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(798) Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of the state capitals
(792) Jazz Protest Music: The Freedom Now Suite
(782) Making Mothers of Fake Babies


(780) Debunking the "Eat Local" Myth

Simon Perkins (31-12-2007)
Utterance:
...lamb raised on New Zealand’s clover-choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles [17703 kilometres] by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds [691 kilograms] of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds [2855 kilograms] of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed. In other words, it is four times more energy-efficient for Londoners to buy lamb imported from the other side of the world than to buy it from a producer in their backyard. Similar figures were found for dairy products and fruit.
- ©James E. McWilliams (The New York Times)
Image: Macpherson, Kris (). Mt Ruapehu Sheep. , Aotearoa (New Zealand): Microsoft Corporation []
Motivation:
Web: Food That Travels Well (31-12-2007)
Book: Saunders, Caroline & Barber, Andrew & Taylor, Greg. 2006 Food Miles – Comparative Energy/Emissions Performance of New Zealand’s Agriculture Industry, Christchurch, AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND): Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (AERU) Research Report No. 285


(773) The discourse of engineering needs to be expanded
(766) Facebook Viral Campaign
(764) Tracking the trackers: Unmasking wiki
(762) Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
(761) The videogame based on the McDonald's production chain
(760) Plastic Bottles: Five minutes worth of consumption in North America
(751) Humanities: meaning, value, and significance
(744) The mystery of discourse is not order, but disorder, incoherence
(735) Yes Prime Minister: entertaining parody of the Australian Prime Minister
(733) Chernobyl Legacy: photographic essay with audio commentary
(731) Kingdom of Piracy: online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content
(724) A devout Christian is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else
(722) Regionalisation: Educational Reform in New Zealand
(718) Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink
(698) Bodymouse: the potential of biomedical science?
(695) Jihad videos posted on YouTube website
(680) Bright: undermining the heterosexual love triangle in the heterosexual narrative
(677) Parody Through Recurring Motifs of Suspense and Clichés of Plot
(672) Symbolic Control Through Appropriation of Local Stories
(663) Citizen Reporting of the London Bombings
(613) New Zealand is not naive to the great cost of waging war
(602) art and design students look at surveillance
(596) Database of Virtual Art: a richly interlinked online repository
(588) Boal: the intervention of the art of tragedy
(574) (un)Smart-Mobs: Text-Messages Used to Incite Racial Violence at NSW's Cronulla beach
(567) Terra Nova: collaborative weblog about virtual worlds
(559) Diagnosing Iranian history in terms of European past
(546) Regulation Through Discourses/Practices
(529) the War on Terror and other conservative catchphrases
(520) historical materialism: offering critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism
(519) ethics question satirising Australian Prime Minister
(518) industrialisation: pin making and the the division of labour
(506) Culture Jamming: Australian International University
(505) Culture Jamming the Forbes Global CEO Conference
(496) Enemy Image: where is the human tragedy?
(494) NICHT loschbares Feuer / Inextinguishable Fire
(490) Christian forces humiliating Muslims in their own heartland
(400) Heartfield: political commentary through photomontage
(350) Seven Up! series: glimpses of Britain's future
(331) Freire: answers to exploitation in photographs
(319) Escape from Woomera: videogame social commentary
(207) Social Inclusion and Exclusion
(199) Faces of the Fallen: photomosaic
(201) eugenics: forced sterilization
(73) urban theory: world systems
(2) Futurist manifesto: War is beautiful


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