now, it’s a shame that this short digital documentary has thus far only graced the relatively affluent (and white) climes of the sundance film festival and the brooklyn academy of music. however, the very fact that bullets in the hood was made in the first place is something of a triumph for reasonable folks [...]

So I get that Starbucks’ recently acquired Ethos water is, viewed reasonably, a decent (if irrational) way to generate public concern about access to drinking water and, at the very least, a real if negligible fundraising strategy for efforts to improve that access. All the same, the proposal that the American bottled water industry [...]

If you thought the Gap’s attempt to tie an iTunes give-away to trying on jeans was silly, the Army National Guard is now offering 3 (so much more than 1, kind of) free iTunes downloads when you agree to go through their recruitment pitch. That’s stooping a little low for the National Guard (and [...]

UPDATE: The podcast is up and running! [—atari]

Okay well after much anticipation, Reasoner presents our second Podcast—a mix of all the great Baile Funk I was able to get my hands on while in Rio de Janeiro. Over an hour of our favorite favela beats.

Reasoner Podcast 2: Reasonable Baile Funk (92.7 MB) link fixed
If [...]

“14-year-old Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.

‘Your family does not meet the policies of admission,’ (not so) Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, Shay’s biological mother. The policy, he added, states that at least one parent cannot engage in practices ‘immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style [...]

The international press freedom group Reporters Without Borders published a handbook today entitled “The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents”, describing in detail how to remain anonymous while publishing online. This is a wonderful resource for activists all over the world, especially in countries were dissent is not tolerated. Now, I’m not generally in [...]

The Author’s Guild, the largest society of published writers in the United States, announced on Tuesday (Sept. 20) that they were bringing a class action suit against Google for “massive copyright infringement”, concerning the GooglePrint Library Project. Basically, the project is to scan all the books in some of the biggest libraries in the [...]

I can’t believe someone wrote this. I wish that in addition to the reasonable/unreasonable categories, we had a “totally hilarious/just plain weird” category. Anyway, the site that was hosting it has been shut down for exceeding bandwith, but here’s some sample text from the game:
Balcony
A ghost is here.
An exit leads south.

> tell ghost [...]