I’ve been enamored with body modifications that have utilitarian value.

Weetzie’s heart felt so full of love, so full, as if it could hardly fit in her chest.

What you’ve actually made, when you have an internet-connected device that can both send and receive 3D-printed objects, is a teleporter.

I just ate 272% of my recommended daily amount of saturated fat — and it’s only breakfast!

Let me tell you, this guy has a fridge full of butter — he probably had eight different kinds of grass-fed butter. Naturally, we got them all out and just ate butter for awhile…RIGHT FROM THE STICK. It was glorious.

At the time I craved sugar so much that if I went to a friend’s house to spend the night, and she didn’t have anything sugary when I got there, I would have to go back out and go to the convenience store and get something, since it was like torture to go through a night without it. I had these bizarre alcoholism-esque behaviors around it.

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everythingistemporaryanyway:

Quadron kind of slaying Lauryn Hill’s Ex-Factor. 

Holy GAH people, holy.gah.

So good.

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Someone once asked Allen Ginsberg how one becomes a prophet, and he simply replied, “Tell your secrets.”

Rather than urging people to consume only plants, doesn’t it make more sense to encourage them to eat an omnivorous diet that is healthy, ethical, and ecologically sound?

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Fantastic, but my favorite thing about this picture is the Chucks.

But, if no one’s gonna write on their Tumblr, well:

FYI – i know a forbes.com (salaried) journalist, and he has informed me that their bloggers do not get edited, and that they are paid based upon clicks to their posts. stop paying this guy. do not click the link, if you can help it.

I would not say this thread is “great” since no one is responding—besides you and my son! But you bring up a good point.

FIND IDEA THAT BURN, GRAB WITH BOTH HANDS, NEVER LET GO. THAT HOW MAKE FIRE.

Am I really that close with you? Should we actually be connected here?

The price that fair-minded readers WANT to buy digital comics at is starkly different from what they are currently set at.

jessiechar:

“Bottom line: if Notification Center is on top, it shouldn’t use dark linen; if it uses dark linen, it should be at layer zero, underneath.”

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Daring Fireball

In the spirit of consistent skeuomorphism, I like to think of Notification Center as the flat sheet to layer zero’s fitted sheet. 

I like to think: “What the fuck are you all on about? Nobody’s making mental models of OS texture topology, I guarantee you. Nobody but you.”

But, does it really matter, the City is stalled, growth is negative and the only thing moving at Canary Wharf will be tumble weeds past banks of empty desks and MD’s PAs in a hooped ear ring frenzy at Accessorize.

I’d like to see the bootstrappers, the tiny service businesses doing great stuff for their clients, the parents combining business with a successful and happy family life, the small companies treating their employees with kindness and compassion held up as great examples – not those who think sleeping under their desk makes them better than the rest of us.

I guess if I’m honest about it, I often feel like Slashdot never got the fair credit it deserved. As “Blogging” became a mainstream buzzword that you’d hear about on CNN, Slashdot simply got lost in the history.

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process.

No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks.

No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

When I saw this list – and especially the last agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them.

Blacks are not seeing anything new for themselves in the movement. Why should they ally with whites who are just now experiencing the hardships that blacks have known for generations? Perhaps white Americans are now paying the psychic price for not answering the basic questions that blacks have long raised about income inequality.

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monkeyajb:

The New York Times is doing some interesting work around the “Shrinking Middle Class.” This piece demonstrates the shift away from middle-income and shows the exit of money from the city to the suburbs, and the increase in both affluent and poor neighborhoods at the expense of middle-income.

The NYTimes piece doesn’t animate the shift and it really bothered me because a graphic like this should so obviously be an animation. So I made one myself. (Dark green is most affluent, dark purple is the most poor.)

Philadelphia county becomes markedly more purple in 40 years. Notice also that almost no regions show any reversal of trends — green gets greener, or purple gets purpler.

It is extremely easy for systems to become biased, even if none of the individual people in those systems intends to be biased. This is partly a cognitive problem, that people harbor unconscious bias, and partly an organizational problem, that even a collection of unbiased actors can work together to accidentally create a biased system. And when those systems are examined scientifically, they can be reformed to reduce their bias.

By breeding the fat out of turkeys and pigs, we have bred our own ignorance into other species.

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This is worth watching through the 3m mark.

It not about rich people having more money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they willing to take risks that destroy economy — knowing full well what could and would happen — putting millions out of work, while creating nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt, creating wealth for everyone.

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occupyposters:

Stanley Donwood. (Source.) Download PDF.

Authorities have long claimed that they were merely battling the “black bloc” of violent anarchists. But when you look at all these videos, the bogeyman isn’t there. Instead, it’s a dozen scared kids and a police officer named John Pike spraying them in the face from three feet away. And while it’s his finger pulling the trigger, the police system is what put him in the position to be standing in front of those students. I am sure that he is a man like me, and he didn’t become a cop to shoot history majors with pepper spray. But the current policing paradigm requires that students get shot in the eyes with a chemical weapon if they resist, however peaceably. Someone has to do it.

I had been writing very short summaries (usually 3 or 4 sentences) and then tweeting the links to the sources of the stories (New York Times, AdAge.com, etc.) rather than back to Poynter. Julie wanted our thousands of Twitter followers to stop by Poynter’s site, then decide whether to check out the original story.

Here is your library, more or less intact. We will give it back if you hand over your collective future without argument. Just leave it in the trashcan on the corner of Wall Street.

It’s true that iTunes Match is offering matched tracks for artists it doesn’t officially sell in its catalog—AC/DC among them.

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Unmasking an anti-Mac blogger may not be life-changing, but if you’re an anonymous blogger writing about Chinese censorship or Mexican drug cartels, the consequences could be dire.

Once the foot soldiers who are ordered to carry out acts of repression, such as the clearing of parks or arresting or even shooting demonstrators, no longer obey orders, the old regime swiftly crumbles.

Who shovels Bank of America’s snow? We do. Who hauled away the tree that fell in Bank of America’s yard? We did. But there are only so many hours and dollars we can invest in maintaing the Bank of America’s house.

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This is a found poem comprised of actual reminders my iPhone has created for me using the Siri speech recognition feature. I’m going to miss this silliness when the speech recognition improves.

It would be so easy to say, ‘Well I’m going to retire, I’m going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,’ but somebody’s got to keep ’em awake and let ’em know what is really going on in this world.

If “young, white, geeky, and Stanford/Harvard/MIT dropout”, then “invest”, is a kind of mental shortcut that is anything but objective. This is mirror-tocracy not meritocracy.

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jsmooth995:

Here is the TEDx Talk I gave at Hampshire College, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race”

I just noticed last week that Google Maps knew the location of my laptop computer, even though I had never told it where I was. After a bit of sleuthing, it turns out that Google probably got this information when a someone with an Android phone visited. The phone sniffed my WiFi ports, read the GPS location, and reported this back to Google location services. They did this without my knowledge, and without my permission.

It has to be the most disingenuous opt-out functionality ever. Google might as well make people solve calculus problems to opt-out.

Parents are being asked to teach their children that it’s not just acceptable, but often necessary, to lie on the Internet.

The most fundamental thing about the experience of sound, that it is a vibration of air or other medium, that animals developed to sense goings-on in their environment, is now optional.

Our version of a perfect customer experience is one in which our customer doesn’t want to talk to us.

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Collective action is huge; people agreeing across time and space to do things that matter to them is a phenomenon that we’ve only glimpsed and imagined up to now. Peer-to-peer initiative is the next step past conversation and agreement. It’s true change, and it’s successful the first moment it occurs. Whether or not the banks care about it in this particular example is irrelevant. If people can unite to do one thing, they can and will organize to do something else. Again and again.

Protest is transformative precisely because people emerge, encounter one another face-to-face, and, in re-learning the habits of freedom, build new institutions, relationships and organisations.

When the rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle.

The great accomplishment of Jobs’s life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies—his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness—in the service of perfection.

If only we’d had the courage to respond to ter­ror­ism with a stead­fast unwill­ing­ness to be ter­ror­ized. If only we’d rec­og­nized the trap we were being led into. But we didn’t. Now Amer­ica is a par­ody of what it was that day 10 years ago.

My weblog is an old school blog, a public diary of things that personally interest me.

Your behavior is affecting the normal operations of the IKEA cafeteria. Frequent fights and arguments do serious harm to the image both of Shanghai residents and IKEA.

Actual human beings are not going to use this new Google Reader any more than they used the old version.

Imagine how great it would have been if they had a real cameraman. But instead you get all the bonehead mistakes of the amateur. There are no establishing shots, the camera is always jiggling, and none of them had a particularly good eye.

Plots from the unaired 8th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation

It’s as if whoever made the update did so without ever actually using the product to, you know, read something.

Leary and Alpert fancy themselves prophets of a psychic revolution designed to free Western man from the limitations of consciousness as we know it. They are contemptuous of all organized systems of action—of what they call the “roles” and “games” of society. They prefer mystical ecstasy to the fulfillment available through work, politics, religion, and creative art. Yet like true revolutionaries they will play these games to further their own ends.

A better way to put it is that we’re trying to eat foods that are whole and unprocessed, and avoid those that are inflammatory or metabolically damaging.

I’m going to call the paleo diet portrayed in the media the PaleoStrawman diet. It contains only lean meat and non-starchy vegetables. The meat comes from factory farms. The latest place it has showed up on is NPR, where anthropologist Barbara King contends that it is not the way to a healthy future for the world. She says she has interacted with paleo dieters online and has read Paleo magazine, but it doesn’t show at all.

We need to de-normalize the fact that a clown is telling our children how to eat.

