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Pretty much a summary of his [Robert Reich] book Aftershock.

His tone is unnecessarily harsh, but I thti he makes a good point about the interaction between junk mail and universal service.

I'd rather lose a random day midweek, like Saturday. Or maybe drop to only two delivery days?

Not surprising that Islamic terrorism hasn't turned out to be an existential threat. "If we want to save lives, far better to divert a small portion of the world’s counterterrorism budgets to mosquito netting."

I think this is a reasonable response to the "it's just marketing" refrain - it is layers of internal competition to make the best product, as efficiently as possible,and be convincing in its portrayal.

Most of the post-9/11 policies I dislike were brought upon ourselves, by fear.

Awesome. I wasn't able to orient myself to what the cities were, though. Love the lightning storms.

It has certainly been my experience in the last year that I barely use my desktop for email and surfing.

Very different from my OKC experience, but it doesn't surprise me that the site works this way in NYC.

The program achieved its political goals, then ended with a whimper.

I think Obama's since-announced jobs plan has some good ideas, but like Krugman I don't see how it gets through Congress.

A pretty accurate picture of the modern GOP and the way they use Christianist tendencies to force a pro-business agenda.

Interesting thesis, that blackness becomes more important than individual achievement.

Le sigh. Another cave.

Fascinating. I had no idea how much the politics of the NRA had changed over the course of the 20th century. All too easy to assume steady-state politics.

My references are various, from Chris Ware for his extraordinary layout and (sometimes abstract) images, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Stanley Kubrick or Godfrey Reggio (with his qatsi trilogy). I must also quote the speech of JFK ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1DidldxUo ) I would like to thank the people who support me, a BIG thank to Yann, Alexis, Florent, François, Stéphane & Sylvain. I would like to thank Chez Eddy for their support : chezeddy.com CREDITS : Directing/design/animation/composting : Céline Desrumaux Additionnal character animation : Florent Remize Music : "Granulard bastard" from Apprat. LINKS : Céline : http://groovythesushi.blogspot.com/ Florent : http://flomize.blogspot.com/ Music : www.apparat.net Festivals : OneDotZero, London 2011 BUG 27: The Evolution of Music Video BFI london Columbia Film festival 2011 Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland 2011 Playgrounds Festival, Amsterdam and Tilburg 2011 San francisco internation art festival - SFIAF 2011 Expotoons 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina Screen Social, London/UK 2011 Festival national du film d'animation 2011, bruz, rennes CINEASTIC GONDOLAS, Lech/AUSTRIA -2011 Cristal Festival, Crans-Montana/SUISSE, 2011 (shortlist) ANIMA 2012 (Brussels, BELGIUM), Best of Shorts program Cortoons Festival 2012 (Rome, ITALY) The UK's Festival of Music, Film & Digital Cinéma Nova - OFFSCREEN festival 2012 (Bruxelles, belgium) SXSW 2012 (Austin, Texas) Pictoplasma 2012 (berlin, Germany) Filmfest Dresden 2012 (Germany) Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2012 (Germany) Prix Ars Electronica 2011, AUSTRIA - Honorary Mention Computer Animation / Film / VFX Brooklyn Film Festival 2012, (USA) Vimeo Awards 2012, NY (USA) Phoenix Comicon Film Festival 2012 (USA) Toronto Animation Arts Festival International 2012 (Canada) RSSF 2012 SUPERTOON - INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2012 Red Stick International Animation festival 2012 (Louisiana, USA) - BEST music video LIAF 2012 (London, UK) PICTOPLASMA NY 2012 Les Utopiales, Nantes (France) 2012

"It's not class warfare, it's math"

Yes, they could fix it with their design panache, but I think there are still too many entrenched interests. Unlike the music industry, they control far more of the pipeline.

Why must we fill everything with garbage?

This is why we're fat.

Personality getting in the way of a mission.

It surprises me that an organization so concerned with secrecy would fail at basic temporary password use.

Amusing way to let inventory management indicate the state of infrastructure in a hurricane-affected area.

A summary of the arguments and counterarguments. I think I agree with the point that sovereignty is contingent on not abusing your citizens.

How do you quantify something as qualitative as creative writing programs?

So strange.

Pretty cool animated water sculpture. Each droplet is like a pixel.

Not all men are created prequel.

Ridiculous, and not just because I match 5 items. It's like some kind of parody of what people could possibly actually think, right?