Friday, July 5, 2013

'Dig If You Will the Picture': The Maistre of Paisley Park

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The Purple Wonder, Prince, performing with his new backup band, 3rdEyeGirl, gave a recent interview to V Magazine, touching on music, ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

'How long, how long will I slide?": Exploring the 'Otherside'

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For everyone stuck at work before, during or following the Independence Day holiday, a bit of pop, mystical reflection from Red Hot Chili ...
Monday, June 24, 2013

"You're Standing Here Beside Me/I Love the Passing of Time"

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In 2011's "This Must Be The Place", filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo and the forthcoming-in-the-U.S. "Grande Belissi...
Friday, June 21, 2013

You Aren't Imagining It: That's A 'Supermoon' This Weekend

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The May 2012 supermoon, seen from Gainesville Fla. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Matt Stamey) The moon really will appear large...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

James Gandolfini, R.I.P., 51

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Keith Richards at 70: On Life On and Off the Road with the (formerly) 'Tiny Todger'

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From the Men's Journal Profile of Keith Richards: "You played some dates in London with ex-bassist Bill Wyman, and ex-­guitarist M...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Father's Day Treat: "I Think We Are All Bozos on this Bus" (Firesign Theater 1971)

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"Many busy executives ask me, "What about the job displacement market program in the city of the future?" Well, count on us...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The Message and the Meta of Practicing Safer Communication:

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ProPublica publishes an interesting. Overview of maintaining privacy, where possible, on your communications.  http://www.propublica.org/art...

Yep, Data, Nothing But 'Big Data' and the Protection of Democracy the Imperfekt

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In their timely book, ‘Big Data,’ by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, looks at the growth and future of mega-number crunching, a...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Folks, Face Reality: 'Big Data' is here to stay

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PEN, ProPublica- I love y'all. But how can we lash the US government for tracking info and data on phone calls that can be used as a sou...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Hannah Arendt, a film by Margarethe Von Trotta

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From iconoclast to icon, Hannah Arendt was an unyielding political theorist who experienced detention in a wartime prison camp in Europe, bu...
Friday, June 7, 2013

American Hypocrisy: Cool for Cash, Not for Security

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Once again the overripe hoopla on all sides regarding the NSA data mining makes one wonder, why is it ok for Facebook or Google to reap bill...

Fighting on the Border

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Photo by Danielle Moghadam On a field trip to Druse villages in the north, witnessing fighting between Syrian rebels and Syrian gove...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

The U.S. Government is Listening? Who isn't? The Paradox of Freedom

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The Guardian's article revealing widespread recording of domestic and international Verizon communications by the US National Security A...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Roses in June from the Waldorf Court Garden

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