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Boing Boing presents the premier of Death Cab for Cutie’s “Home is a Fire”
from the album Codes And Keys, available May 31, 2011 on Atlantic Records

Video concept by: Shepard Fairey and Nicholas Harmer

Cameras and collaboration: Tarin Anderson, Todd Mazer, Justin
Mitchell and Aaron Stewart-Ahn

Additional support: John Lang, Brian Udovich

Edited by: Christopher Hills-Wright

http://www.deathcabforcutie.com

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For more about the video:
http://boingboing.net/features/cutie/

With the US midterm elections coming, PBS MediaShift and a group of San Francisco politicians, political and media consultants recently sat down to discuss how politics is changing with the advent of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and mobile apps.

Watch the full episode. See more MediaShift.

via The Huffington Post

Hugo Chavez Launches A BLOG Shortly After Joining Twitter


Hugo Chavez starts new website

Hugo Chavez Opens New Website









(CARACAS, Venezuela)  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a new website and has starting blogging in an attempt to expand his online presence. Chavez said he set up the official site that debuted Tuesday partly to combat people using the Internet to spread falsehoods. Chavez’s Twitter account lists more than 435,000 followers. Full Story at Huffington Post.

The next Apple TV Revealed: Cloud Storage, an iPhone App, and a $99 price tag:

If you thought that Apple’s foray into the world of home entertainment died with the last iteration of the Apple TV, you’re quite wrong. A tip we’ve received — which has been confirmed by a source very close to Apple — details the outlook for the next version of the Apple TV, and it’s a doozy.



From Mission Local:

“A clever response Arizona’s SB 1070? Photos taken outside of 580 Valencia St. (Between 16th and 17th Streets). ” More full size pictures here at Mission Local

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