Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth – Blue Marble 2012 shared CC-BY by NASA Goddard Photo and Video Last month… NASA updated the most iconic photograph in our civilization’s gallery: “Blue Marble,” originally taken from Apollo 17 in 1972. The spectacular new high-def image shows a picture of the Americas on January 4th, a […]
Read more "“read the ‘freaky’ weather reports”"“It’s my business, your business, it’s all business… it’s the business of advertizing.” Via James Fallows. As an aside, UBC is in the process of deciding which US-hosted external email service our students will be using: Microsoft or Google.
Read more "I’m reduced to posting Microsoft ads"DSCN0123 shared CC by LosAnheles Just a quick note that may affect a few of you reading this… I have changed the primary blog on my Feedburner RSS feed from http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian to https://abject.ca Hopefully this transition will not mess up the feed readers of my Feedburner subscribers too badly. Apologies in advance if it does. […]
Read more "Boring site note: all moved in, switched over"untitled shared CC by Foxtongue Gaston Gordillo goes deep: The Vancouver riots were a moment of rupture of the sanitized image that our local elites cultivate about Vancouver The Beautiful as a global brand. The corporate media lost control of the huge collective energies it contributed to releasing on the streets by glorifying sports as […]
Read more "Burn!"Robert Crumb explains how there’s no hope via flow chart shared CC by Aaron_M …this post by Morris Berman might help explain why: “Under the Republicans, man exploits man. With the Democrats, just the opposite is true.” —American bumper sticker …chronicling the collapse of the American mind has become something of a national pastime, way […]
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