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Political Friendship in a Facebook World | Front Porch Republic
Americans do not now know what the fixed standards are for quality, competency, membership, and real achievement in any area of life (certainly not in the area of faith or politics), except maybe facebook. If you tell them they will deride you as an elitist.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
What the Internet is doing to our brains
The School of Life
The School of Life is a new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life ... The School of Life is open to everyone seeking intellectual and personal adventure. Our audiences, like our faculty, are characterised by curiosity, sociability, open mindedness and an appetite for life.
A speech by the late David Foster Wallace | The Guardian
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.
Folkstreams » The Best of American Folklore Films
A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures
streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.
CouchSurfing - Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch At A Time
CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
Conjunctions Archives
Conjunctions on the Web features an ever-expanding constellation of innovative fiction, poetry, drama, interviews, and other work by some of the leading literary lights of our time.
Stuart Jeffries talks to Saad Eskander, director of Baghdad's national library | World news | The Guardian
Saad Eskander, director of Baghdad's national library, wants to 'help Iraqis understand their past and build their future' through education. The former Kurdish fighter tells Stuart Jeffries why culture is the key, why the US must surrender looted papers - and why he refuses to have a bodyguard
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50 best cult books - Telegraph
Our critics present a selection of history's most notable cult writing. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire
Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0 | Trebor Scholz
In 2004, the founder of a large technology publishing house, open source software proponent and multi–millionaire Tim O’Reilly coined the phrase Web 2.0, together with a colleague. The event producers needed a catchy title for an upcoming conference.
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