July 2008
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Welcome to HERE.am
It’s been a busy couple of months for us — practicing 2-3x each week; recording and mixing demos; and designing, building, and filling this website with about 130 entries, all the while managing to hold onto our jobs and our neglected friends (right?).
So, it is with great pleasure that we introduce you to HERE.am, the official website of HERE. As you can see, the site isn’t...
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“Matt and Dan’s 3D Adventure”...
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HERE plays Castle In Hell, THIS Saturday
WHEN: Saturday, 8/2 @ 10:30pm
WHERE: Castle in Hell — 842 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn
COST: $5 for entry and beeeeeer
We’re told that The Shackeltons — who got a pretty stellar review in SPIN some months back — will be playing later in the evening as well. Should be a good one!
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China still scrambling to fight pollution before... →
Several years devoted, many desperate measures undertaken — including those on the propaganda front — and at least $17 billion dollars directly spent, and Beijing’s air quality is still terrible.
This is by far the best article I’ve seen on this issue, synthesizing a lot of information and asking some good questions about the significance of this situation.
The even...
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Joe Klein is right, for once
Ah, Mr. Klein. You’re right, for once — except for your headline. It isn’t extremists in general that you rail against. It’s the idiotic extremists.
You’ve often had trouble distinguishing between the merits of various extremisms. Here’s hoping for a better performance in the future.
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ARMS
The band. I just saw them, and they were great. See them if you can.
And read this interview by the one and only Nell Alk.
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“They had him strapped to the wall, like he was a criminal. Like he was an...”
– A man’s sister, in reaction to his being forcefully detained at Shea Stadium, was just shown saying this on the Fox 5 NY ten o’clock news.
Strapped to the wall like an ‘animal,’ eh? I wasn’t aware that any animals are inherently strap-to-the-wall-able.
In addition...
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Ford posts worst quarter ever (-$8.7B), decides 10...
The loss, equal to $3.88 a share, was mostly the result of $8 billion in write-downs because of falling demand for and resale values of gas-thirsty pickups and sport utility vehicles in the United States.
(via the New York Times)
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“We are a nation of consumers. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The trouble...”
– From a new Discover Card commercial.
Let’s dissect their marketing strategy. First, the ad labels its viewers Consumers, pushing the identity on us (unless we resist, of course) that will most benefit Discover Card. It uses national identity to subtly reinforce the consumer label.
Then the...
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WatchCreative catapulting. (I recommend skipping to 0:50 or so.)
Thanks Zoomdoggle.
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Tom Coburn (R-OK): Then and Now
Back in 2005, when Tom Coburn and fellow Senate Republicans were in the majority, Mr. Coburn spoke about he and his party’s efforts to purge the Senate minority’s right to filibuster judicial nominations:
“I kind of relish the fact that we’re going to do the right thing, and I believe that history will prove that we are going to do the right course.” (via the...
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For once, the bears do the trapping
Via Reuters:
At least 30 hungry bears have trapped a group of geologists at their remote survey site in Russia’s far east after killing two of their co-workers last week, emergency officials said on Tuesday. …
Rampant fish poaching in the empty tundra of Russia’s farthest reaches sends hungry bear populations into populated centers every year, attracted to the food-rich...
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“…judicial stupidity.”
– Tim Winter, of the Parents Television Council, decrying a judge’s ruling today that dismisses the FCC’s $550K fine against CBS, levied for airing Janet Jackson’s partially nude breast for 0.5625 seconds during the infamous 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show. Via Wired.com and AP.
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Race and Species
Coming soon.
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A World Without Culpability
by Daniel Mims
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Arrogance in print
In my day job at a mainstream book publisher, I often encounter examples of extreme epistemic arrogance in print. This one’s from the introduction of What Dads Need to Know About Daughters / What Moms Need to Know About Sons (snappy title, guys) by John and Helen Burns:
Genesis 1 and 2 tell us the story of Creation. God created the stars, the earth, the animals, the whole universe—but his...
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More empirical evidence challenging 'free will' →
Hat tip M.O.
Setting aside the indisputable a priori reasons to reject the possibility of literal free will, scientists are pitching in with empirical data showing that the brain determines an individual’s decisions and behaviors prior to any involvement by his/her consciousness.
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices...
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Happy 4th of July
Spectacle, booze, and women — the real reasons to celebrate.