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Bookmarks for July 4th

By Ed Fladung | July 4, 2009
  • The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
    required reading for the 4th of July: "Goldman's role in the sweeping global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace. Here again, the basic trick was a decline in underwriting standards, although in this case the standards weren't in IPOs but in mortgages. By now almost everyone knows that for decades mortgage dealers insisted that home buyers be able to produce a down payment of 10 percent or more, show a steady income and good credit rating, and possess a real first and last name. Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, they suddenly threw all that shit out the window and started writing mortgages on the backs of napkins to cocktail waitresses and ex-cons carrying five bucks and a Snickers bar."
  • Surreality Only Beginning | TPM
    please file this under "batshit crazy": "It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Either Palin is resigning ahead of some titanic scandal (which should emerge in short order if it exists) or her resignation was triggered by an even more extreme mental instability than we'd previously suspected."
  • Travelling Surf Enforcer for Hire (Windandsea to O'side Harbor)
    What I'm selling here is one week of regulation at your break. This includes intimidation and violence against the donkeys sporting SUP's, sponges, Stewart longboards, and funboards…. (via @surfysurfy)
  • Ruins of the Second Gilded Age – The New York Times
    Photo essay with captions by Edgar Martins documenting the recent real estate bust in the United States. "People are present in these images, bit not physically. You trace their action, the destruction they left behind." – amazing.
  • "Nearest Tube" Augmented Reality App for iPhone
    We've been hearing a lot about "augmented reality". Here is a perfect video example of how "augmented reality" will help your daily life. think of this as an simple version of how this concept will change our lives in the future.
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Bookmarks for March 27th

By Ed Fladung | March 27, 2009
  • The Making of a Narco State: Rolling Stone
    powerful article: "As Mexico descends into brutality and lawlessness, the government itself has become a tool of the drug lords" – Short synopsis: frightengly underpaid police and politicians beg and steal money from narcos. And when the gov't steps up the drug war, things get wild. A lot of people have their hands in the drug pie. If Mexico weren't located next to a country filled with gun-crazy drug addicts, Mexico wouldn't be having this problem.
  • Global currency flies with push from Russia and slip from Timothy Geithner | Business | guardian.co.uk
    China (who is basically single-handedly propping up the dollar by buying our bonds) has signaled that since we are creating so much new currency – which causes inflation, which makes our dollars worth less and their investments worth less – has proposed that an IMF alternative be used as a new alternative to the dollar. This spells the literal end of any American empire that may have been and scares the hell out of me, personally, as a person who deeply believes that the IMF is a shadow world government – as described in Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
  • 43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folders
    if you're in to blogging, writing, or creating anything that deals with the internet, you should listen to this talk from SxSW. amazing and inspirational – "We talked about building a blog you can be proud of, trying to improve the quality of your work, reaching the people you admire, and maybe even making a buck (in a way that doesn’t blow your deal)"
  • The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
    "The global economic crisis isn't about money – it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution" – great article.
  • PostSurf » Unfiltered Thoughts on Surf Culture:
    PostSurf is possibly one of thee most entertaining and well written surf blogs I've read in awhile. I usually go for the kinda blogs that post sentimental surfing schmata, out of focus trips to the beach photos and shots of newly minted retro kooky surfboards, but I have a soft spot for curmudgeons who like to air dirty laundry. Lewis Samuels can chew up some pixels and despite his irreverent, snarky tone his shit is interesting. Definitely not for everyone, though. He was just fired from Surfline for saying his employer "licks advertisers' balls" among other things. Interesting read. And dude gets like 75 comment per post. damn?!
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Bookmarks for February 2nd

By Ed Fladung | February 2, 2009
  • Pose and Ewok x Ironlak x SuperVision. on Vimeo
    my old milwaukee homie George (ewok) rocks a big huge piece for Ironlak paints at Cream City skatepark in Milwaukee. The video is shot really nicely, from the small aperture (nice bokeh) I'm assuming they used the RED camera. really nice.
  • secret forts
    awesome men's fashion blog. no words, just visuals. guilty pleasure. always great stuff here. [via KN+]
  • Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09
    Fraser Speirs is the creator of Flickr Export for iPhoto and Aperture, the gold standards in getting your photos to Flickr on the Mac. In iPhoto 09, Apple built in basic flickr export functionality. In this post Fraser runs down the similarities and the differences between the two methods. The summary: iPhoto has some nice tricks but only goes so far, which is no surprise, as Apple regularly builds 25% of the functionality for 75% of users. Flickr Export provides the rest.
  • Videos | Runamuk Visuals
    "…Having my life returned to me after a massive cardiac arrest was the convincing I needed to buy my soul back and resurrect the rubble that was once ‘RUNAMUK VISUALS’…I have spent the last 5 years creating videos for Billabong (Passion Pop, Donavon Frankenreiter ‘Alive in Tahiti’, Teahupoo Diaries, Freeway, Tropical Punch, Inside, the history of Billabong and the Occy tribute) and ive enjoyed every step of the way, but when your heart and your head say ‘the time has come’….well… ‘the time has come’" – interesting
  • Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
    fuck it, i'm goin' surfing.
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