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    <title>​I Grew Up in a Polyamorous Household | VICE</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-06T00:12:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Looking back, that's what I find most extraordinary about our situation: how mind-numbingly ordinary it all was. I almost wish it were more exciting than that—a wide-eyed kid, stumbling into amphetamine-fueled sexfests to find a gaggle of ass-naked circus mimes, nuns, and poultry—but we were just as run-of-the-mill-dysfunctional as every other family on the block."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Virginia Postrel: "Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again" Well worth reading, this.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How did a term that started its figurative life as a conduit to a fantastical land evolve into a metaphor for extreme distraction?"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["now would be a good time to mention my New Year’s resolution. I have decided to try and see every film which gains a proper cinema release in 2015, which is either directed by or written by a woman." I like the idea of this, and the reasons given.]]></description>
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    <title>‘Selling Out’ Is Meaningless | Medium</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['In the recent Frontline documentary “Generation Like,” Doug Rushkoff lamented that today’s youth don’t even know what the term “sell-out” means.']]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['How funny that we can’t bring ourselves to tell our children the most fundamental truth about sex, that most of the time we have sex, we have it for pleasure.']]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The report also suggests 'TED-style talks' bc everyone and everything in the 21st century is terrible and stupid." http://t.co/wgq0bV768h]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I over-use the word ‘delirium’, but watching Catching Fire last week was a genuinely delirious experience. More than once I thought: How can I be watching this?  How can this be allowed? One of the services Suzanne Collins has performed is to reveal the poverty, narrowness, and decadence of the ‘freedoms’ we enjoy in late, late capitalism."]]></description>
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    <title>Dad Arrested For Picking Up Kids At School By Foot ← The Urban Country</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-04T20:23:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A Tennessee father was arrested recently by an overzealous officer for picking his children up at school by foot. The school’s policy is that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus."]]></description>
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    <title>Men Who Insist You Change Your Name Make Terrible Husbands | Jezebel</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While more than 25% of women surveyed in a UK poll said they'd like to keep (or at least hyphenate) their maiden names, 63.3% of male Men's Health readers said they'd be pissed off if their wives decided not to take their names. And a staggering 96.3% of respondents said they wouldn't take their wife's name if she asked them to. The individual responses are astonishing."]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism names culture society jezebel via:@DanaDanger</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:jezebel"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/silicon-valleys-dysfunction-fetish.html">
    <title>Silicon Valley’s Dysfunction Fetish - Daily Intelligencer | NY Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-16T20:14:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/silicon-valleys-dysfunction-fetish.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the bigger takeaway from Palihapitiya's rant is that a certain strain of influential Silicon Valley thought has moved past passive political apathy and into a kind of anarchist cheerleading. Dysfunction and shutdowns are good, this line of thinking goes, because it hamstrings Washington's ability to mess with the private sector's profit-making schemes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>siliconvalley government culture politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b00c611b143c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/10/11/elaine-wherry-why-i-now-believe-the-glass-ceiling-is-real/?mod=wsj_streaming_latest-headlines">
    <title>Why I Now Believe the Startup Community's Glass Ceiling Is Real | WSJ</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-12T03:54:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/10/11/elaine-wherry-why-i-now-believe-the-glass-ceiling-is-real/?mod=wsj_streaming_latest-headlines</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine Wherry: 'she continued: “Right, well, it’s because you’re young and female.” Then she proceeded to warn of the cultures, by country, known to be unfriendly toward female leaders.']]></description>
<dc:subject>programming feminism startup culture politics wsj</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3010171cdd1c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=126590">
    <title>Epic Fail: Levi's 'Station to Station' Derails in Oakland: Visual Arts | KQED Public Media for Northern CA</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-11T20:09:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=126590</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, this is interesting: the blowback from Station to Station's night in Oakland.  /via @iamdanw]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanfrancisco sfba oakland levis art culture music criticism via:@iamdanw</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ff29871d1696/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:sfba"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:oakland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:levis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:art"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:music"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://feministinthekitchen.tumblr.com/post/55193335355">
    <title>on groups | ┌∩┐(✿｀へ´ )┌∩┐</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-05T01:37:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://feministinthekitchen.tumblr.com/post/55193335355</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['the reason I’ve stopped saying “most men/some white people/many straight people do X oppressive activity” is because if you’re a member of those groups, I want you to sit there and think, “do I do X? am I a part of that? am I an active part of the problem?”']]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism sexism culture politics language</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1e71231b6761/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:sexism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://studiotendra.com/2013/08/14/computers-are-both-too-difficult-and-people-are-computer-illiterate/">
