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Originally from Gristmill on March 29, 2007, 4:26pm

Mark Frauenfelder:

Here’s a link to the free documentaries on Google Video — all 3,713 of them, including a 1978 BBC documentary of a road trip with Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman called Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision and a 40-minute documentary about Richard Feynman called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

These days, there are fewer reasons than ever to turn on the television.

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Originally by Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing on February 28, 2007, 8:14pm

An exhibit of posters demonstrates the important role media plays during a widespread epidemic.

Originally from Metropolis Magazine on February 19, 2007, 11:00pm

A whimsical image of the blogosphere from the edge of the core.

Originally by Matthew Hurst from Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media at February 23, 2007, 06:40, published by Luis Silva

Originally from Rhizome.org on February 28, 2007, 3:51am

From the unfolding saga of “how Canada can suck ever more oil from the ground” we get this little news item:

Canada and Mexico should accelerate efforts to import temporary Mexican energy workers to alleviate the skills shortage in Alberta and other provinces as oil sands development ramps up, top North American CEOs will recommend today.

It’s mildly amusing that the most heavily Republican Conservative region of Canada is so desperate for workers that Mexicans are apparently necessary. But the facts are that there’s very little in the way of opposition to major developments in Alberta. Both provincial and federal levels of government have historically favored a strategy of growing the tar sands as rapidly as possible. The low-ball estimates see Canadian oil production tripling by 2020, with all the increase coming from the tar sands. And if something as trivial as “wages” or “willing bodies” is keeping the precious, precious crude from flowing, then it’s clearly time to bring in replacements.

It’s not so much that everyone loves the idea of defiling cubic kilometers of land and water to keep U.S. cars running, it’s that nobody has any strong vision of an alternative — selling Americans raw materials is kind of what we do up here, and it’s a tough habit to break.

Originally from Gristmill on February 27, 2007, 11:31am

Originally from The Loom on February 28, 2007, 9:15am

Originally from 3quarksdaily on February 27, 2007, 4:06pm

Something culturally bizarre is going on in Hong Kong and from what I haven’t read in the western media (with the exception of a 2003 post on Boing Boing)… either the topic is still too taboo or most people aren’t paying attention. For times like these you can count on Asian Sex Gazette to cover the story (again).

To many Hong Kongers, Nazis represent the epitome of desirability. Their tanks were made by Mercedes and Porsche; their uniforms were original Hugo Boss.
Twenty years after the last British skinhead tired of the joke, it’s still not unusual to see a Hong Kong teen in an Adolph Hitler European Tour t-shirt.