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Happy Birthday, America. You’re the best!
\x0aAmerica’s Funniest Home Videos Intro.
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\x0a \x0a \x0a “If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello.”
\x0aMaira Kalman, you’re pretty fantastic.
\x0aTime Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com
\x0a“A conversation about the Internet’s role in the coverage of the Iranian elections.”
\x0aGreat discussion hosted by Charlie Rose (so professional) featuring friend and former co-worker Nico Pitney (blogger extraordinaire), Facebook friend and Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly (kelly2010.com), and one of my nerd-crushes Jonathan Zittrain (intellectual giant).
\x0aA Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper’s Web site.\x0a
Thinking out loud… Newspapers can have anonymous sources, but you cannot comment on those anonymous sources anonymously?
\x0aThe comments are written under pseudonyms. Along with the real names of people who posted comments, the subpoena asks the newspaper for the writers’ gender, birth date, physical address, telephone number, Internet service provider, IP address and credit card numbers.\x0a
Q: What was Publius’ credit card number?
A: No. 10
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress - NYTimes.com
\x0aMr. Holt added that few lawmakers could challenge the agency’s statements because so few understood the technical complexities of its surveillance operations.\x0a
This needs to change.
\x0aRequired Viewing: Chiranjeevi, the most famous Tollywood actor of all-time, schooling some creeps on the hardwood in the greatest finish to a basketball game film patrons have ever seen.
\x0aMONDAY AM BONUS: Our old friend Mark Pike has put together an “Amazing” version of this clip that, for once, warrants this description:
\x0aJanko Nilovic: Space From Psyc’ Impressions (Montparnasse, 1970)
\x0aThe sample off of Jay-Z’s “The Death of Auto-Tune” on Blueprint 3 (via Soul Sides).
\x0aI thought it was a Kanye beat first time I heard it (despite the No I.D. namecheck), as it seems pretty derivative of “The Takeover”. Which is all to say, it’s fire.
\x0aThe original though- the sample- it is the soundtrack to the slow-motion montage of this summer afternoon.
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\x0a \x0a \x0a Virginia Unity Rally.
Williamsburg, VA.
I’m pretty sure they mentioned the Arlington Rap video. If that doesn’t convince you to vote Democrat in Virginia, we really can’t do much else.
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