Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for March 2nd through March 9th:

• Not Even Broadcast TV Wants To Be Free – "One of the oldest free mediums, [television] has something to teach us about free information: It can be expensive. And, perhaps, we would …
• The Conflict At The Oscars’ Heart – "This year the entertainment industry woke up to a clear if troubling realization: the Oscars telecast exposed an Academy of Motion Picture …
• Report: How US College Grades Have Been Inflated – "Since the 1960s, the national mean G.P.A. at the institutions from which he's collected grades has risen by about 0.1 each decade – other t…
• School Uses Classical Music To Punish Students – Shared by Bryant
  sounds like A Clockwork Orange
  "News that a school in Derby, Britain, was piping classical music into a special detention …
• Topeka ‘renames’ self ‘Google, Kansas’ – At 79, Bill Bunten doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistant…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for February 28th through March 2nd:

• Quake might have shortened days – Shared by Bryant
  great, I could have used some extra time in my days, not less…
  The massive earthquake that hit Chile might have shifted …
• Anders Clausen at Hotel – Shared by Bryant
  Kind of iffy on the work, but the artist statement is worth reading.

  Artist: Anders Clausen
  Venue: Hotel, London
  Date: Fe…

• A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) – Caleb Larsen – Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in etern…
• "the boring time maybe" – "Being in the right place just isn't enough for me as a photographer. I want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the boring time may…
• Video Becomes A Regular Character On Stage – Video projection has for years been used in experimental theater, notably in companies such as the Wooster Group in New York, and in Europe …

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for February 22nd through February 24th:

• Meat Stylus – “Who wants a stylus?” Words by Apple’s Steve Jobs when introducing the iPhone that uses a revolutionary input device: the finger. And it wo…
• Does FCC Have Jurisdiction Over A Show That Never Aired? – "If 'Our Little Genius' had aired it's a pretty safe bet that — if the allegations about the show are true — the show might have found its…
• Werner Herzog Is Anything But A Film Buff – "'I see maybe three or four films a year. Probably less than the average moviegoer.' The admission seemed genuine, and one imagines that thi…
• How could this possibly go wrong? – Product Fail
  Picture by: dunno source Submitted by: dunno source via Fail Uploader

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• Prof Begs Hollywood: Stop Violating The Laws Of Physics – A set of guidelines is "intended to curb the film industry's worst abuses of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace th…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for February 11th through February 21st:

• ‘Shutter Island’ wins box office – Shared by Bryant
  worth a look
  With no other wide releases to challenge it, Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" dominated the box office this…
• Can’t Hear Your Date At That Noisy Bar? Sing Or Play Some Music First – "Do you have trouble hearing people talk at cocktail parties? Try practicing the piano before you leave the house. Musicians - from kar…
• Nine Strategies of Geo-engineering – Recently some scientists in Britain have recommend planetary ‘geoengineering‘ to avoid climate change. And as politicians are listening, it…
• Ein Abend mit Thomas Ruff – This past Friday, I went to New York to attend what had been advertized as An Exclusive Conversation Between Thomas Ruff and Philip Gefter….
• The Medium is the Medium (1969) – Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between pub…
• Biomimic Propaganda – The symbolic power of animals has always appealed to people. There are numerous examples throughout human history where representations of …

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for February 1st through February 10th:

• South Korea rules ‘virtual’ money on par with ‘real’ money – Our regular readers know that whenever we write about money in these quarters, we always feel obliged to write the words ‘virtual’ and ‘rea…
• 6 Disastrous Ways Pop Culture Influences The Real World – …
• MTV Isn’t ‘Music Television’ Anymore – Shared by Bryant
  It is really about time that they dropped that claim.
  With a redesigned logo unveiled Monday, "[t]he network — known more…
• Google says U.S. Internet too slow – Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access.

