January 2012
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“The bad news for many evangelicals is that no amount of whining, rationalizing,...”
– Why are People Afraid to Admit that the Bible is a Story? (via azspot)
Really, you have to go further; the entire thing’s a parable meant to be interpreted.
“Hollywood wants to take the law into their own hands — they had our...”
– Clay Shirky (via azspot)
nevver:
Have you ever wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you?
What’s been all this bullshit over the years about American children possibly digging to CHINA??
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Tyler Coates: A GOOD THING →
tylercoates:
My post about the Gay Bars symbol made it over to the folks at Foursquare, and one of the designers emailed me to get my opinion on what I didn’t like about it. (“It just seems a little distasteful because it looks like the two male symbols are, well, fucking each other doggystyle?”) It was…
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YCombinator's new ultimatum: Kill Hollywood →
You ain’t going to do it with 20K.
If someone’s serious about funding the Future of Entertianment, it costs more then 1k per minute.
Get serious.
“God knows how much money we’ve given to Obama and the Democrats and yet they’re...”
– Hollywood’s Obama Donors On President’s Piracy Stand: Not Give A Dime Anymore (via joshuanguyen)
The irony is that The Media Companies are behaving as if Google, Netflix, EBay, Amazon, and the like DON’T dominate the Internet. They do and the digital space is a neighborhood with different...
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Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright... →
nedhepburn:
parachuteshark:
no no god damn it fuck you
Why? What good will come of this? Are you high? Because I’M HIGH and I STILL disagree with this bullshit
This made me cry.
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Calif. Senator District Office Visit
FightForTheFuture.org is urging us to pay visits to our Senator’s district offices this week to really nail home the impact of the protests, online and off, today.
For those of you in Calif, our Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, are against SOPA.
We can stop by their district offices to tell their staff to pass on a “thanks” for that.
Sen. Feinstein’s office...
JUST LEAVE YOUR BLOGS BLACKED OUT FOREVER, PLEASE.
tumblr4men:
THANKS.
MORE LOLs!
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Watchmashable:
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
but it wouldn’t. It would create an...
Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Facebook or Google... →
fek:
And Tumblr! Sorry, Tumblr. But it’s true.
I wish there had been an easy “black out” option for my Tumblr blogs today.
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Three reasons understanding SOPA is important
shortformblog:
one It could empower action against foreign websites which, let alone actively engaging in copyright infringement, merely “facilitate” it. This could place an enormous burden on proprietors for the deeds of their random readers and commenters.
two The definition of “facilitate?” Broadly used, “to make easier.” This is very vague, and could have serious unintended effects. For...
Is there an add-on that adds the date and time to...
WHAT?
(I asked for that 2 years ago. Someday… Someday…)
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“I think it’s completely gross that Paula Deen made $$$ pushing food that makes...”
– Twitter user @BradWalsh • Discussing TV chef Paula Deen’s decision to announce that she suffers from diabetes — and at the same time using the opportunity to play spokeswoman for a major diabetes drug company, Novo Nordisk AS. Branding experts think this is an poor way to handle the issue. ”It’s a...
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MPAA Responds to SOPA Protests →
soupsoup:
The following is a statement by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on the so-called “Blackout Day” protesting anti-piracy legislation:
“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together,...
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined...”
– Neil Postman (via azspot)
Woe to those who are still awake.
i entertain myself.: Join the Girl Scouts, Become... →
hilarysiegel:
Courtesy of Daily Worth:
They dominate their market. They’ve nailed brand loyalty. Their sales force is disciplined and aggressive. They’re the Girl Scouts, and after 100 years, they’re finally getting recognized for their financial prowess—with 13 new badges rewarding money smarts. Badges are a big deal, as any scout will tell you—a testament to hard-won skills. And giving...
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...
President Obama Officially Opposes SOPA →
That will hold until some Corporation threatens to withhold campaign contributions to his re-election campaign.
Watchclimateadaptation:
In “Truffles: The Most Expensive Food in the World”, 60 Minutes portrays a mushroom under attack by climate change, mafioso, and Chinese knock-offs.
Don’t mess with my truffles!
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If you're looking for a long, captivating piece to... →
shortformblog:
Seven years later Robert was still mentally impaired and his personality far different than before the accident, but he knew his family, knew he had had a brain injury that upended their lives, and asked lots of questions. He carried with him at all times a reporter’s notebook, in which he had written the information most important to him: his daughters’ ages — 9 and 11 — and...
“In an ideal world women could be strong, kick-ass, and intelligent without being...”
– Julie Clawson (via azspot)
See: any female characters set in the fictional future.
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