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 These photos of libraries from Candida Höfer's Libraries are magical and mystical. It looks like a great way to see the world and enrich the experience would be to travel to the planet's great libraries and take something from each. Just kidding. [via kottke] Open note: If you have a shop window near 6th Ave. in Midtown New York where most of the news channels are with their flat screens and news tickers, and you display a large television replaying MSNBC video from the 9/11 attacks as an exhibit, please clearly label it. It's very scary from across the street when you're on your way home after a night out. Win cool Hybrid gear and exclusive music-related stuff by emailing jacqui@distinctiverecords.com with the title of Hybrid's first album. This week a church decided not to allow black membership and a school bus driver decided that black people are once again excluded to the back of the bus. "These people have been told it's OK to hate again. That they should hate immigrants and gays and liberals and feminists and muslims and on and on. They're just taking the initiative and throwing in blacks. Both of these incidents are deep in the heart of RedStatistan, where hate is a political tool." Ministry of Sound Radio online has thousands of hours of DJ sets from the world's best DJs for free! I used to listen frequently several years ago but forgot about it. Check their schedule and listen again to almost any program. Congress voted that the IRS will be getting private companies to collect past-due taxes over $25,000 in value, raising the cost per dollar of collection from 3 cents to 23 cents. [via Rachel Maddow]  The N702is has the fanciest battery-level indicator ever. The liquid moves as you turn the phone around. The August 2006 promo mix from Royal Sapien is now available in the downloads section of royalsapien.com. An interview with Salon: "The author who predicted Katrina now forecasts watery catastrophe for New York, Houston and Miami in "The Ravaging Tide." After more than 160 years of using anesthesia medically, no one is really sure how it works yet. That's not terribly comforting. The Economist on the strategic defense that needs to be set up to battle Google, but seems unlikely to actually happen. "[A]ny merger between the three middle powers would be a “grand dramatic gesture” that would only hasten their decline. AOL's merger with Time Warner in 2000 is the relevant warning from recent history." [via shey.net] The Nation gets five experts to write about the American food system. "Right now, the school lunch program is designed not around the goal of children's health but to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities, especially cheap feedlot beef and dairy products..." Labels: Sunday Reader |
 
  
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