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• Eduardo Paes Determined to Destroy Rio de Janeiro through Useless Policies and Class Warfare

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 138
  This past February, Rio de Janeiros mayor, Eduardo Paes, launched the first step in his efforts to "clean up" Rio by banning beer vendors on the streets during Carnaval , a drastic and useless move that I hoped would be temporary. When I went to Brazil in June, I had a chance to see just how ugly and damaging Paess ...
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• BOOK REVIEW: Kid Made Modern by Todd Oldham

  
  Inhabitots — Authority: 573
  Designer Todd Oldham ’s new book, Kid Made Modern is a kaleidoscopic collection of kid’s crafts and a budding designer’s introduction to the masters of modernism. Kid Made Modern features 192 full-color, eye-popping pages of 52 craft projects that range from simple (Amazing Laces inspired by Jack Lenor ...
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• Le Corbusier as Modernist Orator

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 129
  Looks interesting: a new book on the famed High Modernists speeches explaining modernism--for my friends and colleagues of the Modernism Project. (An aside; of all the arts, is it fair to say that Modernist architecture was the worst? Painting, sculpture, dance, literature--all were enriched. Modernist music ...
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• The Higher Nagging sinks to new lows.

  
  Acephalous — Authority: 466
  I am, most likely, the only person on earth currently taking a break from the serious work of reading and writing about comics by reading a novel whose cover declares that it "only [could] have been devised by a literary team fielding the Marquis de Sade,Arthur Edward Waite, Sir James Frazer, Gurdjieff, Madame ...
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• Moody’s Warns of ‘Social Unrest’ as Sovereign Debt Spirals

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  from The Daily Telegraph: Britain and other countries with fast-rising government debts must steel themselves for a year in which “social and political cohesiveness” is tested, Moody’s warned. In a sombre report on the outlook for next year, the credit rating agency raised the prospect that future tax rises ...
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• Alex Roman: Hyperreal CGI

  
  ISO50 Blog - The Blog of Scott Hansen — Authority: 572
  Everything you see in these stills and videos by Alex Roman is 100% computer generated. This is certainly the best CGI I’ve ever seen; I would normally say “virtually” indistinguishable from reality, but in this case the “virtually” doesn’t belong. The videos were created using 3dsmax, Vray, After ...
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• now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  from The Daily Telegraph: Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages. Feast your eyes on this news release from ...
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• The perfect Christmas gift for the postmodern in your life.

  
  Defending. Contending. — Authority: 478
  [IMG: http://defendingcontending.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/postmodern-twister.jpg?w=466&h=600][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=defendingcontending.com&blog=3445415&post=15806&subd=defendingcontending&ref=&feed=1]
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• Flickering Pixels and Message Shaping Media

  
  Quaerentia — Authority: 459
  A couple of weeks ago, I was involved in the EA’s Digimission day with such online luminaries as Jonny Baker & Maggi Dawn – quite a fun event all round organised by the indomitable Krish Kandiah . And as if to prove how technologically on the ball it all was, we had a talk live-streamed from Phoenix ...
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• Student Refuses To Study Bible As Literature

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  Nothing like being blatantly biased against Christianity! Now what do you think the school district would say to a Christian student if that student didnt want to read an Atheist book! Now who really are the intolerant ones? from WCVB TV: A Newton high school sophomore will not be required to read ...
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• Experimental Jetset CAPC Catalog & Poster

  
  AisleOne — Authority: 595
  David over at SeptemberIndustry spotted this gem on Experimental Jetset’s Myspace page . A gorgeous set of print work EJ did for an Heimo Zobernig exhibition in Bordeaux. The work includes an A2 folded to A5 Invitation, A4 Catalog and a massive poster. I love how the minimal design really makes the poster stand ...
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• Catholic church in Indonesia wants permission to call God ‘Allah’

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  from The Baltimore S un: Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Church have urged a court in Malaysia to let Christians use “Allah” as a translation for God and overturn a government ban that has become a symbol of religious grievances in the Muslim-majority nation, the Associated Press is reporting. The High Court ...
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• Climate: The new god of left-wing “Christianity”

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  from The World Tribune: With the ClimateGate revelations of flimsy “science” behind the man-made global warming theory, the role of the religious left in promoting this fraudulent scheme now deserves serious media scrutiny. Because that is unlikely, consider the following:   Dr. James Wanliss, Associate ...
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• second-grader suspended from school over drawing of Jesus

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  from Taunton Daily Gazette: A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.  The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School ...
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• Facets of our own day

  
  Camel's Nose — Authority: 124
  On the bus and on the train: wherein I read from Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era while listening to Leonard Cohen’s Live in London album, and exegize further on Pound and Cohen. ~~~~~~~~~ The following two quotations are from advice given to Ezra Pound by Ford Madox Hueffer* as he started his career, quoted in ...
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• Lotta Nieminen

  
  Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog — Authority: 657
  Illustration agency Pekka represents plenty of talented Finnish illustrators, but Lotta Nieminen stands out with her strong modernist, geometric designs and slightly dirty textures. (via Grain Edit .) Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | No comments Tags: ...
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• An Open Letter To Jonathan Rosenbaum on Inglourious Basterds [TYNANS LETTERS]

  
  Tynan's Anger — Authority: 131
  Dear Mr. Rosenbaum,I wanted to respond to your arguments about Inglourious Basterds, especially your call for "enthusiasts for Inglourious Basterds to come up with some guidance about what grown-up things this movie has to say to us about World War 2 or the Holocaust—or maybe just what it has to say about other ...
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• West Palm Beach Antiques Festival to Offer Two Shows in One to Open 2010

  
  WorthPoint — Authority: 132
  Marco Astrologo’s booth at the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival features dozens of vintage of Louis Vuitton luggage and steamer trunks. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The West Palm Beach Antiques Festival , Florida’s largest monthly antiques show, will present the Florida Modernism Show in conjunction with the ...
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• PriceChopper: Groucho Marx Mansion Reduced- Again

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 596
  Get out your checkbooks. This gorgeous 1956 Wallace Neff -designed home for Groucho Marx in Beverly Hills was just chopped again. Featured back in August when it first went on the market for $12.9 million , this five bedroom, six-bath mid-century sits on three-quarters of an acre and has walls of glass, terrazzo ...
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• Modern Youth Ministry ‘Unbiblical,’ Ministry Leader Claims

  
  True Discernment — Authority: 430
  from The “Christian” Post: Scott T. Brown, an advocate of church reformation and the strengthening of families, claims that modern youth ministry is “indisputably unbiblical.” Addressing Christian leaders and families at a conference on the Sufficiency of Scripture on Friday, Brown, director of the ...
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