Sean Rodman's Blog, page 11
June 20, 2013
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culturalcannibals:
A Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and...
A Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond
One of my fav authors, talking about libraries. Geek out.
Man, this short film from Seth Worley makes me laugh…stick...
Man, this short film from Seth Worley makes me laugh…stick around until the end. Damn bird.
sirmitchell:
After watching Edward Snowden’s interview last...
After watching Edward Snowden’s interview last night, I found myself in a state of sedated rage, and quickly started working on this. Braver than I could ever hope to be, Mr. Snowden has made a sacrifice of epic proportions, giving up everything but his life (so far) to let the people of America know that our government is committing illegal acts against us in the name of security. US Intelligence couldn’t even stop the Tsarnaev Brothers, two of the dumbest terrorists in history, so I don’t take much stock in their ability to turn our soiled rights into security.
This idea that you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide is complete and utter horseshit. The Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizure which is exactly what this is. I certainly don’t want decades of e-mails, phone records, texts, etc to come back and haunt me later in life. The government has no right to gain that sort of leverage over it’s people. We’re on a slippery slope here, and I really hope that the people of America, right, left, and middle can cut through the bullshit and bickering and come together and fight this head on.
NSA thing has me feeling like I’m living in a bad sci-fi novel. In the next chapter, PRISM achieves sentience and sends drones to round us all up…
June 10, 2013
brianmichaelbendis:
Book designer Chip Kidd explains why...
Book designer Chip Kidd explains why designing books is no laughing matter (or maybe it is) and illustrated why literary TED talks are the best TED talks.
June 6, 2013
tuesday-johnson:
ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of a gentleman...
ca. 1880, [tintype portrait of a gentleman with a spectral apparition]
via the Northern Light Gallery, Andrew Daneman Collection of American Tintypes
June 5, 2013
breakthecitysky:
…It is not enough to allow dissent. We must...
…It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it. For there is much to dissent from. We dissent from the fact that millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich. We dissent from the conditions and hatred which deny a full life to our fellow citizens because of the color of their skin. We dissent from the monstrous absurdity of a world where nations stand poised to destroy one another, and men must kill their fellow men. We dissent from the sight of most of mankind living in poverty, stricken by disease, threatened by hunger and doomed to an early death after a life of unremitting labor. We dissent from cities which blunt our senses and turn the ordinary acts of daily life into a painful struggle. We dissent from the willful, heedless destruction of natural pleasure and beauty. We dissent from all those structures-of technology and of society itself-which strip from the individual the dignity and warmth of sharing in the common tasks of his community and his country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Address, Berkeley Campus, University of California, October 22, 1966. Mortally wounded 45 years ago today, he would die on June 6.
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