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I’m not a Michael Jackson fan by any stretch of the definition, but the video for Smooth Criminal holds a special place in my heart simply for the amazing choreography and themes. So today I found out that Fred Astaire was the inspiration for much of what we see in that video. Check out this […]
Posted by Aaron on May 28, 2008, 11:46 am permalink top | general
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This American Life, a news radio podcast from Chicago Public Radio has recently posted an episode entitled “The Giant Pool of Money”, a co-production with NPR. In their own words:
A special program about the housing crisis. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the collapse of the […]
Posted by Aaron on May 15, 2008, 8:54 am permalink top | general
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Saw this posted over on Boing Boing and had to share. The New York Times site has a great article on Steampunk fashion.
It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly […]
Posted by Aaron on May 8, 2008, 8:59 am permalink top | general
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First a little background on the Iranian Oil Bourse, from wikipedia:
The Iranian Oil Bourse is a commodity exchange which opened on February 17, 2008. It was created by cooperation between Iranian ministries and other state and private institutions. The IOB is a Petrobourse for petroleum, petrochemicals and gas in various non-dollar currencies, primarily the […]
Posted by Aaron on May 2, 2008, 1:51 pm permalink top | general
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