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M.I.A, Born Free on Vimeo

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This is amazingly powerful work. Where youtube gets off censoring this and not the millions of truly offensive videos on their site is beyond me. Pass it on if you agree. It's the only way to fight censorship...spread knowledge.

Russell Simmons: Why I Meditate

I have been a meditator for about 12 years. It has given me energy, strength, health, wisdom, and access to my own inner stillness, inner silence, inner bliss. It is my connection to myself; it is my connection to the universe.

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Aquacalypse Now | The New Republic

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized--with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS--they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts of developing nations and, ultimately, all the way to the shores of Antarctica, searching for icefishes and rockcods, and, more recently, for small, shrimplike krill. As the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to deeper waters. And, finally, as the larger fish began to disappear, boats began to catch fish that were smaller and uglier--fish never before considered fit for human consumption. Many were renamed so that they could be marketed: The suspicious slimehead became the delicious orange roughy, while the worrisome Patagonian toothfish became the wholesome Chilean seabass. Others, like the homely hoki, were cut up so they could be sold sight-unseen as fish sticks and filets in fast-food restaurants and the frozen-food aisle.

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Nestle's Secret Menu - Tonic

Bored? Give Nestle a call.Congratulations on finding this article. Your mission has been determined. Here are your instructions:1. Call Nestle: 1-800 295-0051 — it may be busy. Keep trying.2. When asked if you'd like English, say nothing, and wait for a few seconds. The next option will make you smile.3. Select option 4.4. Listen carefully to the Secret Menu and choose wisely. I highly recommend #7.5. Post this on your Facebook page to spread awareness (especially about #7).Good job. Photo by Travis Hornung via Flickr.

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Crazy on so many levels...

Making WW2 Easier To Understand For Today’s Children. :: The Wisconsin Guys

Hot Carl: Sagan’s Cosmos Meets Lil Wayne | h+ Magazine

At first, these experiments were limited to musique concrete, with Pink Floyd’s “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” coming as close to mainstream as it got. But in the Seventies, technology like the vocoder and the Talk Box allowed pop artists access to new ways to present their voices. Recently, hip hop artists such as Lil Wayne have been going nuts with an effects processor plug-in called Auto-Tune. While, at first, Auto-Tune was meant to pitch-correct the voices of a few pop tart singers that we won’t name here, it’s now used more for its distinct tone.

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Using Your Thought-Controlled iPhone to Dial Home | h+ Magazine

No, this isn’t SF technology from the latest episode of Caprica (although the smart phones in Caprica look suspiciously like our own). A new iPhone app described in the MIT Technology Review blog developed by Tanzeem Choudhury, Rajeev Raizada, Andrew Campbell and others at Dartmouth College lets you “wink” or “think dial” your relative or friend when his or her photo appears on an iPhone. Dubbed the “NeuroPhone” (not to be confused with the “Neurophone” developed by Dr. Patrick Flanagan in 1958, a device that converts sound to electrical impulses) it’s a brainwave-phone interface that uses a wireless EEG headset to send signals wirelessly to an iPhone. Here’s a video demo of the NeuroPhone:

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Hank Williams among 2010 Pulitzer winners - CNN.com

STORY HIGHLIGHTSPulitzer Prize Board awarded a posthumous special award to Hank WilliamsAdministrator: "Award highlights the board's desire to broaden its Music Prize"In journalism, New York Times wins four awards and Washington Post wins threePaul Harding's "Tinkers" wins award in fiction category

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Cool.

Homemade eggplant Parmagiano

Not too shabby for 20 minutes work.

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Highly recommended

As good as it gets, masterful fiction.

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