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December 2011
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“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via emmawelles)
November 2011
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“Gouging and exploiting may be perfect for humiliating your siblings, but...”
– Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
Naomi Wolf nails it as usual
But wait: why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions against its own peaceful constituents? The answer is straightforward: in recent years, members of Congress have started entering the system as members of the middle class (or upper middle class) – but they are leaving DC privy to vast personal wealth, as we see from the “scandal” of presidential contender Newt...
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WatchMorning commute.
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“Yes. I would return to that policy. I don’t see it as torture. I see it as an...”
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Herman Cain, asked about waterboarding at tonight’s GOP debate.
Michele Bachmann gave a similar answer: “if I were president I would use waterboarding” (via).
Has either one of the candidates been present for the waterboarding they’re so anxious to resume? Certainly not.
For my part, I...
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Craigslist Apartment Search Facts
1 out of 5 emails sent are responded to at all
most of those lead to an actual viewing
4 out of 5 viewings range from underwhelming to absolute crap
1 out of 5 viewings are actually decent
Conclusion: send 50 emails. 20% will be responded to, of which 20% will be decent places, leads to a choice between 2 apartments. Great.
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My 1st Song
WatchThat’s pretty good. And it’s true, he does actually follow nobody.
nedhepburn:
Louis CK hates Twitter.
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Hello Subway Mouse
Hello subway mouse Squeezing yourself through spaces Only a mouse can
Hello crazy man Discussing important stuff With steel subway beams
Hola compadre That’s an awesome sombrero Stop screaming at us
Hello local train Really wish you were express Your stops are useless
Hello model girl At least I hope you model In any case, eat
Hello Apple store Someday I’ll buy an iPad Inevitably
Hello...
“I have not been charged with any crime in any country”
– Julian Assange
October 2011
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Leaving the Scene of a Fatal Crash Now Legal in... →
It took days for NYPD to track down the driver of a flatbed truck who ran over Mathieu Lefevre in East Williamsburg on October 18. According to Erika Lefevre, who continues to wait for a full account of her son’s death, police said the truck was found two blocks away, and showed visible damage from the collision. She was also told that charges had been dropped against the driver — whose name she...
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Great blog post in defense of Google Reader →
In short, this is not a workflow designed around sharing information and communicating about it. This is a workflow designed to make people click on things.
Taken in hand with the earlier announcement from Google that they’re shutting down Buzz (another quirky social network that didn’t achieve Facebook-level popularity), part of me suspects that someone in Google corporate looked at the Buzz...
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Visiting a Craigslist apartment in Bushwick
Me: How's the water pressure here?
Her: (bursts out laughing) Well, it's not New Jersey!
Me: I don't know what that means.
“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via soupsoup)
AND he’s bringing home all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, as he promised last year. On-schedule and to-spec.
"The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The...
Stumbled upon this just now, posted this morning at 7:37 AM. Let’s see how the prediction pans out.
1. Why Gadhafi’s Death Vindicates “Leading From Behind” (Tom Friedman)
2. Gadhafi’s Death Shows The U.S. Was Never Really “Leading From Behind” (Anne-Marie Slaughter)
3. There Is Still More To Do In Libya (Any Washington Post op-ed)
4. On To Damascus,...
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JSTOR for Life (or How my Alma Mater can get a... →
infoneer-pulse:
Yale is the latest of 19 institutions to provide unlimited access to JSTOR to alumni through the archive’s Alumni Access pilot, which it opened with little fanfare in 2009. The pilot grew out of little more than speculation and a sense that offering perpetual access to the popular library resource could be a boon for the colleges’ alumni relations and generate a little extra...
“In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from average rates on the days...”
– Traffic accidents in Abu Dhabi decreased significantly during the BlackBerry outage.
BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say - The National
(via heyitsnoah)
Would love to see global stats on that.
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perstephsanscouronne asked: Oh's are the best cereal on earth. I try not to tell a lot of people about them... ;)
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How to make your Documents folder automatically...
Make Dropbox Your Actual “My Documents” Folder
One of the complaints many people have about Dropbox is that it’s actually a separate folder, and you have to remember to put your documents there in order to have them be synced, rather than just specifying particular folders to sync. Instead of remembering, you can actually change your My Documents folder to be the same as your...
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Instant Replay: America gets it right, rest of the... →
I wrote this!
Football, or as I know it, soccer, appears to be the only remaining professional sport which does not allow match-time video evidence to get calls right. Video evidence, in fact, is not just used in American football and indeed not just in American sports. Hawk-Eye ball triangulation systems have been used in professional tennis and cricket matches from as early as 2001. Replay is...
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WatchPut this on at your next party
September 2011
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How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain -... →
When the scientists examined tissue samples from different portions of the exercised animals’ brains, they found markers of upwelling mitochondrial development in all of the tissues. Some parts of their brains showed more activity than others, but in each of the samples, the brain cells held newborn mitochondria.
Of course, this experiment was conducted with animals, and “mouse brains are not...
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Fancy Hands: Hiring, Hiring, Hiring (Or, how I got... →
chadsnuts:
fancyhands:
Fancy Hands is growing. While we always need assistants, we need some more specialized employees as well. Do you know anyone near New York City who is ready to work with a fast growing, totally awesome company? Please get in touch. If you refer someone that we hire, I’ll give you a jar of pickles, or a beer, or a cat*. Heck, if you refer someone who applies, I’ll give...