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the-theme-is: Artist: Superchunk Track: Slack Motherfucker...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:53:55 -0400

Artist: Superchunk
Track: Slack Motherfucker
Album: Superchunk
Year: 1990
Theme: Expletives

futurejournalismproject: Rupert Murdoch, offering advice to...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:40:10 -0400

Rupert Murdoch, offering advice to Facebook, via Twitter.

Murdoch’s News Corp (in)famously bought Myspace in 2005 for $580 million and sold it in 2011 to Specific Media for $35 million. During a 2011 annual meeting, he admitted that News Corp managed to “mismanage it in every possible way.”

letterstomycountry: prettayprettaygood: A Yemeni youth...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:48:36 -0400

letterstomycountry:

prettayprettaygood:

A Yemeni youth activist has been tweeting his reactions to his village being struck by a U.S. drone. Amazing.

See Also: Afghan Villagers Flee Their Homes, Blame U.S. Drones

See Also: US Drones Blow Up Any Hope Of Close Ties With Yemenis

futurejournalismproject: ccindecision: Something weird has...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:09:44 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

ccindecision:

Something weird has happened to The Most Trusted Name in News.

Has something weird happened? Has the race to break news scraped the bottom of the barrel yet (of course not, there’s a long way to go).

In my inconsequential opinion, CNN has been one of the newsroom to most embrace technology and social media in recent years and as a result it is also the one suffering most from the process of pulling hard fact from rumour and hearsay as the time to do this work diminishes in the newsroom.

motherjones: Yup.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:07:09 -0400

motherjones:

Yup.

motherjones: mypubliclands: What does Jurassic Park have to do...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:08:55 -0400

motherjones:

mypubliclands:

What does Jurassic Park have to do with public lands? Quite a bit, actually…

Jurassic Park is based on paleontologist’s research analyzing fossils. Our extensive knowledge of dinosaurs wouldn’t be possible without this research, which is conducted by permitted paleontologists and their students. Many of the greatest dinosaur discoveries occur on your public lands in Alaska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and New Mexico! For example, just outside Cañon City, Colorado discoveries include the first complete skeleton of Allosaurus, the three most complete Stegosaurus skeletons ever found, as well as the first known remains of dinosaurs like Camarasaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Diplodocus.

Of course, the proper preservation and protection of paleontological resources is a vital component of BLM’s Paleontology program and is the reason that the BLM and Universal Studios created these Public Service Announcements back in 1993. Students and scientists with BLM permits are making new discoveries every year, many of whom became excited about paleontology because of movies such as Jurassic Park. Join the adventure, click here to learn more about fossils on public lands!

—Kyle Sullivan, BLM Colorado

Watch the original PSAs here:

Jeff Goldblum

Laura Dern

Sam Neill

Michael Crichton

Note: license for footage used in these PSAs granted by Universal Studios in June 1993.

Oh man. Whoever is running the Bureau of Land Management Tumblr is doing it right.

bigrubberyone: for real pic…

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:22:04 -0400

bigrubberyone:

for real pic…

azizisbored: Oh brudder! It worked. Congrats to team #OhBrudder...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:58:24 -0400

azizisbored:

Oh brudder! It worked. Congrats to team #OhBrudder aka me, @ChelseaVPeretti, @SouthCackNeez, and @thedavidcho.

"Ebert’s reviews were always deeply alive to human concerns, rather than exclusively aesthetic ones...."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:25:05 -0400

“Ebert’s reviews were always deeply alive to human concerns, rather than exclusively aesthetic ones. Re-reading his review of The Godfather, it’s striking that Ebert praises Francis Ford Coppola’s structural decisions. But he takes time to note a moment when the movie turns away from violence: “Notice how the undertaker is told ‘some day, and that day may never come, I will ask a favor of you,’ and how when the day comes, the favor is not violence (as in a conventional movie),’ but Don Vito’s desire to spare his wife the sight of his son’s maimed body.” And he asks the reader “Now here is a trivia question: What is the name of Vito’s wife?” In the midst of one of the greatest movies ever made about men, it’s critical to him to ask what the treatment of women means for the male characters, and for the movie, which made strategic decisions to eliminate major sections of Mario Puzo’s novel told from the perspective of women.”

- Alyssa Rosenberg on remembering Roger Ebert as a critic and a liberal. (via think-progress)

"A typical Siskel and Ebert program reviewed five films. Either Mr. Ebert or Mr. Siskel would..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:34:49 -0400

“A typical Siskel and Ebert program reviewed five films. Either Mr. Ebert or Mr. Siskel would introduce a clip and then give his opinion. Then the other would weigh in. Their disagreements were more entertaining than their agreements, complete with knitted brows, are-you-serious head-shaking and gentle (or not so) barbs. Mr. Siskel once taunted Mr. Ebert about his weight: “Has your application for a ZIP code come through yet?” Mr. Ebert came back with a dart about Mr. Siskel’s receding hairline: “The only things the astronauts saw from outer space were Three Mile Island and your forehead.””

