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Afghan medics tie the body of a believed suicide attacker to a stretcher before putting on an ambulance at the scene of an attack in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Taliban militants struck the heart of the Afghan government in Kabul on Monday, prompting fierce gunbattles after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace. AP


Canadian army Cpl. Melissa Gagnon pulls security in the village of Rajan Qala in the Arghandab River Valley section of the Kandahar province of Afghanistan Jan. 10, 2009, during Operation Fazilat. The operation is a coalition forces effort to clear the area of improvised explosive devices and establish a presence in the community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christine Jones/Released) Date Posted: 1/15/2010


U.S. Army Capt. Charles Day, a surgeon with 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, assists Spc. Frank Romanowski and Spc. Timothy Currie as they lift a patient before placing him on a backboard during their Emergency Medical Technician recertification training at Forward Operating Base Airborne, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rob Frazier/Released) Date Posted: 1/13/2010
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In Publishing: The Revolutionary Future, Jason Epstein posits “The resistance today by publishers to the onrushing digital future does not arise from fear of disruptive literacy, but from the understandable fear of their own obsolescence and the complexity of the digital transformation that awaits them… The unprecedented ability of this technology to offer a vast new multilingual marketplace a practically limitless choice of titles will displace the Gutenberg system with or without the cooperation of its current executives”

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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir

American Jewish writers fascinated by Marilyn Monroe included Norman Rosten, Alvah Bessie, and most notoriously Norman Mailer, who published Marilyn: A Novel Biography in 1973. A couple of years later, Mailer met Barbara Davis Norris, a woman half his age who had been raised as a Free Will Baptist in Arkansas and had previously dated another womanizer by the name of William Jefferson Clinton who was destined for national celebrity. In 1980, she married Mailer in his Brooklyn Heights home, taking on the name Norris Church Mailer and becoming his sixth wife. She describes their tumultuous lives .

A Ticket to the Circus by Norris Church Mailer – Hardcover – Random House.

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A candid (long) conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media.

March 1969

The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan « NextNature.net.


norma jean (MM) and sister bernice miracle

Vintage Photographs.

Chilling Aerial Photos of 9/11 Attack Released – .

8 Unconventional Ways to be Buried .

Waterboarding for dummies .

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE CIVIL WAR: MEMORIAL.

various links for those interested

Black Soldiers in the Civil War – Academic Info.

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“Truck Driving Honky Tonk” in American Roots

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ANTIQUE INDIAN BASKETS MUSEUM California Native American Basketry.

Blue Cloud Abbey Native American Photograph Collection.

Lemon grass fights headaches

Plastics derived from plants may solve waste crisis

Edward S. Curtis’s North American Indian (American Memory, Library of Congress).

‘Tame’ virus could prove prostate cancer weapon .

‘You wonder how to have a conversation with your children? First, chuck the BlackBerry away’ .

Plastics derived from plants may solve waste crisis

‘Gribble’ marine pest may be key to biofuel breakthrough, say scientists .

Study: Kidney disease a big risk for younger, low-income minorities .

Op-Ed Contributor – P.S.A. prostate screening is inaccurate and a waste of money. .

Can You Be Addicted to Your Wife? .

Why your wine may not be vegetarian friendly .

Scientists identify microRNA as possible cause of chemotherapy resistance .

‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops .

Discovery of ‘fat’ taste could hold the key to reducing obesity.

Easy-to-use cellphones designed for the elderly

“Why do we believe”, and are atheists really more intelligent?.

Study: Kidney disease a big risk for younger, low-income minorities .

Scientists identify microRNA as possible cause of chemotherapy resistance .

Discovery of ‘fat’ taste could hold the key to reducing obesity.

‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops .

God Helps with Personal Decisions, Most Americans Say .

Big Generation Gaps in Work Attitudes Revealed .

I thought you died alone, a long, long time ago. | MetaFilter

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I thought you died alone, a long, long time ago. | MetaFilter.

The Apocalypse Playlist… videos

The Apocalypse Playlist… Songs to Die To .

Abandoned : a gallery

Abandoned Mental Asylum Hellingly, RIP, 33 Creepy Photo Tribute .

