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The Truth Shall Set You Free...Or in This Case Get You Fired

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'US drone attacks wipe out families'

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Felonious Munk Presents: Stop It B! Wake up!!!!

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Nearly two dozen dead as prolonged heat wave moves East

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Don't fall asleep on a NY Subway

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A small scale of birds died 4 years ago in nearby Texas will history repeat itself

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Arcade Fire at MSG: A Night of Championship Euphoria

Wednesday night, Arcade Fire radiantly illuminated Madison Square Garden, filling the... more

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Ice Water Wake Up Prank

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What is Shift Work Disorder?

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Coffee Party -- Wall St. Emergency: Stand Up for Main St.

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Did Arcade Fire save "Where the Wild Things Are"?

Did Arcade Fire save "Where the Wild Things Are" from totally bombing at the box office on opening weekend? That's the question asked in this LA Times piece about the movie's marketing campaign. (Current.com user PaulTheFifth gets to stay up as late as he wants for finding this piece!)
A pop music connoisseur and longtime music-video director, Jonze had brought the studio a CD full of music he thought captured "Wild Things' " sensibility. The Warners marketing staff fell in love with "Wake Up," a song by Arcade Fire. A friend of the band, Jonze helped persuade the group to allow the studio to use the song in its advertising. The new trailer spared us any of the film's nattering dialogue, simply melding Jonze's striking visual images to the song's uplifting melodies.

The trailer was a Web sensation, being passed virally around from one Arcade Fire fan to another. Warners also signaled its intent to go after a more diverse audience by putting the trailer up in front of a wide range of films, including "Land of the Lost," "Public Enemies" and "I Love You, Beth Cooper." The Arcade Fire trailer turned the film's image around, wiping away all the negative vibes with its vivid emotional appeal.

Ever since its appearance, Warners found that the film had a far more receptive audience, as this weekend's surprisingly strong opening has proven. "For the first time, we were able to convey to people in an emotional and articulate way what this movie was supposed to be," says Kroll. "It really helped reinvent the movie for a lot of people. So we're feeling really proud of taking a film that may not have been immediately accessible, but finding a way to make it work."
Watch the Arcade Fire trailer:

And then tune into Current Music Presents: Embedded this Wednesday, October 21, at 11/10c to watch a very special impromptu performance of "Neon Bible" by Arcade Fire. It's drawn from a new partnership with our awesome French friends at La Blogotheque.

UPDATE: Here's Arcade Fire, via La Blogotheque, from Embedded:

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Morning Coffee

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YouTube - Why most people may not wake up! The Sad Truth.flv

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Need to access some files on your other Mac? Find out it's sleeping and you can't? Try this little a

WakeOnLan discovers all other computers in your LAN, and enables you to wake them up... more

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Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama [2009·Trailer] - An Alex Jones Film -

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Climate clock is ticking

To the twelfth hour.

From the article:

In the summer of 2007, a large portion of Arctic Sea ice - about 40 per cent - simply vanished. That wasn't supposed to happen. At least not yet. As recent as 2004, scientists had predicted it would take another 50 to 100 years for that much ice to melt. Yet here it was happening today.

It raised the question: Had global warming suddenly pressed the gas pedal to the floor? If so, the world was in for quite a climate ride - dramatic, jarring changes in climate much sooner than expected. Climate scientists were deeply worried.

"It really caught the scientific community by surprise," Professor James Ford, a McGill University geographer and Arctic expert recalled. "The Arctic system is close to crossing the threshold beyond which we will get dramatic changes in climate."

The sudden mass melting brought an earlier ice event into new perspective. In 2005, scientists at the Canadian Ice Service, the nation's leading ice specialists, were examining satellite images when they noticed that the Ayles Ice Shelf, which is about as big as the island of Montreal, had suddenly broken free from the top of Ellesmere Island and floated away.

Vincent Warwick, an Arctic expert at Université Laval, said at the time: "This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead."

The ice melt of 2007 seemed to confirm Warwick's fears. Reports since then claim the Arctic ice could be gone by 2013.

We have already crossed some critical climate thresholds. The world not only has to drastically cut back its greenhouse gas emissions but also begin to take steps to deal with the inevitable changes that global warming will cause. The much-feared tipping points - which would cause massive icecap and ice shield melting, and plunge the world headlong into severe weather systems, causing broad devastation and rising seas - seem increasingly probable.

This is why, scientists say, the United Nations climate talks that began this week in Bonn, Germany, and will culminate in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, are so important. They are a last chance for the world to come to its senses and negotiate an agreement to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists have been warning about these tipping points for decades, but few politicians have listened. Most industrialized countries led by the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe have continued to pump increased amounts of GHGs into the atmosphere despite promises to reduce emissions below 1990 levels.

Developing countries like China and India have taken no steps to curtail their emissions. With a new coal-fired power plant coming on stream every week, China is now the world's biggest GHG producer.

The atmosphere now contains 387 parts per million of carbon dioxide. This is more than the Earth has seen in the last 650,000 years. Pre-industrial levels were about 270 ppm, which remained pretty well constant over the 100,000 years mankind has walked the Earth. Scientists say that because of a delayed reaction, we have yet to experienced the full effect of what we already have put into the atmosphere. That effect will unravel in the decades to come. Meanwhile, we're adding about 30 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere annually or about 2 ppm. Last year alone, global GHGs increased three per cent.To the twelfth hour. From the article: In the summer of 2007, a large portion of... more

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Three Sleep Myths -- Busted!

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