Traces of the Trade » Home “Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide.” (tags: documentary race history slavery filmtagged film:imdb=tt1157728) David Caminer, a Pioneer in Computers, Dies [...]
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"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
June 29th, 2008
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Op-Ed Contributor – How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com “This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true.” (tags: brain memory politics) Op-Ed Columnist – [...]
June 28th, 2008
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Chicago Reader Blogs: Chicagoland: There’s a lot of ways to make money in this world, but I can’t recommend mortgage fraud ‘Where’d the money go? Um, that depends on what you mean by “money.” I wish I was kidding. When the wave started to break, Morris writes, “the CFO of Citigroup did not know how [...]
June 27th, 2008
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The End of Suburbia As We Know It? : NPR “Kunstler sees three possible destinies for suburbs: slums, salvage yards or ruins. A bright note? “They’re not necessarily mutually exclusive,” he says.” (tags: suburbs sustainability) Meet the Gamers – 4/15/2005 – Library Journal “A group of Civilization fans started an online “university” dedicated to improving [...]
June 26th, 2008
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Looking for Democracy Short Film Contest “Any genre is fair game: documentary, narrative, experimental, music video. Unleash your radical imaginations and look for democracy in creative and unusual places. All films cannot be more than 5 min and must be submitted by 9/2/08.” (tags: democracy contest film) Albanian Custom Fades – Woman as Family Man [...]
June 24th, 2008
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2008-06-24
A lot of longer tracks this week make the playlist look short. Among the newer releases featured this week is the strange and interesting Yuganaut, a trio composed of Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs, and Geoff Mann, who are credited with playing about two dozen instruments among them. This track features mbira, as does Triptych Myth’s [...]
June 24th, 2008
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Liqurious Cocktail-focused analog to Tastespotting: user submitted photos of cocktails and related subjects. (tags: cocktail photography) Share and Enjoy:
June 23rd, 2008
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s an Italian Beef: Food Cooking : gourmet.com “Making sense of Kass’s phobias will likely require a battalion of Freudian psychoanalysts. Has he never relished a barbecue sandwich, served by a roadside vendor, tending a cinderblock pit? Or does he just live in mortal fear of mussing his shirtfront? (tags: chicago [...]
June 20th, 2008
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2008-06-20
I was disappointed that I had to miss my show on Tuesday of this week on account of work travel, so when Alain needed a sub on Friday, I decided to offer up my services and “get a show in.” It turned out to be a pretty good one, despite the fact that I blew [...]
June 19th, 2008
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Chase turns sour for lemonade stand robber – NYTimes.com “A girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering.” (tags: crime lemonade indiana) ‘the wooden mirror’ by daniel rozin “the mirror uses 830 square [...]