May 2010
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Update on True/Slant About The Gaza Flotilla Story →
negevrockcity:
Roundup of the news over at True/Slant, broke my Memorial Day weekend no-blogging policy. Lame.
I’m beginning to suspect we need to flood the entire Middle East with therapists. This can’t end well.
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Plummeting marijuana prices create panic in CA
youngmanhattanite:
Time for a government subsidy?
Much like the fact that gay marriage will actually strengthen the institution instead of threaten it, anyone with a brain could have predicted this story about the effects of legalization.
Wired: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains →
psydoctor8:
“When first publicized, the findings were greeted with cheers. By keeping lots of brain cells buzzing, Google seemed to be making people smarter. But as Small was careful to point out, more brain activity is not necessarily better brain activity. The real revelation was how quickly and extensively Internet use reroutes people’s neural pathways. “The current explosion of digital...
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“It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via psychotherapy)
Lincoln finds solace in wise words after Coleman’s passing.
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Haiti Link Dump
rocksoup:
World Bank cancels Haiti’s debt
Worries surround Haiti as well as the Gulf Coast as hurricane season gets closer
A brutal post-earthquake prison riot remains uninvestigated
A Haitian comedy soap opera begins filming for show aimed at survivor camps
Haiti’s telecom company gets unlikely help from communist Vietnam
Child trafficking continues to be a widespread problem, with...
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No Short-Term Solutions for Haitians' Mental... →
rocksoup:
“Haitian-American psychiatrists call for both mental health assistance and caution to aid Haitian earthquake survivors and their relatives in Haiti and the United States.
Haitians will need extraordinary help in dealing with the psychological aftereffects of the January 12 earthquake and reconstructing its meager mental health system, but any such assistance will...
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“More than one million people are still living in deplorable conditions, beneath...”
– Stefano Zannini, MSF’s head of mission in Haiti
Haiti: Time Passes But Medical Needs Persist
(via doctorswithoutborders)
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is...”
– James D. Nicoll (via robot-heart-politics) (via section9)
Damn straight.
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I know we all think we're being terribly ironic...
But there’s honestly nothing cute or funny about icing. Seriously, people.
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“The opening of a Moscow Metro station named after Fyodor Dostoevsky has been...”
– London Times (via Pareene) (via robsmemory)
What the hell did they expect? He wasn’t exactly Jane Austen.
“The movie’s visual style is arthritic. Director Michael Patrick King covers the...”
– Roger Ebert on Sex and the City 2 (via thedoctr)
I’m beginning to suspect that this franchise isn’t very recession-proof.
Sen. Ben Nelson to vote yes on DADT repeal →
notthatkindagay:
We have the votes.
Awesome.
Only Fox could look at what's happening in Jamaica... →
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“There is of course the insane possibility that Hollywood will forsake ratings -...”
– from Ellen to NAMBLA in one paragraph
Emergency TumblrBomb: FOX News on DADT - Should we... →
notthatkindagay:
jasencomstock:
stfuconservatives:
From erin: “i know this is short notice, but the results of this poll will be broadcast on fox news tonight, asking people whether we should repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell”. please if you can, tell everyone to go there and vote yes so they can’t use the excuse of americans not supporting this repeal as an excuse for discrimination.
right now...
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Facebook movie portrays Zuckerberg as "selfish,... →
soupsoup:
The movie will be released this October, and it’s impossible to know what changes might have been made while David Fincher filmed. But this draft treats Zuckerberg as a selfish, shameless, sexist, callow, maybe-shy but maybe-unfeeling, inhuman, awful, back-stabbing, shallow little code monkey with about as much insight into human relations as a poorly developed friend-recommending...
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Will a Rough Hurricane Season Worsen the BP Oil...
What Would a Hurricane Do to the Oil Spill?
Aside from making it impossible for surface ships to stick around the site and work on fixing the well and capturing as much oil as possible, a hurricane would violently spread the oil everywhere in the Gulf and maybe even help it reach the loop current. This could bring some oil all the way over Florida and up the East coast of North-America. A...
Levin: White House Got Serious About DADT 'In The... →
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wtf
How is there not a “Media” category in the Directory?
"Facebook has had a net gain of 10 million active... →
soupsoup:
youngmanhattanite:
And it’s not like high school students give two shits about privacy either.
(General rule of blogging: pretend to care.)
Jay Rosen gets feisty in the comments:
The premise of a growing backlash against Facebook for its privacy policy and the finding of continued growth in the Facebook user base are in conflict? Seriously? They couldn’t both be true?...
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“When I touch the Internet I think about myself.”
– Aatom
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“I love the rumor that I have a penis. I’m fascinated by it. In fact, it makes me...”
– Lady Gaga (via melissa-the-great, lkay) (via sugarspiceandeverythingvice) (via littleredhead) (via chloelinley) (via inothernews)
That sound you’re hearing is the boom of a generational punctuation mark.
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“Four months after the earthquake, many Haitians still feel the earth move.”
– Dr. Maryvonne Bargues, a psychiatrist working with MSF in Haiti (via doctorswithoutborders)
Haiti to the left? Let’s make this an opportunity instead of a forgotten crisis. 