    <title>Computers are too difficult and people are computer illiterate | Studio Tendra</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-05T00:51:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://studiotendra.com/2013/08/14/computers-are-both-too-difficult-and-people-are-computer-illiterate/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You can both criticise people for taking pride in ignorance and criticise computers for being needlessly complex. Despite what many commenters seem to think, pointing out the latter does not invalidate the former. And, conversely, pointing out the former doesn’t invalidate the latter."]]></description>
<dc:subject>communication computers culture psychology programming usability</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:09bd7ff4b761/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:programming"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/blech/2405">
    <title>from @dys_morphia | Exquisite Tweets</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T22:11:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/blech/2405</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A good series of posts on literature, judgement, sexism, and seriousness.]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism sexism culture literature</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2179a19cd9a3/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:sexism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:literature"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/aa818742-2bc2-11e3-a1b7-00144feab7de.html">
    <title>Geeks can be girls | FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T22:11:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/aa818742-2bc2-11e3-a1b7-00144feab7de.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the very moment that computer science became central to all our lives – and produced a plethora of high-paying jobs – women vanished." A good read on the Grace Hopper conference, despite the title.]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism politics technology culture sexism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:08f559bd9314/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303722604579115203222579222">
    <title>Cadbury Loses Nine-Year Battle to Trademark Purple Shade | WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T16:47:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303722604579115203222579222</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Court Upholds Nestlé's Complaint That Trademark of Pantone 2685C Would Be Too Broad"]]></description>
<dc:subject>branding lawsuit identity culture intellectualproperty via:@changeist</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:64e557aa0a38/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:lawsuit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:intellectualproperty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:via:@changeist"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2013/10/mail-miliband-what-does-it-mean-call-jewish-person-un-british">
    <title>The Mail on Miliband: What does it mean to call a Jewish person “un-British”? | New Statesman</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T16:03:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2013/10/mail-miliband-what-does-it-mean-call-jewish-person-un-british</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Not belonging is also a strength: it frees us to say that wherever injustices happen, it's our business too” ]]></description>
<dc:subject>newstatesman dailymail antisemitism culture politics identity belonging</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1ecb1d9388a5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:dailymail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:antisemitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:belonging"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24joint.html?_r=3&amp;">
    <title>A New York Public Library Branch That's a Commuter's Secret | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-03T16:58:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24joint.html?_r=3&amp;</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["They call it the commuters’ secret, these denizens of the Terence Cardinal Cooke-Cathedral branch of the New York Public Library. It is located down a flight of stairs, just outside the turnstile entrance to the No. 6 train on the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 50th Street."]]></description>
<dc:subject>library newyork newyorkcity subway culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1842f11225fb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:newyorkcity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:subway"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://svenworld.com/2013/04/11/whats-the-matter-with-the-google-bus/">
    <title>What’s the matter with “The Google Bus?” | A World of Words</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-12T18:00:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://svenworld.com/2013/04/11/whats-the-matter-with-the-google-bus/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A great critique of SPUR's lunchtime talk on the SF shuttles of large companies, and its failure to properly look at their full context.]]></description>
<dc:subject>san francisco google bus transport private culture silicon valley</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a0df966314b9/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:san"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:francisco"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:bus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:transport"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:private"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:silicon"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/feminisms-tipping-point-who-wins-from-leaning-in">
    <title>Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in? | Dissent Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-29T20:36:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/feminisms-tipping-point-who-wins-from-leaning-in</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["while Lean In is technically separate from Facebook, it is supported by Facebook in ways ranging from Zuckerberg’s book jacket endorsement to the fact that Facebook provided Sandberg with time to write and complete an intense publicity tour for the book while serving as COO. The question then is: how is it that Facebook, a company primarily interested in technical development, came in 2013 to need a feminist platform?" Kate Losse.]]></description>
