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On April 7, Trever Paglen appeared on the Cobert Report to talk about his new book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me.
The interview with Steven Cobert just scratched the surface of Trever’s research into covert government operations and facilities. During the Vectors Fellowship Kim Christen and I [...]

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The Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive received some wonderful exposure a couple months back. A mention of the archive in a BBC New article by Bill Thompson led to: a BBC Radio interview, an article by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a Web feature on the Washington State University site, and even a heated discussion on Slashdot!
The [...]

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After over a year of waiting, with Lost and Mythbusters being the only television shows worth watching, tomorrow my old favorite Battlestar Galactica returns for one final season.
SciFi Channel has but together a succinct and funny recap,
A ragtag fleet of ships following the Galactica through space…where cameras have a hard time keeping up.
Frakin’ hilarious!

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Last year I was given the wonderful opportunity to contribute (about 2 seconds of rotoscoped animation) to the wildly creative and unique independent film Half-Life. No…not THAT Half Life. This is director Jennifer Phang’s feature film Half-Life,
…a supernormal tale about self-absorbed and disillusioned suburbanites who live in a futuristic time of natural disasters, suffocating air [...]

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Besides providing a fascinating chronicle of Google’s ascension to master of the world’s information, John Batelle’s The Search provides an important distinction — the strength of Google isn’t solely their powerful search algorithm, but their keywords-based AdWords advertising model which effectively monetizes language.
Noah Elkin over at Searchenginewatch points out in his post The Shifting Power [...]

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