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« Thursday « March 30, 2006
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  1. {03302006}
  2. {10:08:28 PM}
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  1. Blogging While Black: The Blacklash
    
    (jimi izrael blog)
  2. SXSW only cares about SOME black people
    
    A few years back, as George (of Negrophile) notes, I blogged about SXSW and how it seemed -- from my desk-chair in PA, CA -- to be a hang-out for all the A-list bloggers (none of whom appeared to be black at the time), and how I had, well, about zero-percent interest in going, for personal reasons; for one thing, I already have enough real friends in real life, and it's hard enough keeping those relationships tight. For another thing, why would I choose to go somewhere, on my own time, and be a non-accidental token?
    But, I digress, it spurred George to go, not once, but three more times. By this time last year, he was invited to participate at SXSW on a panel, with several other black bloggers, called "Blogging While Black." He returned again to speak this year, same panel, same topic, same panelists, and apparently it turns out to be a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" proposition.
    Hmmm....maybe it is better to just fly under the radar. Real bad boys with agendas move in silence.
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  2. 10:08:28 PM
  3. SXSW only cares about SOME black people..."
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  2. weblogs
  3. black people
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  5. sxsw
  6. sxsw2006
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2. datetime
  1. {03302006}
  2. {07:47:48 PM}
  content
  1. Propaganda Posters
    
    (The Free Information Society)
  2. [ c|b ].rating: 4.4/5 stars (88%)
  3. One of my great interests is propaganda and its role in modern society, though you might not be able to tell it from this blog. Perhaps the fact that I'm in the advertising business gave me away. I'm fascinated by the tendency of the so-called mass audience -- which at any time may include you and me -- to be manipulated through imagery, rhetoric, spectacle, and illusion. It's my belief that we live in times where essentially everything we experience is propagandized to some extent. The only effective tool against propaganda is propaganda. So it's an endless arms race, a perpetual battle for hearts and minds. The science has become an art. Some of the posters in this collection go back more than sixty years, and yet, many seem appropriate today. Go figure.
    
    b/w: The Spunker
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  2. 07:47:48 PM
  3. ..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. propaganda
  3. social science
  4. tags:
  5. war+posters
  6. agitprop
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« Sunday « March 26, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03262006}
  2. {10:57:28 PM}
  content
  1. Unskilled and Unaware of It
    
    (Damn Interesting)
  2. This tendency of the average person to believe he or she is better-than-average is known as the "above-average effect," and it flies in the face of logic...
    
    Boy, do I know what these guys are talking about.
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  2. 10:57:28 PM
  3. This tendency of the average person to believe he or she is better-than-average is known as the "above-average effect," and it flies in the face of logic......"
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  2. psychology
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. irony
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« Thursday « March 23, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03232006}
  2. {07:11:51 PM}
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  1. Quote: Google Finance doesn't care about black people
    
    (Valleywag blog)
  2. Black like me.
    
    Symantec's CEO, John Thompson, is black...but on Google's cool new finance pages (and it really is cool, with all the mashed-up AJAX, Flash, and creamy nougats of data) if you mouse over his name, under the Management heading ... the mugshot of a white guy pops up...and a non-descript, powder-blue-shirt-and-khakis average white guy at that! Now that's some phunny sh*t: accidental racial insensitivity. The problem probably exists because the page isn't actually edited by a human, but constructed by a bunch of Google's search algorithms. We can't expect computer code to be tolerant, can we? Hate the coder and not the code. (As and aside, how long will it take GOOG to fix it? The original blog post is dated 3/22/2006. UPDATE: It's now 3/24/2006, and they fixed the problem by removing the photo altogether.)
    
    b/w: Scripting News
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  2. 07:11:51 PM
  3. Black like me...."
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  2. humor
  3. racism
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  5. google
  6. tech-gossip
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« Wednesday « March 22, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03222006}
  2. {07:34:49 PM}
  content
  1. Chef Sort of Returns on South Park
    
    (Newsvine/AP)
  2. The Comedy Central cartoon begins its 10th season with an episode titled "The Return of Chef!"
    