Hey all you guys here is a cheap way to build a computer.

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“Why would someone spend their limited leisure time shoveling horse-shit into a compost pile?” wonders Jason Mark, co-manager at San Francisco’s Alemany Farm, which hosts community workdays twice a week.

More and more, people are clamoring to join in the urban farming movement and get their hands dirty. There’s no doubt that urban gardening has graduated from fledgling trend to part of our cultural landscape, with vegetable gardens taking root everywhere from tiny backyards, to college campuses, to the White House grounds, to fire-escape terraces.

Keep reading …

You can download CSV files with all the data you’ve generated in the Shoe Tracker.

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Footage of Scott Olsen being shot by Police at Occupy Oakland (by Raleigh Latham)

If drinking domestic beer was ironic, then drinking it unironically was bad and funny, and I’d only ever drunk it unironically, only ever knew people who did, which meant we were bad and funny; if I drank the PBR it wouldn’t be a joke somehow, they would know.

I paid good money for this and it’s full of ads?

So I said, “Wow, that’s a really good-looking 12-gauge.” And he said, “Would you like to fire it?” And I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll fire it.” And he said, “Shit, man, we must build a bomb!”

Just to be clear: They aren’t holding up signs that say “I want Bill O’Reilly’s stuff.” They aren’t holding up signs that say “I am animated by toxic levels of envy and entitlement.” They are holding up signs that are perfectly and intrinsically clear: They want accountability for the banks that took their money, they want to end corporate control of government. They want their jobs back. They would like to feed their children.

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jsmooth995:

Occupy Wall Street: Outing The Ringers

Think about it: there have always been rich and poor people in America, so if this is about jealousy, why the protests now? The idea that masses of people suddenly discovered a deep-seated animus/envy toward the rich – after keeping it strategically hidden for decades – is crazy. Where was all that class hatred in the Reagan years, when openly dumping on the poor became fashionable? Where was it in the last two decades, when unions disappeared and CEO pay relative to median incomes started to triple and quadruple? The answer is, it was never there. If anything, just the opposite has been true. Americans for the most part love the rich, even the obnoxious rich.

This is a never-forget moment. The show’s provocative name holds a mirror up to an ugliness that seems to have become yesterday’s news without having barely even made news.

This is just one reason why occupiers seem incompatible with current ideas about policy demands or right vs. left. They are not interested in debate (or what Enlightenment philosophers called “dialectic”) but consensus. They are working to upgrade that binary, winner-takes-all, 13th century political operating system. And like any software developer, they are learning to “release early and release often.”

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The iPad calendar is something that you can show to people who have never seen an iPad before, and they don’t see a computer interface. They see a calendar.

And I realize, my God, I had forgotten, I had completely forgotten how unbelievably, inexplicably wonderful it is that any of us exist at all.

Current business plan:

1. I will tell you when there’s anything really good on PetaPixel.
2. ???
3. Starve.

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monkeyajb:

The real story in this TPM piece on Pat Buchanan isn’t his batshit crazy, white people are doomed, Jesus-mongery. Anyone who pays attention has been hearing the same exact things from Pat Buchanan for as long as he has been in the spotlight. In fact, he never even really used code-words to talk about race, he was always pretty straight up about his racism.

No, the story is that Pat Buchanan now wears hipster frames. He looks like Ira Glass’s crazy old uncle.

I’ve been trying to figure out why I hold a bit of disdain for the Occupy movement that is sweeping the nation and world.

When is drinking beer and eating fried chicken a chemistry-building exercise, and when is it a sign of flagging morale and defiance of managerial authority?

The total body of evidence suggests that attention should be shifted from the harmful effects of dietary saturated fats per se, to the prevention of the accumulation of saturated fats in body lipids. This shift would emphasise the importance of reducing dietary carbohydrates rather than reducing dietary saturated fats.

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fuckyeahallenginsberg:

Jack Kerouac at Staten Island Ferry wharf, we used to wander night time docksides under Manhattan’s bridges & through truck parkinglots along East River singing rawbone blues, Leadbelly’s “Black Girl”, “Eli, Eli”, chanting Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” & shouting Hart Crane’s “O harp and altar of the fury fused”… and “Atlantis” to Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic spanned above.  Time of his Doctor Sax and The Subterraneans—New York Fall 1953. 

Caption and photo by Ginsberg.

I don’t care if Google wants Plus to get bigger, I care about me and my friends who seek to read and discuss the entire internet every day. Is there really no space for different kinds of people to form different kinds of social spaces in Google products?

A crew of four Hispanics can earn about $150 each by picking 250-300 boxes of tomatoes in a day, said Jerry Spencer, of Grow Alabama, which purchases and sells locally owned produce. A crew of 25 Americans recently picked 200 boxes — giving them each $24 for the day.

When I decided to take up hunting, my secret fear was that I would become callous toward animals. Surprise, surprise - the opposite happened. My respect for animals has grown exponentially, as has my love for them.

Everything you put in your body has behind it a ‘chain of trust’. This chain consists of everyone who touches it before it goes down your throat. Being a bit on the paranoid side myself, I believe the best way to be sure I am getting what I think I’m getting is to make that chain of trust as short as possible.

I’m often surprised that people aren’t talking about these issues all the time. But the reason seems clear enough. Our brains have evolved to deal with issues at our own scales: mates, rivers, apples, rabbits, and so on. Our brains simply weren’t built to understand the fabric of reality at the very small scales (quantum mechnics) or the very large (the cosmos). As Blaise Pascal put it, “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one’s environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way.

Anyway, last night, the conversation turned to replicator-generated human meat, as it will do.

For those who are not aware, these “feather extensions” are actually fly fishing lures that women have been buying up from fishing stores all across the country, causing a shortage. And fly fishermen are pissed.

With a rising number of Hispanic and black voters pushing into the electorate — putting Republicans at a bigger disadvantage every day — the GOP has unleashed a brazen, ugly effort to discourage these new voters from ever getting near the voting booth. They are turning back the clock on voting rights in America.

Ronan has given us a terrible freedom from expectations, a magical world where there are no goals, no prizes to win, no outcomes to monitor, discuss, compare.

I guess he thought that was funny. I don’t. I think the vote is sacred.

It’s easy: you just imagine you have a few friends sitting around your living room and you’re telling them what’s new.

He saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

Evidence is mounting that points to a “lost decade” between what we now remember as the 1970s and 1980s, a time whose full cultural trauma and resulting suppression from memory was so complete as to effect itself even on the living.

The scale of U.S. food aid isn’t strongly tied to how much recipient countries actually require it — but it does rise after a bumper crop in the American heartland, suggesting that food aid is far more about dumping American leftovers than about sending help where help’s needed.

The movement does not stand against capitalism, and it certainly doesn’t stand for communism. It’s a movement for honest capitalism. Honest capitalism in America — funding good emerging businesses so that they succeed — what a concept! Our bankers should try it sometime.

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whoa whoa whoa. whoa. I have never wanted to cook up some cabbage more than I want to after reading this recipe

I feel strongly that users are the owners and stewards of their own health and fitness data.

I said, ‘I don’t feel like digital is quite here yet.’ And he said, ‘I agree,’ then he turned and looked at me and said, ‘But we’ll get there.’

The night Jobs died, my ex and I talked about our differing approaches to the worn-out Mac keyboards. She would meticulously get replacement keys, but over the years they came in different varieties of off-white, so her keyboard ended up looking like a weird off-white on off-white checkerboard. And when they stopped making keys the right size she figured out something I still can’t quite follow about putting paper on top of the blurred-out old keys and using a Sharpie to write the letters on them.

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I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.

It was early 1991, Steve had announced to us that he would soon wed Laurene. At some point soon after that I realized he would need a fitting bachelor party and it would fall to me to put it together.

The Macintosh on his desk at NeXT had the striped Apple logo stabbed out, a memento of anguish scratched deep into plastic.

It’s 10,000 times better than anything I’ve ever done.

To me, Steve Jobs stands out most for his clarity of thought. Over and over again he took complex situations, understood their essence, and used that understanding to make a bold definitive move, often in a completely unexpected direction.

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I can’t pick up your standard, but you didn’t expect me to. You gave me the tools and the inspiration to pick up my own. How dare I give back anything less than my very best effort?

I was reminded of AllMusic’s biography of Miles Davis: ‘… he was in the thick of almost every important innovation and stylistic development in the music during that period, and he often led the way in those changes… It can even be argued that jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn’t there to push it forward.’

After a couple of bizarre weeks where I attended meetings all day filled with amazing people and amazing technology, knowing that at any minute I would have to leave, HR informed me that they’d talked the insurance company into providing special coverage. Just for me. It was that important to NeXT and to Steve that they keep a nobody first-line manager they had just hired. A couple of months later they turned that into coverage for all gay employees at NeXT.

When I would criticize the decisions of record labels or phone carriers, he’d surprise me by forcefully disagreeing, explaining how the world looked from their point of view, how hard their jobs were in a time of digital disruption, and how they would come around.

Elegance, character, artistic integrity, and ruthless dedication to design can no longer be derided as luxuries of those who don’t have anything to lose.

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My own deep-seated libertarianism is probably more a conceit of modern technology than a core human trait.

24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.

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"This kettle was groundbreaking; it was one of the first production pieces that used an existing mold/die in its form rather than manufacturing one from scratch. The designer recycled a headlight from a pre-war car, which was flipped over to create a usable kettle. Great thinking. Designers in the age of sustainability would be wise to look backwards and record how design activity developed during the depression and into WW2. -Todd Falkowsky" (via The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » K-42 Electric Kettle)

Plenty of things in your ordinary, “small life”, would be inconceivably extravagant to your ancestors. It seems like humanity as a whole is on some sort of hedonic treadmill. I don’t think any of us, for instance, take any pleasure in the fact that we can freely shave ourselves or kick safes or go out in the rain without dying of an incurable infection, which is insane. All of human history minus the last hundred or so years people lived with this reality, and it was probably a great comfort to people to escape it, for about five seconds. Now we’re back to taking it for granted.

