January 2012
25 posts
Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts... →
elitc:
The way I see it, that’s 150 million chances lost to improve the quality of the Internet. JSTOR, as the keeper of so much great scholarly work, should be one of the Internet’s dominant suppliers of facts and serious research. But if something is not publicly available, key gatekeepers like journalists and Wikipedians, move to the best available source, even if they know that there...
STRIKE...
See you on the other side!
STOP SOPA!!!
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Anarchist art group Voina torches prisoner transport truck — St. Petersburg, Russia
New Year’s Eve is a huge deal to the Russian people. So, at 11:25 pm on December 31st, the notorious art group Voina (“War”) climbed the fence into the St. Petersburg precinct №71, set a police prisoner transport truck ablaze and gave the Russian people “a gift” of “Eternal Fire.” Read on for action video and...
“I think our mistake has been thinking, in the 20th and 21st century, of the big...”
– Alan Moore (via what-meworry)
“Everything is true”, he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought”.”
– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. (via sleep-sweet)
'Mass suicide' protest at Apple manufacturer... →
“Foxconn, which manufactures gadgets for the likes of Apple, Sony, Nintendo and HP, among many others, has had a grim history of suicides at its factories. A suicide cluster in 2010 saw 18 workers throw themselves from the tops of the company’s buildings, with 14 deaths…”
December 2011
48 posts
