January 2011
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Will Kindle ever add support for library books? →
infoneer-pulse:
Amazon is NOT selling Kindles so that people can then read free library books on them.
In fact, you could argue that people who really, really want support for library books are precisely the people Amazon doesn’t want buying the Kindle – they don’t buy as many books, they expect free and cheap, they are library customers before they are Amazon customers.
You could extrapolate...
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“Egypt is an ally and friend of the United States. President Mubarak is a...”
– State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.
I am afraid there is a “contradiction” here. The U.S needs to decide whether they are a friend to a brutal dictator or the oppressed people of Egypt. You can’t be friends with both. - NF
(via newsflick)
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Dumb me. I should have worn gloves when I went on my photowalk. Now my fingers are freezing and I can’t type properly.
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15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor...
mentalflossr:
1. Even Koko the Gorilla Loved Him
Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not...
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WatchWow, powerful. Interesting how being behind the camera, even a fake one, just changes your perception of reality.
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“Babe, we’re watching this as a comedy, okay? Wanna drink?”
– Hubz, preparing me for watching Bachmann’s speech.
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Aw, Obama, what about the atheists?
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Hubz: “Boehner looks like the Grinch.”
Whoa, he really does!
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Next thing you know, pianos will start falling from the sky.
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But I like Taco Bell. :/ However, I am vegetarian and always substitute any meat for beans. Is that okay?
Also, they should sell their sauces. Yum.
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That awkward moment when someone from high school adds you on Facebook and you have no idea who they are.
(The picture doesn’t even look familiar!)
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Words matter.
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Must read on "stuff" →
The main ideals of the Goldilocks mindset are not universal truths, but rather a way of thinking with which anyone can agree or disagree. There aren’t many core precepts. Again: “Add things until it starts sucking, take away things until it stops getting better.” That applies to this list.
Fit is paramount.
Access trumps ownership.
Matter matters. If things take a physical form, it must...
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I prefer paperbacks.
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Chilean Protest Stops Tourism in Torres del Paine →
I got stuck in the middle of a strike in Chile that restricted my freedom to travel to zero and focused my energy on keeping myself and my workshop students safe.
I know of no other way to put it: I and thousands of others were held hostage. I know that’s a word imbued with a lot of power and emotion, so I don’t use it lightly. The organization behind the strike that triggered the...
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Rent The Library . . . And Eat It, Too!
nypl:
Our 42nd Street building has never been sweeter. The geniuses at Charm City Cakes (the Baltimore bakery famous for outrageous cake designs and the Food Network reality show Ace Of Cakes) created this amazing red velvet / white chocolate raspberry replica of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building for a party thrown by our Special Events Department last week. The cake - which came complete...
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“This is all speculative. Obviously, further study is needed.”
– Barbara Harsha, executive director of the non-profit Governors Highway Safety Association, linking an uptick in pedestrian deaths to First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative, which encourages children to exercise more. (via officialssay)
REALLY???
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I read The New York Trilogy back in college (or maybe just 2 of 3, I think) and I feel like I need to read it again, because at that time, I just got through it to get through it, and definitely didn’t do it justice.
I just need to get through Predictably Irrational, which is really interesting so far, but I can’t seem to read more than 20-30 pages at a time. I’m trying not to...
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“Hope and despair, always dancing.”
– ackb - “This is America, where a white Catholic male…
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STOP BELO MONTE—NO MEGA-DAM IN THE AMAZON →
Brazil’s top environmental regulator has resigned in protest of the proposed mega-dam, which would flood huge tracts of rainforest and displace thousands of indigenous people. The companies involved have been trying to bulldoze past environmental laws — and want to break ground within weeks. Sign the emergency petition to Dilma to stop Belo Monte and protect the Amazon, and help spread the...
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“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on...”
– Mark Shields, PBS (via mattreyes)
In his Inaugural Address, Bill Clinton said “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” It’s questionable, yes. But in some moments it does seem possible.
Racism surrounds us and infects us. We have not created a real...
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The quietest people have the loudest minds.
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India will never fucking get ahead with all the fucking corruption and bullshit that goes on in that country. NEVER.
- Thoughts while watching No One Killed Jessica
In retrospect, too much cursing, but I was VERY angry watching this.
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things i learned from the list of common...
abbyjean:
(xkcd reference, wiki page)
napoleon was not short
you cannot see the great wall of china from space or the moon
taste buds are not mapped into areas and the entire tongue can sense all tastes pretty much equally
ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand
the thickening at the bottom of old glass panes is not due to the slow flow of glass (which does not happen), but something...
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“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
Well when you put it like that…
(via spytap)
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"Bodies" Make Up Fake Coral Reef →
Sculptures of human figures, submerged in nearly 30 feet of water off the coast of Cancún, Mexico, are providing a curiosity for vacation divers, as well as habitat for fish and other marine life. The sculpture garden is in the midst of the Mesoamerican barrier reef system, the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world.
Click through to see video. Very, very cool.
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So far I’m doing fairly well on this one - another goal (long-term, as long as I’m here on the ol’ Internets) is to comment more on photoblogs. And read them more often as well. Well… That’s a stretch, considering I’m trying to cut down on Internet reading, but at least comment on the ones I read or at the pictures I look at.
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“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via brooklynmutt)
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Work, Beginning of Week 2:
The end of last week sucked - I totally lost all my willpower and blew the first week of the year. So right now, I’m playing catch-up and trying to finish this project that is supposed to be done by today (my part, at least) when technically I should have finished it by last week.
I knew that I’d have my bad days and I wasn’t gonna just become Ms....
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“If you paint a target on someone’s head you can’t act surprised when someone...”
– Tom Baker (via azspot)
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This is the first murder of a member of...
ryking:
…since the death of Congressman Leo Ryan at Jonestown in 1978.
I don’t… even have words.
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