(oh and I would say the majority of the daily use kind of smokers I know are all over 40 and quite tweedy, if you need a source, why not try the head of the history department?)

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.


That’s something that sticks in my memory. It was kind of a sloppy job. It wasn’t doing what it was intended to do.

I’m using about 10 extensions to prevent tracking (NoScript, AdBlock, Ghostery and others). The functionality provided by these extensions should be default in a modern browser.

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When people at home see PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE THEM getting abused by police… That’s when shit changes.

While Amish dairymen are being raided by the F.D.A., Jack DeCoster, the notorious Iowa egg producer whose filthy, salmonella-infected eggs were linked to an outbreak that sickened more than 1,500 people last year, received a mild warning letter from the F.D.A. What is going on here?

The most successful civilizations in human history always had some way of readjusting debt so that you don’t end up in a situation where the big people end up effectively enslaving the little people.

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Sorry for the bummer (& that’s not me pictured above), but this site is scaring the shit out of me.

In 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Guss, a Manhattan therapist and co-investigator on the NYU study, taught “Psychedelics and Psychiatry,” the first course on psychedelic therapy offered at a modern medical school. Guss also directs the university’s 12-week psychedelic psychotherapy training program, the only program of its kind in the country.

A 71-year-old Wisconsin woman broke the Guinness World Record for planking Wednesday. Betty Lou Sweeney held the abdominal plank for 36 minutes and 58 seconds.

In one email sent by a dummy account using the name “Connor Erickson” with the subject “Arrested: need lawyer” Gmail populated ads for criminal and fraud attorneys. But when a user named “DeShawn Washington” sent the same email, Gmail populated ads for attorneys specializing in DUI cases.

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People who cringe at the privacy and data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought to be just floored by the magnitude of Amazon’s opportunity here.

I just thought, This will freak everyone out. It’ll be so funny. I’ll announce that I am running. I told Leno I was running. And two months later I was governor. What the fuck is that?

I think the only thing that homeschooling left me at a disadvantage with is that I failed to learn to obey. Not that I think it’s really a bad thing, it just makes me unsuitable for certain jobs, religions, and other institutions.

It makes running a joyous celebration and makes me more mindful.

Some doctors resist. They call it ‘poor care for poor people.’ This is a misunderstanding. It’s the most effective use of our resources.

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Playing Angels (1950) by Carl Milles (by sudama)

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me: ‘You need to get a girl on your arm or people will start talking.’ I remember telling him: ‘I’m gay.’ He had no idea. And he said: ‘All the more reason to get a girl on your arm.’ My agent was also like, ‘It’s best if you keep your options open. Maybe bisexual?’

Not a chance.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible.

A great pencil can be a magical thing. It turns simple note-taking into a charcoal sketch, with darker or thicker lines depending on how firm your grip is and how fast you’re scanning the page. It’s not just a pencil; it’s a lead paintbrush.

It seems like putting Facebook in jail is the only way to keep it from tracking you everywhere you go on the Web.

Somehow, no-nonsense cooking and eating — roasting a chicken, making a grilled cheese sandwich, scrambling an egg, tossing a salad — must become popular again, and valued not just by hipsters in Brooklyn or locavores in Berkeley.

By listing, with certainty, the accomplishments of my future self, I hope to plaster over panic that I will achieve nothing close to them.

Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

On Wednesday night I ate a light dinner and went to bed early, in order to get extra sleep for Thursday morning. Nevertheless, 24 hours later, my hands are still shaking. I’m unable to focus. No matter where I am, I am thinking about Facebook and the new, deeper connection that I immediately feel to everyone I know.

By eschewing commodity crops and advocating the consumption of grass-fed meat, pastured eggs, and local produce, we are making several very, very powerful enemies.

How can Americans gain access to real, unadulterated milk? This would require a re-localization of dairy production, which would mean more dairy farmers. “Look,” Bunting says, “if you don’t want industrial processes, then we need more people producing food.”

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Love Vigilantes (by saffronskies17) “In-fucking-credible —- to say the least. Now im straight I assure you but for this man I would consider somethign new.”

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Our garden and the labors created a renewed sense of hope, connection, sense of purpose, and pride in our family. It gave us a physical common ground to stand in and share the joy of physical beauty and surprise… (via What Makes a House a Home: Angry Wayne and Lonestar Taco | Garden Design)

miRNAs may be a new class of functional components in food, like vitamins or minerals—even in an animal that’s pretty far removed from their home organism, they can manipulate gene expression and have an effect on nutrition.

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"I remember summer nights, window open to the sounds of coyotes in the neighborhood and everyone but me sleeping as I watched this." (via I remember this defense… - blackrimglasses.com)

In the case of an execution of an innocent person, the necessary point had nonetheless been made: the state and the community had shown that they were prepared to kill.

I never felt like passing out in a warehouse and I never felt treated like a piece of crap in any other warehouse but this one.

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Remarkably, there exist simple scaling laws relating animal metabolism to body mass. Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in slower heart rates. These effects cancel out, so that animals from shrews to blue whales have lifespans with just about equal number of heartbeats — about one and a half billion.

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Professional pet photographer Teresa Berg of Dallas, Texas realized that countless dogs are likely euthanized each year simply due to bad photography, and decided to make a difference. (via Photographer Helps Save Homeless Dogs Through Better Photography)

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ilu guys but you need to arch your back too

haha what are you talking about this is EXACTLY how I sit comfortably.

I’m so comfortable.

oh you too tanna?

spiderman where u at

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I just read all the comments.. dang yo, chill. It’s just a drawing. it’s freakin FANTASY. I think she looks hot and I wish i could draw half as good as this.

I actually have this as a poster in my room lololol. I like his art- mostly just for his lines— but yeaaahhh. Her pose bothers me every time I see this.

Also, reblogging for the comments dear god ahaha.

wait how are you guys sitting like that

wait I just

I can’t

fuck

lol fuq all y’all i sit like this almost every day

I am dying omg

I wish I had a webcammmm

i couldn’t even pull off the pose i kept falling over 

da fuq

that is a look of intense concentration as i tried not to fall over while longing 4 peter

also i got a cramp in my foot

I don’t know about you guys, but I always drink my coffee like this.

oh my god this comment thread

tumblr you’ve outdone yourself

I’M CRYING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-an4jyWOUig

Wilderness Campaign fast playthrough (by chaos5482)

Military robotics has reached an advanced state of development on land, in the air and at sea. The perceived military advantages has led to a proliferation of robotics programmes to more than 40 countires. Armed robots currently have a human in the loop to control the application of lethal force. But there is an inexorable drive to create autonomous robots that can choose their own targets and kill them. There have been no international discussions about how such systems could impact on how wars are fought or what the likely effect will be on civilian populations.

Contemplation of civilization can only reveal more about itself, about civilization, and perhaps a bit about the nature of humanity because we created civilization - our fingerprints are inherent in it’s design. In contrast contemplation of nature can reveal the nature of all of reality.

Jurors were required to consider whether a convicted murderer would pose a future danger if he were sentenced to life in prison rather than death. In a series of cases, Dr. Walter Quijano, a psychologist, testified that blacks posed a greater risk of “future dangerousness” than whites.

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The corn eaten by the Tarahumaras is what we want to eat. The soy eaten by the Okinawans is what we want.

My issue is not with Kathryn Stockett. I am just tired of the same old shit. At age 74 I’ve been watching this black-people-don’t-exist-until-white-people-notice-us for a very long time. When a white person writes about black life, major media and the movie studios suddenly see us. It’s Black Like Me all over again. I wrote about actually being a maid in my memoir, The Time and Place That Gave Me Life; nobody cared.

I am not saying that you are not sufferring from apnea but my sister works in a sleep clinic and she says everybody that goes in for testing gets diagnosed with some form of apnea. All patients leave with a CPAP machine too. While many cases are diagnosed as mild cases it is still diagnosed as apnea. Its unfortunate but sleep apnea is a cash cow for Drs right now.

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He said that I had a nervous breakdown because I was an overachiever. He said colored people weren’t supposed to do as well as I had done. I had been stressed out and there was nothing wrong with my knee. White guy thought I was imagining things. And that’s why I walk with a cane and I’ve had a dozen operations since I was fourteen. I hope that motherfucker’s burning in hell.

Everybody’s talking about the new design; no one’s talking about the fact that the content that yesterday was free will cost > $200/yr moving forward. It’s an interesting strategy. Rather than attempt, as the Times did (and the Times, remember, owns the Globe), to arbitrarily establish a paywall, you couple that decision with the release of a slick new interface. Then hope no one notices; see their FAQ for confirmation of that.

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On Rick Perry and Superman (by illdoc1)

When you refuse to allow major characters in YA novels to be gay, you are telling gay teenagers that they are so utterly horrible that people like them can’t even be allowed to exist in fiction.

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The Fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat-panel model. The tree design made 20% more electricity and collected 2 1/2 more hours of sunlight during the day. But the most interesting results were in December, when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky. The tree design made 50% more electricity, and the collection time of sunlight was up to 50% longer! (via The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees)

The emphasis on animal products remains. The emphasis on real whole foods - kill it or dig it up with a stick - remains and is enhanced. Macro ratios had already been de-emphasized in v 2.0, but that has now been made even more explicit in the steps, and not just in the coda. Things which in my mind were “givens” but had been pointed out to me were not clearly emphasized have been made more explicit, like sleep and eating some offal. I’ve deleted references to legumes other than avoiding soy and peanuts, as other legumes seem more and more benign to me.

