4 days ago
deusx : McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred -- baltimoresun.com - "John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are
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5 month ago
nelson : Justice - Stress - New video from the French group. Very disturbing, what are they playing at?
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15 month ago
43folders : Achewood - July 5, 2007 [Finding the inventor of Comic Sans] - "Nothing can undo what you've done!"
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18 month ago
jimray : A.O. Scott brilliantly dissects what's wrong with blaming the Va Tech shootings on pop culture - "Like guns, it seems, certain movies in the wrong hands can pose a threat to public safety."
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Threat Level - I will be available for interview by a news agency to clear my name, talk about the experience, and give my opinion on how the situation could have turned out better if other students were allowed to be armed.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Blogging gone bad, if not evil - Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)
Simon Willison : Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations) - Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations). Truly sickening behaviour.
kellan : Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT protected speech - Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT protected speech. Deeply disturbing, and upsetting. (And some part of me is selfish enough to be sad that I won’t be seeing her this week, as she is a consistently wonderful speaker) #
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philgyford : The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans - Ethics, identity, violence, justice. "Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity -- ethnic, racial, religious -- rather than to appeals based on the rational forms -- economic above all?"
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34 month ago
kellan : Stan Goff: Sex and War - Now available for pre-order on Amazon #
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36 month ago
Linkorama : 2005 French riots - The minister of the interior said he would clean the suburbs with a Kärcher (in other words, he essentially said the suburbs should be hosed down and the undesirables washed away with high-pressure water), which might have played a role in the exaspera
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39 month ago
plasticbag : The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games - "The Playstation era has, in fact, produced the most non-violent kids ever. But I thought video games were training children to kill? I’m sure I read something like that"
deusx : The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games - Game Revolution - "And after all, there’s no problem with R-rated movies or mature rap lyrics or violent video games, because there is no problem with youth violence."
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39 month ago
philgyford : BBC News | Technology | Uproar grows over GTA sex scenes - Sex scenes require a *higher* rating than blasting innocent people with a variety of weapons!? Weird Americans. (via Anne Galloway)
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42 month ago
deusx : Santa Cruz Indymedia: Video of Arrests at Santa Cruz Tent University - "The university leadership, headed by newly purchased chancellor Denice D. Denton, resorted to physical violence at about 10 pm to terminate the peaceful assembly."
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43 month ago
jimray : Online gamer killed over cybertheft - Hey, look, violence directly attributable to a videogame!
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43 month ago
jimray : Thoughts of a Dreamer - Shocker - kid who shoots up school is a LiveJournal user [via mathowie]
jkottke : Thoughts of a Dreamer, the Livejournal of the teen who killed 10 people in northern MN
Nelson Minar : Jeff Weise LiveJournal - You gotta love the Internets (via mathowie)
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48 month ago
jkottke : Gladwell on the difference between modern society's perception of trauma recovery and the reality - "The vast majority of people get over traumatic events, and get over them remarkably well. Only a small subset—five to fifteen per cent—struggle in a way that says they need help." (Comment on this)
Steve Cook : Malcolm Gladwell on emotional resilience - "We forget that other experiences will compete for our attention and emotions. We forget that our psychological immune system will kick in and take away the sting of adversity." I hope he's right.
plasticbag : Malcolm Gladwell on "Getting Over It" - This is the difference between a novel written in the middle of the last century and a novel written at the end of the century. Somehow in the intervening decades our understanding of what it means to experience a traumatic event has changed.
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