<dc:subject>capitalism culture facebook feminism gender katelosse</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:4e98fed9a87d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:gender"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:katelosse"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thebolditalic.com/blog_posts/2943-the-homogenization-of-san-francisco-">
    <title>The Homogenization of San Francisco | The Bold Italic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-18T17:10:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thebolditalic.com/blog_posts/2943-the-homogenization-of-san-francisco-</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While the influx of new capital was seen by many as a positive economic boon for business and skilled tech workers, for many working-class families and the businesses they frequented, it spelled the beginning of a long road of displacement."]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanfrancisco charleshurbert gentrification tech boom dotcom culture bolditalic via:joshuanguyen</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:69fe8a641660/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:charleshurbert"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:gentrification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:tech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:boom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:dotcom"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:bolditalic"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/08/an-american-tragedy.html?mbid=social_retweet">
    <title>Why Oak Creek Isn't Being Treated as a Tragedy | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-15T03:41:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/08/an-american-tragedy.html?mbid=social_retweet</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The media has treated the shootings in Oak Creek very differently from those that happened just two weeks earlier in Aurora. Only one network sent an anchor to report live from Oak Creek, and none of the networks gave the murders in Wisconsin the kind of extensive coverage that the Colorado shootings received."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us politics guns crime religion culture minorities</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:541827467e7f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/whats-so-bad-about-a-boy-who-wants-to-wear-a-dress.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? | NY Times</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-12T15:00:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/whats-so-bad-about-a-boy-who-wants-to-wear-a-dress.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).”']]></description>
<dc:subject>nytimes gender genderqueer identity culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:711b4e9e0110/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/04/16/120416crbo_books_heller?currentPage=all&amp;mobify=0">
    <title>Why Are So Many Americans Single? | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-10T04:21:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/04/16/120416crbo_books_heller?currentPage=all&amp;mobify=0</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Most people who were brought up in the past half century have been taught to live this way, by their own rules, building the world they want. That belief—Klinenberg calls it “the cult of the individual”—may be the closest thing American culture has to a common ideal, and it’s the premise on which a lot of single people base their lives. If you’re ambitious and you’ve had to navigate a tough job market, alone can seem the best way to approach adulthood."]]></description>
<dc:subject>newyorker life culture housing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:86d5091f0fa2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Winter2012_Battlestar.html">
    <title>Space and Architecture in Battlestar Galactica | Mediascape</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-07T03:15:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Winter2012_Battlestar.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Annie Dell’Aria: "The architecture and design of the new Battlestar Galactica’s (SciFi, 2004-2009) narrative world mirrors the complex political, ethical, and moral questions posed by the narrative arc of the entire series."]]></description>
<dc:subject>battlestargalactica tv television culture architecture comment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f7d801376e74/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:tv"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:television"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:architecture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:comment"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://theconversation.edu.au/saving-space-junk-our-cultural-heritage-in-orbit-6025">
    <title>Saving space junk, our cultural heritage in orbit | The Conversation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-03T04:09:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theconversation.edu.au/saving-space-junk-our-cultural-heritage-in-orbit-6025</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Is the problem as straightforward as just doing some orbital garbage disposal? What about the historic spacecraft in orbit that represent our incredible technological and social journey into space?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>space debris culture artefact technology history heritage</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:fe2166f11c50/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:artefact"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:history"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/30/will-self-walking-cities-foot">
    <title>Will Self: Walking is political | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-31T17:24:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/30/will-self-walking-cities-foot</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A century ago, 90% of Londoners' journeys under six miles were made on foot. Now we are alienated from the physical reality of our cities. Will Self on the importance of walking." Good stuff.]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardin willself walking pedestrian london culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:75adf5e6a4ce/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/30/the-rise-of-solo-living">
    <title>I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-31T10:09:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/30/the-rise-of-solo-living</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A summary from Eric Klinenberg of his new book: "the number of people living alone globally is skyrocketing, rising from about 153 million in 1996 to 277 million in 2011". It's let down a little by the lazy choices of who to interview at the end, but it's a phenomenon worth watching (and one I'm happily part of).]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian culture urbanism environment people society friendship</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d729dffc58c4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:society"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.creativeapplications.net/review-2/the-glitch-momentum-by-rosa-menkman-review-by-greg-j-smith/">