The study of human nutrition remains an immature science because it lacks a universally acknowledged unifying paradigm. Without an overarching and guiding template, it is not surprising that there is such seeming chaos, disagreement and confusion in the discipline. The renowned Russian geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Indeed, nothing in nutrition seems to make sense because most nutritionists have little or no formal training in evolutionary theory, much less human evolution.

What do you get when you put together afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and rap pioneers De La Soul?

For those of us who are thinking in the long run, towards an economy with greater scarcity of natural resources, being able to have food independence is truly important. True food independence involves both plants and animals.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Manufacturers like Procter & Gamble, the household-goods giant responsible for everything from Charmin and Old Spice to Tide, are concentrating their efforts on luxury and bargain items, putting less emphasis on products aimed at the middle class, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Towards the end of my normal life when I still could watch television I could actually cut my pain off and on with the remote control device. It was such an enormously clear association there was just no denying it.

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No one would answer me. They put me in the back of the car. It’s a plastic seat, for all you out there who have never been tossed into the back of a police car. It’s hard, it’s hot, and it’s humiliating. The Indian man who had sat next to me on the plane was already in the backseat. I turned to him, shocked, and asked him if he knew what was going on. I asked him if he knew the other man that had been in our row, and he said he had just met him. I said, it’s because of what we look like. They’re doing this because of what we look like. And I couldn’t believe that I was being arrested and taken away.

It is spring time now in Tokyo and the cherry blossoms are in bloom. In my small terrace garden, the plants – tulips, roses and strawberries – are telling me that a new season has arrived. But somehow, they make me sad because I know that they are not the same as last year. They are all contaminated.

It takes a certain amount of time and faith to accept or to realize that there is no difference between Him and His name, to get to the point where you’re no longer mystified by where He is. You know, like, “Is He around here?” You realize after some time, “Here He is—right here!” It’s a matter of practice. So when I say that “l see God,” I don’t necessarily mean to say that when I chant I’m seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute.

The reason why a lot of commodity farmers would want to transition isn’t for moral or ethical reasons, but because organic production actually creates more jobs because it’s more labor-intensive [than industrial agriculture]. That allows for the next generation to stay on the farm.

What we have to do to create liberty in the future is to monetize more and more instead of monetize less and less, and in particular we have to monetize more and more of what ordinary people do, unless we want to make them into wards of the state. That’s the stark choice we have in the long-term.

Once you can gather information in real time with a network, you can see so much more that the traditional idea of the insurer managing risk becomes absurd, because now you can say, “Well, I have enough information that it’s not so much of a mystery what will happen, and what I want to do is just insure the people who won’t need the insurance”. Then you start breaking the whole system.

You end up doing all this stuff to control your online presence, and your online reputation, and people become obsessed with that. But the real representation of you is the one you can’t access, which is the one that’s used to sell access to you to third parties.

I’m convinced the reason copying happened on the Internet was because Xerox PARC was so important as an early supporter of computers, that for Alan Kay to go to the Xerox people and say, “Oh, by the way, copying itself, even in the abstract will become obsolete because of computer networks”, would have just blown their minds. We ended up with copying on a network.

I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

The Apple idea is that instead of the personal computer model where people own their own information, and everybody can be a creator as well as a consumer, we’re moving towards this iPad, iPhone model where it’s not as adequate for media creation as the real media creation tools.

Those markets are geared to shoppers who want to buy in bulk at the lowest possible price in order to pickle, can, dry and freeze, Mr. Woods said — unlike urban markets, where customers pay double rural prices and typically eat what they buy right away. “You won’t see certified organic products or any fancy marketing,” he said of rural markets. “It’s a very different world.” Ms. Hamilton began selling about 10 years ago when her garden produced more than she could handle. She knows she could charge more but doesn’t, because her customers “are struggling just like me.”

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jayrosen:

Here’s the complaint I sent to the NPR ombudsman about this method of hand-washing.

This is he said, she said reporting, one of the lowest forms of journalism in existence, in which the NPR reporter washes her hands of determining what is true. The new Kansas regulations may be a form of harassment, intended to make life as difficult as possible for abortion providers in that state. Or, alternatively, these rules may be sane, rational, common sense, sound policy: just normal rule-making by responsible public officials.

According to this report, NPR has no idea who is right. It cannot provide listeners with any help in sorting through such a dramatic conflict in truth claims. It knows of no way to adjudicate these clashing views. It is simply confused and helpless and the best it can do is pass on that helplessness to listeners of “Morning Edition.”

Push back against this shit.

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If you have Parkinson’s disease and you get an invitation from MJF foundation that has a statement like that on it you get real excited. If I’m taking time off work to go down there to see the unveiling of a pair of sunglasses I’m going to be highly pissed off.

We were unwilling participants in a bait-and-switch for Marie Callender’s new frozen three cheese lasagna and there were cameras watching our reactions.

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The things you see..

This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total fucking dark.

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Time Management

Seek answers in only one particular set of semi-literate bronze age folk tales.

That list of preparedness resources on hardcorepreppers.com I blogged about this past week is now online and working again. There’s some great stuff there as well as some goofy items. As one Root Simple reader pointed out, the “herbalism” file is actually a list of imaginary herbs from World of Warcraft. Oh how I love when the virtual and real worlds collide.

Since people pay him money, he doesn’t need to run ads to “monetize” his customers’ attention. He doesn’t have to do all the things that typically ruin the experience for people—like clogging pages with distracting banners or breaking them into smaller chunks so users have to click around a lot. “It’s like a moral hazard,” he says. “Once you’re not just charging people straight up, you get into all these murky ethical things. You have to sell their eyeballs.”

If you’re white, you have to own it. None of this I’m-not- white, I’m-beyond-it-and-I’m-Norwegian stuff. White people have to see race according to the terms they actually benefit from. Not that whiteness is a monolith, any more than nonwhiteness is. As Mab Segrest writes: “Women are less white than men, gay people are less white than straight people, poor people less white than rich people, Jews than Christians, and so forth.” But what might matter, what should matter, is that whiteness is a real force that you’ve personally benefited from in one way or another if you’re white.

When I read a Bradbury story, I not only want to race to the computer and create literary wonders of my own—the greatest gift a fellow writer can give you—I want to race out the door and up the street with my arms wide, embracing the entire universe.

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“I can’t pretend I don’t have some rotting branches; we can’t pretend our privileges don’t exist just because we do not like them.   To relinquish the power they hold, we have to constantly expose them for what they are,” Grandma Willow concluded, and gave John a pat on the back with one of her drooping branches.

It’s perfectly suited for the pantry in this house and we needed one and it was free.” And the dump, she noted, “has the best return policy.

Your carbohydrate cravings will go away and energy will come back. You will feel full and not really need to eat three meals to exist. You will notice your taste and smell change. You will notice changes in personality. You will become more thoughtful and mindful. You wont be as explosive in an explosive environment. You feel like you are warmer and exude body heat but your body temp will actually be lower and it will trend lower over 18-24 months while you thyroid settles into it new biologic groove. Your sexual desires will change and your libido will awaken. Your sleep will dramatically improve. Your migraines will improve slowly over time. Your muscles will begin not to kill you when you exercise after the rest. Your hair and nails will improve in color and presentation. Your pedicurist will notice you have less dead skin on your heels and you face. Your skin will soften and your skin color will change. Your energy level will gradually improve over 6-12 months. Your spouse will begin to notice things and treat you differently.

You’re looking at a credit score the wrong way round. You’re imagining it says how good you are with money and trust-worthy. It’s not. It’s how much of a good idea it is for a company to lend you money. Ideally they want to be able to charge you a high rate, for you to only pay a little above the minimum but to never miss a payment. i.e. low-risk, high-profit.

Over the past year, I’ve watched my credit score start low and go lower, and I’ve come to the realization that it’s complete bullshit.

Yes, the 300 foot trees can be found as far north as Oregon. They need to be within 40 miles of the coast because they require around 500 quarts of water a day, but they can absorb the water through their bark and needles and get up to 40 percent of their water from fog.

Wayback: web.archive.org/web/20111…

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"Talking and stretching are forbidden on the assembly line, and clocking in five minutes late may result in the loss of half a day’s wages. Bathroom use is limited to 10 minutes, which is strictly enforced by an electronic key card." The Deadly Labor Behind Our Phones, Laptops and Consumer Gadgets - COLORLINES

Ah, the perversity of it all just gets to me.

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In one of history’s ironic twists, a Gujarati man born in Bombay now owns the company that was set up at Leadenhall Street at the end of the 16th century by British traders and merchants who went around the globe looking for a good cuppa and some spices and ended up colonising half the world—including India, the jewel in the crown—before collapsing in 1873.

Apple competitors tried to rub the amulet for luck — and showed us what they really stood for: Cheap, imitative mediocrity.

The New Yorker Tim Ferriss profile is unremarkable. Save your time.

It isn’t just that he made computers cool or put them in pretty boxes. It’s that he put those computers in new conceptual boxes. A machine originally designed for processing equations and building bombs turned out to have a wonderful hidden potential: for song, laughter, poetry, community, family.

Is it now against the law to be dark and read a book about historic aircraft?

I spend almost all of my waking hours looking at, listening to, touching, or carrying an Apple device, except when I am taking a shower or have been chided for neglecting the children.

