About todbrilliant

todbrilliant

"Because the world doesn't matter anymore if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar

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(95448, USA)

Joined on:

11/30/06

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  Living

  response to  Patrick James's post N'Oublier Pas Baudrillard

  Nice

  to honor the man with even this simple post. Thanks.

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  Commented on March 8, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Culture

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Oscar Recap

  Inconvenient Truth SEQUEL

  Yep. It's all hush hush ...

  Great news.

  Hear about the SEQUEL to Inconvenient Truth?
  MORE INFO HERE.

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  Commented on February 26, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Environment

  response to  Patrick James's post Global Warming Reveals Pretty Animals

  Reminds Me of This Article

  Posted a couple of days ago:

  GLOBAL WARMING ENEFITS!

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  Commented on February 26, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Media

  response to  Graydon Carter and GOOD magazine's post The 51 Best* Magazines Ever

  Great list. Had you missed EROS . . .

  The inclusion of EROS proves to me you know your stuff. I've a couple sets as well as Avant-Garde (should have made the list) always nearby as Ralph G is my publishing-hero. The fact that no biopic of the man, who was as essential to free speech as was Lenny Bruce, staggers me. Your film division should be all over this one. . .his story is H U G E (yes, pronounced with an H - you East Coasters who drop your H's are just fucking up the language,yo.).

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  Commented on February 24, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Art & Design

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Sin

  Great. Also reminds me of David Byrne's New Book

  David Byrne's new book, Arboretum, is filled with similar diagrams, all based on the tree shape. Check it out.

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  Commented on January 30, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Media

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post British Apple

  Confused.

  1. Why do people care about the differences between Apples and PCs? Our world is literally burning down and many think that this is something worth discussing. This floors me.

  2. What does this have to do with GOOD? The magazine, well, it rocks. The website, well, it's an exercise in how to confuse the intention of the magazine and/or an exercise in questionable marketing tactics in that such muddying does more harm than good to the magazine - as evidenced, I believe, by the lack of comments/followers of the blog ... it has no real focus.

  I love y'all ag GOOD, I really do, but you badly need focus to do real good.

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  Commented on January 30, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Politics

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Who's In?

  Still hoping for . .

  Ralph Nader. As Eugene Debs has been dead for decades, Ralph is still the last good man standing.

  (oh how i love the vitriol that is bound to pour in from calcified Democrats - anything to get the comment board hopping here. . . so far the comments are few and far between - where the fuck is everyone? Did you hear me? I'M VOTING NADER MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Ahem.)

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  Commented on January 25, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Living

  response to  Rudy Adler's post Why Do Good?

  No Surprise

  This seems very consistent with that wee bit of programming that is built into every cell of our bodies via our DNA - our survival circuitry. When asking why people act a certain way, it always (and I mean always) comes down to the basic human directive to survive. Altruism as genetic code? Absurd. Even worse - altruism as proof of the "dawning of the age of Aquarius". We're the same grizzly beasts (exactly the same) as were 10,000 years ago. As the article points out, we do good out of the 'eye for an eye' instinct - a more positive spin calls it 'do unto others'. We do good to reap good, whether we want to confess this or not. We do good because we hope that we benefit by living in a world where things are better for all of us, but most specifically for us and our family (again, the family unit is an external expression of the DNA). That the researchers were surprised by the results is the only surprise.

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  Commented on January 23, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Politics

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post In It To Win It

  Bad Idea

  Wow. . . talk about an environmentally-unfriendly candidate. Sigh. Let's hope to go people wise up about Hillary before we're fucked. I'm hoping all my friends who swear up and down they'd never, EVER vote for a pro-war candidate come through on their promise. Odds are, however, that they'll swallow their convictions and vote Clinton, voicing lame "what do you expect me to do, vote for the Republicans?" excuses and, once again, getting 100% taken for granted by a party that gives not one tiny sliver of a shit about their liberal constituency.

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  Commented on January 23, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Culture

  response to  Patrick James's post E Pluribus Ignoro

  Great reminder, Patrick

  Thanks for the reminder. I try to soak up the map on my laundry room wall from time to time, but not often enough. You've inspired me to rededicate myself in this area.

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  Commented on January 19, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Politics

  response to  Rudy Adler's post President Obama?

  Hmmph.

  Alas, environmental issues don't make or break a candidate, but it's really too bad Barack not only supports liquid coal (a greenhouse gas DISASTER), but also has no environmental position, to speak of.

  Given this, and Clinton's pro-war stance, I'm hoping the Dems can field someone worth voting for.

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  Commented on January 19, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Politics

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Rocky Mountain High

  More details. . .

  Morgan -

  It's great that you point out the D's hypocrisy, but I'd love it if your article had some depth to it, pointed out examples of the absurdity of, say, Pelosi's 100 Hour plan, and it's utter lack of depth. A bit more meat, in other words. . .you have an audience, no? Give 'em an earful, brother!

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  Commented on January 14, 2007 by - todbrilliant

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  Technology

  response to  Rudy Adler's post Apple Of Our Eye

  Why all the hype?

  The hundreds of millions that went into developing that useless gadget (useless in that there are over 500 other mobile phones to choose from, all of which do essentially the same thing, differing only is stylistic elements) could have helped transition the economy of an island nation from oil to wind.

  Just think what would happen if Darfur or, say, the fact that THE EARTH IS DYING got the same press that a new Apple gadget gets.

  Sigh. We’re fucked.

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  Commented on January 14, 2007 by - todbrilliant