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Commented on BB Video: "A VOLTA" from NASA Project: Narco-Cholo Game Ultraviolence
Xeni, My apologies for introducing the word "promote" here. I assure you I did not mean to imply that you were doing so from any commercial or financial interest, only that your blog serves to bring these things the attention...
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Commented on BB Video: "A VOLTA" from NASA Project: Narco-Cholo Game Ultraviolence
This is a disturbing piece of work. Your intro comments seem only to appreciate its formal qualities (which are impressive) without regard to the horror and nihilism of the content. What say you? Commentary on the violence of international drug...
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Commented on CES Video: Palm Pre Hands-On with Joel and Brownlee, post-review huddle with Ars Technica
I have to admire the gadget guys for being willing to appear on camera (a face born for radio & all that). Certainly helps explain the machismo prose of Brownlee....
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Commented on Abandoned Prime Minister's mansion in Beirut -- infiltration photos
Abandoned? Only needed a *little* jimmying?...
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Commented on Joel Stein: "Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention"
One swallow does not make a Spring, etc.. Asshole-like rhetoric aside the science on this is clearly on the side of the skeptics. In the same way that scientific analysis cannot find a causal connection between immunizations and autism, it...
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Commented on Chabon's "Yiddish Policemen's Union": wonderful blend of hard-boiled and Yiddish ironies
I finished it recently -- after trying to drag out the pleasure as long as possible. A brilliant, wonder-full book -- it fills me with hope for the future of the human imagination....
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Commented on Tokyology
Nobody can mix kitsch and depravity like the Japanese!...
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Commented on Fluidhand is the future of prosthetic arms
Could this "friend" be a journalistic . . . ahh . . . composite? Based on the friend of a friend who knew a deaf girl and a character on a prime time soap? Just asking....
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Commented on Experiment: 96% of passers-by ignore famous artist's street painting
No distinction was made in the film's commentary between public and private art. Art commissioned for public display is typically *given* a context -- both a visual context and a narrative one. This "experiment" merely demonstrates how minimally urban pedestrians...