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“The Whole Earth Catalog,” a kind of hippie Wikipedia

On Saturday, a representative from the Federal Emergency Management Agency emailed Ms. Tien’s colleague, asking if @irene could help them with their outreach. (A suggested tweet from the FEMA rep: “People should protect themselves from me, I’m dangerous. Visit http://m.fema.gov for tips on your phone.”)

He treated them the way his grandparents had been treated by so many small minded Americans 100 years ago. He had risen from humble beginnings into a position of power, and then used that power to oppress people because they spoke a different language, came from a different culture, and were a slightly different shade than his ancestors.

At some point as a society we’re going to have to stop pretending that useful jobs will continue to be created at even close to the rate that they’re being made obsolete, and figure out what to do with all of these people with time on their hands. Anyway, derail.

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“You’re missing it. This is not a one-man show. What’s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there’s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they’re not losers. What they didn’t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.” [BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

Everyone leapt to their feet and applauded again for several minutes more, this time with Steve egging them on, applauding each other as a team. That moment has since defined what I think about as leadership.

We believe that we’re on the face of the earth to make great products and that’s not changing. We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. … We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

Even if Mr. Jobs does not get personally involved in future negotiations, music executives still fear dealing with Apple. One chit the company holds is the power of the iTunes home page, where it promotes music. They also say that the entire Apple staff, including Eddie Cue, the vice president in charge of iTunes who handles the relationships with the record labels, do their best to follow Mr. Jobs’s style in their own negotiating.

What are you going to do in the longer term?” Rumelt asked. “What’s the strategy?” Jobs, he recalls, “just smiled and said, ‘I am going to wait for the next big thing.’

These headbangers are angry and vindictive. They’ve been looking for revenge since ‘92 and let’s face it— you weren’t far from the scene of the crime.

Used to be Apple would add features like this for power users to find.

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I’m thrilled to be able to show Tito, my son, a Spider-Man whose last name is Morales. Call me selfish, but I think that’s wonderful.

The couple say they do not feel like pioneers in the gentrification of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the neighborhood in central Brooklyn that traces its African-American roots to the early 19th century and has been the borough’s black cultural capital for decades.¶ “We just feel so lucky to be in such a vibrant neighborhood,” Ms. Enck said.

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.

When Earl Ray, a Pima Indian who lives near Phoenix, switched to a more traditional native diet of mesquite meal, tepary beans, cholla buds and chaparral tea, he dropped from 239 pounds to less than 150 and brought his severe diabetes under control without medication.

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Here are the dwarves from the Hobbit. I had been sketching them as warm up drawings the past week or so and liked the way they turned out. So here they are a bit gussied up.
The reason I drew these and risked being compared to Sam Bosma was because the people making the new Hobbit films had released some pictures of the cast. And I rather disliked most of them (I like Bofur and Bombur, but the rest of them look like a cross between Scandinavian hard rockers and klingon cosplayers), so I wanted to know how I thought they should perhaps look.

Am I seriously being asked to sign a petition in favor of more privileges for overprivileged youth?

The logo for the symposium was offensive, in my view, as it showed outlines of clearly northern European Caucasians. So far, in all of the photos I’ve seen from the symposium, I haven’t seen any dark-skinned people.

If you accept the notion that no one knows what to eat these days since they’re bombarded with conflicting nutritional advice at every turn, then the several hundred people who attended this past weekend’s Ancestral Health Symposium in Los Angeles must be an exception to that as they seem to have a handle on it.

"93. Develop a way to program that requires no scripting or coding." Bad advice. Unrealistic.

"44. Continue your research in voice recognition." Bad advice. Still irrelevant.

20. Tap the move toward push media by creating a network computer. Bad advice. Probably the most dated piece of advice on the list.

A generation bred on a diet of excessive consumerism and bombarded by advertising had been unleashed, he added. “Where we used to be defined by what we did, now we are defined by what we buy. These big stores are in the business of tempting [the consumer] and then suddenly these people find they can just walk into the shop and have it all.”

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Psychedelic drug intoxication is a high-reward state, whereas meditation is generally a low-reward state. Drugs can cause a feeling of oneness that is similar to what a person can experience while meditating, but they lack the ability to increase reward sensitivity and restore a constructive relationship with everyday life.

If you aren’t willing or able to eat mostly home cooked food made from basic ingredients, as every healthy culture does, you will have to accept a higher likelihood of fat gain and disease.

When he wants to be, the president is a brilliant and moving speaker, but his stories virtually always lack one element: the villain who caused the problem, who is always left out, described in impersonal terms, or described in passive voice, as if the cause of others’ misery has no agency and hence no culpability.

Sell all you want, I’ll be buying this week.

Some of the congressional Republicans who are preventing action to help the economy are simply intellectual primitives who reject modern economics on the same basis that they reject Darwin and climate science. Others are obviously cynical, desiring the worst possible economy as an aid to recapturing the White House and Senate in 2012. Still others simply do not believe that government action can ever be a force for good at any time or in any way. Whatever their motivations, there is something terribly sad about desperate and unemployed Americans looking for rescue to a party that lacks any inclination to alleviate their misery.

Several blogs and gay and lesbian publications are now picking up the story, but the heavy hitters who usually kill for hero stories like this, have remained silent.

They hold your name hostage. It’s like identity theft. What the hell? I’m not gonna pay ‘em. They’re like, “It’ll cost you $50,000 for your name.” F you! I don’t have to pay for my name.

latenightjimmy:

Late night tUnE-YarDs played “Gangsta” with Questlove and Black Thought and you need to see this. Weeeeeooooooweeeeooooweeeeooooo.

Will knowing how to make mead from sorrel and tea from honey locusts pods really come in handy if there is a food supply-chain meltdown?

if any of the fixes listed do not fix your washed out display please look into the following. Universal Access - Monitor Contrast Adjustments in OSX Be aware that OSX introduces a feature in the “Universal Access” utility that can severely limit the performance of your monitor. To review this feature proceed as follows: Click on the Apple icon (top-left) then on “System Preferences”
Next, click on the “Universal Access” icon (bottom-right). Ensure that the “Seeing” tab is selected. Under “Display”, ensure that the “Enhance Contrast” slider is as far left as possible - this is the normal position. If the slider is positioned even a small fraction of an inch from the left, there will be a loss of shadow contrast that can hide subtle shadow details in your images.

Did they run and hide? No, they’re lesbians, so they jumped in their boat and sped toward the slaughter. The women pulled terrified teens from the water and the rocky coast as the insane far-right gunman shot through their vessel. Unfortunately, there were too many youth to fit in the boat. Hege and Toril ferried the group to safety, then hurried back to the massacre, rescuing another boatload. Then they did it yet again. And still again. Altogether in their four trips they saved forty people from the scene where seventy-six died. The mainstream U.S. media, which loves a hero story almost as much as a tragedy, has been uniformly silent about the lesbian superstars.

We may iterate on the design later, but at the moment, the current experience is desired and what we will implement in Lion.

How else can some criminals make money if the drug game isn’t what it used to be? As far as the younger kids, the group/gang mentality seems to be the fad. The kids in their early teens seem to favor the shock and awe approach meaning they bum rush and attack then take whatever they can get their hands on. It should be noted that when separated from the group in the police station they tend to weep uncontrollably.

Actually, it takes place in the year before it was published. Literally in the year in which it was written. A speculative novel of the very recent past.

It’s really, really about the material.

Applications without processes. Processes without applications. Did Lion just blow your mind?

Fuck the business models, projections, and funding rounds and just “do the right thing”.

For someone who’s spent a lot of your career puncturing middle-class aspiration and self-delusion, your piece is painfully blind to the fact that all of China is just a few generations removed from dire, desperate want.

If I had continued at the public school, I’m quite sure I would have found my way into the group of bohemians (basically stoners playing hacky sack on the hill) and my subsequent life would have been very different.

A medical system that successfully guided patients toward healthier lifestyles would almost certainly see its cash flow diminish dramatically. “Last year, 75 percent of the $2.6 trillion the U.S. spent on health care was for treating chronic diseases that, to a large degree, can be prevented or reversed through lifestyle change,” says Dean Ornish of UCSF. Who (besides patients) has an incentive to make changes that would remove that money from the system?

I’ve worked in a lot of retail jobs. Zellers, Wal-Mart, Loblaws, Rogers Video. Not a single one even came close to making me feel the way Whole Foods did. Primarily because they don’t misrepresent themselves to the extent that Whole Foods does.

The HR lady has the audacity to tell me that I should have given myself enough time from leaving my place to be hit by a car and deal with the whatever happened afterwards to get to work.

It’s just crazy, and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies. It’s just unnecessary to be accusing this guy of things just because of his religious background. I’m happy that he’s willing to serve after all this baloney.

In Lion, screen sharing is easier than before — you can now log in and control a user account even if the computer is being used by someone with a different user account.

I pay the local gutter punks a trifling sum monthly to hurl a brick through the window and occasionally to spraypaint hostile graffiti on the marquee. Any minute now Channel 10 and the UC Review will be around all aghast to record the latest outrage against the yuppie community. It’s incredible how much sympathy we get from these vulgar anarchist attacks on our efforts to bring haute cuisine to this dreary neighborhood.

being in the country,” “feeling like I’m outside even if I’m inside,” “silence,” “music” and “lots of light.

These strains are a food-safety disaster waiting to happen. As far back as 2007, the government considered routine testing for the presence of these pathogens in certain raw beef products. But nothing has been done: inspectors don’t test for them, and the public isn’t aware of how they are different from earlier strains. Nor have they been declared adulterants in food, which would lead to stricter quality and reporting standards.

I’d love next/previous tab gestures. More useful than back/forward a page.

(Imagine laptops that look like two iPads hinged together, is what I’m thinking.)

