Month: March 2013
March 17, 2013
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Whereas @cnn’s initial coverage of the verdict is absolutely appalling. They should apologize.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/17/cnn-grieves-that-guilty-verdict-ruined-promising-lives-of-steubenville-rapists/
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Dan Wetzel’s analysis of the Steubenville rape case puts all this in context. Very well done.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/highschool–steubenville-high-school-football-players-found-guilty-of-raping-16-year-old-girl-164129528.html
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And if Blossom Dearie isn’t your cup of tea, how about Elliot Smith doing “Figure 8”.
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My second favorite School House Rock is “Figure 8” because Blossom Dearie.
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Clearly the best School House Rocks is “3 is the Magic Number”
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“Mr Morton” is one of the more obscure School House Rock cartoons, but one of favorites:
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The fate of feed readers who entrusted sync to Google Reader should give clients built on Gmail/Gcal pause to think.
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Music video for “Everyone in T.Dot Wears the Same Damn Coat”
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1. Mila Kunis “80% Upset”
3. Baldwin wary of horse
9. Third Cusack also robotic
March 16, 2013
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BPS Research Digest: Made it! How an uncanny proportion of psychology findings just manage to reach statistical significance
Like a tired boxer at the Olympic Games, the reputation of psychological science has just taken another punch to the gut. After a series of fraud scandals in social psychology and a US survey that revealed the widespread use of questionable research practices , a paper published this month finds…
March 15, 2013
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What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory? – Boing Boing
/ Maggie Koerth-Baker / 12:53 pm Tue Aug 7, 2012 From the Boing Boing Shop Popular Posts Follow Us I’ve mentioned here before that I went to fundamentalist Christian schools from grade 8 through grade 11. I learned high school biology from a Bob Jones University textbook, watched videos of Ken Ham…
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12 year old me would be very disappointed to know I live in a world with floor-washing robots and I don’t own one (yet).
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Twitter Trends is my breaking news thermometer.
A quick peak tells me nothing is happening right now. pic.twitter.com/pIOlIdJlY1
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I’m a better person for following @emmamwoolley. I assume less and work harder to make my yap-hole reflect my beliefs.
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@NPsteve “How do you keep your beard straight Steve?”
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@NPsteve @emmamwoolley Now I’m concerned my tweet was inappropriate. Mansplaining? Privilege?
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I favorite ALL the time on Twitter. I use it to thank people and to acknowledge mentions not requiring replies.
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! RT @ebartz: Google Reader is to Twitter as a well-labeled filing cabinet is to a bag of insane cats.
March 14, 2013
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@petenanacsik I’m talking about Skyrim BTW.
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@petenanacsik I played for about an hour and found myself wandering naked and aimless on a snowy mountain top.
So I gave up.
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Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions:
Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions
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How capitalism breaks the web | Felix Salmon
http://j.mp/10q6iuw
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Imagining a World Without Cookies | Digiday
http://j.mp/Y709kZ
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Defining Bullying Down –
http://NYTimes.com
http://j.mp/ZLlCOt
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Finer-Grained Data Transform Our Understanding Of The Holocaust – Forbes
http://j.mp/YucZc8
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10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
I recently gave the closing keynote at the 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival , a full-day event held on Saturday, May 12, 2012, to celebrate the work of the 2012 graduating class of the Interaction Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I teach a course in Content…
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BTW, I’m a long-time, heavy user of Reader. Sad to lose it, but entirely expected. pic.twitter.com/p6mU5YFGFe
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This “other people’s cell phones are irritating” article is for @jameskoole
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I’m not sure why people are surprised the pope is anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, etc.
He’s the pope!