September 2011
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“Some locals called for fees for non-resident vehicles, while others demanded...”
– Hollywood sign neighbours voice anger as tourism grows by Andrew Gumbel in The Guardian.
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“It’s going to be hard for museums to be plastering their objects and displays...”
– Danny Birchall: Public photography in museums: a survey at Museum Cultures.
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“contrast Nigo’s t-shirts and posters to the painstakingly worked-out,...”
– Adam Greenfield, 2001.
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“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– Gert Dumbar, 2011 (via Frank)
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“I don’t know about you but I do not want to live in a world where the best thing...”
– Aaron Straup Cope, in the talk described in the year of inodes (via deathbeard)
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“Today, exactly the same number of Americans — 2.3 million — reside in prison as...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich in Salon: How America turned poverty into a crime.
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“Working for hi-tech and media companies, [the virtual class] would like to...”
– Richard Barnbrook and Andy Cameron at the Hypermedia Research Centre: The Californian Ideology (from 1995, but still relevant).
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“the West Coast hi-tech industrial complex has been feasting off the fattest pork...”
– Richard Barnbrook and Andy Cameron at the Hypermedia Research Centre: The Californian Ideology (from 1995, but still relevant).
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“The Republican House majority leader, Eric Cantor, had described the proposed...”
– … as opposed to low-atmosphere ozone as a component of smog, which is merely an actual killer. As in, people die: according to the EPA, 12,000 premature deaths a year.
From the Guardian’s report, Obama backs down on tighter smog regulations. 