Poem

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Finnegans Wake, Chop Suey
On this day in 1923, James Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver, that he had just begun “Work in Progress,” the book which would become Finnegans Wake sixteen years later: “Yesterday I wrote two pages — the first I have written since the final “Yes” of Ulysses. Having found a pen, with some difficulty I copied them out in a large handwriting on a double sheet of foolscap so that I could read them. . . .” Though increasingly plagued by eye problems — ten operations, and counting — Joyce’s lifestyle had improved from the Ulysses years, thanks to Weaver’s continued support, and money given by Sylvia Beach against future royalties. He and his wife, Nora, were able to get new clothes, a new flat, even new teeth: “The dentist is to make me a new set for nothing,” wrote Joyce to Miss Weaver, “as with this one I can neither sing, laugh, shave nor (what is more important to my style of writing) yawn. . . .”

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Kirsten Dunst (born 1982) is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories.

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Vale, Oregon. Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.

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Links

Morning Cup of Links: Misfortune Cookies.

Dan Truett McWhorter
January 8, 1920 – March 10, 2010

Today I received the phone call that I have dreaded all my life, it is the call we all dread. I learned that my father had passed away. As I was growing up, my father never called me by my name. He always called me his “Little Buddy”. I can remember to this day how good that made me feel. From my very earliest childhood memory, to this very day, he always was my closest and best friend. Throughout my life, I always knew that there was nothing that could happen that he could not take care of. I was able to spend most of the last week by his side, and holding his hand. The first several days, he was speaking, and we were able to just sit and talk about old times. As the week went on, and his strength faded, we just held his hand and told him we were there. While I always knew this day would come, it is still such a hard thing to deal with. As I come to grips with this new reality, I would like to share a true story from my childhood. There is no doubt that many will be offended by it, yet it would give me comfort to tell it, and I hope that some would find comfort in reading it.

My Snake Story.

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Black and WTF

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It was a media war that the United States lost in Somalia, ironic since its involvement was forced by the pictures of famine-stricken people there. In one of the clearest and earliest examples of the CNN effect, the war was repeatedly dogged by the dozens of press photographers. It is an anticipating media, not snipers or enemy combatants, that greeted the U.S landing forces in Mogadishu in December 9th 1992.

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Books

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via Powell’s Books – Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields.

could it be done?

this guy a genius and hence worth listening to

FORA.tv – Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet.

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Pictures of American Indians


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The pictures listed in this leaflet portray Native Americans, their homes and activities. They have been selected from pictorial records deposited in the National Archives by 15 Government agencies, principally the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the United States Army.

All of the pictures described in the list are either photographs or copies of artworks. Any item not identified as an artwork is a photograph. Whenever available, the name of the photographer or artist and the date of the item have been given. This information is followed by the identification number.

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U.S. Millionaire Population Soared 16% in 2009 – The Wealth Report – WSJ.

TUNES

Hot 100: Week of 03/06/2010

Here are twelve cuts from Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for the week of March 6, 2010. The Hot 100 lists the most popular songs in the United States, across all genres, based on radio play, sales, and online streaming.

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Red Cloud – a life.

chief red cloud..battles and treaties

THE BONE WARS

When most people think of the Wild West, they picture Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, and caravans of settlers in covered wagons. But for paleontologists, the American west in the late 19th century conjures up one image above all: the enduring rivalry between two of this country&apos;s greatest fossil hunters, Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. The “Bone Wars” as their feud became known, stretched from the 1870&apos;s well into the 1890&apos;s, and resulted in hundreds of new dinosaur finds (not to mention reams of bribery, trickery, and outright theft, as we’ll get to later).

via The Bone Wars – The Lifelong Feud Between Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope.

CHIEF RED CLOUD BEFRIENDS OTHNIEL C. MARSH

Rare Photograph of Red Cloud and Othniel C Marsh.

Chart

THINK ALL FACULTY SALARIES THE SAME? THEY VARY RELATIVE TO DISCIPLINE

Average Faculty Salaries by Field and Rank at 4-Year Colleges and Universities, 2009-10

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Undying Memories

“I forgot to remember to forget” Elvis Presley sang in 1955. I know that it was 1955 because I just Googled the title and clicked on the link to the Wikipedia entry for the song.

How cool is that? Not long ago, I would have had to actually remember that Elvis recorded the song as part of his monumental Sun Records sessions that year. Then I would have had to flip through a set of histories of blues and country that sit on the shelf behind me. It might have taken five minutes to do what I did in five seconds. I almost don’t need my own memory any more.

