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Wood Smoke: It's a Mad, Twirly, Swirly Mary Poppins Bumbershoot Thingee!

Seeded on Thu Jun 4, 2009 4:08 PM EDT ()

"Wood Smoke" is a 2 ½ min. animated short by Fredo Viola, which uses colorful point and shoot footage shot in Woodstock, New York. The animated short is a crazy twirly, swirly circular video, accompanied by cool, ambient music.

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Choices: The Life Hazards of Children Who Have No Choices

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:03 PM EDT ()

"Choices" is an inspiring and very creative animated short film by Anton Groves. The animation used thousands of cardboard cuts, which were combined using both stop-motion footage and digital animation.

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Chatroom Suicide

Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:58 PM EDT (This is London)

An English man logged into a wacky internet chatroom and threatened to commit suicide. Some chatroom members egged him on, thinking that he was joking. He wasn't.

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Computer Scientists Help Foreign Scholars Bypass Government Web Filters

Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:14 PM EDT (chronicle.com.proxy.uchicago.edu)

A computer program called Psiphon is now able to let foreign scholars living in oppressive regimes bypass government filters undetected.

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Fox Chief's Obama Slur Causes Presidental Debate Cancellation

Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:30 AM EDT (CNN)

A Nevada Democratic presidential debate that was to have been co-hosted by Fox News Network was canceled by organizers, in part because of a nasty derogatory slur by Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes thrown out in public about presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.

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Cutting Down Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree

Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:52 AM EDT (CNN)

The large, 150-year-old tree has been attacked by a fungus and is in danger of falling down. The tree is familiar to readers of "The Diary of Anne Frank."

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Miss Israel Finalist Quits After Family Plans To Kill Her

Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:17 AM EDT (The Times)

Doaa Fares believed she could be somebody other than a 17-year old high-school dropout from a deeply conservative Druze village, where most women marry young and settle into traditional roles.

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And The Oscar Goes To: Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson!!

Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:55 PM EST

JENNIFER HUDSON WINS THE OSCAR FOR DREAMGIRLS!! JENNIFER HUDSON: A REAL-LIFE CINDERELLA STORY FOR ALL OF US:

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The 2007 Academy Awards: Oscar Anticipations and Predictions

Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:32 AM EST

Jennifer Hudson's Acceptance Speech: "I know that she hasn't won yet, but she's the frontrunner in nearly everyone's Oscar predictions. As the nominee who's closest to having a normal, non-celebrity life, I'm looking to Hudson for the evening's most humble words."

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On Robert Altman: Green Pastures

Seeded on Thu Feb 1, 2007 9:08 PM EST (artforum.com)

IS NO ONE GOING TO SAY that Robert Altman was a great pothead? Let me, then. Robert Altman was a great pothead. In the war on drugs, he won. To look at his work without thinking about marijuana's specific gifts and poisons . . . umm . . . specific . . . What was I saying? Oh.

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Conservatives Are So PC

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:59 PM EST (Daily Kos)

Conservatives are so PC. Not PC as in "politically correct," although they certainly have more than their share of those who patrol the language for any nuance that gives off hints of liberalism. I mean PC as in PC.

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If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?

Seeded on Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:25 AM EST (educause.edu)

Conventional wisdom among college and university students (and many of their parents) in early 2007 is that "everything needed for research is available free on the Web." Therefore, academic libraries are often viewed as costly dinosaurs—unnecessary expenses in today's environm …

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Even at Harvard, Obama Showed Talent for Building Coalitions

Seeded on Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:57 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

Barack Obama's entry into politics came on a winter morning at the white-columned Harvard Law Review building when, about 2 a.m., a deeply divided editorial staff chose him as the first African American to lead the prestigious publication.

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Blue Monday: This Will Be The Unhappiest Day of the Year

Seeded on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:30 PM EST (the Mail online)

If you are feeling a little down then you can take solace in the thought that things are unlikely to get any worse.

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