August 2010
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tiedtothesun asked: I feel like I'm right in saying that Eames blew up before he grew up.
Is philanthropy killing business in Africa? →
Todd Johnson asks his Ethiopian friend, an IT entrepreneur, his greatest business challenge. His answer? NGOs.
“Africans don’t see a reward system in place for being entrepreneurial. In fact, they view it as a matter of survival, not an opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty. Rather, what they learn at a very early age, is that in order to make good money, they should learn...
July 2010
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Yeasayer - O.N.E.
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Help NPR Beat Fox News!!
stfuconservatives:
Submitted by norwegianforecast: “In just a few days, the White House Correspondents Association will decide which news organization will be awarded the seat recently vacated by Helen Thomas. The news organizations most actively vying for the seat are FOX, NPR and Bloomberg News. Tell the White House Correspondents Association: Give the best seat in the briefing room to NPR,...
One ATM for an entire continent. →
Ohhh, Wells Fargo…
“The work of science is like building a pier out into the ocean. We excitedly add...”
– David Eagleman
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Meteor Crater Discovered With Google Earth →
Researchers poring over Google Earth images have discovered one of Earth’s freshest impact craters — a 45-meter-wide pock in southwestern Egypt that probably was excavated by a fast-moving iron meteorite no more than a few thousand years ago.
(via ilikewhatyousee)
Jose González - Hints (or...
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“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks...”
– Thomas Edison (via silencebetweenthewords)
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Google Alarm: Know when your personal information... →
It’s an extension for your Internet browser called Google Alarm, and when installed it lets you know when your personal data is being sent to Google servers, which is basically all the time.
Here’s a link to a place to download the add on. It’s available with our without sound. Maybe they should make another version that sounds like a vuvuzela horn.
Watch a video demonstration here.
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crookedindifference.com →
finally got around to setting it up. tumblr makes it pretty easy.
Proposed Legislation Could Bring Much Needed Aid... →
This week the battle against child trafficking has made huge hurdles with the introduction of a new bill, the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2010 (DMSTDVS). If passed the bill would enable more resources for victims, increase funding to some 45 million dollars to prosecute those engaged in the trafficking of children, and enact stricter reporting...
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Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
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teawithlemon:
crookedindifference:
China and the death penalty
On first glance this makes China look so terrible, but you really have to remember how huge their population is. If you take into account the fact that 1/5 of the world’s population is Chinese you already start to think that maybe it isn’t as clear cut as this graph makes it out. If you actually compare the number of executions...
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Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut (passage from)
“In the beginning, there was absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing. But with nothing implies something, just as up implies down and sweet implies sour, as man implies woman and drunk implies sober and happy implies sad. I hate to tell you this, friends and neighbors, but we are teensy-weensy implications in an enormous implication. If you don’t like it here, why don’t you go back to where you...
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (The Very Best remix)
Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe →
As one of the few astrophysical events that most people are familiar with, the Big Bang has a special place in our culture. And while there is scientific consensus that it is the best explanation for the origin of the Universe, the debate is far from closed. However, it’s hard to find alternative models of the Universe without a beginning that are genuinely compelling.
That could change...