January 2011
73 posts
Al Jazeera Releases Egypt Coverage Under Creative... →
minnpost:
Fantastic.
pantslessprogressive:
This is wonderful.
Super Bowl Art Bet! →
The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art have agreed to a Super Bowl bet! Even better: The museums have put major works by major artists on the line. The bet continues an annual tradition begun last year when MAN instigated a wager between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
“I am a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer...”
– Octavia E. Butler (via sibbotery)
“At least two recent studies show that more guns equals more carnage to...”
– Timonthy Egan, “Myth of the Hero Gunslinger,” New York Times (via iteeth)
“Despite its faithful appearance on holidays, the brussels sprout is the American...”
– Brussels sprouts: America’s most hated vegetable.
I love Brussels sprouts. Bought some at the farmer’s market today. More for me, I guess. —misterjt
(via Instapaper)
We never had them growing up, so I never bothered to try them until, in short order, we got some in last year’s CSA box...
Watchskeskali2:
RACIAL TENSION HEADACHE @ Yahoo! Video
A recent conversation on Friendfeed brought this video to mind. Some days I wish I had a fake bottle of this to sit on my desk as a conversation piece.
I so love the tag line at the very end.
“When I was in middle school, I earned spare money by babysitting for a lot of...”
– post.culture.shock: An open letter to an Iowa State Representative (via michellej)
Dear Tumblr
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Whitney Houston (16)
Sara Bareilles (12)
Miguel Migs (12)
Mariah Carey (10)
Reverie Sound Revue (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchpracticalopacity:
Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now | Video on TED.com
(via Gwen Bell)
WOW. Two words: technosocial wormhole.
Also, yay for genius ladies.
“When he finished the promissory note analogy, he paused. And in that breach,...”
– Clarence B. Jones, in Remembering the first draft from the Washington Post.
“I Have A Dream” was outlined, planned, carefully discussed by several men who assisted Dr. King in the days before the march.
And one paragraph in, he scrapped the notes and did the whole thing extemporaneously.
Tell ‘em...
“Because in our society, women don’t have sexual needs, desires, drives,...”
– Pakistan’s Lesbians Live In Silence, Love In Secret : NPR (via michellej)
“Magic Johnson is the Michael Jordan of retired black athletes.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy finds form in one writer’s thoughts on sports, race relations and life - ESPN
LZ Granderson’s latest is a collection of “random thoughts of an observer of race, sports and life.” There are a lot of much more interesting bullet points in...
Watchblahyadablah:
Smart Girls at the Party: Ruby the Feminist
Amy Poehler and friends’ web series celebrates young women who are changing the world by being themselves. This video made my day!
“Magic Johnson is the Michael Jordan of retired black athletes.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy finds form in one writer’s thoughts on sports, race relations and life - ESPN
LZ Granderson’s latest is a collection of “random thoughts of an observer of race, sports and life.” There are a lot of much more interesting bullet points in...
How Not to Deal With a Student Mother →
mylowercase:
The chancellor of the University of California at Davis is pledging an investigation and “swift and appropriate action” over an e-mail in which a class was polled on the grade that should be given to a student who had to miss some quizzes because she had given birth.
The letter. Wow. Fucking unbelievable. California? My cousin, who teaches at a California university, lost her...
“Code for America is a combination of
*the Peace Corps
*a Silicon Valley...”
– chacha sikes
Single, Self-Employed And Without Insurance? Get... →
misterjt:
Unlike the individual market, where in most states insurers can deny people coverage, people at companies with 2 to 50 employees are defined as “small groups” under federal law and can’t be turned down for health reasons.
More than 6 million people worked in companies with four employees or fewer in 2007, according to the Small Business Administration.
So a self-employed...
Single, Self-Employed And Without Insurance? Get... →
misterjt:
Unlike the individual market, where in most states insurers can deny people coverage, people at companies with 2 to 50 employees are defined as “small groups” under federal law and can’t be turned down for health reasons.
More than 6 million people worked in companies with four employees or fewer in 2007, according to the Small Business Administration.
So a self-employed...
“There’s also the whole sexism aspect of how it’s being reported. How it’s not...”
– Allison Kilkenny, Citizen Radio 1/12/11 (via unburyingthelead)
I am also irked by how often reporters refer to her informally, by first name or Gaby, instead of “Rep. Giffords.”
Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? →
patrickrhone:
While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then.
I find historical factoids like this fascinating. I find the evolution of language more so.
Total Braingasm.
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet →
This is intensely uncomfortably true. Especially #3 and #5.
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet →
This is intensely uncomfortably true. Especially #3 and #5.
Sen. Gillibrand, Rep. Wasserman Schultz Describe... →
It’s a transcription, which makes for an interesting read.
I didn’t know anything about Congresswoman Giffords before this, but I do know something about Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz and Senator Gillibrand. Congresswoman Giffords keeps good company.
“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)