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Author Archives: Daniel
Although mostly forgotten today, the “chemist’s war of Prohibition” remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was “our national experiment in extermination.” Poisonous alcohol still [...]
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Space Nites by James Roehl [radio play]
James Roehl – Space Nites.
Also check out his last work from back in April: Randalph, Geoey, and Tommy.
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Year-long depravity: Groupon’s Contest — Art, Commerce, and Sacrifice
The new Groupon promotion “Live off Groupon for a full year and win $100,000″ smells exactly like a Japanese “Live off contest winnings” contest previously covered here where a poor Japanese man had to survive for a year off prize winnings.
The Groupon contest description:
Nearly all human survival needs are covered by Groupon. You can get your [...]
Gina M. Contreras at the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
More info @ the Adobe Books Backroom Blog and Gina’s Blog (Que Lindo Prints)
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SF: Indiefest Begins: 7 Movies to See at the Film Festival
Indiefest Begins: 7 Movies to See at the Film Festival: “Indiefest Begins: 7 Movies to See at the Film Festival”
(Via 7×7 Feed.)
Recommended Reading: Searching for a Miracle by the Post Carbon Institute
Our energy future will be defined by limits, and by the way we respond to those limits. Human beings can certainly live within limits: the vast majority of human history played out under conditions of relative stasis in energy consumption and economic activity; it is only in the past two centuries that we have seen [...]
now you finish your program hun you know children in other countries don’t get sensory overload
Spotted in Clarion Alley, SF … via Street Expression
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Global Collapse linkpiece [recommended reading]
Unfortunately this is a serious post.
Jan Lundberg on a post-petroleum future:
The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other food stores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot from China will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoarding and uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For [...]
Hulu: The Criterion Collection slowly triklin in