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"By one way of reckoning, this week — February 8, to be exact — can be called the 100th birthday of the medium that many of us have spent our lives enthralled with: the feature film. But don’t expect any parades, fireworks, grand speeches, or other shows of celebration. That’s because the film that premiered at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles on February 8, 1915, was D. W. Griffith’s The Clansman, soon to be retitled The Birth of a Nation — the most virulently racist major movie ever released in the U.S."
http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/why-we-arent-celebrating-100-years-of-movies.html
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Bob Marley would have been 70 today. This was a good piece by Viv Goldman
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/05/bob-marley-70-birthday
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London pop up / street food map, apologies if a repost
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zR53ej6gqjW8.kBJd0pSVaqMY
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Moisture from the Amazon rainforest rises and is blown south to become rain in Brazil's southeast. They have so much water they generate their electricity with hydropower. But with the rainforests reduced its not raining.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/brazil-worst-drought-history
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Big Hero 6, fun for all the family, sensitive handling of bereavement issues and a black hole type sequence that made more sense than Interstellar.
Also watched Nightcrawler again, did anyone notice the nice but pricey product placement?