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Boing Boing: “Iraq Campaign 1991” by Phil [video link] “San Francisco-based video artist Phil Patiris transforms network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage (all used without permission) into a devastating critique of the media/industrial complex.” Artist statement: “To the extent I see the mass media culture drag standards of intelligence,...

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“PLAYBOY: What do you think we’ll find on the moon? STANLEY KUBRICK: I...”

– Playboy: Director Stanley Kubrick interviewed by Eric Nordern for Playboy Magazine, September 1968. Full article available online. “To discover what has made Kubrick so respected—and controversial—a director, and to plumb both his own complexities and those of 2001, Playboy interviewed Kubrick...

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“18. Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long 19. The scream of...”

– Wired: “100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About” by Nathan Barry (July 22, 2009).

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Harmony Korine, music video for Sonic Youth’s single “Sunday” from the album A Thousand Leaves, 1998. [video link] About the video: “Sunday, the first single from Sonic Youth’s 1998 album A Thousand Leaves, features a music video directed by Harmony Korine and starring Macaulay Culkin and his wife at the time, Rachel Miner. The music video for Sunday can be found on...

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“PARIS — Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg will bring Don DeLillo’s...”

– The Hollywood Reporter: “David Cronenberg takes on ‘Cosmopolis’” by Rebecca Leffler, July 24, 2009. Read more about DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. Read an excerpt from the book on the publisher’s site. About DeLillo: “Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of...

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“Silence, exile, cunning, and so on. It’s my nature to keep quiet about...”

– “An interview with Don DeLillo”, Tom LeClair, Contemporary Literature, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter, 1982), pp. 19-31. Published by: University of Wisconsin Press. This quotation is a direct reference to Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man : more details here. The...

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“I got four heads inside my mind Four rooms I’d like to lie in Four...”

– Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, 1979. Listen to the song on YouTube. Read more about The Who’s album Quadrophenia.

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NASA Human Space Flight: Appolo 11 Video Gallery “Apollo 11 plasma glow during reentry.”

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NASA Human Space Flight: Appolo 11 Video Gallery “View of Earth from Apollo 11 during reentry.”

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“POMPANO BEACH, FL, July 16, 2009. In response to rumors circulating the internet...”

– Robotic Technology Inc. / Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) Project: Press Release (PDF) “The purpose of the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)™ (patent pending) project is to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic platform able to perform long-range,...

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