is on the scene: Bento. And believe you me, this Cat’s got synth-drenched magic coming out of his claws. By now we all know the story of Keyboard Cat — a video born 30 years ago when an unemployed performance arti...
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A conservative activist is working to correct what he sees as the liberal bias of the experts who write American history and science textbooks.
LeBron James (notes) is a mean guy. Can't he just let these people enjoy their breakaways in peace? All they're trying to do is make one measly layup, and he has to go and embarrass them. How rude. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I'll go with number 6. And not just because it's LeBron's new number either . I find it a very visually appealing block. However, the overhead shot with LeB...