January 2012
23 posts
“I started the year with almost nothing and ended with a used van, a new utility...”
– Priceonomics Blog: How to Make It on Craigslist This is a pretty awesome story. (via joesunga)
Jan 27th
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Jan 24th
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Romney: U.S. economy 'getting better' under Obama. →
Jan 24th
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“Inside every bulletin at St. James Cathedral, the laity received marching orders...”
– The Stranger.  Why are they fighting something that doesn’t pertain to the church?  This is civil marriage not religious marriage.  No one is asking them to marry gay people in their church.
Jan 23rd
“H.J. Res.100 would require that all federal campaigns –all campaigns for...”
– http://www.nationofchange.org/kucinich-announces-game-changing-constitutional-amendment-publicly-finance-federal-elections-1327069
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Jan 21st
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“Apple explicitly said Thursday in its FAQs on the announcement that any...”
– Reinventing Textbooks: A Hard Course - NYTimes.com (via studioartist) Reality distortion field in full effect.  Love the realism from colleges who have actually tried using eReaders.  The tech press is pathetic at times. 
Jan 20th
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Jaron Lanier: SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals... →
I support the objection to #SOPA but this piece is well worth a read.  Dogma not good for the cause.
Jan 20th
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Beautiful photo essay from northern Sweden of the... →
Jan 17th
Making Love to WebKit →
webkitbits: Steven Wittens redesigns Acko.net with some awesome 3d and parallax effects, based on three.js and a custom CSS3 3d renderer. Wow.  This is pretty cool
Jan 17th
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43% say God helps Tebow →
The website Poll Position has released the results of a phone survey that found 43.3 percent of people believe that Tim Tebow and the Broncos win by divine intervention. Pollsters supposedly surveyed 1,056 people, see the results here. I would say God help us but if this is true, He’s too busy helping Tebow. As opposed to, say, war torn countries, starving children, weather-ravaged...
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
The True Story of Japan’s Economic Success →
Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a warning of what the country might become if the right path is not followed, although there is intense disagreement about what that path might be. Here, for instance, is how the CNN analyst David Gergen has described Japan: “It’s now a very demoralized country and it has really been set back.” But that presentation of Japan is a myth....
Jan 8th
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“For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay...”
– Rick Santorum focuses on gay marriage - latimes.com Rick Santorum - no comment is really necessary.
Jan 7th
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Seattle rules →
Jan 6th
“Not only are the market applications for disruptive technologies unknown at the...”
– Clay Christensen (via brycedotvc)
Jan 5th
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
–  Isaac Asimov, apparently reacting to the Iowa Caucuses. (via spytap)
Jan 4th
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“Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw...”
– Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control | ThinkProgress (via studioartist)
Jan 4th
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ACLU: President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention... →
Happy New Year - 1984 has arrived…
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Football - worthy of many deity’s time?
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
College bowl system loots universities →
Dec 26th
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“As the protagonist of the tale, imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of...”
– Newt Gingrich’s Alternative History : The New Yorker Read the whole article in case you are in too good of a holiday mood.
Dec 26th
Dec 25th
“London is promised an exercise in authoritarian elitism to rival Leonid...”
– Welcome to London 2012: the apparatchiks’ games - FT.com (via iamdanw) The Olympics like soccer (FIFA) is just a giant corrupt machine at this point.  The joy of this competition is gone - thousands for tickets.  No one but the rich and corrupt bureaucrats in attendance.  So sad.
Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Al Franken (via azspot)(via asie) What the fuck are they doing? What the fuck are WE doing?! What the fuck is wrong with our country right now? (via spytap)
Dec 20th
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“Key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don’t understand how the...”
– the last point is the most damning Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard (via fred-wilson)
Dec 17th
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“Within hours of the news of Hitchens’s passing at the age of 62, the Internet...”
– http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/god_didnt_kill_christopher_hitchens/
Dec 17th
“End result: SOPA 2.0 contains a crazy scary clause that’s going to make it crazy...”
– How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website | Techdirt (via studioartist)
Dec 17th
SOPA violates 1st amendment →
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Scripting News: NPR should get a Pulitzer for... →
Dec 10th
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MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet... →
Dec 10th
Dec 9th
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“Experts are predicting kind of a tough fight between Romney and his biggest...”
– http://www.mittvmitt.com/
Dec 8th
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“Physiological responses can now even be tracked remotely, in principle without...”
– Eye Glasses That See What’s Really Going On With Another Person | NHNE Pulse (via studioartist)
Dec 8th
Jon Stewart Bids Farewell To Herman Cain. →
Dec 7th
Funny Android Device Name Generator →
Dec 7th