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Mark Kermode's Film Review Advent Calendar
When iPods take over the Earth
Alex Kjerulf writing on love and leadership
Whiteboard animation
New Damien Rice Video - "9 Crimes"
Asteroids Revenge
AKMA in a meditation on the gift of endings and continuings
20 Songs That Influenced Kurt Cobain
Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion
"Like TIVO for your work" - Best Buy judges performance on output instead of on hours
9 Awesome Community Mapping Websites
There are 75 musical groups in this photo. Can you find them all?
A Brief History of Pop Music
Christy Lee Engle on “the unwanted passion of your sure defeat,”

Great quotes:

• Dave Winer: In the future, the flow of ideas for products will happen everywhere, all the time, and products with small markets will be worth making because we'll be able to find the users, or more accurately, they'll be able to find us.
• John Seely Brown offers his view on the future of education: "Rather than treat pedagogy as the transfer of knowledge from teachers who are experts to students who are receptacles, educators should consider more hands-on and informal types of learning. These methods are closer to an apprenticeship, a farther-reaching, more multilayered approach than traditional formal education...With every new piece of technology, to make this technology work, you have to change your teaching practices".
• The Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas Message  Christmas sets us free; and if the memory of William Wilberforce and the great campaigners against slavery means anything, it sets us free to set others free. It breaks open the prison of blind selfishness, it challenges the lazy way in which we take for granted the misery of others as a background to our lives. So Christmas now should prompt us to ask, 'Whose misery are we taking for granted and not noticing? Where are today's slaves?' The coming year will have a lot of events that should help us look for answers to these questions – though most of us know some of the answers: child soldiers, victims of sex trafficking, people who have lived for decades in an environment of ceaseless violence or who have lost their homes or countries through this violence.  Read it all.