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barackobama: “Republicans in Congress have two choices here:...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:11:27 -0500

“Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy. The financial well-being of the American people is not leverage to be used. The full faith and credit of the United States of America is not a bargaining chip.” —President Obama in the final news conference of his first term yesterday

"We can rightly judge a society by how it treats its eccentrics and deviant geniuses—and by that..."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:08:08 -0500

“We can rightly judge a society by how it treats its eccentrics and deviant geniuses—and by that measure, we have utterly failed.”

- Columbia Law School professor and author of “The Master Switch,” Tim Wu on how the legal system failed programmer Aaron Swartz— and Us: http://nyr.kr/ULLhE2 (via newyorker)
Too true

buzzfeed: Here is a cat wearing an Iron Man helmet made out of...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:07:45 -0500

buzzfeed:

Here is a cat wearing an Iron Man helmet made out of a grapefruit. You’re welcome.

Hahaha

kateoplis: "In 2012, the world's 100 richest people became $241 billion richer.

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:07:07 -0500

kateoplis: "In 2012, the world's 100 richest people became $241 billion richer.:

kateoplis:

They are now worth $1.9 trillion: just a little less than the entire output of the United Kingdom.

This is not the result of chance. The rise in the fortunes of the super-rich is the direct result of policies. Here are a few: the reduction of tax rates and tax enforcement; governments’…

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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:32:50 -0400

buzzfeed: What still bothers us about “Titanic” the most.

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:02:37 -0400

buzzfeed:

What still bothers us about “Titanic” the most.

fastcompany: “We wanted to let people know about what we’re...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:38:33 -0400

fastcompany:

“We wanted to let people know about what we’re doing, and what we hope to achieve with it,” a Google spokesperson told Co.Design, “But in terms of the graphics, the visuals, the hardware setup, there’s a lot of experimentation going on. And a lot of rapid prototyping on the team.”

4 Problems Google Glasses Have To Solve Before Becoming A Hit

moneyisnotimportant: Follow @mini_utne Truth

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:03:55 -0400

moneyisnotimportant:

Follow @mini_utne

Truth

newyorker: A Sunday morning cartoon. For more cartoons from...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:01:39 -0400

newyorker:

A Sunday morning cartoon. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/HldnzI

FP: Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:15:38 -0400

FP: Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War:

kateoplis:

Lesson #1: The United States lost.

Lesson #2: It’s not that hard to hijack the United States into a war.

Lesson #3: The United States gets in big trouble when the “marketplace of ideas” breaks down and when the public and our leadership do not have an open debate about what to do.

Lesson #4: The secularism and middle-class character of Iraqi society was overrated.

Lesson #5: Don’t listen to ambitious exiles.

Lesson #6: It’s very hard to improvise an occupation.

Lesson #7: Don’t be surprised when adversaries act to defend their own interests, and in ways we won’t like.

Lesson #8: Counterinsurgency warfare is ugly and inevitably leads to war crimes, atrocities, or other forms of abuse.

Lesson #9: Better “planning” may not be the answer.

Lesson #10: Rethink U.S. grand strategy, not just tactics or methods.

Read on.

Interesting points!

smarterplanet: Citizen Sensor | DIY Environmental Monitoring —...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:06:47 -0500

smarterplanet:

Citizen Sensor | DIY Environmental Monitoring — Development Blog

Citizen Sensor is DIY, wearable, reconfigurable sensor pack and data contextualization system that allows users to collect, share, and understand data using sensors recording environmental conditions such as carbon monoxide, light, noise pollution, and methane gas exposure among others. Users choose what to sense, and then connect with others around the world to share knowledge and experience. We want to empower the general public to learn more about their own personal space and measure where we live and play on a daily basis.

Really cool! This sort of innovation always makes me smile

buzzfeed: yeahiwasintheshit: you know why i purred you...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:03:41 -0500

buzzfeed:

yeahiwasintheshit:

you know why i purred you over?

Good afternoon, reowrfficer.

Santorum: High gas prices caused the recession

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:03:22 -0500

Santorum: High gas prices caused the recession:

moneyisnotimportant:

Bahahahaha!

longreads: The Book of Revelation is the Bible’s “Hollywood...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:47:08 -0500

longreads:

The Book of Revelation is the Bible’s “Hollywood ending”—but author Elaine Pagels’ new book explores what the author originally intended:

Pagels then shows that Revelation, far from being meant as a hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events that were happening at the time John was writing. It’s essentially a political cartoon about the crisis in the Jesus movement in the late first century, with Jerusalem fallen and the Temple destroyed and the Saviour, despite his promises, still not back. All the imagery of the rapt and the raptured and the rest that the “Left Behind” books have made a staple for fundamentalist Christians represents contemporary people and events, and was well understood in those terms by the original audience. Revelation is really like one of those old-fashioned editorial drawings where Labor is a pair of overalls and a hammer, and Capital a bag of money in a tuxedo and top hat, and Economic Justice a woman in flowing robes, with a worried look.

“The Big Reveal.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

See more #longreads from Adam Gopnik

Amen!

Omg! Yes!!!

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:10:48 -0500

Omg! Yes!!!

Bahahahaha

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:10:07 -0500

Bahahahaha

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Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:08:57 -0500

Lol so true

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:08:39 -0500

Lol so true

Lolz!

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:08:16 -0500

Lolz!

Hehehe!

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:48:04 -0500

Hehehe!