    <title>“The Glitch Moment(um)” by Rosa Menkman | CreativeApplications.Net</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-22T20:11:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.creativeapplications.net/review-2/the-glitch-momentum-by-rosa-menkman-review-by-greg-j-smith/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Greg J. Smith / @serialconsign reviews a book that puts some media theory behind the glitch aesthetic.]]></description>
<dc:subject>art culture criticism mediatheory glitch glitchaesthetic newaesthetic</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:13cb99f4bf49/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:glitch"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:glitchaesthetic"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n05/will-self/it-hits-in-the-gut">
    <title>Will Self reviews Owen Hatherley on architecture | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-20T06:32:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n05/will-self/it-hits-in-the-gut</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Hatherley is ostensibly a critic in the mode of Reyner Banham: freewheeling, spinning out ideas, theories and evaluations that may have their origin in the stony core of the built environment, but which spread to encompass most other aesthetic realms as well. Aesthetic but in Hatherley’s case also political: for it is the great strength of his writing – as well as its besetting weakness – that he aims for an explicitly politicised critique." Full of fancy words, and sympathetic yet still Self is scathing. It's worth a read, anyway.]]></description>
<dc:subject>architecture criticism politics culture review lrb willself owenhatherley</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:7caefb523fd2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/">
    <title>Why 2012 Is the Republicans Last Chance | New York Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-09T07:22:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Republicans are worried this election could be their last chance to stop history. This is fear talking. But not paranoia." On demographics, politics, and a strategy that bets it all on 2012's elections.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us politics culture demographics via:@hitherto</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:51be47f4aee9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/magazine/explaining-londoners.html?_r=1">
    <title>Explaining Londoners | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-01T19:02:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/magazine/explaining-londoners.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you had to make a snap judgment about a Londoner, how would you do it? Start with the newspaper he or she is reading." More handy hints are within this New York Times magazine article, such as "Frequent apology is one of an arsenal of clever tricks Londoners employ to obscure their true feelings and remain opaque to outsiders and possibly even to themselves."]]></description>
<dc:subject>london nytimes magazine article culture newspapers</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:be0d64504f67/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:article"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.martinparr.com/blog/?p=397">
    <title>The Facebook Problem | Martin Parr</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-29T17:55:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.martinparr.com/blog/?p=397</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The more drink is taken, the bigger the “Facebook Problem” becomes. You walk into a crowded bar or party, lift your camera and everyone in front of you starts posing and smiling, producing the kind of image in the past associated with the social pages in magazines, but now the stock that fills up Facebook." "The image is unlikely to disappear, as they have probably been photographed many times already that night on countless mobile phones."]]></description>
<dc:subject>photography facebook culture martinparr via:antimega</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:9432feff6c74/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:martinparr"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/david-graebers-debt-my-first-5000-words/">
    <title>David Graeber’s Debt: My First 5,000 Words | The New Inquiry</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-28T03:28:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/david-graebers-debt-my-first-5000-words/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aaron Bady's fantastic review of a book examining debt: 'It’s an invitation to read the world differently, to see different possiblities in the here and now, and to argue not only that “another world is possible,” as the slogan/cliché has it, but that other worlds are present.' It's now on my (growing) reading list.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics debt review book culture thought via:migurski</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b7075fdcc0a9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:thought"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://storify.com/robinsloan/the-origins-of-instagram-style">
    <title>The origins of Instagram style · robinsloan | Storify</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-22T00:54:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://storify.com/robinsloan/the-origins-of-instagram-style</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['How's that for a tagline? "Instagram: pictures of things that don't mind having their pictures taken."' Robin Sloan on what gets posted to Instagram (but I'd caution that a) you're seeing things your friends post and b) there are some photos of (young, attractive, usually female, often self-taken) people in the Popular tab. Still, worth reading. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture instagram iphone photography robinsloan internet etiquette via:couch</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:09fc272b4989/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:iphone"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://iam.peteashton.com/flaneurism-shouldnt-be-easy/">
    <title>Flâneurism shouldn’t be easy | I Am Pete Ashton</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-19T03:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://iam.peteashton.com/flaneurism-shouldnt-be-easy/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Our Internet dreams, it seems, have turned to shit.
