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Here Is the Full Inequality Speech and Slideshow That Was Too Hot for TED - Atlantic Mobile

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:53:43 -0400

Here Is the Full Inequality Speech and Slideshow That Was Too Hot for TED - Atlantic Mobile:

National Journal, theatlantic.com

Yesterday, National Journal’s Jim Tankersley introduced us to Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist from Seattle, whose speech at the TED University conference was deemed “too politically controversial to post on their w…

Apparently TED can’t handle the truth.

Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:09:57 -0400

Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel:

ted.com

You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you’re doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.

Fantastic!

JULIAN SMITH - Techno Jeep (by juliansmith87)

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:44:15 -0400

JULIAN SMITH - Techno Jeep (by juliansmith87)

When A Medieval Knight Could Marry Another Medieval Knight Eric...

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:28:47 -0400

When A Medieval Knight Could Marry Another Medieval Knight
Eric Berkowitz, theawl.com

Eric Berkowitz’s new book Sex And Punishment, out today from Counterpoint, is a fascinating survey of how legal systems over the millenia have attempted to regulate and police sex. In this excerpt, a discussion of the…

I didn’t know anything about these medieval rituals. Very interesting research presented here.

Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:56:05 -0400

Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845:

nslayton:

futurejournalismproject:

dbreunig:

Nate St. Pierre writes:

Lincoln was requesting a patent for “The Gazette,” a system to “keep People aware of Others in the Town.” He laid out a plan where every town would have its own Gazette, named after the town itself. He listed the Springfield Gazette as his Visual Appendix, an example of the system he was talking about. Lincoln was proposing that each town build a centrally located collection of documents where “every Man may have his own page, where he might discuss his Family, his Work, and his Various Endeavors.”

He went on to propose that “each Man may decide if he shall make his page Available to the entire Town, or only to those with whom he has established Family or Friendship.” Evidently there was to be someone overseeing this collection of documents, and he would somehow know which pages anyone could look at, and which ones only certain people could see (it wasn’t quite clear in the application). Lincoln stated that these documents could be updated “at any time deemed Fit or Necessary,” so that anyone in town could know what was going on in their friends’ lives “without being Present in Body.”

A patent request for Facebook, filed by Abraham Lincoln in 1845.

I’ve long argued Facebook is working towards natural or timeless (for lack of better words) human interaction. That their central idea is relevant in any age should not be surprising.

(Though it is astounding Lincoln was imagining a nearly identical privacy system.)

(Via The Next Web)

FJP: Color me fascinated — Michael.

This is amazing. Wow, I need to look into this.

What a fascinating find.

Though he was born without arms and legs, Nick Vujicic...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:00:54 -0400

Though he was born without arms and legs, Nick Vujicic didn’t give up hope. Today his story is inspiring people all over the world. Skip to about 1:40 in this video to get to the heart of Nick’s message.

(by yeroon123)

"Liberals should learn from this display that there is no point in catering to today’s hard-line..."

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:33:39 -0400

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Liberals should learn from this display that there is no point in catering to today’s hard-line conservatives. The individual mandate was a conservative idea that President Obama adopted to preserve the private market in health insurance rather than move toward a government-financed, single-payer system. What he got back from conservatives was not gratitude but charges of socialism — for adopting their own proposal.

The irony is that if the court’s conservatives overthrow the mandate, they will hasten the arrival of a more government-heavy system. Justice Anthony Kennedy even hinted that it might be more “honest” if government simply used “the tax power to raise revenue and to just have a national health service, single-payer.” Remember those words.

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- E.J. Dionne (via debay)

Malware infects Macs through Microsoft Office vulnerability

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:58:34 -0400

Malware infects Macs through Microsoft Office vulnerability:

Imagine a Microsoft product having a security vulnerability.

newsweek: think-progress: The studio behind “Hunger Games” —...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:04:38 -0400

newsweek:

think-progress:

The studio behind “Hunger Games” — Lionsgate — has put a stop to an anti-hunger campaign, because it claims they are “piggy backing off of our motion picture.”

Remember: The movie stands to make $120 MILLION opening weekend.

TP’s culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg has the scoop.

We like this part the best. “We understand and support your cause and mission,” the lawyer writes, almost amicably. “We are on the same side. We are looking for an amicable resolution.” But then: “For a start we request that you immediately remove any mention of “Hunger is not a Game” from all of your websites and its affiliates and stop using the slogan in your interviews and publicity or press releases. Additionally, please contact the undersigned so we can work out a mutually acceptable plan to go forward where we do not infringe on each other’s rights.” In other words, we support you, but shut. it. down.

You stay classy, Lionsgate.

gumdropssasquatch: i dare you to take 30 minutes and watch this...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:21:24 -0500

gumdropssasquatch:

i dare you to take 30 minutes and watch this video. and i dare you to join the movement and stop joseph kony.

I can’t urge you enough: Please watch this video. In a world so full of gray areas and difficult choices, this cause – stopping, and arresting, Joseph Kony – is universally clear.

Without question, this is right.

Without equivocation, this is just.

Stop Joseph Kony in 2012.

Reblogged without comment. thefluffingtonpost: Dubstep Music...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:39:09 -0500

Reblogged without comment.

thefluffingtonpost:

Dubstep Music Increasingly Popular With Cats

iTunes data released today reveals that feline users are purchasing Dubstep music in surprising quantities — a 47% spike in January alone.

More alarming, perhaps, is that cats use iTunes.

Via Unlikely Words Tumbling.

laughingsquid: Happy Valentine’s Day From Big Bird Happy...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:35:39 -0500

laughingsquid:

Happy Valentine’s Day From Big Bird

Happy Valentines Day!

Apple Bluetooth keyboard has a memory?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:40 -0500

Here’s something I wasn’t expecting. Yesterday I used my Apple Bluetooth keyboard with my iPad to work on some writing projects. I used keyboard shortcuts to copy a big block of text at the end of my writing session.

Today I moved the keyboard back to my Macbook Pro. While attempting to copy something on the laptop, I absentmindedly hit cmd-v — to my surprise, the big block of text I’d copied on my iPad yesterday appeared.

Does the Apple Bluetooth keyboard have a memory?

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet (by Fight for the...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:26:00 -0500

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet (by Fight for the Future)

PIPA/SOPA do more than just break the Internet (which would be bad enough). These bills are two more chinks in the armor that protects ordinary citizens from oppression by powerful government and corporate entities. Please visit americancensorship.org and tell congress you’re not going to stand for unprecedented government and corporate power to control and inhibit the speech of United States citizens.