July 2010
A Girls' Guide to Saudi Arabia (Vanity Fair)...
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Coyote Tracks: The Emperor's New Antenna →
So I’ve been thinking about “Antennagate.” First thought: stop fucking calling every scandal “-gate,” for Christ’s sake.
Next thought: so what’s the scoop here? Biggest problem in the history of all of mobile phones, or minor issue blown way out of proportion by the tech media? Neither, of…
Okay, it's about me, but I still love it: The...
The Smart Set: Printing Money - July 19, 2010 http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07191001.aspx The Smart Set: Printing Money - July 19, 2010 ‘> “> Consumer Confidence Printing Money As the 50¢ newspaper fades, the $16 version blooms. By Greg Beato Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The newspaper, Information Age dinosaur, superannuated leftover...
I've got a solution: kill all the millionaires....
Too Rich to Live? [longform.org] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703609004575355572928371574.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
Too Rich to Live? [longform.org] By LAURA SAUNDERS And MARY PILON
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On the question of radical & bourgeois art
“The October Revolution was accompanied by the vehement question of revolutionizing art, including the bourgeois theater. Should the theater of the scientific age emerge from a transformation of the bourgeois theater, or as a radical new beginning, or did the only solution consist in completely rejecting theater as a bourgeois practice? Those who decided under the name “Theater...
Acts of Defiance (NFB Films)
Acts of Defiance This feature-length documentary recounts the events that surrounded and led to the so-called “Mohawk Crisis” of the summer of 1990. The film focuses on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake, in Quebec, but also reflects on the relationship between Canada and its First Nations at a particular time in history. http://www.nfb.ca/film/acts_of_defiance Posted via email from...
A second chance or a boot in the face
The Globe and Mail http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-second-chance-or-a-boot-in-the-face/article1629286/?service=mobile A second chance or a boot in the face Two protests, seemingly miles apart, were about the kind of country we want to live in Margaret AtwoodFrom Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Monday, Jul. 05, 2010 08:32PM EDT A second chance or a boot in the face The first protest was...
June 2010
[LETTERS] A proposal for inquiry: Were rights...
The issues being discussed, or not discussed, during the G20 require discussion and thoughtful reflection. This is not the place. The police response to peaceful protesters and lack of response to wanton vandals needs no discussion, it needs external inquiry. Here are three letters I have mailed to the appropriate authorities urging such a matter. Feel free to copy and paste and send on...
Have more orgasms, we’re told, wear spiffier...
Stoicism Is Just So Yesterday — Review — In Character, A Journal of Everyday Virtues by the John Templeton Foundation http://incharacter.org/review/stoicism-is-just-so-yesterday/
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Stoicism Is Just So Yesterday Emily Colette Wilkinson | Posted on 06/14/10
To read the Meditations, you would not imagine them to be the writings of a man...
Naomi Klein on G20 in Globe & Mail...
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US charter schools started in the late 80s as...
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Colossal World Cup Foul | The Progressive
“To see a country already dotted with perfectly usable stadiums spend approximately $6 billion on new facilities is to notice a squandering of resources that is unconscionable.”
Colossal World Cup Foul | The Progressive http://progressive.org/zirinmay10.html
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Cottonland | NFB Films : an excellent film about...
Cottonland In this feature-length documentary, photographer Nance Ackerman describes the havoc prescription painkiller OxyContin, wreaked in the already weakened Cape Breton town of Glace Bay. The film guides us through a culture of economic and social depression where we encounter a number of men and women at different stages of dependency. Demystifying the world of the addict while showing us...
May 2010
"undergraduates who like to stay on top of things,...
They Get to Me: an article by Jessica Love | The American Scholar http://www.theamericanscholar.org/they-get-to-me/
the sort of undergraduates who like to stay on top of things, who won’t try to fit all seven research hours in on the last possible day, who aren’t likely to rearrange the keyboard to spell [F][U][C][K] [ ] [T][H][I][S] or to accidentally “lock” themselves in the testing rooms by...
The ethics of placebo use, and conceptualizing...
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Sarah Silverman: Animal Magnetism
Animal Magnetism http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Animal+Magnetism&expire=&urlID=424542983&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffeatures%2F65351%2F&partnerID=73272 Sarah Silverman on her TED talk: “The bit was tied into the theme of the conference, which was ‘What the World Needs Now.’ So I say I’d like to adopt a...
Librarians Do Gaga
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Travis Powell to Stuart Franklin Pratt, 1862,...
“I came to do everything I was bid, I drowned my scruples in my washbowl, clutched my soap manfully, and assuming a businesslike air, made a dab at the first dirty specimen I saw, bent on performing my task vi et armis if necessary. I chanced to light on a withered old Irishman wounded in the head, which caused that portion of his frame to be tastefully laid out like a garden, the bandages...
April 2010
The real cost of the US bailout?
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March 2010
An ode to Earth Hour, excerpted from Lewis Lapham,...
“A religion still hidden, like the yeast in the measures of meal, in the secular disguise of environmentalism. The foundational metaphysics already have been incorporated into rituls of devout observance. The worshipful recyclings of eggshells; the eating of free-range chickens and organic heirloom tomatoes signifies the partaking in a feast of communion. Like the Councils of Nicaea and...