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• An Ancient Language Goes Extinct – "A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disappeared forever in India's Andaman Islands, taken to the grave with its …
• Razzies nominate year’s worst movies – "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Land of the Lost" now have another dishonor to add to the critical lambasting they took upon rele…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 27th through January 30th:

• NoteBookBook – This skeuomorph “BookBook” should be an appropriate present for grandparents as well as neo-nostalgic youngsters.
  Sold at TwelveSouth for $…
• U.S., Taiwan make arms deal – Overriding objections from China, the Obama administration unveiled a .4 billion arms deal with Taiwan — including about .85 billion in mis…
• Twitter shuns celebrities – Microblogging service Twitter made two major changes in the past week, betting that users are more interested in following their friends, in…
• Real Street View (2008) – Tara Kelton – "Life-size posters of Google Street View images removed from the internet and pasted in same location in the physical world. Monuments to sp…
• If Only Google Would Do All Our Social Interfacing For Us – The prank site Google Xistence "resembles a Google product page, complete with YouTube instructional video, and purports to let users plug i…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 22nd through January 25th:

• Picasso Painting Torn In Adult-Ed Mishap At Met Museum – "An unidentified woman attending a museum class 'lost her balance' and crashed into the artwork," leaving a 6-inch rip in the canvas. "'Acto…
• China Fines Pop Singers For Lip Syncing – "Two Chinese pop singers have fallen foul of a lip-synching ban, facing fines of up to $12,000 (£7,400) for allegedly miming at a concert. M…
• Performance Art Gets Its Own TV Channel – OntheBoards.tv, is "the first online, pay-per-view series dedicated to presenting progressive contemporary performances from around the worl…
• The Leno/O’Brien Affair – A Misunderstanding Of Demographics – "Over the 16 years from O'Brien's first appearance on late night to his taking over "The Tonight Show," Leno didn't change his nice guy pers…
• Sundance Festival Vows To Change – "Sundance Film Festival organizers pulled a Domino's Pizza on Thursday afternoon, saying that they'd failed in some respects over the last f…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 18th through January 22nd:

• People Watch TV News For Validation, Not Information: Study – "A new study suggests that viewers worldwide turn to particular broadcasters to affirm - rather than inform - their opinions. It's …
• Free-TV Site Hulu May Charge For Access – After spending "months studying how to strike a balance between what people expect to watch free online and what they would be willing to pa…
• Sundance Tries To Ditch Its Mainstream Reputation – "Year in and year out, the festival … is overloaded with undeniably non-commercial (and not necessarily artistic) films that don't have a …
• Avatar Earnings May Break Records, But Attendance Hasn’t – "Eleven years ago, of course, ticket prices were a lot cheaper — the most recent estimated average ticket price was $7.46, compared with $4…
• First computer to sing – Daisy Bell – …

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 18th through January 18th:

• Sebastian Mölleken – Sebastian Mölleken's A40 portrays Germany's Ruhr region along the A40 highway, using landscapes and portraits. Very impressive work!
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• Why The Late Night Talk Shows Are Failing – "In its glory days, "The Tonight Show" served as a search engine on culture, letting us know which politician had made a gaffe, which corpor…
• Why Are Professors Perceived As Liberal? – "Conjure up the classic image of a humanities or social sciences professor, the fields where the imbalance is greatest: tweed jacket, pipe, …
• Avatar’s Globes’ Win: Hollywood Self-Indulgence – "This was Hollywood giving thanks to Hollywood, for the benefit of Hollywood, while the rest of the world peered in from the other side of a…
• Nice Move, Royal Caribbean (Cruise ship frolicks in Haiti) – Haiti has long been a destination for cruise ships plying the waters of the Caribbean, though you'd expect that the recent catastrophic eart…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 11th through January 17th:

• Why We Misremember All Those Famous Movie Quotes – "Play it again, Sam." "Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable." "Me Tarzan, you Jane." "Come with me to the Casbah." "Greed …
• Was Barthes’s ‘Death Of The Author’ A Sort Of Deicide? – "In France, perhaps more than anywhere else, the secularisation of society (compounded by the Republic's struggle against the Roman Catholic…
• PBS CEO Vows To Increase Arts Programming – "PBS's cultural programming — which is expensive to produce and doesn't necessarily draw the largest viewership — has gradually become mar…
• It’s Official: Sitting In Front Of The TV Shortens Your Life – "Researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, an 11% g…
• NBC Says It Will Lose Money On Olympics – "NBC paid $820 million for the rights to televise the Winter Games. That compares to the $613 million paid for the rights to televise the Ol…

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