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Some great lectures on this site with lots of pictures and article titles like:

Problem with Audiences, What Happens Behind the Scenes and Misconceptions About Air.

Done in an old-school pre ’97 web style but fun nonetheless.

Courtesy of Paul Downey

Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s Crazy Rulers of the World explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence.

With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary – and plain bizarre – national secrets at the core of George W Bush’s war on terror.

This is a three part series originally shown on Channel4 in August 2007.

You can see the first part here.

You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free. Some of the following sites offer actual printed books, while others feature electronic books (aka “ebooks”). Please bear in mind that the list is alphabetized, not ordered by importance.

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mind42.com

Keep track of all your ideas, whether alone, with colleagues and friends or working together with the whole world.

mind42.com is a browser based online mind mapping application. With mind42.com installing mindmapping tools is no longer needed- for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed.

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Short movie

http://www.callcentermovie.com/movie/movie2.html

A good article about the media in the states and how some of the main tv channels are owned by big military corporations and what hey do to change the news in their favour.

NBC is owned by General Electric, who also owns MSNBC and CNBC. GE also owns Bravo, Telemundo, USA Network, and the Sci-Fi Channel, among others. GE was awarded $2.2 billion in military contracts in 2005, and according to the War Profiteers website:

“General Electric is one of the world’s top three producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and helicopters.”

And more:

CBS is owned by the former Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, a division of Westinghouse. WBC purchased all of CBS in 1996 and dropped it’s name in favor of the less ominous title, CBS Company, which was in turn purchased by Viacom. Besides making the appliances and household electronics we know them for, Westinghouse used to own Northrup Grumman, who makes nuclear powered aircraft carriers, military airplanes, smart bombs and nuclear bombs, and is one of the largest military contractors in the United States. Despite the sale of Northrup, Westinghouse still makes nuclear reactors for U.S. submarines as well as electronics for the military and manufactures arms. Those same arms that are used to kill Iraqi’s and Afghani’s.

The full article can be found here.

Came across this American artist while listening to WFMU. Very lush feminine voice – great stuff.

You can listen to some of her songs here.