High-tech = high consumption. France 24′s Environment explores the environmental impact of contemporary digital culture, from energy consumption at data centres to ‘planned obsolescence’ and efforts to recycle dead hardware. Check it out after the jump: Filed under: environment, technology, video
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bastard.logic: Ethics in Exile
Silly Prince George Citizen, holding a staff writer to account for generously liberating other writers’ work: To our shock and dismay, multiple incidents of plagiarism were uncovered from work over the last number of months. The staff member plagiarized various online new publications, while writing opinion pieces that appeared in
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Silly Prince George Citizen, holding a staff writer to account for generously liberating other writers’ work: To our shock and dismay, multiple incidents of plagiarism were uncovered from work over the last number of months. The staff member plagiarized various online new publications, while writing opinion pieces that appeared in
Continue readingbastard.logic: The War Comes Home
900ftJesus has some important questions for the Privacy Commissioner re: the new Harpercon plan to randomly audit EI clients for *gasp* fraud, via taxpayer-subsidized bureaucratic fishing expeditions (House calls? REALLY?): What information are federal employees told to gather through house visits? How is this information gathered? (silent observation, questions, questioning and/or
Continue readingbastard.logic: The War Comes Home
900ftJesus has some important questions for the Privacy Commissioner re: the new Harpercon plan to randomly audit EI clients for *gasp* fraud, via taxpayer-subsidized bureaucratic fishing expeditions (House calls? REALLY?): What information are federal employees told to gather through house visits? How is this information gathered? (silent observation, questions, questioning and/or
Continue readingbastard.logic: Concert of the Day
Quicksand – Ft. Lauderdale ’95: Filed under: music, video
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Quicksand – Ft. Lauderdale ’95: Filed under: music, video
Continue readingbastard.logic: An oral history of Belle and Sebastian’s seminal record ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ (VIDEO)
Pitchfork finally justifies its existence (after the jump): Filed under: music, video Tagged: Belle and Sebastian, If You’re Feeling Sinister, Pitchfork, video
Continue readingbastard.logic: Around the Internets
Late-night flotsam and jetsam: Original Sin Obama Is Wrong: Gerrymandering Isn’t to Blame for the GOP Fever Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge? Neocons vs. Realists Is So 2008 Foucault’s Boomerang: The New Military Urbanism Throwing Light on the Dark Side of Dorner’s Rampage At Least 20 CIA Prisoners Still
Continue readingbastard.logic: I’m Not Sayin’ (I’m Just Sayin’)
The following nugget was buried at the bottom of a follow-up CP report on how CIDA helped fund the Ugandan aid work of the virulently anti-gay Crossroads Christian Communications (in full PR damage control mode now that its homobigoted Evangelical slip is showing) to the tune of half a million dollars last year: Francois Audet,
Continue readingbastard.logic: Dorner Manhunt Leads LAPD To Mistakenly And Recklessly Fire On Two Women In Pick Up (VIDEO)
“It’s 100 percent clear that they had no idea who was in that vehicle and just lit it up.” More from AP (h/t). Filed under: law enforcement Tagged: Christopher Dorner, Christopher Driscoll, Emma Hernandez, LAPD, Maggie Carranza
Continue readingbastard.logic: Saturday Playlist
Da Blooze: Filed under: Uncategorized
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Venom, live 1985: Bonus: Celtic Frost, live San Diego 1986: Filed under: metal, video Tagged: Celtic Frost, live, Venom, video
Continue readingbastard.logic: Stick a Fork in Senator Brazeau….
Innocent until proven guilty and all that, but things ain’t lookin’ good for the Brazman: Senator Patrick Brazeau will be formally charged with domestic assault and sexual assault later this morning, following a brief appearance at the courthouse in Gatineau, Que. Brazeau, who appeared in court wearing a black suit
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Original Torture Memos
FLASH: Idaho State Sen. tables bill mandating the torture of Idaho youth en masse. No, srsly: Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate’s Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it
Continue readingbastard.logic: From The ‘Things I Don’t Miss’ Files
This. Filed under: blog!blog!blog! Tagged: inside baseball, paleobloggin’, tedium
Continue readingbastard.logic: Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau: Accountability for Thee, Not For Me UPDATE: Senator Brazeau in Jail, Removed From Tory Caucus
Update: Holy shit: Senator Patrick Brazeau is in jail following an alleged domestic assault, sources tell CBC News, and has been removed from the Conservative Party’s caucus. Brazeau, who has weathered several controversies since his appointment in 2009, will continue to sit in the Senate as an Independent. It’s not
Continue readingbastard.logic: Concert of the Day (After Dark)
Miles Davis Quintet (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams), Berlin, West Germany, November 4, 1967: Filed under: Jazz, music, video Tagged: 1967, Berlin, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, live, Miles Davis, Miles Davis Quintet, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, video, Wayne Shorter
Continue readingbastard.logic: Unpacking the Ramifications of Obama’s Targeted Killing Memo
Rosa Brooks unpacks the Obama JD’s targeted killing memo: “Like many legal documents, this one does fine on its own terms, but looks a lot less satisfying when taken out of its hermetically sealed legal universe.” Related: John Fugelsang talks with Harper’s Scott Horton and Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK about
Continue readingbastard.logic: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney On Targeted Killing: Lethal Strikes On U.S. Citizens ‘Legal,’ ‘Ethical,’ And ‘Wise’
Words fail (h/t): A friendly reminder from TAFKAdnA: The Obama administration claims that the secret judgment of a single ”well-informed high level administration official” meets the demands of due process and is sufficient justification to kill an American citizen suspected of working with terrorists. That procedure is entirely secret. Thus it’s impossible to know which rules the administration
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