    You know they couldn't get rid of a brutha that easily. How hard would it be to find another voice artist to those dulcet tones, anyway?
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  2. 07:34:49 PM
  3. The Comedy Central cartoon begins its 10th season with an episode titled "The Return of Chef!"..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. humor
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. south+park
  6. isaac+hayes
  7. scientology
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  1. {03222006}
  2. {07:55:46 AM}
  content
  1. Imagine
  2. Free your mind.
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  2. 07:55:46 AM
  3. Free your mind...."
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  2. psychology
  3. culture
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3. datetime
  1. {03222006}
  2. {07:47:47 AM}
  content
  1. Fire Extinguished at Japanese Nuclear Plant
    
    (Newsvine/AP)
  2. Firefighters extinguished a four-hour blaze that broke out at a nuclear power plant in western Japan on Wednesday. Officials said no radiation leaked, but two workers were injured.
    
    ... and somewhere beneath the ocean, just off of Hokkaido, a monster is awakening. The terror of Godzilla 2006! Arrrrrrrrrrooooooooouuuuuggggggggghhhh!!!! Actually, nuclear accidents aren't funny. But the world's running out of oil, and more nuclear plants are going to be built. It's laughable to think that we're not one Homer Simpsonian nuclear plant engineer away from monumental catastrophe.
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  2. 07:47:47 AM
  3. Firefighters extinguished a four-hour blaze that broke out at a nuclear..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. environment
  3. science
  4. tags:
  5. nuclear+power
  6. peak+oil
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« Sunday « March 19, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03192006}
  2. {08:35:16 PM}
  content
  1. Cowboys Sign Troubled, Talented T.O.
    
    (Yahoo! Sports/AP)
  2. T.O. sez: "Hey, Massa, um, I mean, Boss, er, I mean Jerry, I know what's expected of me. I won't let you down until I snap when I'm not the center of constant attention, and subsequently destroy yet another team with my selfish, corrosive media antics. I'm soooo misunderstood. But I'm rich, beeyotch!"
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  3. T.O. sez: "Hey, Massa, um, I mean, Boss, er, I mean Jerry, I know what's expected of me. I won't let you down until I snap when I'm not the center of constan..."
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  2. sports
  3. sports
  type
2. datetime
  1. {03192006}
  2. {11:18:30 AM}
  content
  1. How can someone in Moscow take your money?
    
    (The Red Tape Chronicles/MSNBC.com)
  2. Criminals somehow get their hands on the electronic information stored on a legitimate card's magnetic stripe. Then they take the stolen data and write it onto a new, blank card -- a card that's often plain white -- and they're off to the bank.
    
    I know it's simplistic, but sometimes it seems that with every technological advance it's the criminals who get a whole new set of tools with which to f*ck law-abiding citizens. Is it ever possible for technologists to invent things that will actually give good guys an advantage? Or is the truth that technology shackles rather than liberates?
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  2. 11:18:30 AM
  3. Criminals somehow get their hands on the electronic information stored on a legitimate card's magnetic stripe. Then they take the stolen data and write it onto a new, blank card — a card that's often plain white — and they're off to the bank...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. crime
  3. technology
  4. tags:
  5. fraud
  6. politech
  7. cybercrime
  type
« Saturday « March 18, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03182006}
  2. {04:44:53 PM}
  content
  1. Blogging While Black
    
    (ALLABOUTGEORGE blog)
  2. Revisited footage
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  3. Revisited footage..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. black people
  4. tags:
  5. sxsw
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2. datetime
  1. {03182006}
  2. {04:21:52 PM}
  content
  1. You've Got Goodmail
    
    (New York Times)
  2. Ester Dyson sez: "Of course, the critics say, this is the first step. Pretty soon all mail will cost money, and then the free, open world of the Internet will be closed to poor people, nonprofits and other good guys, while multinational conglomerates fill their ever-growing pockets."
    
