January 2012
2 posts
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– angels-and-angles
September 2011
1 post
4 tags
July 2011
4 posts
Watch(via Wish I Had a Portal Gun (Aperture Science Rap) - Dorkly Video)
Whether it was a detected subtle change or an... →
Rands In Repose: Bored People Quit
They're often called lost boys, the many young men... →
Will young men ever grow up? (Ottawa Citizen, via reddit)
June 2011
4 posts
Letters from the Front Lines: Vancouver Riot:... →
riot2011frontlines:
“You’ll sleep soundly in your bed tonight because men and women like me will always be there to deal with your poor choices. You have no idea how fortunate you are, even after we arrest and charge you. Even though you disgust me, if you call for me in the middle of the night I’ll respond….
But the many —the clowns with the cameras, who... →
Anatomy of a mob (national post) (via Chinny)
“after hours of j’s hilarious misunderstanding of science:
17:25...”
– (via Sean Bronson)
May 2011
8 posts
SF set to ban unsolicited phonebooks →
Rape of women in DR Congo 'tops 1000 a day'.... →
"My lawyer was like, 'What have you done?' And I... →
The Long Con by Brendan Kiley - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
In an interview this morning with Bill Good on... →
Stephen Harper breaks election rules, campaigns on radio on election day - Canada Canada Headlines | Examiner.com
April 2011
7 posts
How I Came to Work at the Wendy's - Imgur →
WatchInspiration for women who want both career and family
(via Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com)
1 tag
WatchEric Whitacre sees the youtube symphony and raises it a virtual choir of 2000+ voices
(via Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong | Video on TED.com)
“Relax. You don’t need to be in constant competition with your sister....”
– OH father to toddler son who is racing grocery carts
March 2011
3 posts
Cleverly's - i gotta feeling →
Git is macgyver. Mercurial is james bond. →
February 2011
7 posts
Canonical's New Component Catalog Makes Building a... →
minimallinux:
Ubuntu developers Canonical have released a comprehensive list of hardware certified to work with Linux.
Finally! This is pretty cool.
1 tag
January 2011
6 posts
What makes a face look alive? →
Check out the morphing videos!
Purple versus violet →
Things I learn when looking up names of different shades of purple.
Search Engine Blacklist →
Need to install this at work prontp.
onethingwell:
Easily blacklist spam sites from ever appearing in your Google search results again.
A Chrome extension to help rid your search results of content farms, splogs, MFA pages and half-arsed how-to sites.
Also worth mentioning: search engine Duck Duck Go has a built-in blacklist of spammy sites, as does Blekko (though their approach may be...
1 tag
Obama still thinks that the way to achieve his... →
The President’s Movie | The American Prospect (via Forshsner, I think)
WatchLet’s talk parenting taboos: Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman | Video on TED.com
WatchBrene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com
December 2010
10 posts
"Most of us are lawyers, police officers,... →
Streets named after Mario Bros | The Sun | News
1 tag
danah boyd | apophenia » I AM OFFLINE! On Email... →
minimalmac:
Communication is key to an email sabbatical. Disappearing without properly making certain that everyone has what they need is irresponsible and disrespectful.
Those who have been following one of my other little projects, Practical Opacity, already know what a big geek crush I have on Dr. Danah Boyd. She is one of the world’s leading researchers on social communication in the...
