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http://atlasobscura.com This quote from the site pretty much says it all – “The AtlasObscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all ofthe singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strangeout-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travelguidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you’re lookingfor miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound [...]

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Anthony DiMaggio, Bernard Avishai, Dave Buchen, Ira Chernus, Jeff Dorchen, Jonathan Mazower, Paul Rogers

Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). This week, he wrote the piece, “Time to Change the Story: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated.” live from Jerusalem, adjunct professor of business at [...]

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http://vvvv.org VVVV is a toolkit for manipulating video in realtime, interactiveinstallations, and lately, lots of motion graphics for commercials anddesigns for magazine covers. You visually program in it by connecingpre-existing nodes together to create pretty much whatever you want. Ifound the interface kind of primitive and confusing, but got used to itfast and there’s tutorials [...]

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http://www.f295.org A site full of photo freaks doing 21st century photography. What thehell is 21st century photography? The site describes it as “a visiondriven form of photography which freely combines historic methods,alternative processes, and adaptive techniques to create somethingnew.” What that gets you is freaks processing pinhole photographs withFolgers coffee and other wacky mashups of [...]

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: David Skalinder, Ethan Nadelmann, Jeff Dorchen, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Martin Shaw, Muhammad Sahimi, Shane Bauer

Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan is the author of 1993′s “Cops Across Borders,” which was the first scholarly study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement, and co-authored the 2006 [...]

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http://wordsmith.org/anagram Here’s a lovely time waster… The Internet Anagram Server! Say youwant a new nom de plume for yourself, but you want it made out of yourreal name’s letters. Instead of wracking your brain for hours, let theInternet Anagram Server do it all for you in seconds. For instance, mynew alias is Modal Diode. Cool, [...]

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dan 'The Auto Man', David Neiwert, David Vine, Howard Zinn, Jeff Dorchen, Kim Bobo, Mahmood Mamdani

Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and a columnist for Religious Dispatches. Kim is the author of “Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid – And What We Can Do About It” (The New Press). American University assistant professor of anthropology David [...]

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