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The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure “light paintings” of the entire cadaver.

(via 12:31, via drawar)

We’re doing a very basic thing: bringing plain water into contact with dried plant materials to imbue the water with flavor, color and various active substances, like caffeine and antioxidant polyphenols.

The best thing is to let children encounter these challenges from an early age, and they will then progressively learn to master them through their play over the years.

The Hope Creek reactor is the same model as the plant that melted down in Japan following the catastrophic tsunami and earthquake in the spring.

They’ve added all of the ports you’ll normally use to their new generation of displays, and they use a Thunderbolt cable to handle the communication for all of those ports using a single cable. To connect, you just plug in the Thunderbolt cable and the power cable from the monitor. You can even daisy chain multiple monitors through a single Thunderbolt connection.

Interests: Getting my innocent brother freed from prison after 28 years and counting

There are good foods and bad foods, and the advice should be to eat the good foods more and the bad foods less.

I was recently at a very large consumer products company (stay tuned) where there was a wall of different phones and tablets from which managers could choose, then sit in a mockup hotel room to test how they’d work with it remotely. “Three to five years from now, everyone will be bringing their own device into work anyway,” the CIO told me. “I have to turn that issue into an opportunity.”

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Check out the Monopoly™ deed style on this early-20th-century ‘trade card’ advertising an island on the Jersey shore just south of Atlantic City.

(via Strathmere - a brief history & vintage photos) 

Like all past versions of Mac OS X, Lion has no serial number, no product activation, and no DRM of any kind.

Apple couldn’t get much bigger without selling oil, while the media industry has been reduced to dime-size buttons that show up on iPhone screens. Google regularly announces initiatives to “save” the newspaper and book industries — like a modern-day hunter who proclaims himself a conservationist. And Facebook, having already swallowed up enormous chunks of discretionary media consumption time, has its old-school media counterparts chasing after “Likes” as if they were cocaine being dispensed in a lab rat’s cage.

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(via huxley vs. orwell - mlkshk) The first night I really got drunk I met a friend of a friend who talked my ear off about a book by Herman Hesse I’d never heard of which postulated a future dystopia in which the masses were mollified by an abundance of information: publishing was seen as a virtue but functioned as a vice, drowning the populace in irrelevancies. It took me a decade but I think the book was The Glass Bead Game. Have you read it?

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Peep exploits human instinct: our ability to notice a deviation from the norm with little effort, to determine what sounds right, and to discern singular important sounds from a collection of many sounds. We do these tasks with little or no conscious effort. Since computer interfaces mainly require the visual senses (and some motor skills), the audio senses are left available to perform this unconscious processing.

I made the same trip in 1958 in a ‘53 Hudson. The worst seating position of any car that had ever been invented. And if the film is authentic, the driver will be squirming with a sore back all the way. Good luck, everybody!

So then World War II comes and then everyone’s sad for a while—a simplification of history—and then everyone wants to be cheered up, so along came the Beatles, just in time.

Musicians come and go and they’re stewards of the music for a brief period of time. But once the music plays—it’s really between Beethoven and the listener at that point. The musicians are there to get their goddamn hands off of it. All that training! Thousands of hours! Sight-reading every day! All so they can get the hell out of the way because nobody gives a crap about them at all.

I got to play with these orchestras recently, at Carnegie Hall. One of the best musical experiences of my life. You go in and there are all the walls covered in photos of great conductors. A picture of Mark Twain standing on the stage. This is what you walk by before you go onstage, in case anyone ever wants to try and have an ego in that room.

When 1 out of 5 students in the class being involved in a cheating case, the lectures and class discussions became awkward. For the rest of the semester there was a palpable anxiousness in class. Instead of having friendly discussions, the discussions became contentious. Not a pleasant environment.

This, of course, had a direct effect to my teaching evaluations. Instead of the usual evaluations that were in the region of 6.0 to 6.5 out of seven, this time my ratings went down by almost a point: 5.3 out of 7.0. Instead of being a teacher in the upper percentiles, I was now below average.

The Dean’s office and my chair “expressed their appreciation” for me chasing such cases (in December), but six months later, when I received my annual evaluation, my yearly salary increase was the lowest ever, as my “teaching evaluations took a hit this year”.

As if vocabulary itself materializes, precipitating out as alternative spatial futures for the city.

I would like to see our NGO post the state’s rules in the community kitchen and then let people make their own decision; keep the market together and let the state come down and pluck out who’s following the rules and who is not. Are folks who create cottage industry going to be forced to sell the goods from their homes or from hidden baskets under tables at the market?

Now many people know that octopii can change color but they think it’s for camoflage, for blending in with the environment, this is not at all the case. The reason octopii change colors in a very large repatoire of stripes, dots, blushes, travelling shades and tonal shifts is because this is for them a channel of linguistic communication.

Imagine another room within that room whose doorway is also sealed behind drywall—and then other rooms within that room, and further corridors and stairs and entrances. Tap, tap, tap—you navigate by sound, knocking deeper and deeper into an architectural world you only reveal by means of careful deconstruction.

Neurochemicals are highly conserved in evolution - bacteria, plants, insects, and fish all produce forms of the neurochemicals called the catecholemines. Thus it makes sense that bacteria in our gut can communicate directly with using, to some extent, the same “language” as our mammalian brains. Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species are known to produce GABA. Escherichia, Bacillus, and Saccharomyces produce norepinephrine. Candida, Streptococcus, Escherichia, and Enterococcus produce serotonin. Bacillus and Serratia produce dopamine, and Lactobacillus species produce acetylcholine. That’s pretty much the entire hit parade of major neurotransmitters

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Murdoch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!
     Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old
     men weeping in the parks!

Murdoch! Murdoch! Nightmare of Murdoch! Murdoch the loveless!
     Mental Murdoch! Murdoch the heavy judger of men!

Murdoch the incomprehensible prison! Murdoch the crossbone soulless
     jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Murdoch whose buildings are
     judgment! Murdoch the vast stone of war! Murdoch the stunned
     governments!

Murdoch whose mind is pure machinery! Murdoch whose blood is running money!
     Murdoch whose fingers are ten armies! Murdoch whose breast is a
     cannibal dynamo! Murdoch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
     Murdoch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Murdoch whose skyscraper
     stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Murdoch whose
     factories dream and croak in the fog! Murdoch whose smoke-stacks and
     antennae crown the cities!

Murdoch whose love is endless oil and stone! Murdoch whose soul is
     electricity and banks! Murdoch whose poverty is the specter of genius!
     Murdoch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Murdoch whose name
     is the Mind!

Where it says ‘Moloch’, say ‘Murdoch’. via https://twitter.com/stevesilberman

Also, the idea that the “hidden” sculpture could, in fact, remain hidden unless the wind were to blog a certain way, revealing itself to the listener.

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shadinyc:

You know exactly who they dont want in here but the guy with shorts and flip flops is welcome This is in Rockafella Center btw

It’s really about communicating with people that I work with that there are limits.

Omar Wasow looks at the rise in violence in the 1970s in black communities, and the forces responsible for the rise in disparities of black incarceration.

vimeo.com/16258306

poptech:

Speaking of citizen science, Gale McCullough (PopTech 2010), a former nursery school teacher and old-fashioned naturalist, discovered a whale that had journeyed an unprecedented 6,000 miles from Brazil to Madagascar. The technology she used? Flickr. Through the photo sharing website where people post their “I-went-on-a-whale-watch-trip” photos, she found matching photos of the whales.

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My local police precinct (Southwest Detectives in Philadelphia) is doing this fascinating thing where they post pictures from memory cards on stolen cameras to help find the original owners. It’s a strange combination of useful and invasive — one or two of the pictures border on intensely personal. But there are some really interesting pictures and I love the idea of someone finding their lost or stolen stuff this way.

What a great post! I feel guilty reblogging it.

I’d like to see the full spectrum of psychedelics be integrated into hospice care.

I never would have thought that writing gender-neutral language in software would be a harder problem than, say, indexing the entirety of the Internet for perfect search results.

Some people squirt their cats when they’re misbehaving, so maybe it could have water in the phone, and you could squirt the dog.

To present email and text messages as they often feel would create an experimental novel, as if descending from Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs cut-ups.

The subtext of nearly every interaction with a health-care provider in the U.S. is: You’re lucky to have this coverage. Don’t push it. There are thousands of patients waiting behind you who are in even worse condition than you are. Let’s get through this as quickly as possible so the whole bloody machine doesn’t come grinding to a halt.

And when I was 13 years old, reading this, I didn’t understand the scouring of the Shire. They won—why are there all these other pages? But I reread these books every few years, and every time my appreciation for what Tolkien did there grows. It was this kind of sad elegy on the price of victory.

A few months ago, I said in Berlin, “Cognitive cities require the approval and collaboration of city authorities. The same people who make flyposting illegal.”

It’s sad, and somewhat annoying – especially for Tom – but a better example that these streets are not our streets won’t be found in Britain today.

The slipper to coffee snobbery was fairly close to my bed when I woke up.

I’m uncomfortable using a privately-owned social network as the medium to give voice to our sensors and objects.

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inky:

The Yip Yips discover dubstep.

A lot of the moms there are giving their kids Botox, I’m not the only one who does it.

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And somehow I knew that the notional space behind all of the computer screens would be one single universe.

I’ve just gotten to a point where this is no longer working for me. Too many of my day-to-day concerns are not consonant with the way I want to experience the world.

“It’s Andy Hertzfeld, the original Mac guy,” he said.

Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.