"Except they haven’t. I don’t believe anything has fundamentally changed. The infrastructure is still there. We’re just overwhelmed by the sort of activity some of us were trying to escape. We thought there was something special about blogs and forums but we mistook the tool for how we were using the tool. The Internet is, in many ways, a neutral platform. You can use it for anything, and that means you can use it for mediocre sales nonsense as much as flaneurism."]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet culture facebook flaneur</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f6bf512d33f1/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210">
    <title>California Dreamin' | MetaFilter</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-18T19:39:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the comments on a post about the removal of state(-level) funding for library services across California, this is a deservedly well-circulated comment about libraries and their role in providing internet access.]]></description>
<dc:subject>metafilter libraries internet access digitaldivide politics culture california us</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c89f4890b035/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17065521">
    <title>The lull of the Shipping Forecast | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-18T03:53:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17065521</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The Shipping Forecast may provide vital weather information to sea captains and sailors, but some of the most devoted fans are those who listen to it for its poetic quality.
'"Only recently, some Americans came in, listened to the broadcast and said, 'Well, we don't understand a word of that but it was terrific. Could we have a recording of that to go back and play in our office? No one would believe us otherwise'."']]></description>
<dc:subject>bbcnews shippingforecast culture uk radio</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:0ac7228922fd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thequietus.com/articles/07962-cupcake-feminism">
    <title>Half Baked: The Trouble With Cupcake Feminism | The Quietus</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-13T21:35:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thequietus.com/articles/07962-cupcake-feminism</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Twee and retro have been seeping into feminism for a couple decades now, gaining potency. It’s all about cute dresses, felten rosettes from Etsy, knitting, kittens, vintage lamps shaped like owls, Lesley Gore. And yes - a lot of cupcakes." This reminds me of a phrase coined by Ken MacLeod in The Star Fraction: "femininism". Anyway, possibly worth a look. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism cupcakes femininism gender politics culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b44a2ed3f74a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dynamist.com/articles-speeches/asap/resilience.html">
    <title>Resilience vs. Anticipation | Dynamist.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-12T17:07:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dynamist.com/articles-speeches/asap/resilience.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Virginia Postrel: "Eventually, all the theories wind up there, at the one thing that makes Silicon Valley unlike Boston, or Austin, or Seattle, the one thing they can never hope to copy: It's the weather. The weather in the valley is perfect. Not temperate, not tolerable, not good. Perfect. Month after month after month of sunny days."]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanfrancisco bayarea siliconvalley boston culture economy startups via:ldanderson</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/shitsiskosays.html">
    <title>#shitsiskosays | Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-10T06:46:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/shitsiskosays.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A guest post from Cat Valente on why Star Trek (with particular reference to Deep Space Nine) looks not like the future, but the not-so-recent past.]]></description>
<dc:subject>sciencefiction startrek culture future prediction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1ce3eda31849/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>The Death of the Cyberflâneur | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T17:51:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Transcending its original playful identity, it’s no longer a place for strolling — it’s a place for getting things done. Hardly anyone “surfs” the Web anymore." A thoughtful essay by Evgeny Morozov that captures some of my dislike for the modern web. (Having said that, on editing my pinboard bookmarks, I find a disturbing number recently are from the NYT. So much for me flaneuring.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>nytimes web culture flâneur paris history internet facebook comment</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:0cc67c38f4a9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/health/views/in-search-of-the-elusive-definition-of-heterosexuality.html?_r=1">
    <title>In Search of the Elusive Definition of Heterosexuality | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-31T06:01:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/health/views/in-search-of-the-elusive-definition-of-heterosexuality.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["it was coined in Germany only in the second half of the 19th century and was first used in English several decades later with the classical sense of “hetero” (“other, different”), making it initially a term of opprobrium. Only in the first decades of the 20th century did it settle into its present niche, cushioned with overtones of romance, pleasure, health and normalcy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/garden/design-perfectionists-at-home.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>Design Perfectionists at Home | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-29T17:34:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/garden/design-perfectionists-at-home.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The captions on the photos are hilarious, and there are some good laughs in the first few paragraphs, but there's a good deeper point in this post about minimal and perfect homes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>architecture living design culture perfectionism minimalism nytimes</dc:subject>
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    <title>Test of Time | ESPN</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-31T19:35:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=111225/testcricket</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Subtitled "in defence of a game that lasts five days", this article by Wright Thompson is a great read on cricket, its history and future, clock-time, attention and devices, meditation and mindfulness, and probably more that I've forgotten. I could pull half a dozen quotes from it but I think the point of the article is that it's worth taking the time to do something properly, so set aside half an hour and read this.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cricket time sport meditation culture communication</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-201201.print">
