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13 Mar 09

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.

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19 Nov 08

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.

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education culture

05 Oct 08

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.

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culture psychology compassion

17 Sep 08

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.

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25 Aug 08

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.

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travel culture

12 Aug 08

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.

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literature magazine criticism culture journal

12 Jun 08

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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iraq-war culture

04 May 08

Book Covers

Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. We update several times a week.

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25 Apr 08

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

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08 Mar 08

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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