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photos from protests in LA

yesterday was May Day and street protests were in action.

The Fall Collection

i found this old video that Isaac and i produced of The Fall Collection a few years ago.

you should check it out if you are in or around NYC this fall.

puttin' it on wax

or rather, from wax...

over 6,000 historical wax recordings are now available online (under Creative Commons license too) in MP3 format at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.

it is really cool.

bird flu interactive map

coming to a town near you?! - check it out here.

math is scary sometimes

#s bring an odd perspective to things...take the NHTSA report on the way(s) you are most likely to do by %.

Paris riots - '68 vs now

even MSNBC has insight.

in 1968, French youth rioted in the streets in a battle against the seeming onslaught of bourgeois values that had fully taken hold since the end of WWII.

today, they riot for the reverse cause - the bourgeois values not only took hold, but seem to have created a hypnotic trance over the new world - and they riot now to keep what they see as "natural rights", such as a guaranteed job, house, car, family, TV, holiday...

read Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and you will feel like we are all treading water. * Bruno, i still have your copy 10 years later. sorry. email me and i will return it someday!

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He also found shared customs. He said peasants in Uzbekistan and Dongxiang both learn to cut a slaughtered chicken into 13 pieces.

- NYTimes