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Soros lectures
You can slog through the video, but I preferred the transcripts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
+ to me, it started off rather abstract* (admittedly on his part) and slow (covered ground; note soros tag) and doesn't really get interesting until 3 -- "The event that forced me to thoroughly reconsider the concept of open society was the re-election of President Bush..." [altho he can get a bit arrogant ("even I, who discovered—or invented—reflexivity, failed to recognize...")] -- and gets better from th...

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At the end of October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, members of the men's movement group RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting [2]) gathered on the steps of Congress to lobby against what they say are the suppressed truths about domestic violence: that false allegations are rampant, that a feminist-run court system fraudulently separates innocent fathers from chi...

sc140: 22 minimal electronica tracks composed in Super Collider using 140 characters or less. Twitter user, computer scientist, and compilation curator Dan Stowell started the trend by tweeting his encoded field recordings of waves crashing on the beach.
Artist bios
Further reading at New Scientist
Via textually.org ...

Bus SLYT There isn't really much else to say... a game, a city bus simulator game. Peaceful and scary...

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board has paid Patrick Warburton (of Brock Samson and The Tick fame) to talk about cheeseburgers.
As well as the cheeses themselves, check the tabs on top to "meet the cheeses." ...

Stunning pictures by Michael Yon show what happens when helicopters land in dust storms: The Kopp-Etchells Effect is thought to be the result of static electricity created by friction as materials of dissimilar material strike against each other, in this case titanium/nickel blades moving through the air and dust, but a precise definition is as of now not known.
Von reports most pilots were unable to provide him with a satisfying explanation for why this occurred but within the comments at the end of the article some speculate this could be related to Triboelectric effect or the nature of the sand crystals in the dust. ...

Watergate thug Chuck Colson has issued a call to Christianist jihad called the Manhattan Declaration. Fortunately, tristero has fisked it so that you and I don't have to.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen For one week only on Pitchfork TV, "this 45-minute film from 1965 offers a candid glimpse of Cohen's pre-singer-songwriter days." Previously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and let us never forget 7.
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The Ashley Madison agency: Adultery business now open for gays!
Some people are not happy (NSFliberals)
Some are giddy
Many are puzzled

More opinions and amusing commercials on their media page. ...

The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English is a searchable collection of almost 2 million words of transcribed spoken English from the University of Michigan, including student study groups, office hours, dissertation defenses, and campus tours. Researchers use the Michigan corpus to investigate questions about usage, like "less or fewer?" (cf. this contentious Ask Meta thread) and more gener...

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (BBC4) featuring Herzog, Neu!, Can, Faust, Kraftwerk, Popol Vuh, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

...the Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, that has voided the warranty and they refuse to work on the machine, due to "health risks of second hand smoke".
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Feminist critiques of the Twilight series aren't hard to find. Laura Miller's at Salon and and Christine Seifert's at Bitch Magazine are among the best. But as biting criticism of the Twilight's patriarchal gender roles, they fall well short of Buffy vs. Edward: Twilight Remixed.
And if you can't get enough Bella-vs-Buffy action, here's a longer-form comparison of the stalking scenes from each...

New technology might let you to implant LED tattoos which would turn your skin into a screen.

Self-healing bio-concrete.

Vanish. Writer Evan Ratliff finds out how easy (or hard) it is to disappear with a $5000 bounty on his head.

Chris Foss concept art for Dune, with bonus Nostromo. The images were produced for Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1974 attempt at filming the story, with other artists involved including Moebius and HR Giger. Though the project failed Jodorowsky collaborated further with Moebius to lay the groundwork for his own Dune-like comicbook universe (and a trailer for an animated version of it was even created). M...

I'm not "jolly". I'm in the most high-risk group for gastroesophageal reflux disease. For some, Christmas starts a little too early each year.

Lexington's Mayor, Jim Newberry, bristled at critical questions about The Dame block, "Nothing of consequence ever happened on that block." Richie Wireman begs to differ.
Wireman spent 4 months documenting the final stages of the long and controversial demise of one city block full of established local businesses to make way for a dubiously financed high-rise development.

While no longer a ...

You got typography in my cooking.

25 students at Lincoln University may not graduate, because they failed -- to lose weight. The students are members of "the first graduating class required to either have a BMI below 30 or to take 'Fitness for Life,' a one semester class that mixes exercise, nutritional instruction and discussion of the risks of obesity" in order to graduate from Lincoln.
In a similar vein, you may remember last ...

Internet Vices: various Web 2.0 sites and services, recast as drugs and alcohol.
For example, myspace "is huffing spray paint: Destroys any chance of looking credible. You will be perceived as having the mindset of a middle schooler, and probably do." ...

DIY Forges: not forgery, but making your own smithy. There are plenty of variations available, but there's something special when a teenage boy builds his own forge and teaches himself black smithing.
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A women's prayer group was expelled from the area of Jerusalem's Western Wall on Wednesday for wearing tallitot and reading from the Torah, in violation of an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that restricts these activities to men in the area directly in front of the wall. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the majority of non-Orthodox rabbinical students are female, with the Reform movement being the most fema...

Luxirare is about killer clothes and fine cuisine. Recent features include: Thanksgiving Part I, creating a thanksgiving meal that is less about an abundance of leftovers and instead maximizing the visual appeal of "thanksgiving" symbols like the pumpkin, as a dessert; and Pie Pops, for those who want to eat pie, but don't want a whole slice—who want to try multiple flavors, but for just a bite or...