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Borgen, popular political drama set in Copenhagen

January 9, 2013

Borgen, popular political drama set in Copenhagen

Borgen is a Danish political drama sent in Copenhagen. Despite being a subtitled Danish show loosely based on complicated domestic Danish political events, it grew to unexpected popularity throughout Europe.

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Design & politics & newspapers who fire cartoonists for mocking pipeline companies

December 30, 2012

Design & politics & newspapers who fire cartoonists for mocking pipeline companies

Well it’s the last day of 2012, the end of another alarming year in a string of alarming years. These are not times to be proud of in Vancouver, in British Columbia or especially in Canada.

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Idle No More

December 28, 2012

Idle No More

I am in full support of Idle No More and Chief Theresa Spence’s now perilous hunger strike in a tipi across from Canada’s Parliament buildings in Ottawa. Chief of the beleaguered town on Attawapiskat in Ontario, where inadequate housing has led to a level of misery that attracted even UN censure, Spence is engaged in a desperate gambit to force PM Harper to speak with her.

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Anonymous & Russell Brand – going after Westboro Baptist Church in their own different ways

December 19, 2012

Anonymous & Russell Brand – going after Westboro Baptist Church in their own different ways

I like both approaches, preferably in combination: Anonymous’ no-nonsense takedown of the WBC’s internet presence and cell phones, and Russell Brand’s charming, friendly, tolerant yet devastating mockery of some really obnoxious religious extremists.

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3D printing

December 8, 2012

3D printing

Above is the Eiffel Tower 3D-printed shoe by Continuum via Architizer. Below, 3D printed working models of Theo Jansen’s beachwalking strandbeests. I bought these for my nephews and am still trying to figure out how to assemble and attach the propellors.

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It’s Christmas, time to put the tinfoil antlers on the camel

December 6, 2012

It’s Christmas, time to put the tinfoil antlers on the camel

Other perhaps some other pagan holiday options? Perhaps we could consider Saturnalia. Or, if it must be organized religion, then the Flying Spaghetti Monster whose mockery-loving followers are known as Pastafarians.

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