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Corporate-Sponsored “Slacktivism”: Bigger and More Dangerous than the Urban Dictionary Realizes

Jun 12, 2008

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Corporate-Sponsored “Slacktivism”: Bigger and More Dangerous than the Urban Dictionary Realizes http://www.prwatch.org/node/7403 According to UrbanDictionary.com’s definition, slacktivism pertains only to individual behavior, but shortly after I grasped the meaning of the word, I started to see that slacktivism is really much bigger than that. I started to see that corporations perpetrate large-scale, organized slacktivism as…

McCain Golf Gear Prank

Jun 12, 2008

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McCain Golf Gear Prank when you buy your McCain â€˜08 Golf gear, you are asked to post a helpful review. Some helpful customers decided to take him up on the offer, and hilarity breaks out all over open

Balloon Juice

Jun 12, 2008

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Balloon Juice when you buy your McCain â€˜08 Golf gear, you are asked to post a helpful review: Some helpful customers decided to take him up on the offer, and hilarity breaks out all over open

Urban Prankster

Jun 12, 2008

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Steve

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Urban Prankster Urban Prankster covers pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors that take place in public places in cities across the world. It is edited by Charlie Todd. open

i miss playing with this guys. The only band I was ever in that got…

Jun 9, 2008

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i miss playing with this guys. The only band I was ever in that got along the whole time. open

Films of Les Blank

Jun 8, 2008

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Steve

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Films of Les Blank “Some people (unfortunate viewers!) assume that documentaries are didactic chronicles, usually narrated by an all-knowing and often paternal male voice. Les Blank’s documentaries, from HOT PEPPER to IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER?, resist such categorization. They’re more often joyful glimpses of an America far from the corporate mainstream. He has…

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)

Jun 8, 2008

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Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) This is Les Blank’s (www.lesblank.com) most gastronomically obsessional film portrait yet. An exhaustive, lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation, and culinary and curative powers of allium sativum, the film lingers in the disparate kitchens of Chez Panisse and Flint’s Bar-B-Que in Berkeley, and Truckee’s paradise for…