thanks to dave mckelvey...

... for taking the thought out of posting today by sending me this TASTY NUGGET from coldcut...

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classic material

from the 3rd volume of AWOL (a rarely released revolutionary mag...)

these covers are priceless... click for super-high resolution versions...

bush and the gang (circa 2004) as blinged out thugs:


definitely should click this back one to read the ad... you might need revolution:

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jesus, the attack ad...

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shocking statistic?

about half of american doctors surveyed recently said that they regularly give their patients placebos.

article here.
wiki on placebos here.

"Half the doctors reported using placebos several times a month, nearly 70 percent of those described the treatment to their patients as "a potentially beneficial medicine not typically used for your condition." Only 5 percent of doctors explicitly called it a placebo treatment.

Most doctors used actual medicines as a placebo treatment: 41 percent used painkillers, 38 percent used vitamins, 13 percent used antibiotics, 13 percent used sedatives, 3 percent used saline injections, and 2 percent used sugar pills.

In the survey, doctors were asked if they would recommend a sugar pill for patients with chronic pain if it had been shown to be more effective than no treatment. Nearly 60 percent said they would."

i have mixed feelings about this. sometimes the patient is wrong, foolish or suggestable. in those cases the placebos may be the best thing. if you are trying to help, honesty can sometimes be a barrier. but n the other hand, i think the disconnect between doctors and their patients, and the general disregard for a patient's agency that i see in american medical practice leads me to believe the practice is surely abused.

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master kuroda

via this post on metafilter, some awesome martial arts... swordplay, stillness, anatomical awareness and mad skillz.

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voter suppression, voter expression

my main argument to vote is that already there have been major attempts to disenfranchise minority voters and young voters. so vote for obama for them, if not for yourself. denying the right to vote isn't patriotic, isn't conservative, isn't right. end of story.




for those of you shocked that i've been focused on the electoral politics, i suggest reading my initial endorsement of obama and my discussion of the relationship between my anarchist ideals and electoral politics here. the short version is "it takes an hour to vote, you stupid hipsters." that doesn't mean i find the voting climax of this video any less disappointing.

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crystal cave

this is one of those things i'm just happy exists, and want everyone to at least be aware of...

the crystal caves. filled Giant crystals. article here. photo gallery here.

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starkey

starkey. dude has a serious gift. hailing from philly, and feeling a real hip hop, grime and bassline house edge to dubstep, he's got a mix of "street bass" that earned him a spot in generation bass (chosen by vex'd... download the whole special here.)

i've always loved this remix track of his. it takes a kind of wack lupe fiasco tune and makes an epic banger out of it...

(mp3)lupe fiasco - "kick push" starkey street bass remix


his new album dropping on my birthday (november 10th) is called ephemeral exhibits. i ripped the mp3 samples off this site and compiled them into a convenient .zip file. for the record, the cd is on planet mu, one of my favorite labels....

(.zip of mp3 samples)starkey - "ephemeral exhibits"

UPDATE: hint... if you are looking for the whole album, you should peep this post...

and here's a video of starkey tearing it up at generation bass with a little interview with mary anne hobbs.

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sol

absolutely stunning pictures of the sun in this collection. a must-click. awesome movie showing solar flares in fancy imaging. as always, click the image for a full-res version.

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some mccain supporters do a right thing

they should then vote for obama, but this is a start...

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hands in the sand

the sand sculpture works of radovan zivny are magnificent... don't miss the balancing heads. he even does michelangelo relicas...


more great sand work (by radovan and others) here. don't miss jim denevan's monumental sand drawings...

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