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I want to bookmark nearly every cat and girl comic. This one's good enough the treatment.
comics  awesome  the_sadness 
july 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
The Last Traffic Jam by Stewart Udall – The Atlantic (October 1972)
Relying on Middle Eastern oil will be an economic and political disaster! Start building smaller and more efficient cars & public transit.
If only.
depressingly_correct_prediction  energy  writing  magazine  transport  the_sadness 
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Memo to Scott McClellan: Here's what happened // Nukes & Spooks
Nice roundup of all of intelligence & media manipulation prior to the invasion. From McClatchy.
the_sadness  media  politics  war 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
The Stupidity of Dignity by Steven Pinker // the New Republic
President's Council on Bioethics: "Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America..."
stupid  the_sadness  writing  politics  religion  magazine 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Moles Wanted - City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
FBI looking for informants to attend "vegan pot-lucks" and report on plans for RNC protests.
activism  politics  minnesota  news  social_control  the_sadness 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
RLM PR : Today, Punk Marketing is born.
barf x 100 : "We are here to give the movement a voice so that all brave marketers, smart businesspeople and power-hungry consumers can fight for a marketing style that holds intelligence and creativity"
the_sadness  spectacle  viaslavin 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
High gas cost won't drive away buyers of big SUVs / After 2-year slump, demand rebounds
Owner of Expedition, after explaining how it's useful bc. he has 2 (!) kids and goes to the mountains: "I'm concerned about global warming. We try to do as much as we can. ***We try not to drive that far.***"
environment  end_of_rome  how_it_ends  the_sadness  car  news  sf 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Biology of Cities | TIME [Monday, Nov. 30, 1942]
Review of Sert's 'Can our Cities Survive?': "The Sert group propose to house the city's people in skyscrapers, surrounded by open space, ... [a] single solution for a modern city's two greatest dangers, congestion and bombing."
urban  planning  history  boston  book  the_sadness  hidden_patterns 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
"Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?"
poetry  brooklyn  usa  the_sadness 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
I-Witness Video Blog: NYPD Video Spying Techniques
'antiterrorism' vids of people riding bikes. Aerial infrared of critical mass is beautiful
monopoly_on_violence  nyc  bike  video  the_sadness 
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Broken Angel - Arthur Wood -Architecture - New York Times
Yep, condos: "The Woods have also entered into a tentative agreement to share ownership with a local developer, Shahn Andersen, who would turn most of the building into condominiums." (at least it won't be torn down)
brooklyn  architecture  news  the_sadness 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Giroud Pichot Silverstein video
2min animation showing the proposed WTC towers gleaming and glinting along to Gershwin and Ebb-Kander. This link will probably die soon, so check it while you can.
architecture  nyc  the_sadness 
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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