Library of Congress, on Flickr
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Watch the whole 90 min film at full screen resolution over at Hulu.com. In the summer of 2006, while the football world’s attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup … The Homeless World Cup. It had been a wild [...]
Last week, the United Nations launched the World Digital Library, featuring historic books, maps, recordings and other artifacts from many of the great institutions around the globe. The WDL draws on the resources of the Library of Congress, UNESCO, and other cultural institutions. For example, below is a digitized film from 1899, shot by Thomas [...]
Poets are social critics by default. That is, since not very many of us take the same care to craft our daily language that poets do, poets often are (or see themselves as) outsiders. And as outsiders, many poets are well-positioned to see things that not everyone is able to see. Hence the buzz of [...]
If you bike to Durham’s 2009 Earth Day celebration this weekend, BPAC promises to treat you kindly. Says member Steve Saltzman… For those of you coming to Earth Day this Saturday, please ride your bicycles. Durham’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission is offering a free bike valet service so you won’t have to carry a [...]
A “vegan” sandwich from Foster’s has swiss cheese. How’s that again?
A colleague first made me aware of Time Warner Cable’s move to sneak bandwidth caps into their existing markets. Now the news seems to be exploding in the blogosphere. I received this from FreePress.net just yesterday. We Want More Internet, Not Less Just as Americans are suffering economically, Time Warner Cable is trying to squeeze [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Flying Shepherd Salt Owning the Weather Art & Copy Sons of Cuba The Yes Men Fix the World Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait La Chirola Unit 25 Objectified Oil Blue Sweet Crude Burma VJ All in one weekend… I’ll be bleary-eyed tomorrow.