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Google to SEC: Hello, filing.

Google's S-1 filing technique is unstoppable.

The Weather Underground

Today Filmmaker Sam Green and Activist and Educator Bernardine Dohrn participated in an on-line interview about Sam's film The Weather Underground and Bernadine's activist work, among other things.

New Paltz, N.Y.: I would venture to guess that there are young activists who, after watching this film, were most drawn to the romanticism of the Weathermen's movement. What would you like to say to these individuals? Is there a place for this type of radicalism in the United States today?

Sam Green: I would hope that this is not the case. There is a romantic aura to the group. But we hoped to temper that with the important critiques that are included in the documentary.

For me at least there's a lot to be taken from this story -- there are a lot of lessons. We're running out of time, so I am not able to get into that. But our hope is that the film will perhaps inspire younger activists to think about and debate some of the issues and questions that the film raises and come up with their own answers about how best to proceed.

Ishle Yi Park is Hip-Hop

Stingy Kids on the difficulty of selecting the Queens poet laureate:

Though Simmons argued that most of his rap songs begin as silent lyrics, he failed to secure the position. "I don't know if Queens is ready for a rapper as a poet," he said. But Parks's own work engages the different modes in which poetry is made public these days.

Ishle may not be a "rapper," but she's an innovator in her own right. Simmons has his Sprite commercials and fame for life, and quite frankly Ishle is the superior rhymer. No disrespect to Reverend Run, one of the founders, but it's time to let the new generation shine.

If Google made Fortune Cookies

Someday they will. And while Gmail is the meme du jour, I'd like to throw in my cents:

• I use it for lists, notes, yahoo groups mail and receipts. It's faster than opening up Stickies and trying to find where I put that serial number, etc.
• I leave Firebird open at gmail.com, and I use Safari for all other browsing. So my outdated Firebird beta is, in effect, a glorified wrapper around google's remote mail application. I'd like google to make a browser that was optimized for it's products.

Hello, CNN.

Q: Could Wu-Tang hang with the kids today, rap wise?

RZA: The kids today, as far as talent wise, the MCs today have no competition against Wu-Tang. There's no MC you can pull up right now that can handle Wu-Tang Clan. Like, one paragraph of a Wu-Tang song has more substance than a lot of these guys' whole album.

Q: Finally, is RZA going Hollywood?

RZA: (Laughs) Holly-hood, baby! Holly-hood

RZA's claim reminds me of KRS-ONE threatening to end the career of any rapper who dared to challenge him. This interview was the partial inspiration for David Rees's Karate Snoopy character, and later Get Your War On (what does George Bush listen to?).

Also, here's a tremendous new addition to Best of CNN, courtesy of SCO's bad day.

No Women in This Picture either

You may or may not remember the picture of George Bush signing anti-abortion legislation into law. As the March for Women's Lives approaches this weekend, Lia reminds Nader supporters of their dead wrong argument that there was no difference between the Dems and the Pubs. Outrageously, some of the pro-BushNader faction maintain that Bush is causing no more harm than Gore would have. One thing I notice about this line of thinking - no women in this picture either.

I <3 NY and Kinja

Combine Lockhart Steele's Lower East Side Hipsters digest with a "block all blogs in this group" function, and Kinja would really be onto something! (Snarkiness aside, I really like Gizmodo's digest, even though it doesn't include Hello, Nintendo. Also, what should trackback on Kinja digest's look like?)

Excel at Blogging

Anil is building a community of Excel geeks. At an old job we used to order from the same Chinese Restaurant, same food, nearly everyday. On any given day, anywhere from three to eleven people would order. I had a spreadsheet with one "worksheet" for every day, and the "favorite order" would carry over from sheet to sheet. It also computed tip and tax down to the penny, and if anyone overpaid or underpaid that was factored into the next day's 'amount owed.' This way we were able to call out the people who habitually put in less than their share and the overall hassle of ordering was reduced. Those were great times.

heyya.typepad.com

If you liked Bring it On!, you'll love The Pink Bloque, a radical dance troupe in Chicago, Illinois. They're encouraging participants in this weekend's March for Women's Lives to learn their new "Hey Ya" dance:

Learn part of the Pink Bloque's "hey ya" dance by practicing to the video, then meet us at the top of the Mall near the Washington Monument between 10 and 11 am on April 25, 2004 in Washington, DC. Just look for the pink and listen for the beats. We will then teach you a few dance steps and as a group we will join the March when it kicks off at noon and dance, dance, dance!

They're also on Friendster.

Audio Collage

I just recently found out about The Berkman Center's AudioBlog. You'll hear my voice in their SxSW Social Network broadcast. Who says nothing good comes out of the Berkman center?