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Wallbanger — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:29:41 +0000

The Offline Glass from Mauricio Perussi on Vimeo.

‘They might pay off the Triads…’

Wallbanger — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:12:14 +0000

Edward Snowden is the 29-year-old who leaked NSA documents to the Guardian. Undoubtedly his life and perhaps the life of his family and girlfriend are ruined. He emphasizes in a video interview that this isn’t about him, but it most certainly is.

Play that bitch backwards…

Wallbanger — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:12:24 +0000

The Organist

Wallbanger — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:38:23 +0000

This is promising. A new podcast called The Organist from the folks at The Believer/McSweeney’s/KCRW.

For the Paranoid at Heart

Wallbanger — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:27:29 +0000

The MIAmobi is a leather case lined with “nano silver,” which takes your mobile device instantly off the grid:

MIAmobi’s™ SilentPocket™ prevents your phone company from tracking your whereabouts, and shields you from unnecessary exposure to RFI and electromagnetic transmissions.

This is fun

Wallbanger — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:24:49 +0000

End of Football Con’t

Wallbanger — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:24:29 +0000

President Obama told the New Republic he would have to “think long and hard” before he would let a hypothetical son play football. Now that the NFL head injury conversation has reached the president, will the NFL go farther in protecting players? Obama specifically addressed the college game:

I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players in the sense that the NFL players have a union, they’re grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies. You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That’s something that I’d like to see the NCAA think about.

End of Football Con’t

Wallbanger — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:21:38 +0000

Researchers at UCLA have found signs of brain damage in living NFL players. Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the blowout:

I don’t know what the adults will do. But you tell a parent that their kid has a five percent chance of developing crippling brain damage through playing a sport, and you will see the end of Pop Warner and probably the end of high school football. Colleges would likely follow. (How common are college boxing teams these days?)…After that, I don’t know how pro football can stand for long.

Performance Enhancing Drugs

Wallbanger — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:30:33 +0000

Counter Surveillance

Wallbanger — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:46:09 +0000

New York artist Adam Harvey created a fashion line that protects the body from detection by thermal imaging. An “anti-drone burqa” will set you back 1500 pounds.