Mexico's Drug Wars Get Bloodier [with help from US...
When I asked him how his outfit smuggled drugs from Juárez to El Paso, he looked at me as if I were a child and said, “We use members of the Border Patrol and of the U.S. Army. via thedailybeast.com
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Apparently this is what Rogers $60/month "Extreme"...
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Dogs That Detect Bedbugs
While experts cite a host of reasons for the upsurge, they agree on one thing: the bugs, which were mostly eradicated in this country at midcentury by now-banned pesticides like DDT but remained a constant scourge overseas, are finding their way back to the United States through an increase in global travel. via nytimes.com
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February 2010
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The new intelligence: read a book and get ahead
For whatever reason, the pundits think that “English majors lose, engineering wins” in the age of Google. But, if all of my useless liberal arts education has thought me anything, it’s that wealth and power come from distinguishing yourself from the rabble, not joining them. The engineers are not going to be the new power elite (technocrats never have, even when they were just...
It bears repeating, "But the founders of the...
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Fantastic old Songs: Ohia | Pyramid Electric Co.
Undeniably soulful and rich. Some of my favourite music. Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io
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January 2010
“What has done the most, to date, to lift Haitians out of poverty? That answer is...”
– http://aidwatchers.com/2010/01/the-best-way-nobody%E2%80%99s-talking-about-to-help-haitians/
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Google drops a bombshell! They are unrestricting...
Google drops a bombshell! They are unrestricting search results in China, even if it means stopping business in China. http://is.gd/69REt #fb via SimplyTweet
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Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament
I’m no political scientist, but I do know a few things about media literacy. When I hear breathless exhortations my idiot detectors spring into action. Reading the description for the recently popular Facebook group “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament” I got that tingly feeling again—-worse still, why is this gro…up so popular, especially among my friends?...
Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament
I’m no political scientist, but I do know a few things about media literacy. When I hear breathless exhortations my idiot detectors spring into action. Reading the description for the recently popular Facebook group “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament” I got that tingly feeling again—-worse still, why is this gro…up so popular, especially among my friends?...
Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament
I’m no political scientist, but I do know a few things about media literacy. When I hear breathless exhortations my idiot detectors spring into action. Reading the description for the recently popular Facebook group “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament” I got that tingly feeling again—-worse still, why is this gro…up so popular, especially among my friends?...
November 2009
Bad Black Mothers
These stories are a reminder, that for African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter. via thenation.com
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This Thanksgiving, let’s give a thought to the...
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Foursquare Goes Global With Astonishing List of...
Calgary, Canada Edmonton, Canada Ottawa, Canada via mashable.com
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(Via David J.) So amazing: EXAMINED LIFE -...
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Is Mendeley competition for Zotero? "The iTunes...
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"The vast majority of Suicide Girls are also...
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"Crowdsourcing, if you’re not familiar with the...
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Expect iqdupont.com to be using Typekit very soon!
The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website The sample above uses real fonts in newer browsers. Bello Pro by Underware
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Except iqdupont.com to be using Typekit very soon!
The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website The sample above uses real fonts in newer browsers. Bello Pro by Underware
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VirtualBox + Ubuntu, unable to format partitions...
Check out this website I found at ubuntuforums.org
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[US NEWS] The health care reform explicitly denies...
Said Schakowsky:
This amendment goes far beyond current law which already bans the use of federal funding for abortions. It goes far beyond the language already in this bill that guarantees no federal dollars are used for abortion. This amendment says that a woman CANNOT purchase coverage that includes abortion services using her own dollars; middle class women, using exclusively their...
CrunchPad Dead? Delayed By Higher-Than-Expected...
The CrunchPad, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s entry into the gadget business, is still missing in action. Are higher-than-expected costs to blame? One story we heard from a few people on a recent trip to California is that the CrunchPad is supposedly being delayed — perhaps indefinitely — by increasing expenses. Arrington has said he wants to sell the device for...
Pirate Bay closure sparked file-sharing boom
The temporary closure of the Pirate Bay had the unforeseen side effect of forcing torrent sharers underground and causing a 300% increase in sites providing access to copyright files, according to McAfee. via pcpro.co.uk
Whack-a-mole, as I’ve said before.
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October 2009
Using Speak Text in Snow Leopard [they moved it...
If I were an Apple developer, where would I hide this useful feature?
Ah-ha! Try selecting the text, then holding down the “Control” key to get to the Contextual Menus!
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(BN) Why Governments Never in Default Pay More...
Governments Never in Default Pay More Interest Than Companies Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — California is the world’s eighth- largest economy. Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. is the largest U.S.-based deepwater oil driller. The state known for its wine, Hollywood and earthquakes collected about $80 billion in taxes in the year ended June 30, compared with $3.6 billion in revenue for Houston-based...
The Human Body Is Built for Distance
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Get Your Files Out of Google Docs With New Export...
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Google Docs has become a viable tool for web workers and businesses looking to create, manage, and share their word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet files in the cloud. To-date, however, if you’ve wanted to take your data out of the cloud and download it to your desktop, you would have to do so one document at a time. But today, Google announced the...