- The New York Times, “Roger Ebert, Popular Film Critic, Dies at 70’ (via inothernews)

thefader: … AND STREAM THE KNIFE’S KNEW ALBUM

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:28:11 -0400

thefader:

… AND STREAM THE KNIFE’S KNEW ALBUM

utnereader: The State of Our Environment By Jeanethe Falvey,...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:14:18 -0400

utnereader:

The State of Our Environment

By Jeanethe Falvey, EPA State of the Environment Project Manager

Forty years ago, EPA set out to document the state of our environment: in photographs. In a historic project known as DOCUMERICA, the country’s best photojournalists were given a doorway and ran through it: into mine shafts, living rooms and factories. Those 22,000 pictures will forever depict the state of the United States when the work of the Environmental Protection Agency was just beginning.

When DOCUMERICA closed in 1977, so did the box which contained those faces and places. They would not to be rediscovered – or revisited – until now.

Through the end of 2013, it’s your chance. What you see can be a part of this unprecedented global call for photos of our lives and environment today.

What will State of the Environment and DOCUMERICA say about our past and our current quality of life? What challenges have we overcome and what signs today point to the challenges ahead?

That’s up to you. Join the 2,800 photos and growing that have been submitted to State of the Environment on Flickr. From sea to space and our earthen travels, this project is all about your view.

Take a photo of your environment and share it for the world to see. Read the State of the Environment blog and visit the State of the Environment Flickr Group to learn more.

via USA.gov

allisonkilkenny: John Lewis schooling fools on DOMA…in...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:28:02 -0400

allisonkilkenny:

John Lewis schooling fools on DOMA…in 1996.

Prophetic.

"Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:45:02 -0400

“Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.”

- Facebook finally admits to tracking non-users | Firstpost (via new-aesthetic)

lacma: Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:22:31 -0400

lacma:

Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online image library where we made 2,000 high-resolution images of artworks that the museum deemed to be in the public domain available for download without any restrictions. This week, we’ve exceeded ourselves with the launch of our new collections website, giving away ten times the number of images we offered in the initial image library. Nearly 20,000 high-quality images of art from our collection are available to search, download, and use as you see fit.

What Do Cats Have to Do With It? Welcome to Our New Collections Website

Dear Tumblr-verse,

Merry Christmas: we just gave you 20,000 high-resolution images, for free. Now we have just one question: what are you going to do with them?

motherjones: Pope Francis vs. Black Francis: One attends Mass regularly and believes God is number...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:27:25 -0400

motherjones:

Pope Francis vs. Black Francis: One attends Mass regularly and believes God is number one. The other dropped out of UMass and believes God is seven. More unholy comparisons.

"The 10th anniversary this month of the invasion of Iraq will remind most people of a divisive and..."

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:57:26 -0400

“The 10th anniversary this month of the invasion of Iraq will remind most people of a divisive and dubious war that toppled Saddam Hussein but claimed the lives of nearly 4,500 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians.

What it conjures up for me is the media’s greatest failure in modern times.

Major news organizations aided and abetted the Bush administration’s march to war on what turned out to be faulty premises. All too often, skepticism was checked at the door, and the shaky claims of top officials and unnamed sources were trumpeted as fact.”

- Howard Kurtz, host, CNN’s Reliable Sources, Media’s failure on Iraq still stings.

Ten years is a long time, so for a quick refresher on what the press did and didn’t do at the time, take a look at this 2008 article by Dan Froomkin in the Nieman Watchdog Project.
(via futurejournalismproject)

Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning Statement Released by Freedom of the Press Foundation

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:01:52 -0400

Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning Statement Released by Freedom of the Press Foundation :

futurejournalismproject:

Via the Foundation:

Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation is publishing the full, previously unreleased audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. In addition, we have published highlights from Manning’s statement to the court.

While unofficial transcripts of this statement are available, this marks the first time the American public has heard the actual voice of Manning.

He explains to the military court in his own cadence and words how and why he gave the Apache helicopter video, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Logs, and the State Department Diplomatic Cables to WikiLeaks. Manning explains his motives, noting how he believed the documents showed deep wrongdoing by the government and how he hoped that the release would “spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.” In conjunction with the statement, Private First Class Manning also pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him.

The new Mt. Moriah album is, guess what, so good.

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:20:18 -0500

The new Mt. Moriah album is, guess what, so good.

stereogum: Watch long-lost Postal Service audition...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:05:00 -0500

stereogum:

Watch long-lost Postal Service audition footage

This is a totally appropriate, off-label use of Marc Maron