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Join: Jul 27, 2008

Name: tranquileyedotnet

Gender: Male

Location: Ottawa, CA

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Books: Maps of the Mind, Snowcrash, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Empire, The Hacker Crackdown, Dino

Movies: Six Feet Under, Casablana, Blowup, Frontline, Iron Monkey, 24 Hour Party People, This Is Spinal Tap, Topsy-Turvy, Heathers, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Office, So Graham Norton, The Lord of the Rings

Music: Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Beck, Miles Davis, JJ72, Garbage, John Coltrane, Son House, Ursula 1000, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Cowboy Junkies, Keith Jarrett, Lush, Mylene Farmer, Nirvana, REM, Radiohead, The Smiths, They Might Be Giants

Hobbies: reading non-fiction, writing fiction, design, hacking, gizmos, walking, lifting weights, cycling, jazz, hong kong films, japanese horror, chocolate, radio, web politics, intimate media, social networks, cultural studies

Videos (9)

Sears electronics ad, 1980s

Length: 0:29
Rating Average: 5.00 from 4 people
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Author: tranquileyedotnet

Tags: ad computer sears

A 1980s advertisement for American retailer Sears, showing its extensive selection of consumer electronics, including microcomputers, Sony Walkman, CD players, video cameras, and televisions.

Input Magazine advert

Length: 0:32
Rating Average: 5.00 from 3 people
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Author: tranquileyedotnet

Tags: ad computer magazine micro uk

Advert for the British computer hobbyist magazine Input from the mid-1980s.

Strom Thurmond's Swimming Pool

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Rating Average: 4.82 from 11 people
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Author: tranquileyedotnet

Tags: 1948 civilrights history politics racism segregation stromthurmond usa

In 1948, after Harry S Truman had desegregated the United States Army, Strom Thurmond became a candidate for President of the United States on the third party ticket of the Dixiecrat Party, which had split from the Democrats over the issue of segregation. Thurmond carried four states and received...

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TPMtv: Release the Hounds!

Length: 7:8
Rating Average: 4.39 from 836 people
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Author: Veracifier

Tags: blog book fleischer mcclellan message perino politics puzzled reaction scott spin video

Politics Video Blog: Scott McClellan's surprisingly critical memoir of his time as White House Press Secretary put the White House in full-on damage control mode. McClellan's book may have been off-message, but the White House and its surrogates were conspicuously "on" in their response.