June 2012
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May 2012
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“Schooling is different than education. Education is the lifelong habit of...”
– Michael Eric Dyson
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Happy Birthday, Malcolm X
Melissa Harris-Perry: Happy Birthday, Malcolm X (MSNBC)
Today is the birthday of Malcolm X. He would have been 87 years old.
Malcolm rarely receives the kind of mainstream press attention that his better known counterpart, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. does. And perhaps that is best. Unlike King, Malcolm has been not been subjected to the ahistorical nostalgia machine of American hero-making. His...
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“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who...”
– Malcolm X
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Slinky Physics
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Since its debut in 1943, over 250 million Slinkys have been sold. (Which means hundreds of millions of lost productivity hours due to Slinky untangling, amirite?)
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James Buchanan: Our REAL first gay president
I have no adjectives to describe the latest cover of Newsweek, which declares Obama “the first gay president” after he personally endorsed same-sex marriage.
I’ll just let the rainbow halo speak for itself.
Usually this is where I’d post a picture of said cover, but I refuse to perpetuate that crap. Google it if you haven’t seen it already and you want to feel sad...
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“I’m broke but I’m happy, I’m poor but I’m kind,...”
– Alanis Morissette
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“Congratulations, North Carolina. Last night you struck a decisive blow for...”
– Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report, 5/9/12)
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This is how a global nuclear disaster will happen
All of the experts seem to agree on one thing. The state of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is unacceptably precarious.
It has been 14 months since the massive 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country and triggered a triple-meltdown at the Daiichi plant. Japan is still trying to understand the short-term and long-term health consequences of the largest...
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Our political future: Voting for inflexible...
Tonight, six-term U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) lost his reelection primary to conservative challenger and Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock.
It should be noted that the Senator of 36 years lost the primary handily. Indiana Republican voters broke for Mourdock by a twenty point margin.
After conceding the race, Lugar’s office released the following statement. I’m posting it in...
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I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
Malcolm X
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Eels Always Look Like They Just Told A Joke And...
“Right?!?!”
This is an old one from Buzzfeed, bookmarked in my “Always good for a laugh” folder.
April 2012
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Education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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War in the Obama Years
In many ways, President Obama is quietly redefining what it means to fight a war. And this transformation, happening largely in secret, has dramatic implications for 21st Century warfare.
Where have all the outraged liberals gone?
Warrior in Chief (NY Times)
The president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily...
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Eric Cantor wants to help the poors by taxing them...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA): We also know that over 45 percent of the people in this country don’t pay [federal] income taxes at all, and we have to question whether that’s fair. And should we broaden the base in a way that we can lower rates for everybody that pays taxes.
Remember, whenever you hear a politician talk about “broadening the tax base,”...
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Bret Baier’s Tough Interview with Debbie Wasserman... →
(Fox News)
Alternative Headline: ”DNC Chairwoman destroyed in interview, is a hack”
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Rethinking the blog
JERSEY
It’s been quiet over here on my blog, mostly because of my crazy work schedule. And first, let me say how great having a job is.
Like, really great.
Paying for stuff is so much better than not paying for stuff. I am so grateful to my second home (Jersey City) where I spend most of my waking hours teaching psychology to really cool people. The opportunities I have discovered here...
March 2012
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Technitone →
So I just spent 30 minutes playing with the Technitone app in Google Chrome. Pretty sounds and colors, how can you go wrong?
Clever, attractive interface. Intriguing collaborative play mode. Lot’s of instruments and effects. I’m hooked!
You can even check out my latest composition.
Enjoy!
February 2012
4 posts
Oscar 2012: Chicken soup for the Hollywood soul... →
If you’re a big movie-fan (like me)—if you’re the type that marks Oscar night on your calendar six weeks in advance (also me)—if you print out your own Academy Awards ballot and put more than ten seconds of thought into predicting who will win that coveted “Sound Mixing” award (well, maybe that one time…)—then you should definitely read this article on Salon.com.
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What American English sounds like to non-English...
Prisecolinensinenciousol, by Adriano Celentano
They’re singing to me, I just know it.
Skwerl
A short film in fake English. About an eight on the Brain-On-Fire scale.
January 2012
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why "betwixt the legs" is not a definition →
Reblogged from mymetaphorisbleeding, probably the strongest person I know:
The matter of gender is simultaneously important to me and a non-issue.
When it comes to my personal life - friends, family, intimacies - neither the sex nor gender of myself or the other party/parties involved have any standing on my relationships. I identify as genderqueer and pansexual. The first, as I see it in...
The Difference Between American and British... →
In honor of Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes hosting three-peat tonight, here’s an essay written by the British comedian in which he explores the difference between American and British humor.
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ROUNDUP: Say Cheese, The Last Great Map, Aggies in...
Why Do We Say “Cheese” When Having Our Photo Taken? →
(mental_floss)
In which one American company defines snapshot culture:
We’re not sure when or where a photographer first asked his subjects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you say “cheese,” the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and your teeth show. It looks like a smile, and since...
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Color
“Colour Like No Other” by Sony Bravia
Also watch the making of this ad.
“The Obliteration Room” by Yayoi Kusama
From Colossal:
This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household...
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The World's Tallest Building
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE
1/2 mile tall
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A View from the Top
Dubai in Clouds
Taken from the Burj.
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Time-Traveling in the Emirates
In 2008 photographer Martin Becka completed a remarkable project. The artist captured the dramatic and modern architecture of Dubai—but here’s the twist—he used only the archaic photography equipment that existed in the 19th Century.
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December 2011
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Best Street Art of 2011 (Street Art Utopia) →
Here’s a fun, artsy way to wrap up the year.
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“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them...”
– Voltaire
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We Have a Food Problem (Includes Bonus Recipe!)
This latest high-profile scandal surrounding the newly designed holiday Coca-Cola cans once again reveals that, as a group, our emotional relationship with food is a little extreme:
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Salon covered the can-tastrophe in Why Coke’s new can infuriated the Internet. My favorite quote:
It may seem a trifling matter, but as we recall...
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I have always felt that the later generations of tots, products of less romantic upbringing, cynical nonbelievers in Santa Claus from birth, can never know the nature of the true dream. I was well into my twenties before I finally gave up on the Easter bunny, and I am not convinced that I am the richer for it. Even now there are times when I’m not so sure about the stork.
Jean Shepherd, A...
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Time and again it looked almost successful, but then he would remove his hand carefully…. BOING! … the kneecap kept springing up and sailing across the kitchen. The ankle didn’t fit. The glue hardened into black lumps and the Old Man was purple with frustration. He tried to fix the leg for about two hours, stacking books on it. A Sears Roebuck catalog held the instep. The family...
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Scattered out over the icy waste around us could be seen other tiny befurred jots of wind-driven humanity. All painfully toiling toward the Warren G. Harding School, miles away over the tundra, waddling under the weight of frost-covered clothing like tiny frozen bowling balls with feet. An occasional piteous whimper would be heard faintly, but lost instantly in the sigh of the eternal wind. All of...
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