Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2010-10-17
PHYSICS SAYS cellphones can’t cause cancer. “Cell phones cannot cause cancer, because they do not e… (tags: science technology media)
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links for 2010-10-16
Why the Singularity isn't going to happen I don't believe in the Singularity for the same reason I don't believe in Heaven. Once I met a Singularity zealot who claimed that eating potato chips after the Singularity would induce sublime ecstasy. Our senses would be so heightened that we could completely focus our whole attention […]
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The Problem With… Neon Trees’ “Animal” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Neon Trees’ “Animal” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2010-10-15
Another Arab American Finds Tracking Device in His Car | The Progressive “I have an elderly Arab American client who was attending a free workshop on how to be a mechanic, and they were using his car as the demonstration car for an oil change,” she says. “In the middle of the class, the instructor […]
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GRITtv: The Politics of Video Games: Reality and Overreaction
[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/gdElgoPpRQI] Independent news media outlet GritTV has an intelligent discussion about war-based games withgaming bloggers. I've followed GritTV in and out for a few years. The volume of videos they upload prevents me from following them daily, or even weekly. However, this outlets shows us that you can get quality news media out of […]
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links for 2010-10-13
5 Examples of Americans Thinking Foreign People Are Magic | Cracked.com In the good old days, white colonial powers went to poor foreign countries asking themselves, "What do these people have for us to steal?" Nowadays, enlightened white people go to poor foreign countries and ask, "What do these noble people have to teach us?" […]
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Creating a Font – Marain Script
YouTube – Creating a Font – Marain Script. This video details the production of a novel, fictional script and typography based on Iain M. Banks' Culture Series, a science-fiction novel series that follows different settings in the context of the Culture civilization, a techno-anarchic polity where godlike-machines provide for humanoid and robotic drone constituents. This […]
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Mini Blog Announcement: Gerard Bigsby
I've turned my current infatuation with adult fashion into a mini blog named Gerard Bigsby. Why the name Gerard Bigsby? Becuase it;s homphonous why my own name, and it connotes a sense of snobbishness that I usually associate with men's fashion blogs. The mini blog is basically a scrapbook of guides and inspiration for the […]
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links for 2010-10-10
BBC News – Obama to add solar panels to White House (tags: sustainability green politics) American student finds GPS tracker stuck to car, FBI shows up to reclaim its 'federal property' When 20-year-old Yasir Afifi's ride was put up on lifts his shop found something that hadn't been kicked up from the road: a cylindrical […]
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links for 2010-10-08
The Nation: Lou Dobbs used undocumented workers for years (tags: race politics culture)
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