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Two nuclear power plants in Nebraska, 100 miles apart, are completely surrounded by water. (via Flooding Won’t Overcome Nuclear Plants, Officials Say : NPR)

I have a theory that all men in the universe can be classified into two groups depending on which of the following two questions they answer “yes” to: 1. Have you ever partied with cheerleaders? or, 2. Have you ever been bitten by a snake?

The world is full of aging baby boomers who are looking forward to psychedelic retirement and psychedelic hospice. They had psychedelic experiences in their youth that were useful to them. They gave up the drugs for family and career. Now they’re thinking back to those valuable experiences and they want to get re-engaged.

I became seriously worried about raising my own children when I was a camp counselor in a wealthy suburban area and found out the games that were “banned”, which included:

• Star Wars (and anything else with wars)
• Cowboys and Indians (and anything else politically incorrect)
• Police and Robbers (and anything else with “weapons” even if you used your hand and went “bang bang”.)
• Good old fashioned Tag and Hide and Go Seek… too “dangerous”

Meanwhile, everyone was unconcerned with the massive amounts of sugar we fed those kids.

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With all due respect, I’m certain I can’t understand how Maisel’s hurt feelings are worth $32K.

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The poor kids wouldn’t know where to look – the reassuring fullness of their own mothers’ breasts, granny’s withered pancake boasting its long experience, or the strange mound of flesh granddad was squeezing up in breast envy.

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Modern civilization has many things to admire, but the dark side of its so-called nutrition comes with it in a package. Often the fake foods that carry its malnutrition are manufactured to have drug-like addictive qualities. It peddles the illusion of ease with its elevators and office chairs. Its televisions and radios and educational systems constitute unparalleled systems of mass media that embed its ideologies within the minds of its students.

The one-story house in West Hollywood (835 North Kings Road; 323-651-1510; makcenter.org; $7) was built in 1921-22 and feels incredibly modern with its lack of decorative fuss. The unpainted concrete walls feature narrow strips of glass set at regular intervals. Other walls are made of redwood frames and stretched canvas; some open onto the gardens. Schindler described the house as fulfilling “the basic requirements for a campers’ shelter: a protected back, an open front, a fireplace and a roof.” Schindler’s house integrates the interior and exterior with several protected outdoor “rooms” — some with fireplaces on the exterior walls.

You actually have to watch the popcorn pop. Then you take the various accouterments to the Champagne room for the least erotic virtual striptease possible.
It made me long for the urinal.

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"It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out what to eat when you’re dealing with REAL FOOD" (via Jurassic Flood: No excuses!)

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Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way, via Astronomy Picture of the Day)

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alanvanroemburg:

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Alan van Roemburg thanks to Takamasa!

…This is basically equivalent to a “smoke cigarettes to raise money for colon cancer” promotion.

Humans paid a heavy biological cost for agriculture, especially when it came to the variety of nutrients. Even now, about 60 percent of our calories come from corn, rice and wheat.

I AM JOHNNY CARSON’S ADULT MALE CHILD

Parkitecture occupies an interesting liminal space in the parks; it both informs and restricts your movement, trying to blend in with the natural surroundings while being obviously official. It also requires an investment in apparently outdated trades–we saw trail maintenance in Zion being performed by a team of masons with chisels and hammers, chipping the red sandstone into appropriately rustic blocks. The curation and preservation of these trade skills seem just as important to me as the park itself.

I want to target the pot market. There’s no good reason we haven’t.

Instead of white bread, corn, sugar, powdered milk and canned foods, they began to eat the traditional fresh foods of their ancestral past: kangaroos, birds, crocodiles, turtles, shellfish, yams, figs, yabbies (freshwater crayfish), freshwater bream and bush honey. At the experiment’s conclusion, the results were spectacular, but not altogether unexpected given what [was] known about Paleo diets, even then … their diabetes effectively disappeared.

As a person concerned about his health, and as someone who feels that there are reasonable ethical options available for meat consumption, I have consciously (and perhaps selfishly) chosen to avoid a sub-optimal diet. I have come to recognize the fact that the human body evolved to eat meat, and that in order for me to live and be at my best, I need to be an omnivore.

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"It was an excellent decision to make the pawns ChuChus. The pawns is where a lot of themed chess sets go wrong, and Zelda is a tough series to pick an enemy pawn for. They look great." (via My friend just finished this hand-sculpted Legend of Zelda chess set. : gaming)

Is this what people aspire to? A stuffed peacock on a non-functioning fireplace? A 4-foot high photo of a cigarette smoker on the wall? Lily-white upholstered furniture on the beach?

Most small farms are not self-sustaining in a very basic sense: they can’t make ends meet financially without relying on income from jobs off the farm.

The Lisa hardware designers (Paul Baker, Bob Paratore and others) solved the problem by including a little Apple II, with its own memory and microprocessor (but clocked twice as fast), inside the Lisa to control the Twiggy drives.

You will know the future is here because it will not be a continuation and repetition of mids-80s and late-90s phantasms with ever shittier economic and political conditions.

if you described the War On Drugs, with its massive collateral damage to civil liberties and innocent lives to someone from a few decades ago, that would sound pretty crazy

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He was a kind of action hero for very famous writers and poets, but he couldn’t create that notion himself. It must’ve been a weird existence for him, where he almost felt like a creation of other people.

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I can at a moment’s notice access any email I’ve sent in the last 14 years, or any school paper I’ve written in the last 23. All this data takes up less than one gigabyte. By 8-bit standards, that’s staggering; by today’s, having the output of an entire era fit on 0.2% of my current computer’s capacity is humbling.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operates the plant, has said radioactive water could start overflowing from temporary storage areas on June 20, or possibly sooner if there is heavy rainfall.

Earlier this month, Mike Maginnis outlined some of his Apple II goals. It was an excellent call to action for Apple II users to outline what they want to accomplish with or contribute to the Apple II.

So the original Apple II price point was $1195, and it still is.

The communes were the model for the modern idea of the self organising, non-hierarchical network which you now see in internet utopianism. What I show in the film is that what’s been wiped out of the memory of the communes is that most collapsed within three years. The more powerful system used the system and everybody else was defenceless because you were not allowed to make alliances with other people.

When I came back to California after the last commune I’d lived in had broken up, I was a single father with a young daughter, and I had to earn a living. I began acting professionally as a source of income. The good news is I was able to save toward my retirement and send both my kids to good schools and colleges, to graduate debt-free. The bad news is that once I took the money, I was a bought boy. I was dependent on other people for a living. I put my family’s needs before my own authentic desires. I don’t mind, and acting has been good to me, but it’s not where I live, and whenever you violate what’s most important to you, you pay a price.

I felt comforted by the fact that like everyone I’ve reconnected with on Facebook, he’d gotten fat, and by the banality of his listed interests like “Bob Marley” and “Scrubs.” He was a monster in my memory, but on Facebook, he was just a man.

I still agree with my 2005 opinion that rather than assuming “everybody reads” you should assume you’re somebody’s only filter.

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If we are not careful we shall leave our children a legacy of billion dollar roads leading nowhere except to other congested places like those they left behind. (via Malcolm Wells office, Cherry Hill, NJ - a set on Flickr)

To last for centuries, to provide a sheltered roadway, to serve all creatures and to present a living surface to the sky, a bridge must have a roof and a deep covering of earth.

In a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, Udall urged Congress to restrict the Patriot Act’s business-records seizures to “terrorism investigations” — something the ostensible counterterrorism measure has never required in its nearly 10-year existence.

We did public art installations. And, I don’t know if you consider it arts, exactly, but I consider growing organic vegetables in the shadow of a steel mill an art, and that has attracted homesteading.

We also want equitable education that’s shared - not people who know to text each other at 1 a.m. That’s not public education.

I know it might sound nuts, but it’s going pretty well. The allergies seem to have peaked and declined.

In particular, this is directed to locally storing one or more clips corresponding to a media item such that the clips can be immediately played back in response to a user request to play back the media item. While the clips are played back, the electronic device can retrieve the remaining segments of the media item from the user’s media library as a media stream over a communications network. Once the playback of the clip is complete, the electronic device can seamlessly switch playback to the media stream received from the user’s library.

If something is tied to a project’s success, you can’t hope for it, you need to find a way to make it happen.

I got really, really fast and to this day I still think of executing things in 30 minute increments. If something’s not right after 30 minutes, start over and try again.

I think it went way beyond constructive. It was an art form in itself. We were basically trying to see if we could get each other to drop out of school.

I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls.

It just really made sense that the human body was surviving without grain. Our bodies really haven’t had time to adapt to pizza and rolls.

It’s hard to talk to strangers in parks,” said Scott. “Because invariably they need $50 for the train because they’ve lost their wallet. And you’re like, oh, I thought I was building community.

UNIVERSITY CITY IS AN EXPERIMENT IN THE ROTTING GENTRY. A MASTER PLAN OUTLINED BY A COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE THE BASTIONS OF THE RICH WHITE LIBERALISM THAT HAS PERVADED THIS COUNTRY OF LATE. SPECIFICALLY, THAT MEANS A FLOOD OF PEOPLE BUYING HOMES IN WEST PHILLY THAT CAN AFFORD TO DO SO BASED ON THE UPENN WAR MACHINE’S GENEROSITY, ADDITIONALLY ENABLED BY OBAMA-VOTING, HYBRID-DRIVING LIBERALS WHO BELIEVE THEMSELVES TO BE OPEN-MINDED, NON-RACISTS WHO CAN SEEMINGLY SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE INTO IMPOVERISHED NEIGHBORHOODS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. DISPEL AND DESIST THESE IDEAS, AND DARE TO RESIST. YOUR CHOICES ARE TIED INTO THE ECONOMIC MACHINE WHICH GRINDS US ALL DOWN, BUT NEVER FORGET THAT IN AMERICA “SOME [PEOPLE] ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”

I will lose. I will make mistakes. I will have shitty periods of time that are completely outside of my control. People I love will make mistakes, usually completely unrelated to me, or not.

