Burlesqued

chantelle: loveyourchaos: Superman gets detention.

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:31:30 -0500

loveyourchaos:

Superman gets detention.

The new intelligence: read a book and get ahead

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:02:17 -0500

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 called bureaucrats), instead the engineers are going to form a new working class. Truthfully, this isn’t a shocking claim, even today an engineer can live merely a comfortable life, that’s it. Being a Luddite is surely not the path to riches, but soft skills combined with all those usual markers of the rich (pre-existing capital, etc), is going to play an increasing role in separating the elite from the rest.

If the pundits are speaking any truth—-the death of the long form book, careful analytical thinking—-then we should expect a new priestly class of people who went to elite liberal arts schools and possess the rarest of rare skills: the ability to think.

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It bears repeating, "But the founders of the American republic also were almost all suspicious of "mobocracy", and the American state is carefully constructed to cripple direct democracy."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:52:24 -0500

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Fantastic old Songs: Ohia | Pyramid Electric Co.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:06:29 -0500

Undeniably soulful and rich. Some of my favourite music.

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"What has done the most, to date, to lift Haitians out of poverty? That answer is easy. Leaving Haiti..."

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:52:19 -0500

“What has done the most, to date, to lift Haitians out of poverty? That answer is easy. Leaving Haiti brought more Haitians out of poverty than anything else that has ever been tried: any aid project in Haiti, or any trade preference for Haiti”

- http://aidwatchers.com/2010/01/the-best-way-nobody%E2%80%99s-talking-about-to-help-haitians/

naxos: Introducing Foucault

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:51:03 -0500

naxos:

Introducing Foucault

Google drops a bombshell! They are unrestricting search results in China, even if it means stopping business in C...

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:24:55 -0500

Google drops a bombshell! They are unrestricting search results in China, even if it means stopping business in China. http://is.gd/69REt #fb

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Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:34:31 -0500

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? Could I be missing out? Alana tells me that the parliament gets prorogued regularly, but I’ll be damned if I’ll listen to a Canadian political science PhD student without looking deeper (this proroguing of late made me initially suspicious too, I even commented publicly about it, but I held my opinion). Of course, deeper is one Google search query away when you are brilliantly lazy like me. What did this Google search query tell me? Indeed, we all need to stop slavishly supposing that every action Harper does is out to ruin Canada and kill children. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like Harper any more than the next lower-middle-class, educated, white 18-34 year old, but some things just ARE. Not evil, just regular ‘ol institutional inertia, going on with frequency for quite some time. Don’t believe me? Well, here’s a nice graph:

Sure, proroguing can be used as a political weapon (it might have been the first time), but let’s not jump to the conclusion that this is anything that peculiar.

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Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:28:27 -0500

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? Could I be missing out? Alana tells me that the parliament gets prorogued regularly, but I’ll be damned if I’ll listen to a Canadian political science PhD student without looking deeper (this proroguing of late made me initially suspicious too, I even commented publicly about it, but I held my opinion). Of course, deeper is one Google search query away when you are brilliantly lazy like me. What did this Google search query tell me? Indeed, we all need to stop slavishly supposing that every action Harper does is out to ruin Canada and kill children. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like Harper any more than the next lower-middle-class, educated, white 18-34 year old, but some things just ARE. Not evil, just regular ‘ol institutional inertia, going on with frequency for quite some time. Don’t believe me? Well, here’s a nice graph:

Sure, proroguing can be used as a political weapon (it might have been the first time), but let’s not jump to the conclusion that this is anything that peculiar.

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Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:27:27 -0500

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? Could I be missing out? Alana tells me that the parliament gets prorogued regularly, but I’ll be damned if I’ll listen to a Canadian political science PhD student without looking deeper (this proroguing of late made me initially suspicious too, I even commented publicly about it, but I held my opinion). Of course, deeper is one Google search query away when you are brilliantly lazy like me. What did this Google search query tell me? Indeed, we all need to stop slavishly supposing that every action Harper does is out to ruin Canada and kill children. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like Harper any more than the next lower-middle-class, educated, white 18-34 year old, but some things just ARE. Not evil, just regular ‘ol institutional inertia, going on with frequency for quite some time. Don’t believe me? Well, here’s a nice graph:

Sure, proroguing can be used as a political weapon (it might have been the first time), but let’s not jump to the conclusion that this is anything that peculiar.

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Bad Black Mothers

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:33:32 -0500

These stories are a reminder, that for African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.

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This Thanksgiving, let’s give a thought to the people who process turkeys | The Progressive

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:37:35 -0500

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Foursquare Goes Global With Astonishing List of Canadian cities! WTF!? Edmonton!?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:44:18 -0500

Calgary, Canada
Edmonton, Canada
Ottawa, Canada

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(Via David J.) So amazing: EXAMINED LIFE - official US trailer (Zizek in a construction vest, etc)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:26:43 -0500

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Is Mendeley competition for Zotero? "The iTunes for research papers"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:18:06 -0500

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"The vast majority of Suicide Girls are also skinny white girls who shave their vaginas. They’re mainstream-friendly counter-culture."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:07:43 -0500

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"Crowdsourcing, if you’re not familiar with the term, got its start in 1876 when Tom Sawyer convinced a bunch of his pals to whitewash a fence for him" > The Smart Set

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:49 -0500

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Expect iqdupont.com to be using Typekit very soon!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:37:44 -0500

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!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:36:15 -0500

The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website

The sample above uses real fonts in newer browsers.

Bello Pro by Underware

via typekit.com

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VirtualBox + Ubuntu, unable to format partitions [tip]

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:25:07 -0500

Check out this website I found at ubuntuforums.org

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Burlesqued

chantelle: loveyourchaos: Superman gets detention.

The new intelligence: read a book and get ahead

It bears repeating, "But the founders of the American republic also were almost all suspicious of "mobocracy", and the American state is carefully constructed to cripple direct democracy."

Fantastic old Songs: Ohia | Pyramid Electric Co.

"What has done the most, to date, to lift Haitians out of poverty? That answer is easy. Leaving Haiti..."

naxos: Introducing Foucault

Google drops a bombshell! They are unrestricting search results in China, even if it means stopping business in C...

Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament

Sure, proroguing can be used as a political weapon (it might have been the first time), but let’s not jump to the conclusion that this is anything that peculiar.

Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament

Sure, proroguing can be used as a political weapon (it might have been the first time), but let’s not jump to the conclusion that this is anything that peculiar.

Against Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament

Sure, proroguing can be used as a political weapon (it might have been the first time), but let’s not jump to the conclusion that this is anything that peculiar.

Bad Black Mothers

This Thanksgiving, let’s give a thought to the people who process turkeys | The Progressive

Foursquare Goes Global With Astonishing List of Canadian cities! WTF!? Edmonton!?

(Via David J.) So amazing: EXAMINED LIFE - official US trailer (Zizek in a construction vest, etc)

Is Mendeley competition for Zotero? "The iTunes for research papers"

"The vast majority of Suicide Girls are also skinny white girls who shave their vaginas. They’re mainstream-friendly counter-culture."

"Crowdsourcing, if you’re not familiar with the term, got its start in 1876 when Tom Sawyer convinced a bunch of his pals to whitewash a fence for him" > The Smart Set

Expect iqdupont.com to be using Typekit very soon!

The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website

Except iqdupont.com to be using Typekit very soon!

The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website

VirtualBox + Ubuntu, unable to format partitions [tip]