    Goodmail sounds like a great idea. At some point, if you want E-mail to work, it can no longer be free...and it really isn't, anyway: someone is paying for all those servers and all that bandwidth. At least 90% of all the E-mail I receive these days is spam. I'm willing to pay to get just the 10% I actually want. The cost can be be micropayments -- pennies, or less -- per message so that poor people won't be left out. Any cost structure would make spammers, who send out tens of millions of messages to seriously reconsider. And if E-mail messages cost something -- like voice and text messages do -- you'd pay more attention to how you spend. The problem with "free" stuff is that it attracts freeloaders, and freeloaders suck. A tragedy of the commons.
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  2. 04:21:52 PM
  3. Ester Dyson sez: "Of course, the critics say, this is the first step. Pretty soon all mail will cost money, and then the free, open world of the Internet will be closed to poor people, nonprofits and other good guys, while multinational conglomerates fill..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. telecommunications
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. e-mail
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3. datetime
  1. {03182006}
  2. {02:47:51 PM}
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  1. Pros Vs. Joes
    
    (SpikeTV.com)
  2. I love the idea behind this reality show. But as someone who lived in a frat house with about a dozen future pro athletes, including a couple of MLB players, three Super Bowl champions, and two Olympians, the physical gap between average Joes (even if they're relatively coordinated) and pro-class athletes isn't even close. It's not that pro athletes are more competitive, it's that they're more physically gifted. That's why they're pros and the rest of us are joes. I'm sure it will be proven on this program.
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  2. 02:47:51 PM
  3. I love the idea behind this reality show. But as someone who lived in a frat house with about a dozen future pro athletes, including a couple of MLB players, three Super Bowl champions, and two Olympians, the physical gap between average Joes (even if th..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. sports
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. reality+tv
  6. spike+tv
  7. humor
  type
« Friday « March 17, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03172006}
  2. {09:41:45 AM}
  content
  1. Write a Priceless® Ad
    
    (priceless.com)
  2. ...and MasterCard will air the best one.
    
    And don't forget, boys and girls, it's your duty as a consumer to run up a mountain of credit card debt. It's easy: just keep buying things you can't afford. Now that's Priceless®.
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  2. 09:41:45 AM
  3. ...and MasterCard will air the best one...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. finance and investment
  3. economy
  4. tags:
  5. credit+cards
  6. debt
  7. bankruptcy
  type
« Wednesday « March 15, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03152006}
  2. {08:13:30 AM}
  content
  1. Subservient Donald
  2. [ c|b ].rating: 4.6/5 stars (92%)
  3. If you ask "The Donald" a question, then you will get an answer. (See the parent site as well, Product Invasion, for well-deserved cracks on the entire Reality TV mediascape.) And you thought television existed for entertainment? Guess again.
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  2. 08:13:30 AM
  3. If you ask "The Donald" a question, then you will get an answer. (See the parent site as well, Product Invasion, for well-deserved cracks on the entire Reality TV mediascape.) And you th..."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. humor
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. trump
  6. reality+tv
  type
« Monday « March 13, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03132006}
  2. {02:17:19 PM}
  content
  1. South Park's Chef Loses Voice
    
    (E! Online News)
  2. South Park's Chef may have dished out his final chocolate salty ball. Isaac Hayes, who has voiced the highly sexed cafeteria employee on the irreverent series since 1997, issued a statement Monday indicating that he has requested to be released from his contract due to what he called the show's "inappropriate ridicule of religious communities."
    
    The part that gets me about this is the revelation that Isaac Hayes is a Scientologist. What's that all about. There are Scientologists from the Melanin Club? WTF!?
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  2. 02:17:19 PM
  3. South Park's Chef may have dished out his final chocolate salty ball. Isaac Hayes, who has voiced the highly sexed cafeteria employee on the irreverent series since 1997, issued a statement Monday indicating that he has requested to be released from his..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. humor
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. south+park
  type
« Tuesday « March 7, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03072006}
  2. {05:23:58 AM}
  content
  1. Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons
    
    (BBC)
  2. One of the blocked sites is hosted on Blogspot, which led to the blocking of all web journals hosted on the site. The Pakistan bloggers found their blogs blocked, even though their blogs are not connected with the cartoons. They say they have still been able to edit and update their blogs, but not able to read them.
    
