MetaFilter posts tagged with gonzalez

Architecture, Sampled And Remixed

jack_mo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:56:16 -0800

Dionisio González makes photographs of imaginary favelas, Filip Dujardin makes photographs of imaginary buildings.

Got a dream to take them there

Faint of Butt — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:07:12 -0800

Emilio Gonzalez, Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, will be resigning next month. To mark the occasion, the New York Times prints an editorial exposing the magnitude of the case backlog that USCIS currently faces, and their decided lack of speed in handling said backlog. Gonzalez doesn't like the editorial, so he blogs about it. And that's when the comments start rolling in.

"our top priority is to counter and prevent another terrorist attack"

Avenger — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:41:31 -0800

"The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006, marking the first sustained increase in homicides, robberies and other serious offenses since the early 1990s..." While violent crimes did increase by 1.3 percent total in 2006 [with robbery making a shocking 11.6 percent rise in the West and murder rising by 2.5 percent in the Northeast], property crimes actually decreased by 2.9 percent overall. The reason for this apparently strange state of affairs? Short answer: nobody knows for sure.

I Love Vermont

james_cpi — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:16:05 -0800

I Love Vermont

Those dems must all be criminals!

DreamerFi — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:31:59 -0800

Political Profiling run amok . Right on the tails of the resignation of Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales comes a press conference where he accepts, but does not take, responsibility. All this will come as no surprise to the people who read this report that states that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops.

watch out for flying watermelons

christy — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:28:08 -0800

TANGO'D! remember that awesome sony advert with all the bouncy balls in san francisco? well british drink firm tango have made an great parody of it. however, the residents of swansea north, where the ad was filmed, are not too happy. beautiful music provided by josé gonzalez (review) . [via]

slippery slippery slope

trinarian — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:23:02 -0800

All those in favor of a mandatory web labeling law, say "ay!"