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The New York Times takes a moment to reflect on the life and artwork of subway worker Marvin Franklin.

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Reuters is reporting that FBI is moving ahead with its plan to spend a billion US taxpayer dollars on what it calls the Next Generation Identification system, which it aims to make the largest biometrics cache in the world.

If this plan is successful, the feds will have a comprehensive database of every man, woman, and child’s face, fingerprints, and palm patterns.

Time to break out the V for Vendetta masks and tell Big Brother “FUCK YOU”…..

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Joesph E. Stiglitz of Vanity Fair evaluates the blunders of the Bush Administration.

When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page.

New York Magazine breaks down “The Ten Best Hip-Hop” mixtapes of 2007.”

Manny Fernandez of the New York Times reports on disturbing living conditions in the Bronx.

“Henry Wren’s home is a two-bedroom Bronx apartment. But he and his family do not live there so much as survive there.

Residents dress for the outdoors even while indoors, wearing scarves and hats. They use the stove as if it were a fireplace, huddling around it with the burners aflame and the oven turned on. They wash up in the mornings with water heated in pots. At night, the temperature drops to the low 30s in the stairways and hovers in the 40s and 50s in the rooms.”

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In a recent interview with XXL for the mag’s January issue, Weezy took a break out of his busy schedule of doing rails of yay and doing remixes with every person who has rhymed into a microphone to discuss his greatness. He had the following to say regarding the possibility of his supply outweighing fans’ demand:

Interviewer: Some people think you’re oversaturating the market, though. Have you ever thought about that?

Weezy: Listen. [Leans in, speaking directly into the recorder] Darling, I don’t care what nobody think. Talk to me like you talking to Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. You’re not about to ask him about what he think about what somebody said about him. You ’bout to ask him about his greatness, and his greatness only. I don’t care what nobody think. If I did, you wouldn’t be sitting on my muthafuckin’ million-dollar bus in my 15th year at the same muthafuckin’ company and business. I’m a role model. You should get like me. Get like you? No. Get like me. Ya understand me? I’m not hot. Hot dies out. Baby, I’m me. Who the fuck done this? Nobody. Compare me to people that’s not even living, baby. And they didn’t even do it—what they comparing me to. No disrespect to them. You found songs on those people after they died. I’m still living.

Keep shovin that snow up your nosepiece, captain. It’s really turning out to be a good look for you.

Pick up January’s XXL to catch the rest of the greatness spouted from the mouth of this influential social activist/MC.

UGK rapper Pimp C was found dead this morning in his room at the Mondrian Hotel on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. He was 33. Police found the rapper, whose real name was Chad Butler, dead in his bed after responding to a 911 call.

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It seems that someone in LA was watching the first Fast and Furious movie last night, got inspired, and decided to rob a truck containing 1,000 copies of EA’s hit game “Rock Band”. The suspect held the driver at gunpoint, unloaded the truck, and made off with the goods. Police think it was an inside job, since the truck was unmarked and the driver picked up his cargo late Saturday night–meaning the thieves must have known the truck was worth jacking and already had a plan to flip the goods on the black market.

No suspects have been named, but I think it’d be a good idea to bring this dude in for questioning:

Legendary stuntman Evil Knievel passed away earlier today. He was 69 years young.

If you ever tried to jump your bike off a makeshift ramp and over your kid brother lying on the floor, you have this man to thank.

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Frank Otto, musician and owner of Viva, Germany’s equivalent of MTV, launched this audiovisual experiment in Hamburg three years ago with the mesmerizing Seamusic, which sets a friend’s film of underwater reefs and sea creatures to a dizzying prog-electro soundtrack. TRIP’s five-borough tour culminates with this film and three others looped continuously on separate screens, including our favorite, Track 2, where 30 filmmakers create music videos for two-to-three-minute segments of the composition.

Courtesy: NYmag