That strikes many of us as a good thing: the costs low, the benefits high. We can be much more efficient and comprehensive now that a teeming collection of documents sits just a few keystrokes away.

But as Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues convincingly in his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009), the costs of such powerful collective memory are often higher than we assume.

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Our Digitally Undying Memories

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AP News: 12 centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea.

Textbook Battle Lines Drawn Over History .

Video: Footage of a tornado destroying homes in western Oklahoma .

Giotto frescoes exposed under ultraviolet light .

Demand for Anger -Management Grows. But Does It Work? .

Chit-chat can leave you miserable .

AP News: Puff, puff, puff, nicotine rises gradually.

‘Pain gene’ discovery could lead to less suffering .

world.nycsubway.org/Around New York/Newark City Subway.

Rethinking rehab: can ‘evil’ children be made good? .

Valleys of Neptune: like being there, in the studio, with Jimi Hendrix .

Banned in 160 Nations… Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?.

Scientists discover ‘catastrophic event’ behind the halt of star birth in early galaxy formation .

…confessions of a freeware junkie…: PC World Reviews Free Antivirus Solutions: Avira comes out on top, but there are some notable surprises….

Are You Running in a Race This Year?.

China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord .

Salt Wars – TierneyLab Blog – .

The Spread of Goodness .

Economics and Evolution as Different Paradigms VI: Elinor Ostrom–Evolutionist : Evolution for Everyone.

A Conversation With Dr. Peter J. Pronovost – Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients – Interview .

Scientists See Fresh Signs of More Water on the Moon .

Too Tired for Sex – Well Blog – .

Cases – Fake Nostalgia for a Pre-Therapy Past .

In the sex game, stressed men choose dissimilar mates.

Men Outlive Women Sexually .

The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments .

RIP: The novel

A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary world up in arms

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RIP: The novel – Writers and Writing – Salon.com.

Dear Prudence–sex?

Prudie counsels a woman whose partner desires more frequent lovemaking than she does—and other advice seekers.

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Views: The American Jitters

Morris Dickstein&apos;s Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, published last year by W.W. Norton, is one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. The author, a professor of English and theater at CUNY Graduate Center, has written and edited numerous other works of literary and cultural analysis. His explorations of American literature, films, and music of the "long decade" between 1929 and 1941 seem to be written in an almost classical mode — as if he were simultaneously channeling the major figures assayed in his Double Agent: The Critic and Society (Oxford, 1992).

My short discussion of Dancing in the Dark recently appeared at the website of the National Book Critics Circle. This was written as part of my duties as a member of the NBCC board, but doing so was no burden; this is a book to inspire enthusiasm. So without further ado, here follows the transcript of an e-mail interview with its author. The winners of the NBCC awards will be announced during a ceremony at the New School University in New York City on Thursday night.

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How information overload harms those charged with safeguarding the country
Why Can’t the National Security Agency Connect the Dots?
How information overload harms those charged with safeguarding the country

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War

5 Biggest Wars of the History

Who Cheats? stats

AshleyMadison.com, the dating site for married people (yes, you heard right), surveyed all of their new members last year. Of the 1.9 million folks who signed up to cheat, er, date in 2009, these were the top professions:

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Anyone who lives in Europe, has ever been there, or even dreamed of visiting knows the incredible variety, striking characteristics and history driven culture that exists on this continent. We bring you collection of 44 best photos from all over the Europe. Enjoy. (Click photo to enlarge)

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review

A Verse to Self: Joan Houlihan’s The Us

a review by Jacob A. Bennett

The first stanza in the first poem of Joan Houlihan&apos;s poem sequence, The Us, tells us, the readers, that we are listening to a voice from outside of time:

Us nest fine a weather long

between the heat of kin

the least of us in huts built round with stones.

A sky-hole takes the cook-smoke through

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today’s techy sites…plenty of them

DAILY ROTATION.

Today’s Poem

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Scott and Zelda

On this day in 1948, F. Scott Fitzgerald&apos;s wife, Zelda, and eight other patients were killed in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Zelda’s first breakdown in 1930 resulted in a sixteen-month stay in a Swiss clinic, and she spent six and a half of the next eight years in American institutions. Though discharged to her mother&apos;s care in the Spring of 1940 — Fitzgerald was in Hollywood, and just months away from a fatal heart attack — she would periodically readmit herself to Highland. It was during one of these stays that she and the others died, unable to flee the rooms into which they had been locked for the evening.

