Netflix Prize: Review Rules -- Read, then start workingon your $1million prize

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz | Daniele Luttazzi News

Megan and Gu near Peidras Blancas lighthouse-- Imagine Leo at her place

Video Concert sauvage dans le métro ! - Naturally7, Metro, Paris, Concert, Beatbox --Sounds like home

Open Lit, a growing definition

Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows--for real geeks only

GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones

Placemaking for Communities | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)

Santa Barbara Daily Sound » Blog Archive » Bad check arrest leads to embezzlement bust-- Further proof that people who consider "shopping" entertainment rather than a chore are mentally ill

Consumer group urges Cal to forge a tough deal with partner BP --UCBP!

COMPACT IMPACT
Gadgets for the crowded future living

Ficlets | Welcome to Ficlets! -- More OpenLit fun!

Paris-Nice 2007 - Official race map

moo | we love to print

Jimmy Carter and Apartheid - The New York Review of Books

Armed America: Portraits of Americans and their Guns --Preserving democracy

Cat parasite rules our lives -- Never had any doubts that felines are evil:
"U.S. Geological Survey biologist Kevin Lafferty has linked high rates of toxoplasmosis infection in 39 countries with elevated incidences of neuroticism, suggesting the mind-altering organism may be affecting the cultures of nations."

Closing Time

I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me:
you were in it for your beauty too
and I loved you for your body
there's a voice that sounds like God to me
declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you
And I loved you when our love was blessed
and I love you now there's nothing left
but sorrow and a sense of overtime
and I missed you since the place got wrecked
And I just don't care what happens next
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's CLOSING TIME

The Santa Barbara Independent :: opinions :: Go Away, God

"Yet people want to believe in God, and for many of them, doing so is ennobling and enriching. Christ’s fraternity with the poor, Muhammad’s invocation of God’s compassion and forgiveness, the mysticism of the Upanishads — these are things that help us inhale life’s tremors and exhale equanimity.

yet, there are better ways. Charity and desire for equanimity are hardly the monopoly of religion, nor are ignorance, intolerance and anti-progress views, but certainly the major religions carry their large share of responsibility

Les Amants réguliers

Boing Boing: Blackwater: superbly researched indictment of America's hired killers -- too few are paying attention
"Scarier still is their deployment on US soil, as with the Katrina disaster, where Blackwater took in millions for shoveling armed men and automatic weapons into the stricken city of New Orleans, where food and health care were impossible to come by but where there was no shortage of ammunition.

YouTube - Wu Ming - Manituana (novel, 2007) - This is the trailer

YouTube - Grand Theft Simulacra

Décès de Jean Baudrillard, pourfendeur de la société de consommation et des médias

Specialized Tarmac SL Video Review

Project Censored Media Democracy in ActionTop censored stories of 2007

Tutto Campy Bici - Everything Campagnolo: history, timeline, news, catalogs

Excellent documentary, and some nice interviews too :)

International Women's Day 2007

Demain

Assassination Raga

[...]
The forte that through the red fuse
Drives the bullet
Drives the needles in its dharma groove
A man the needle
Drives that plane
Of the 'United States of America'
Through its sky full of shit and death
And the sky never ends
As it wings soundlessly
From those fucked-up cities
Whose names we'd rather not remember
Inside the plane
Inside the plane a wife
Lies soundlessly
Against the coffin
Engine whines as sitar sings outrageously
La illaha el lill Allah
There is no god but God?
There is no god but Death
[...]
--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

YouTube - How to Shower: Women vs. Men

YouTube - Opération Disneython

PROTESTERAI CON DOLORE. Il paradosso dell'arma innocua che può cambiare la democrazia

My Dot-Green Future Is Finally Arriving - washingtonpost.com

The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)
Jonathan Lethem's opinion on plagiarism can also be heard here

Leave No Child Inside | by Richard Louv | Orion Magazine March-April 2007 -- Saving the world from nature-deficit disorder

Dog Yoga -- Would not work for Leo

Daily Record - Chester Township - Doctor sues girl, 11, over inline-skating collision--Moron of the week
"A bicycling doctor has sued his then-11-year-old inline-skating neighbor for pain and suffering after they collided on their Chester Township street in 2003."

Netflix Watch Now: Secret Technique for Cutting In Line, Get Streaming Now - Gizmodo
This is so unbelievably awesome