Straight into this one:
A well thought out and provocative look at the 1962 work of sociologist James Davies, who laid out seven preconditions for violent revolution. The author stresses the point that all of these preconditions have now been met to one degree or another in the current U.S.
The seven conditions are:
1. Soaring then crashing [...]

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Heard of MyMiniCity.com?
Me neither, until today. I meandered over and found a site that you could create your own wee online city for free, without downloading anything or registering. That’s refreshing. So refreshing in fact that I though it worth pimping here on CR.
But I need you CR readers to help me out. [...]

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Presurfer, one of my fav blogs to read, has this nice write-up on the minus Garfield site:

Link to strip
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and [...]

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Now here’s an art installation I can get into. But not out of. Groan.

Curated by Pamila Matharu and Christina Zeidler, Come Up To My Room just celebrated its fifth anniversary at the Gladstone Hotel during Toronto’s recent design festivities.

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Tags: art, bed, humour, trap

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Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize-winner in economics, says the Iraq war has cost $3 trillion so far.
According to the Guardian, “three trillion could have fixed America’s social security problem for half a century.”
Or it could have wiped out America’s debt to the rest of the world. Instead it went on a war which [...]

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Oh Microsoft, when will you change your business practices? Although this is hardly a drop in the ocean for any company this will not unduly hurt MS. It will mean that MS will not turn a profit in the EU for the next five years or so. Will it change the way MS runs its [...]

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Another Tuesday, another Apple update. This time it is the big guns - The MacBook and MacBook Pro.

Apple today announced long-awaited upgrades for both its MacBook and MacBook Pro portables, adding Intel’s 45 nanometer Penryn architecture for its Core 2 Duo processors. All systems now include the larger Level 2 cache, SSE4 media instructions, and [...]

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*Squeals in delight, slops coffee on desk*
Ahem.
Yes this is quite good, isn’t it. Oh screw you guys, this looks great. If only it was reasonably priced I’d buy one. but for 199 including shipping? No thanks, I’ll pass.

AT-AT was always was my favourite vehicle in Star Wars, closely followed by the Falcon, Speeder Bike and [...]

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