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(via Dangerous Minds | Douglas Rushkoff: Taking Back the World)

What I found most amazing was the glimpses of Black service workers in those parts of the canopy where Whiteness asserts itself most viciously as the dominant cultural form: the hostess at Rouge, the doormen in Rittenhouse Square, and the security guards in the Center City office building. That’s where Anderson’s magic lies: in offering vivid glances into the often-obscure mechanics of social life.

Anderson calls these spaces “cosmopolitan canopies,” places where diverse people gather, and feel comfortable striking up sometimes surprisingly intimate conversations. “It’s really a point of cultural convergence,” Anderson tells NPR’s Neal Conan, “where all different kinds of people … call ‘time out’ on the segregated and sometimes quite contentious areas” outside of those melting pots.

It’s the outdoor cafes. All 213 of them.

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This excellent survey of pop deity origins begins with “the ur-god and his dark twin,” Superman and Batman. As Morrison sees it, “archetyped, pop-mythic tales of superpowered heroes and villains” soared into our collective imaginations in an explosive fashion. Superman, “the personification of a thrusting industrial tomorrow,” had a primal impact. Soon there was a pantheon of gods and figures from legend and myth: Hawkman (“an avatar of hawk-headed Horus”), the Flash (“the Greek god Hermes”) and Captain Marvel, whose magic word, “Shazam,” was an acronym: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury. (via Nonfiction Review: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6912-5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEDLAgu0yl8

Little Girl Plays With Dead Squirrel (by 3jeana)

Why has eating gotten so complicated?

Via: DegreeSearch.org

When I start at a new office I like to take a small copy of a famous picture of a sad baby monkey desperately hugging a “mother” monkey made of chicken wire, and I pushpin that through the cloth of the cubicle-skin into the cushiony sponge-flesh below. That is how I tell the world.

No one writing code said, “Let’s totally mess with his perception of self and understanding of free will.”

You don’t get into what happened a week after his original vision of Blake’s voice, when Allen tried to re-invoke it and ended up having a horrific, nightmarish experience. He took that as a lesson if you tried to invoke visionary states consciously, you didn’t always know what you were getting. You might get merry Krishna or grim Shiva.

With a great leap, I threw myself through the air and landed with one foot on the poor armadillo’s tail. In a flash I drew a long knife from the sheath on my belt and stabbed it in hard and quick into the gap in the armor at the base of the armadillo’s neck, cutting the spine and killing it instantly.

I use default settings in almost all of my apps… I really like the idea of experiencing the software as it was designed (or unleashed) by its creators, and sort of getting in the mindset of the millions of other people who use the apps.

As upper-middle-class consumers increasingly seek out healthier foods, fast-food chains are targeting low-income minority communities — much like tobacco companies did when wealthy and well-educated people began to quit smoking.

Kern had previously gained national attention for her comments three years ago that homosexuality is the death knell of the country, and a bigger threat than terrorism or Islam, and for comparing homosexuality to toe cancer. She did not apologize and was not reprimanded for those remarks.

Natural selection has produced only minor alterations during the past 10,000 years, so we remain nearly identical to our late Paleolithic ancestors and, accordingly, their nutritional pattern has continuing relevance. The preagricultural diet might be considered a possible paradigm or standard for contemporary human nutrition.

Research shows that even when news reports have been retracted, and we are aware of the retraction, our beliefs are largely based on the initial erroneous version of the story. This is particularly true when we are motivated to approve of the initial account.

That Hudson just wants to go!

"There is no point for me to be here," as the Kan administration had failed to listen to him, said Kosako, an expert on radiation safety.

But if you can find only hard, green mangoes, bring them home anyway — they will ripen at room temperature in a few days time.

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There is a huge irony, that a time when we discover so many planets to look at, we don’t have the operating funds to listen.

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jimn:

A supposedly biodegradable fork in my compost bin. It’s been there for about a year. Under what possible circumstances will it degrade? “Biodegradable” is almost as vague a promise as “recyclable”.

If, like me, you obsess over tiny details of your Macintosh browsing experience, you may find LinkThing useful. If not, you’ll probably wonder what’s wrong with me.

You start out as a young person bewildered by things, and then suddenly you’re the one bewildering the young people. I can see it in their faces.

Go as far down the list as you can in whatever time frame you can manage. The further along the list you stop, the healthier you are likely to be. There is no counting, measuring, or weighing.

Please stop trying to sell me something I don’t need.

One of the remarkable things about the way the *global* indigenous world has embraced the web, for example, is that it has hugely facilitated political alliances between indigenous groups in different parts of the world, who nonetheless have similar (“tribal”) understandings of social organization that are relatively readily inter-translatable.

not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars—compassion, love, the subsurface unity of all things

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Protection from Narcissism (via | Corina Dross)

We’re all practically living in the same place. There has been a great levelling. We have the same brand names reiterated in all of our shop fronts; the same chain stores in every town.

I’ve come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be — in their current incarnation, at least — is a symbol of American reluctance to involve themselves in any kind of conflict without massive tactical superiority.

But I can remember walking through town wearing an old Watchmen T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off and somebody shouting ‘Aciiieeeeeeed!’ at me from the other side of the street! Which was a pleasant and engaging experience!

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We ought to become what surrounds us and let our surroundings reach so far into us that there is no us left. From this expanded/contracted view nothing is secret, unrevealed or unknown because we become more than our “self,” we become the vantage point of the landscape and the environment literally.

We grew up together in a small town in Western Colorado during the 50’s and 60’s; we traveled to the Amazon together in 1971, as brothers and friends, as fellow seekers. We called ourselves, self-mockingly, The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss (even on the cusp of uncovering the mysteries of existence we managed to keep a sense of humor; it helped to be Irish). We went in search of we knew not what; only that it was a profound insight, unspeakable, beyond comprehension, and that it would change us, and everything, forever.

People were more likely to choose bigger, delayed rewards over smaller, more immediate payoffs when making the decision on a full bladder.

They are the only generation who will have pensions, social security, and crazy real estate investments that guarantee the expansion of wealth. They were bribed, paid to let the current system take it’s hold, and they took the money. My generation and many that follow will pay the price for their choices. We will rebuild this world or die trying.

Nutritionally I can’t think of a bigger lie than the one claiming that fats in general and saturated fats in particular are bad for us. This lie is so deeply embedded in the minds of most that you couldn’t blow it out with a stick of dynamite.

It seems possible that the golden age for forensic recovery and analysis of deleted data and deleted metadata may now be ending.

…What you need to do is to start finding out what local plants can be used for antibiotics. What are local water purification systems you’ll be able to use. How are you going to build shelters. How will you pull up parking lots to make gardens. Learning self-defense and forming committees to deal with the additional violence that might (or might not) break out. Getting to know your neighbors, both human and nonhuman. How’s that for a start?

These flat omelets, which can be eaten hot or cold and pack well in a lunchbox, are a perfect destination for all sorts of vegetables.

When children age 3 to 5 see a ball rolling into a box, they say that the ball couldn’t have done anything else. But when they see an experimenter put her hand in the box, they insist that she could have done something else.

(via Taking precautions › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion)

I am a huge geek; my wife, however, is not. She, like Luke, could never be turned, so the responsibility for making sure our two little kids end up liking stuff like Star Wars, Tolkien, Final Fantasy, Doc Brown and, of course, D&D is on me.

Scary and Sad: Japanese House Floats Through Pacific - Disasters - Curbed LA

Owsley Stanley,” my dad wrote. “Didn’t know his first name was Owsley. Just knew that the first few hits of acid were called Owsley. Went with friends to the Fillmore West to see Janis Joplin and the Holding Company, or so I was told. They laughed when I told them that I didn’t know who she was. Had just started U.C. Berkeley and had taken an Alternative Course in creative writing and another course on Gandhi. Dropped the Acid and well what is time and space anyway.

As the drug was then unknown in the UK and they had no knowledge of dosage or potency, he and his partner Paula injected the whole shipment in one go. It was an experience that he never really recovered from…

I tried “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but listening to Alex recite Atticus Finch made me want to push an icepick in my ear.

My grandmother took me down to the mailbox in Brooklyn every morning, and she would say, ‘It’s a federal offense for anyone to look at your mail. That’s what makes this country great.’ In the old country they’d open your mail, and that’s how they knew about you.

Don’t forget the human and the first-person experience, he said, we have this job to wake up the world to itself.

I’d always been a writer but, boy, did I get an education. He’d say: ‘It’s easier than you think! Just look out your eye like you’re looking through a window!’ and, ‘Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!’

Hi, I hear you’re really nice, if you come down to the Howard Johnsons in Greenwich Village, I’ll be waiting at the counter in a red-and-black-checked shirt.

In the noise of everything you see and do in your life, those moments that garner the strongest reaction are the ones that are remembered. Fear, rejection, humiliation, glee, joy, devotion, tenderness, devastation, grief. So, to have a life filled with memories, you must always feel genuinely and passionately, and let everything make an impression on you. Avoid walls or defenses. You must always take chances. Accept it all, unshielded. That way, you’ll get the most value for your time.

The situation is not unfavorable; there is a prospect of ultimate success, but there are still obstacles in the way, and we can merely take preparatory measures. Only through the small means of friendly persuasion can we exert any influence. The time has not yet come for sweeping measures. However, we may be able, to a limited extent, to act as a restraining and subduing influence. To carry out our purpose we need firm determination within and gentleness and adaptability in external relations.