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A Widow's Journey.
> In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam – the most prominent political figure of the Tamil community – was assassinated at his home in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Twenty years on, the Tamil Tigers have been defeated by the military. Appapillai’s wife and son travel back to their homeland in search of his legacy in an attempt to understand what the future holds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil people.
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YouTube: Cee Lo Green - OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR F**K YOU.
Normally i’d post this as a comment in my last post about this song, but this video deserves it’s own post.
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A Death on Facebook (Intimacy and loss in the age of social media).
An interesting article on the tenuous but somehow meaningful relationships one can form on Facebook.
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Autodesk launches AutoCAD for Mac.
What the what? This was one of my two reasons you might want to buy a PC. The other is to play video games, and I suspect that will be less of a reason in coming years.
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YouTube: Dancing at the Movies.
Scenes from a shit ton of movies featuring dance numbers, all set to the song “Footloose”. What was the world like before mashups?
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Building a Nation of Know-Nothings.
This is normally where I would make fun of American’s, but Rob Ford is leading the polls in mayoral race right now. Way to fuck it up Toronto.
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Anahita Avalos.
Some great street photography from Mexico.
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"He drills three holes in the bridge, then penetrates each in order to guarantee fertility."
Balkan Erotic Epic” (2006) by Marina Abramovic. This is all kinds of not safe for work.
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YouTube: Cee Lo Green - FUCK YOU.
If you haven’t heard this song yet, it’s oh so enjoyable. Cee Lo Green is pretty dope.
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Go and Pay to See Scott Pilgrim Right Now.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this film yet.
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The Beauty of the Power Game.
Some starts of women’s tennis hit tennis balls in slow motion — for the NYT of all places.
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Scarborough.
My feelings about Scarborough are complex, in that I don’t think I can ever truly articulate how awesome-to-the-max it is.
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Letters of Note: Be an unbeatable person and avenge my death.
I can’t imagine having to write a letter like this.
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Tamils and Toronto.
Torontist interviewed some Tamil people about Rob Ford’s recent stupidness.
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- Some crazy-ass yo-yo skills. #
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Why trust Facebook with the future’s past?
They currently don’t seem to give a damn about what you were up to a week or a month ago, making it next to impossible to use the site as a historical archive of your life. There seems to be no reason to think this will change going forward. The fact the site is totally walled off doesn’t help matters either. (Related: The problem with Facebook’s ‘Places’.)
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The Tea Party Jacobins.
The new Jacobins have two classic American traits that have grown much more pronounced in recent decades: blanket distrust of institutions and an astonishing—and unwarranted—confidence in the self. They are apocalyptic pessimists about public life and childlike optimists swaddled in self-esteem when it comes to their own powers.
A great article in the New york Review of Books on the Tea Party movement, its libertarian roots, and general stupidity.
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The Google Sewage Factory, In Action: The Chocomize Story.
A look at some questionable results in Google News.
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How TOSAT Took Over Toronto's Street Ad Space.
The group replaced ads all over the city with art.
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Freeze! Revisited.
Artists make edible replica guns. Hilarity ensues.
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