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photo archive

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

LIFE photo archive .

Wiki

The Superb Fairywren is a common and familiar passerine bird of the Maluridae family.

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Press Release:

In 1968 a young aspiring Broadway actor, Bob Barry, aka Bob Horowitz, and his wife went to the Museum of Modern Art to attend the exhibit of a much talked about and controversial photographer, Diane Arbus.

The power of Arbus’s; images so profoundly affected them that Bob wrote her a letter of appreciation that so impressed Arbus that she personally called Bob and thanked him for his kind thoughts.

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Morning Cup of Links.

Old Picture of the Day

Today’s picture shows the Photography setup and field darkroom of Sam A. Cooley. Cooley followed the Union Army, and took pictures of the battles around Savannah, and of Sherman&apos;s March to the Sea. The field darkroom was used to create each negative prior to taking a picture, and then to develop it afterwards. It was a very tedious process to take a single picture.

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The great Mathew Brady studied photography under Samuel Morse, and opened his own photography studio in New York in 1844. Starting next year, he started taking photos of famous Americans, and produced The Gallery of Illustrious Americans in 1850. For Brady, neither his itinerant photoadventures nor the album was lucrative, but it brought increased attention to Brady’s work. The most famous images in the album was an elderly Andrew Jackson, the former president of the United States, whose photo he took at the president’s plantation, the Hermitage in 1845.

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Books

Powell’s Books – Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe.

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Jewish lost tribe found in Africa


funny. you don’t look Jewish


The Lemba people of Zimbabwe and South Africa may look like their compatriots, but they follow a very different set of customs and traditions.

They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones.

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Neil Power: 1913

April 1913. Rome, Georgia. Neil Power, 10 years old. Said “turns stockings in Rome Hosiery Mil”; A shy, pathetic figure. “Hain’t been to school much” Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

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The Great War, Sir Mike, and Me

Mike discovers and blogs about the war to end all wars.

The Great War, Sir Mike, and Me | mikegerber.com.

…and he supplies this link to somne videos (BBc), a documentary (black and white) abuot WWI, for which
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Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night – New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformations after the sun goes down.

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Education: K-12, College & Graduate School News .

To Mars in 39 days .

Men’s top sex secrets revealed!

Chile, nine days later – The Big Picture – Boston.com.

Pictures of Farming in North Dakota in the early 1900’s.

Montana Railroad History.

How to preserve brain function .

Historical Photos .

Chile, nine days later – The Big Picture – Boston.com.

Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession .

Harness Your Subconscious Wisdom by Asking The Right Questions .

The Psychology of the Taboo Tradeoff.

Bringing Down High Blood Pressure .

Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes .

” What are Anticancer Genes? .

Unselfish molecules may have helped give birth to the genetic material of life.

How Common is Low-Back Pain? | .

How to Tell if a Guy Is Trustworthy .

Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News.

Cooperation Is Contagious | .

Happy People Talk More Seriously.

‘Archaeology’: Priestesses tombs unearthed on Crete – Science Fair: Science and Space News – .

Japan Crime | Murder Rate.

Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War.

Scouts founder held talks with Nazis: UK secret files.

Books

Powell’s Books – Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America by Richard Benjamin.

Will the King of Pot go up in smoke?

The King of Pot is shorter than you&apos;d imagine. When you meet a famous drug dealer, one expects scars and a distrustful sneer and some flashy clothes. But Bruce Perlowin, found waiting for an elevator at the Los Angeles Convention Center dressed in jeans and a polo shirt, is more Patch Adams than Tony Montana. Standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall, he has Robin Williams&apos; twinkling eyes as well as his manic energy.

What he lacks in stature, though, he more than makes up for in reputation among pot smokers and those who bust them. Perlowin is the biggest West Coast dope smuggler in U.S. history, a fact he offers like a verbal handshake to every new person he meets.

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This is bullshit

This is bullshit.

Why should you be sitting there listening to me? To paraphrase Dan Gillmor, you know more than I do. Will Richardson should be up here instead of me. And to paraphrase Jay Rosen, you should be the people formerly known as the audience.

But right now, you’re the audience and I’m lecturing.

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