July 2010
50 posts
RT @ggreenwald: So the WikiLeak-ed documents might put Afghans at risk? You know what else does? 10 yrs of bombings, air raids, checkpoi …
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“As much as we owe the nature of our current existence to the evolutionary forces...”
– William Egginton, “The Limits of the Coded World,” Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
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“So while conservatives scare white America with tales of black anger and revenge...”
– Tim Wise, “Racism, Real and Imagined,” Powell’s Books
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“The words to “America the Beautiful” were written in 1893 by Katharine Lee...”
– Peter Dreier, “Patriotism’s Secret History,” (via tart-tart, danielholter)
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If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were... →
azspot:
In other words, at least 75% of male CS undergraduates had parents who were affluent enough to be able to afford computers at a time when computers were very expensive. Clearly, enrollment in CS is a social product of class privilege, not innate ability. Furthermore, this implies that computer geek prestige is an indicator of class privilege, in addition to being connected to technical...
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“God doesn’t hate gays, check the bible. Woman’s punishment for...”
– Daniel Tosh
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
– H.L. Mencken (via azspot)
RT @Jesus_M_Christ: No I don’t watch Mad Men. If I wanted to pretend like it was fifty years ago I’d just go to a Tea Party Rally.
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On Education - A Popular Principal, Wounded by... →
“I applaud the Obama people for paying attention to low-income kids and caring,” said Mr. Sanders, a leftist independent. “But to label the school as failing and humiliate the principal and teachers is grossly unfair.”
The district has replaced Ms. Irvine with an interim principal and will conduct a search for a replacement.
And Ms. Irvine, who hoped to finish her career on the front...
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“But why [James] Cone and why now? The United States of America was largely built...”
– David Horstkoetter (via azspot)
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“Yet coherent identity seems to be precisely the main problem of modern existence...”
– Don Slater, Consumer Culture & Modernity (via unburyingthelead, curate)
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“She lost her job in a matter of hours under the suspicion of racism, but...”
– Some find irony in Shirley Sherrod’s USDA incident (via curate)
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“The word processor is a stupid and grossly inefficient tool for preparing text...”
– Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient (via azspot)
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Forget Brainstorming →
toldorknown:
Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
(via...
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Spoiled Rotten -- A Timeless Complaint →
Along with fellow psychologist W. Keith Campbell, Twenge has looked at various surveys of young people conducted over several
decades and reported that later groups say they like themselves somewhat more, are more confident about themselves, or score
higher on questionnaires intended to measure narcissism than did earlier groups. But other researchers have questioned
these findings, raising...
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“There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no...”
– Newt Gingrich, on how the U.S. should follow, rather than lead, Saudi Arabia. (via ericmortensen) (via danielholter)
I presume this means we should dissolve our government and become an absolute monarchy next?
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How well do you see color? →
braidedbasket:
elisekari:
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ashleelyn:
(via vegun, accidentally-on-purpose, tearriffic)
I SCORED A 19, not bad considering how horrible my eye-sight is.
I got a 33…hmph.
Holy shit. I got a 53. When did I stop seeing colors?!
I got a 26. I probably would’ve done better if I hadn’t rushed.
i got a 57. i probably would’ve done better if i wasn’t...
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“From a political perspective, even the most insane-sounding claim about...”
– Tim Wise, “Black Power’s Gonna Get You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism”
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Struggling High School Cuts Football—Nah, Just... →
BROWNSVILLE, PA—Superintendent David Geyer announced Tuesday that due to the high cost of new equipment, regular field maintenance, and rising coaches’ salaries, Brownsville High would be forced to shut down its footba—ha, yeah right, the arts program is definitely getting the ax.
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“Design can never rise above its content.”
– Kathy McCoy Or, garbage in, garbage out. via andrioabero, viafrank
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“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit...”
– Audre Lorde (via azspot)
RT @ggreenwald: Excellent Dave Weigel post on exactly what Megyn Kelly and her Fox friends are up to with their Black Panther fixation: http://is.gd/ds6UY
RT @starkness: Bad biz model…RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16M in 2008 to recover only $391k! http://bit.ly/9jR8D8
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More Americans Concerned Illegal Immigrants Will... →
“I’ve been sitting on this part of the couch for 40 years, and I’ll be damned if some foreigner thinks he can sit down right here where my father sat, and my grand-father before him,” survey respondent Earl Lockwood of Tulsa, OK said. “I earned this spot.”
(via curate)
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Shameless and Disturbing →
azspot:
If you believe that corporations would be willing to make a little less money in order not to put the nation — their nation — at risk, you should read Richard Clarke’s excellent, just-issued book, Cyber War.
As Clarke reports, prior to the 1990s, the Pentagon made extensive use of specialized software designed by in-house programmers and a few defense contractors. But under pressure...
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ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP... →
marco:
To summarize:
A photographer took these photos of a BP oil refinery while standing on the grass median of a public road. (With very few exceptions, it’s perfectly legal to take pictures of anything visible from a public place, even if the subject is privately owned.)
BP’s security noticed, called the city police, and followed him by car to a gas station.
The police forcefully...
I’ll be sure to listen to some 3rd wave ska and read bell hooks while sipping a cup of 3rd wave coffee: http://bit.ly/aryuXm
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“All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
– Richard Avedon (via danielholter)
“This is one of the greatest ironies in today’s church. The very Christians who...”
– Philip Gulley (via azspot)
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“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
– Ludwig Börne (via danielholter)
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Adventures in media transparency →
Or, five examples (from the last week) of members of the mainstream media being rather… opaque. (via azspot)
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“Anything the customer sees or uses - be it on a website, iPhone app, social...”
– Mark Hurst, “All customer experience is local,” Good Experience
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BBC News - Germany officials launch legal action... →
German officials have launched legal proceedings against Facebook for accessing and saving the personal data of people who do not use the site.
Facebook could face fines of tens of thousands of euros under privacy laws.
The social networking firm confirmed it had received a letter about the action.
“We consider the saving of data from third parties, in this context, to be...
Well, guys, it’s been a pretty good run while it lasted. Don’t forget to turn out the lights on your way out. http://bit.ly/chWkeV
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“For instance, the claim that black culture has been rendered dysfunctional by...”
– Tim Wise, “Reading Racism Right to Left, Part I” (via newleft)
RT @BPGlobalPR: Our oil hit Texas beaches yesterday. Fortunately, in 20 years their school books will say nothing happened. #bpcares
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“Let me also point out, as gently as possible, that everyone is a performer;...”
– Tim Kreider, “Seeing Is Believing”
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“I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing. I’m kind of just winging it.” - a real life social media maven
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U.S. Flag Recalled After Causing 143 Million... →
Representatives from the nation’s leading flag producer claimed that as many as 143 million deaths in the past two centuries can be attributed directly to the faulty U.S. models, which have been utilized extensively since the 18th century in sectors as diverse as government, the military, and public education.
“It has come to our attention that, due to the inherent risks and...
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RT @jkottke: Do you have to be a white male to comment on whether the internet is good for us or does it just work out that way?
