September 2011
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“For two months now, Facebook users have been campaigning for the site to take...”
– Dear Facebook: Rape Is No Joke : Ms Magazine Blog
Sep 30th
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Urgent Text to My Brother at 11:00pm
Me: Growing up, did we have an NES or a SNES?
Brother: Both. Being middle class rocks!
Sep 30th
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Sep 29th
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Sep 29th
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“According to a large new study, women who drink caffeinated coffee are less...”
– For women, risk of depression falls as coffee intake rises - CNN.com Seriously. What am I doing wrong?
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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“When you hold a book in your hand, nothing will happen unless you work to make...”
– Jonathan Franzen, from Perchance to Dream, his 1996 essay for Harper’s, which I mentioned last week. Interesting to find this quote in the afterglow of Facebook’s announcement of its “friction-less sharing.” Any physicist knows that it’s impossible to exist in a frictionless universe, and that...
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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“Male squid, for example, pay no attention to the sex of other squid....”
–  From James Gorman’s excellent New York Times article on the cheekily-named study “A Shot in the Dark: Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Deep-Sea Squid” (Oh squids…it’s a cold, lonely world out there, isn’t it?) See also: Smith College
Sep 23rd
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nothing like a good solid stress dry heave in the...
sparkleneely: i can’t wait to have to excuse myself from explaining my own redundancy to go throw up.  (i seriously considered starting my powerpoint presentation with “so you’ve decided to replace me!”) I know know this woman, but I’m seriously feeling her pain. Tits up, comrade!
Sep 23rd
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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Sep 17th
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Sep 17th
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Sep 16th
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“The really frustrating thing about the “Save the boobies” campaign and similar...”
– Randall Munroe, writer of xkcd (via ljm)
Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 15th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 14th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 11th
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“1. Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be...”
– mental_floss on tumblr: Churchill’s Rules for Naming Military Operations  Churchill = class act
Sep 11th
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Sep 10th
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