The Daily Show - Jon Krakauer (video)

What a heartbreaking story that absolutely needs telling. What to do with the McCrystal connection...

"Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild) explains how the Bush administration exploited Pat Tillman's death for political gain."



Book: "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman"

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Documentary Vault: The Future of Food (full length film)

Friday viewing:



Interesting documentary on the history and future of food.
Educate or die dumb.

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Ken Burns on Colbert (Hulu Video)

From PBS: In case you missed it, Ken Burns was a guest on the Colbert Report this week:



Video description: Ken Burns believes if America didn't have national parks, the Grand Canyon would be lined with mansions and Yosemite would be a gated community.

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Film Trailer Vault: "Brothers"

I think we're in for an epic year of films. Impressive cast—to say the least:



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Film Trailer Vault: "An Education"

Oscar Watch: Carey Mulligan and the always-masterful Peter Sarsgaard.



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"Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration"

Just think what the next 100 years will bring...



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Thinly-sliced Trees

(#web #technology)
New layout. New blogging strategy. New energy.
For about a year, now, I've had a feeling that blogs could be dying—not the case. A resurgence is coming. The Internet as we know it, dying? Now, that's a different story. The architecture and user habits of the current web are quickly becoming stale. As the Apples and Googles continues to bring together the best minds of the times—pushing out cheaper pocket brains and robustly simple netbooks—stiffly sitting in front of a computer surfing will be like that ancient time of sitting on a porch reading those rolled-up, rubberbanded, thinly-sliced trees our parents use to read on Sunday mornings. Blogs will have their place in the new Web—they just desperately need new branding (and a new name).
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Six Sentences—"Wilted"

Stay or go—just stop wasting space in the middle. We're given one shot; what's your point if not to color your time in shades of strength and strokes of pain? Carry on, people, there's nothing to see here, but a man who crept from one broken dream to another, stuck in molded memories of V-signs and wilted flowers. That's your legacy? Fight. Then, fight again.
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Six Sentence Writing Exercise—"The Wanted-Man's Shack"

Describe what you see in this photo in six sentences.

For decades now, "The Wanted-Man's Shack" had been occupied by one ambitious transient after another. The redwooded escape was bare of hanging idols or cushioned distractions; a mattress, a knife, a blanket—only the essentials made up the tired space. Nailed to the door, were the rules: the playbook to change. A week is all it took. A forgotten drifter walks in; a clean slate walks out.

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Blake N. Cooper (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)

Video Vault: New York, I Love You, John Hughes: A Documentary, The Boys Are Back

New York, I Love You


John Hughes: A Documentary


The Boys Are Back

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