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Category: Culture (Page 3 of 3)
Final Edition VW Kombi bus
After 56 years of production, the Last Edition Kombi Volkswagen Bus from Brasil will come from the Brazil factory. Apparently, Anti-lock brakes and airbags would be too difficult to design into the vehicle, and are required because of new laws in Brazil.
LUTZ TAVERN - IMAGE: Ro Tam
“In its previous life—which ended last year after 63 years—Lutz Tavern (4639 SE Woodstock Blvd., 774-0353) was known nationally as the bar where hipsters discovered Pabst Blue Ribbon.”
You want fries with that? Along with serving burgers now and BACON, they have added liquor to their offerings…
Pencil on paper by Phong Bui
“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt,” Graeber wrote in a Sept. 25 editorial published online by the Guardian. “Is it really surprising they would like to have a word with the financial magnates who stole their future?”
David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street – Take It Personally
Pencil on paper by Phong Bui – Brooklyn Rail
A black coffee taken to one of the three chairs at Tim Wendelboe, a coffee shop and small-batch roaster in Oslo. - Oliver Strand
The fact is, you don’t need to try that hard to get a good coffee in Oslo. You could go to any of the more than 20 locations of Kaffebrenneriet and get a drink made with more skill and better ingredients than almost anything you’ll find in Paris, or Rome, or a number of places you think of as having a vibrant coffee culture. While many cities are resting on their creaking reputations, Oslo is forging a new standard.
“Documenting (nearly all) the coffees consumed by Alan Smith, during our 21 days of summer travels in Europe.”
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Future Journalism Project — Frank Pasquale ponders how the internet is….
Frank Pasquale ponders how the internet is increasingly converging through Facebook, Google and Apple, and wonders what values drive their decision making.
Photo: Monopoly — Social Media Edition via Emilie Ogez, Flickr/Creative Commons.
The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers.
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR.
Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve
What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine.
