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2008 had its ups, mostly downs....here's to the new year!
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Wed, April 8, 2009 - 12:08 AM
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Dubai is Market Fundamentalist Globalisation in One City. I ask the Filipino girl behind the counter if she likes it here. âItâs OK,â she says cautiously. Really? I say. I canât stand it. She sighs with relief and says: âThis is the most terrible place! I hate it! I was here for months before I realised â everything in Dubai is fake. Everything you see. The trees are fake, the workersâ contracts are fake, the islands are fake, the smiles are fake â even the water is fake!â But she is trapped, she says. She got into debt to come here, and she is stuck for three years: an old story now. âI think Dubai is like an oasis. It is an illusion, not real. You think you have seen water in the distance, but you get close and you only get a mouthful of sand.â â- The dark side of Dubai - The Independent
"The way hacker spaces are organized seems to be a reaction against American individualism â the i
ââThe way hacker spaces are organized seems to be a reaction against American individualism â the idea that we all need to be in our separate single-family homes with a garage,â says White. âChoosing to organize collectives where youâre sharing a space and sharing tools with people who are not your family and not your co-workers â that feels different to me.ââ
Wed, April 1, 2009 - 12:52 AM
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- DIY Freaks Flock to âHacker Spacesâ Worldwide ![]() Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journeyâcombining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordingsâthrough the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Danteâs Divine Comedy. The site is structured around a visual representation of Danteâs worlds: it shows who and what appear where. Click on regions within each realm (circles of Hell, terraces of Purgatory, spheres of Paradise) to open new pages featuring people and creatures whom the character Dante meets during his journey. originally published at besaged
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