    <title>You Say You Want a Devolution? | Vanity Fair</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-17T19:35:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-201201.print</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new."]]></description>
<dc:subject>newaesthetic design technology culture via:stml</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3d4255a941ab/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/thelma-louise-the-last-great-film-about-women/244336/">
    <title>'Thelma &amp; Louise': The Last Great Film About Women | The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-12T18:21:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/thelma-louise-the-last-great-film-about-women/244336/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Raina Lipsitz: [[ "This movie would never get made today," sighed one of the panelists, and the audience members murmured their assent. It's shocking enough that it was distributed in 1991, but at least back then American women were experiencing something like momentum ]]]]></description>
<dc:subject>film feminism culture bechdeltest via:candacep</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ba2e261eb706/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>A Point of View: The euro's strange stories | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-21T21:00:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15790507</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With the euro in turmoil, writer and academic Mary Beard explores the odd tales from myth and history told on the currency's coins." The rape of Europa by Zeus and other stories.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bbc news comment marybeard coins currency design culture stories</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thesfegotist.com/editorial/2011/november/16/end-era-yahoo-billboard-comes-down">
    <title>The end of an era: The Yahoo! billboard comes down | The San Francisco Egotist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-17T07:09:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thesfegotist.com/editorial/2011/november/16/end-era-yahoo-billboard-comes-down</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s been a San Francisco icon for more than a decade. It’s graced our skyline through the dot.com boom and bust. And it’s one of the most recognizable pieces of advertising the city has seen in a long time. But the San Francisco Egotist has learned that in two weeks, the Yahoo! billboard will be no longer."]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanfrancisco yahoo billboard advert culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:05c08fe2d7f7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/occupy-movement-guy-fawkes-mask">
    <title>V for Vendetta mask is a symbol of festive citizenship | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-06T02:05:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/occupy-movement-guy-fawkes-mask</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For many observers, the V for Vendetta mask has nothing to do with a Jacobean conspirator or a modern comic-book slash movie. It is just a very strange mask. It has taken on a life of its own, and its meaning is not fixed by its origins."]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian vforvendetta guyfawkes anonymous politics culture signs</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://tattersdill.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/accessibility/">
    <title>Accessibility | The Memory Clearing House</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-06T02:05:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tattersdill.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/accessibility/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why doesn’t the British Library have a greasy spoon in it? This is, believe it or not, a serious question."]]></description>
<dc:subject>britishlibrary library food culture accessibility via:mondoagogo</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d6cd56261068/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/11/women-and-children-first-technology-and-moral-panic/">
    <title>Women And Children First: Technology And Moral Panic | WSJ</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-16T19:03:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/11/women-and-children-first-technology-and-moral-panic/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why is it that some technologies cause moral panic and others don’t? Why was the introduction of electricity seen as a terrible thing, while nobody cared much about the fountain pen?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>technology culture history privacy society children</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:55c20cb062be/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.poszu.com/2011/05/16/all-real-atemporal-shit-no-authenticity/">
    <title>All Real Atemporal Stuff. No Authenticity | POSZU</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-17T00:22:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.poszu.com/2011/05/16/all-real-atemporal-shit-no-authenticity/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Using a word like “nostalgia” is such a desperate sign of being out of touch, out of date, and so awfully-temporal in an atemporal time. “Nostalgia” assumes that there still was a temporal order in which someone could purposefully choose to “rewind”. It implies someone wants to “turn back a clock”, as if all our “wrist watches” weren’t synced to regulated network time via cell phone towers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>photography culture history art nostalgia atemporality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ea436bbc6b5a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/05/14/the-faux-vintage-photo-full-essay-parts-i-ii-and-iii/">
    <title>The Faux-Vintage Photo: Full Essay | Cyborgology</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-17T00:20:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/05/14/the-faux-vintage-photo-full-essay-parts-i-ii-and-iii/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have associated authenticity with the style of a vintage photo because, previously, vintage photos were actually vintage. They stood the test of time, they described a world past, and, as such, they earned a sense of importance."]]></description>
<dc:subject>photography design culture art hipstamatic atemporality nostalgia</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a8f98a200569/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/14/twitter.decision.weiner.wired/">
