Our dear friend Doug is tantalizing the Unitarian-Universalist community with post-humanist chaos magick and paganism in a recent piece on the UU World website. The piece is entitled Assembly of a lesser god. Go ye forth and enjoy...

Lately I’ve been trying to invent the worship of a new god. He’s a minor god-I’ve named him Olly-and he . . . Wait ( Read more... )

"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." -Cardinal Richelieu

A little slightly-speculative fiction from Cory Doctorow to wake you up this morning:

Scroogled:
Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?Cheers, and don't ( Read more... )

Something to wake you up on a Thursday morning.

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But, I'm sure you've already called your Senators and Representatives...

Makeda55 and I went to see the San Francisco premiere last night of a film called "Manufactured Landscapes" (dir: Jennifer Baichwal), which documents the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky. Makeda writes about it here.

You can see a trailer for the film here.

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Burtynsky describes the film as "almost a meditation, somewhere in the spectrum between ' ( Read more... )

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Gawd, I'm beginning to love YouTube. The site Crooks and Liars did a referral to a Thelonious Monk video clip, and I thought I'd pass it along to you all.


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