Friday, November 30, 2007

Terrence McNally and AlterNet via Common Cause Robert Reich on democracy. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich did an AlterNet interview on Wednesday, discussing how consumer-driven culture "is killing our democracy." It's a rich subject that Reich covers in his recent book, Supercapitalism. As is more and more often the case, prominent sitting and former decision-makers include a heavy dose of public financing of campaigns in their prescriptions for our democracy's ills. Here's what Reich said about it: [Common Cause Blog] 5:33:36 PM

Thanks to Dan Gillmor Thanks to Dan Gillmor from Gary Santoro for the mention in the Acknowledgements of his book We the Media. Pick it up for a Winter Gift! We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People. Review: So, just about the time we thought it might be best to burn all the presses & put an end to book publishing forever, we came across one of the best books on the subject, Dan Gillmor's "We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People". What he describes as a transformation of journalism & some regard as a mutation of journalism we can all regard as a rapid evolutionary sea change that's of fundamental importance to us all. Appropriate here is the book's wonderful job of not only explaining & describing that, but also documenting it. We sit on the shoulders of many of the agents of change as change happens. We see the edges of the path (even factors like libel or insurance play a role since most citizen journalism is voluntary, unpaid & based more on passion than experience). We watch the fundamental tenets of professional journalism reborn in the lessons that these grassroots practitioners learn from their bruises. "We The Media" earns a rarely awarded Newstips Squeal of Approval." -- Martin Winston, Newstips Electronic Bulletin 5:12:33 PM

Eilat Mazar, Institute of Archaeology at the Shalem Center Israeli Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found. (AP) -- A wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news] 4:57:43 PM

Dark Energy in the 21st Century Dark energy -- 10 years on. Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago - dark energy. This month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the University of California at Berkeley, reveal how little we know about dark energy and describe what advances in our knowledge of dark energy we can expect in the coming decade from a series of planned space missions. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news] 4:51:48 PM

The Dark Knight New Joker Photo From The Dark Knight. This new photo of Heath Ledger as The Joker in Warner Bros. Pictures' The Dark Knight has appeared on the latest issue of Wizard magazine. In the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman Begins sequel, opening July 18, Batman (Christian Bale) raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. ["SuperHeroHype.com - 5 most recent stories"] 4:49:51 PM

Advertising by GGK The Advertisement.. Once upon a time, there were good print ads. Here's one of those. A three consecutive pages ad for a pack of biscuits by GGK Düsseldorf. [The Cartoonist] 4:48:11 PM

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