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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by Quarrelsome on Friday November 13, 2009 @12:05PM (#940258)
It's highly recommended that we all watch every single documentry by Adam Curtis, including "The Centuary of Self". His stuff is gold IMO, opinionated, but gold.

If you want a taster check out the latest series running on his blog about the history of Afghanistan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2009/09/kabul_city_num...

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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by sleepingbot on Friday November 13, 2009 @12:30PM (#940307)
Also, you can find the same documents on Google Video. I share the search "google video the century on the self" on Google. http://tinyurl.com/yb7kluz

The Google Video link: http://tinyurl.com/yd5ptt6

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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by fnid on Friday November 13, 2009 @01:00PM (#940390)
down modded for the short urls. Please use the full urls here. HN shortens them automatically.
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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by sleepingbot on Friday November 13, 2009 @01:09PM (#940422)
Sorry about that. Links (search and google video) were, as anyone knows, long.
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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by idleworx on Friday November 13, 2009 @04:32PM (#940851)
The Century of the Self is an amazing documentary. Everyone in this country, and the western world should see it. That and the Power of Nightmares also by Adam Curtis.
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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by Quarrelsome on Sunday November 15, 2009 @05:05PM (#943422)
The Trap is the killer one. Part 3 just hits all nails ever on all heads.
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Re:Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff by sleepingbot on Friday November 13, 2009 @12:07PM (#940260)
Agree. You just defined the heavyweight BBC-type documentaries that led to this series.
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