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Daily Kos found this story: Entertainment News Article | Reuters.com LONDON (Reuters) – British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said Wednesday. Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley [...] Just the cutest! YouTube – New Generation Dylan Fan A Zogby poll (a very large survey base) found very different attitudes when people are asked if surveillance should directed at the US public. (Most of the polls the media has been quoting only ask whether warrants should be required for surveilling “terrorists”. [Disclosure: I am polled by Zogby.] Survey I came across a useful and enlightening blog on racial, cultural and gender issues. It is part of the Other Magazine site. The magazine is only available in print, but from the tables of contents here it looks worthwhile. I really wanted to save the bit below from Claire that lists books relating the contemporary [...] This story in an email from Amy Klobuchar, who is running for the US Senate in Minnesota, intrigued me, not for it’s political content, but for what it says about what is real or true in a story… A year ago our family went to see the holiday movie “Polar Express.” When we were leaving [...] I loved this list I stumbled across on AlterNet: Movie Mix: Ten Hollywood Movies That Get Women Right Forget empowering, encouraging, affirming or celebrated — here are ten movies that feature real women. I was especially moved by the description of To Kill a Mockingbird in terms of its model for fathering girls. The new national terrorism center (film on Daily Show…) looks astonishingly like the CTU in 24… The Guardian (UK) did a week long + special report on Robert Crumb: This BoingBoing article set off an odd mixture of feelings: Second Editions is a Berkeley-based business run by Jim Rosenau, a software developer and carpenter. He builds furniture out of books — mostly books (“I remove some of the paper and replace it with a sturdy armature of salvaged lumber.”). The [...] As part of my decompression from the election, I am trying to read blogs dealing with more than politics. Having SlashDot as my home page helps. Another endless source of fascination is BoingBoing, a site that collects curious and stimulating items from a techno-scifi perspective. This week Cory Doctorow picked up on an article from [...] |
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