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...With costs so cheap, even private citizens are getting involved. One DIY "robo-caller" from Austin, Texas funded his own phone drive during the South Carolina primary that targeted Hillary Clinton. The recorded message included claims that Clinton had paid someone to kill an opponent's cat: "Hillary thinks cats are expendable. Can you trust her?" In May, the Minnesota Family Council recorded messages that used the words "anal and oral sex" in an effort to defeat a bill for sex education in school; ironically, the organization received complaints from parents whose children had answered such calls. In March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robo-Calls | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...punk rock can a coffee-table book possibly be? The Clash, a band that embodied 
 the rebellious, DIY ethic of the late-'70s scene - and that proclaimed louder than anyone else a social and political purpose to punk's nihilism - have a book out. A big, pink, glossy, coffee-table book. In good time for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clash: Loud and Proud | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...that mix and you’ve either got a deranged Barney episode or The New Pornographers’ “Mutiny, I Promise You” video. This is your typical indie pop outfit (think Tilly and the Wall) video: hyper-chromatic garb and lighting, bouncy vocals, DIY sets and props, and relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you’ll recognize her as Mel from...

Author: By Natalie J. So, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The New Pornographers | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...call it "21 Ways to Serve America." This is about practice, not theory. As I said, America is a do-it-yourself culture. And at Time we believe that even fixing the world can be a DIY project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Do | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Whatever, Martha! Fine Living Network; Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T. Alexis Stewart watches reruns of Martha Stewart Living with Jennifer Koppelman Hutt and cracks risqu jokes about her mom's short shorts. Does anyone need to see this besides a family therapist? Take the DIY approach: mix some margaritas and make fun of MSL yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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