Brent's Useless Stuff

1000 Best Movies - with NYT reviews
THE GRAY ZONE - by SEYMOUR M. HERSH - How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
How to Get Out of Iraq - By Peter W. Galbraith
Peak Oil - The End Game Has Started

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Best Bit:
What Eno calls "culture" ("everything we don't have to do") is where a society tries things. Art is laboratory experiment, isolated from the real world because what it explores would be hazardous if taken as reality. It is an essential service, but one of the many things that annoys Eno about artists and the art world is their common refusal to explain what they're really up to. Scientists these days, he says, take pains to explain their science and why it's exciting, and their science improves from making the effort. He thinks the same should happen with artists, and proves it with this book
-Stewart Brand, best known for his Whole Earth Catalog, reviewing Brian Eno’s book "A Year with Swollen Appendices"

One Liner:
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.

Bumper Sticker:
The buck doesn't
even slow down here

 

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Handheld: AvantGo; Handspring; Palm; PalmStation; Tucows;

 
 Rain?
2004 (except for the parts I ripped off from someone else)