Barcade Brooklyn gets a little more room
Great news for one of my favorite bars and favorite arcades in NYC!
via brewyork:
Warning: the above photo could be disorienting to the regular Barcade (388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg) visitor. Next time you visit, you might be surprised to see that Barcade’s Brooklyn location has a little more indoor space.
The idea that pop stars — entertainers — had to prove themselves in stripped-down formats went hand in hand with the suspicion that they were inauthentic in the first place, an idea that music videos didn’t invent but certainly advanced. (Milli Vanilli released Girl You Know It’s True in 1989, the same year MTV debuted Unplugged.)
“The Abortion War” is a documentary on Al Jazeera English
Jon Hamm talks about his favorite baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals, to Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.
“Well, you say I’m twenty-something and I should be slacking, but I’m working harder than ever and you could call it macking”
via skewgee:
“I’m that kid in the corner”… and I’m not changing my style just to fit it!
via thistlegirl:
This makes me feel OLD. It doesn’t feel like 19 years. Ok, so I can’t remember most of the 90’s, but it hasn’t been 19 years. It can’t have been.
Beastie Boys’ single “Sure Shot” was released 19 years ago today.
Welcome to Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn, NY!
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Pharrell Williams (by TheCreatorsProject)
CISPA Is Not Dead
Visit Fight For The Future and CISPA Is Back for an overview and actions you can take, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation for background on the bill since it passed the House and what happens next as it moves to the Senate.
Meantime, the White House responded to an anti-CISPA petition signed by over 100,000 people with — in part — the following:
The White House issued a veto threat for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) on April 16, because the legislation did not fully address our core concerns (especially the protection of privacy). Even though a bill went on to pass the House of Representatives and includes some important improvements over previous versions, this legislation still doesn’t adequately address our fundamental concerns…
…There is broad consensus on the need for more threat-related information sharing — including among the leading privacy advocates we regularly engage on the issue. The essential question on which people across the spectrum disagree isn’t if we can share cybersecurity information and preserve the principles of privacy and liberty that make the United States a free and open society — but how.
Related: Here’s something to chew on, via Wired:
A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.
The report, released Tuesday to Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader from Nevada, provides a brief glimpse into the caseload of what is known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. None of its decisions are public.
The 2012 figures represent a 5 percent bump from the prior year, when no requests were denied either.
Image: Via CISPA Is Back. Select to embiggen.
Bitcoin Explained (by Duncan Elms)
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