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Hey everyone, have you seen how “hot” and “glamorous” Chile’s revolutionary leader is?

Camila Vallejo is beautiful! She's glamorous! She's captivating and young! She is a favorite topic in the tabloids! She has a secret boyfriend she kisses "languorously!" And that is why she is a popular and effective leader in Chile's student revolution.

08 Apr 2012 0 Comments Go

The ‘LowLine’, a subterranean, solar-lit NYC park, clears first hurdle

The LowLine underground park will easily surpass its $100,000 target for Kickstarter funding. The project would transform a subterranean trolley platform into an expansive park lit by innovative solar technology. There's still time to pledge if you want in on the perks ...

05 Apr 2012 0 Comments Go

$300K real-life flying car to let rich people live out boyhood fantasies

So it turns out that we'll get bona fide flying cars well before the world descends into a Blade Runner-esque nocturnal dystopia.

04 Apr 2012 0 Comments Go

The giant military spy blimp comes to Afghanistan

Incoming.

04 Apr 2012 0 Comments Go

#Occupy Marches Against Police Brutality, Police Respond With More Brutality

Hundreds of Occupiers took to the streets on Saturday, to protest the police brutality that has sought to stymie the movement from regaining the momentum it generated last fall. Guess what happened next.

24 Mar 2012 0 Comments Go

Global warming responsible for ‘The Hunger Games’

The disturbing dystopia that brought about the Hunger Games is probably global warming's fault.

22 Mar 2012 0 Comments Go

Airborne drones give pirate wi-fi to revolutionaries

Popular uprisings swept Tunisia, then Egypt, then much of the rest of the Middle East. They organized in public squares and on social networks. Tyrants and autocrats responded. Military force in the public squares, pulling the plug on web access. Egypt's internet went down. Expect more of this in the future, now that regimes are fully aware of the potency of online organizing. But we can't just rely on the Internet-in-a-box like the one whipped up by the U.S. military. For future revolutions, we will need nimble, highly mobile internet. So how about airborne pirate wifi drones? Watch:

14 Mar 2012 0 Comments Go

Buy, Consume Shit & Enjoy

[[Indeed.]] By guerrilla street artist Ludo in Paris.

14 Mar 2012 0 Comments Go
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