    <title>How early Twitter decisions led to Weiner's downfall | CNN</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-16T19:08:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/14/twitter.decision.weiner.wired/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To receive their [DMs], he had to follow them in return" "These new followers seemed out of place among the politicians, journalists, and celebrities on his list" "He made a common mistake between a direct private message and a public reply, and sent the picture out to the tens of thousands of people". File under 'tools shape culture'.]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter politics privacy communication culture</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2289e5c915cb/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Nanolaw with Daughter (Ftrain.com)</title>
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    <link>http://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A story about privacy, law, the internet, and the future. Go and read it (if you haven't already).]]></description>
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<dc:subject>bbc television culture closedown night</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The New York Times on the shift away from voice calls.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture telephone communication syncronicity</dc:subject>
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    <title>What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness by Clark Whelton - City Journal</title>
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    <link>http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_snd-american-english.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“And he was like, you know, ‘Helloooo, what are you looking at?’ and stuff, and I’m like, you know, ‘Can I, like, pick you up?,’ and he goes, like, ‘Brrrp brrrp brrrp,’ and I’m like, you know, ‘Whoa, that is so wow!’ ”]]></description>
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    <title>Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson | Edge</title>
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    <link>http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["By breaking the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, von Neumann unleashed the power of the stored-program computer, and our universe would never be the same." George Dyson's short article for Edge may act as a sketch for his forthcoming book of the same name.]]></description>
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    <title>Words on the street: Stephen Walter's city maps | Art and design | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-04T16:19:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last October, artist Stephen Walter and I walked from Wedding, Berlin's north-western suburb, to the shores of the Tegeler See]]></description>
<dc:subject>london berlin maps art walking geography culture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2011/01/church-farmhouse-museum.html">
    <title>Church Farmhouse Museum | diamond geezer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-04T06:27:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2011/01/church-farmhouse-museum.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nextdoor, in two upper rooms, is the reason you'll probably want to visit soon. The museum is hosting a special exhibition devoted to Harry Beck, designer of the world-famous tube map, who was born down the road in Finchley." You'll also need to visit soon, because Barnet Council want to  close the entire museum. ]]></description>
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    <title>Clapham Common, Ground Zero of the Saints | Strange Maps</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-03T04:07:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bigthink.com/ideas/26736</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This map, dated 1800, depicts the common at what may have been its high society high-water mark. These were the days of the Clapham Saints, a loose association of agenda-setting Anglicans."]]></description>
<dc:subject>london maps history geography culture strangemaps via:kasei</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:0dfb313700d7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/">
    <title>There Are Grocery Stores in Detroit | The Urbanophile</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-27T18:54:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A guest post by James Griffioen pointing out that while there may not be big-box stores in Detroit, the city has plenty of places to get food (and not just junk, either).]]></description>
<dc:subject>us detroit cities urbanism food culture media</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/design/26abroad.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1296100871-Bu67jcX8S7hBzRB2dI5YPw&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>David Wojnarowicz Ruckus, as Viewed From Britain | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-27T04:05:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It has something to do with the ideal of the American Everyman. As with the military or medicine, so with museums, we are by national inclination meddlers. Europeans are not, which is why they have reacted to the Smithsonian flap with the same mildly appalled bafflement that they express toward American opposition to the health care bill. It all seems inexplicable to them." The NYT on Wojnarowicz, Sensation, Tate, the Smithsonian, and attitudes. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2011/01/consuming-space-age-cuisine-of-sputnik.html">
    <title>The cuisine of Sputnik | Space Age Archaeology</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T21:04:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2011/01/consuming-space-age-cuisine-of-sputnik.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While the US military and government were grappling with the political implications of Sputnik 1, one of the ways in which ordinary people responded was to translate the body of the spacecraft into something familiar and edible.  The humble olive, with the addition of three or four toothpicks to represent antenna, became a symbol of the satellite." It's worth delving into the archives, too.]]></description>
<dc:subject>space sputnik food history culture via:mondoagogo</dc:subject>
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    <title>Owen Hatherley: A flat festival tonic for Britain | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-21T16:08:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/20/festival-britain-tonic-revive-spirit</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The new festival – especially if it gives in and rebuilds the Skylon – will be an exercise in nostalgia, in morbid and wildly inaccurate historical analogy, at a time when we desperately need an infusion of the original festival's socialist, futuristic spirit."]]></description>
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