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Save the Planet: Buy Stuff!
You wish you were here. Funny how capitalism ruins things, even when they set out to do something swell. The Treasure Island Music Festival is a fine example. Not that the fest was ruined as a whole,...
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Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history Boing Boing. I came across this nice article by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing...
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Some Predictions About Books By Way of Some Predictions About Music
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the “future of publishing.” After all, books have never had as much cash to spare as the recording industry, and look at the mess they’re in. Already it is not...
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One Hundred Year Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
When we think of desperate people holding hands on a flaming building and leaping to their death, Americans are not generally thinking of the history of labor unions. But on March 24th, 1911, one...
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One Chart Shows How the Tax Burden has Shifted from Corporations to the...
Since the Greatest Generation’s “Golden Age” taxes ave gone down for corporations and up for the poor.[screenshot of The Young Turks] Just wanted to drop in here and share this astounding chart from...
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