    But blogs covering Pakistani Prophet, the local version of American Idol, are strongly encouraged.
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  2. 05:23:58 AM
  3. One of the blocked sites is hosted on Blogspot, which led to the blocking of all web journals hosted on the site. The Pakistan bloggers found their blogs blocked, even though their blogs are not connected with the cartoons. They say they have still been..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. censorship
  3. regional
  type
2. datetime
  1. {03072006}
  2. {12:47:53 AM}
  content
  1. Biomimicry
    
    (IT Conversations)
  2. Solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that looks like a prairie, business that runs like a redwood forest... (Podcast)
    
    I like this idea: look at how Nature solves problems, and copy. That's how man learned to fly, so why can't it apply in many other situations?
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  2. 12:47:53 AM
  3. Solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that looks like a prairie, business that runs like a redwood forest... (Podcast)..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. biology
  3. technology
  4. tags:
  5. podcast
  6. innovation
  type
« Sunday « March 5, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03052006}
  2. {02:18:41 PM}
  content
  1. 78th Annual Academy Awards
    
    (OSCAR.com)
  2. It's Oscar Night, and though I have hardly seen any movies at the good 'ol cineplex this past year, mostly because I didn't give a sh*t about any of the movies, I mean, Brokeback Mountain -- give me a break! (And not that there's anything wrong with that brokeback drama, but if I'm going to fork out at least $20 bucks for a ticket and a bucket of stale popcorn, then it's got to be worth the cheddar. But anyway, in honor of my old movie-loving days, I'll periodically post movie links today, while conveniently avoiding all of the on-air hoopla. In other words, you won't catch me dead watching that boring-ass program. But I do want to thank the Academy and all the winners for continuing to make a big deal out of something that becomes more irrelevant every year: Hollywood. So let's start with an oldie-but goodie: my prediction from last year about the chances of Black nominees to win anything:
    
    Academy Awards: Black History Month Edition (this blog, 2005)
    
    Six Degrees of Samuel L. Jackson (Worth1000.com) b/w p
    
    OscarWatch.com
    
    The Worst Films Named 'Best Picture' (Scoopy.com)
    
    Crash Trailer
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  3. It's Oscar Night, and though I have hardly seen any movies at the good 'ol cineplex this past year, mostly because I didn't give a sh*t about any of the movies, I mean, Brokeback Mountain — give me a break! (And not that there's any..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. movies and films
  3. entertainment
  type
2. datetime
  1. {03052006}
  2. {12:37:16 PM}
  content
  1. Actor Tries to Trademark 'N' Word
    
    (Wired News)
  2. The actor Damon Wayans has been engaged in a 14-month fight to trademark the term "N*gga" for a clothing line and retail store, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online database reveals.
    
    Old news, in blog terms, but now, I have heard everything. How did I miss this one? This is right up there with dumb-ass Charles Barkley posing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in chains when that fat clown was trying to make some asinine point...about how dumb he is, presumably. I guess, in Wayans' way of thinking about trademarking n*gga, if someone's going to profit off of that ugly word, it might as well be someone from The Melanin Club. But I guess he didn't get the memo: The Man's been reaping profits on that word since the day he invented it...from picking cotton to dunking basketballs and spitting rhymes, it continues. The word is called exploitation. Is it any better just because the exploiter's face is brown? Wake up Damon Wayans. And, by the way, your name is -- THWACK! -- Toby! On the other hand, Wayans is a comedian, and this could all just be a big PR stunt/setup for some new movie or show he's working on. The idea is that dumb.
    
    b/w: BlackInformant
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  2. 12:37:16 PM
  3. The actor Damon Wayans has been engaged in a 14-month fight to trademark the term "N*gga" for a clothing line and retail store, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online database reveals...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. white supremacism
  3. black people
  4. tags:
  5. exploitation
  6. damon+wayans
  7. idiots
  type
« Wednesday « March 1, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {03012006}
  2. {07:01:32 AM}
  content
  1. Steve's Outfit
  2. This is the uniform for aspiring billionaires, cult leaders, and reality distorters everywhere?
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  2. 07:01:32 AM
  3. This is the uniform for aspiring billionaires, cult leaders, and reality distorters everywhere?..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. people
  3. technology
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(jimi izrael blog)

(The Free Information Society)

« Sunday « March 26, 2006

(Damn Interesting)

« Thursday « March 23, 2006

(Valleywag blog)

« Wednesday « March 22, 2006

(Newsvine/AP)

(Newsvine/AP)

« Sunday « March 19, 2006

(Yahoo! Sports/AP)

(The Red Tape Chronicles/MSNBC.com)

« Saturday « March 18, 2006

(ALLABOUTGEORGE blog)

(New York Times)

(SpikeTV.com)

« Friday « March 17, 2006

(priceless.com)

« Wednesday « March 15, 2006

« Monday « March 13, 2006

(E! Online News)

« Tuesday « March 7, 2006

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