Avatar, the Oscar winning movie directed by James Cameron, is now the world’s most expensive movie…[thenextweb.com]
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Very apologetically, I am belatedly posting this guest contribution from David Rothenberg, a philosopher, musician and author of fascinating books on whales, birdsong and a host of other facets of the natural world. The piece is essentially a “Postcard from the Arctic” similar to dispatches I filed in 2004 from Greenland and a recent contribution here from a Siberian river. Click on the sound sample while you read…[nytimes.com]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – About 13 million Time Warner Cable Inc subscribers were to lose most Fox programing at midnight on Thursday unless the cable service provider reached a last-minute deal to pay fees to News Corp to broadcast the shows…[reuters.com]
[ESP.] “Es hora de romper el silencio, es hora de pararse alto, es tiempo de decirle a todo el Mundo lo cínicos que estas personas son, es hora de decirle a esta gente que tan equivocados estan”.
[ENG.] “It is time to break the silence, it is time to stand tall, it is time to tell the whole World how cynical this people are, it is time to tell this people how wrong they are.”
The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution…[e-flux.com]
Hebdo n° 1000 du 01 janv. 2010
• 1000 mercis
• 100 petites phrases
• 50 couvertures chocs
• 15 insolites
• 10 scénarios pour le futur
• 5 continents
• 1 surprise
Every once in a while, some left-wing Jewish writer will take a deep breath, open up his (or her) great big heart, and tell us that criticism of Israel or Zionism is not antisemitism. Silently they congratulate themselves on their courage. With a little sigh, they suppress any twinge of concern that maybe the goyim–let alone the Arabs–can’t be trusted with this dangerous knowledge…[counterpunch.org]
On September 4, 1972, the novelist and futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary published an editorial on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict. Titled “A Plague on Both Your Tribes,” it announced that the situation had become a “monumental bore”: that the leadership had failed, and the antagonists, “acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl,” even as other nations of the world were “rapidly patching up their differences.” Esfandiary decried the violent stalemate over territory, especially since the world was, in any case, “irreversibly evolving beyond the concept of national homeland.” Citing a recent United Nations study on global youth, he extolled a “new kind of population, more resilient and adaptable than their elders,” with a “feeling of world solidarity and a sense of common responsibility to achieve peace.” In a future that was just around the corner, today’s youth would take care of the Arab-Israeli problem—in part by realizing that it was already obsolete. He concluded the piece with an exasperated injunction: “Let us get on with it.”
Worst Album Cover? (Sun-Sentinel)
Date submitted: 04/25/2008
Voici venu le temps des bonnes résolutions. Et si, en 2010, on tentait de cultiver une qualité un peu désuète, la gentillesse ? Encore faut-il réhabiliter cette notion souvent disqualifiée. On rabâche aux enfants d’être gentils mais une fois devenus adultes, on associe cette vertu à de la faiblesse, voire à de la bêtise. Ce qualificatif échoit le plus souvent à ceux qui n’arrivent pas à s’affirmer, qui ne savent pas dire non. Bref, aux faibles qui se laissent faire ou à ceux qui n’ont pas d’autres qualités à faire valoir.
[lemonde.fr]
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“Le loup est arrivé et il est bien parti pour rester.”
Jean-Claude Roch, garde-faune vaudois,
in La Gruyère, 28 juillet 2009
