Alain Badiou's analysis of the election and presidency of Sarkozy in France reveals a new political approach. Instead of a limited battle between the right's rejection and the left's nostalgia for the 1960's, Badiou proposes making impossible demands within the status quo as a stimulation of real change by those ignored by the mainstream political parties. This change would occur in the same world occupied by the status quo instead of a utopian recreation of the world.

 
John Hodgman's speech at the Broadcast Correspondent's Dinner was not only very funny, but a clear enunciation of what it means to be a nerd. In competition with the president's own speech, this speech gave a concise and accurate definition of what is a nerd in today's society as well as demonstrating why nerds are important to the culture and for the future.

 
Here is a collection of covers from the various underground newspapers of the 1960's. The underground media arose as the way for the different nodes of the counterculture in the United States to communicate with each other and the general public. As the establishment would usually disparage or stereotype the new cultural movements of that time, these underground newspapers served the purpose of telling the real first-person history of the 1960's.

 
The relationship between theory and practice can be seen in the relationship between a political movement and revolution itself. This relationship is a gap between theory and practice that can be hard to reconcile. Theory acts as a general background for practice as its particular expression. For a movement, the theory is the shaping of a question and the practice is its answer. For a revolution, theory will act as the form of the goal and practice will be the content of the process.

 
The idea of natural rights implies that there is a transcendent truth that must be obeyed by members of a society. Using the thought of Gilles Deleuze, one can see rights not as a static and universal entity outside of society but a virtual field of possibilities that are actualized in a government and its laws. This virtual field of rights is what a person has the power to do as their human capacity. Rights viewed in this way allows for constant protection from the imposition of government or other social actors, but avoids a universality that can be open to interpretation and abuse.

 
Here is an interesting design for a compact living space. It incorporates all the aspects of a home such as a workspace, bath, toilet, kitchen, and bed. This design could be a new form of sustainable habitat considering the burden of the human population on the planet.