March 2012
141 posts
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“we are actively discouraged from maintaining any separation of spheres of...”
– Not an April Fool - Charlie’s Diary
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“Enlightenment minus action quickly slips into more self-absorption, deception,...”
– The Spinning Wheel - ontheMARC.org
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“Dark skin may slow the pace of receiving money through Kiva, but being from...”
– Micro-Bias: If You Want a Kiva Loan, It Helps to Be Pretty and Light-Skinned - Business - GOOD
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“the stunning under-representation of minorities at the TOP of our national and...”
– Evan Shapiro: How Trayvon Martin Became a Missing White Girl
'Because women can also be tough' →
“I think we have to be careful when we talk about that women should run for office because ‘women are special in this way, they’ll do things differently,’” she said. “Because I think that also limits us, right? That says all women are like x and not like y. And if we’re going to get to a female secretary of defense, we may need to be careful about talking about how collaborative, emotional and...
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“If I were in the tech industry and heard about a product that women immediately...”
– HOW TO STOP BEING A PINTEREST SEXIST | Clever Girls Collective
via @dbdj1007
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“The internet makes it stunningly easy to access a wealth of information on a...”
– Consumption Addiction phuu.net
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“The computer didn’t care that I was a woman or that I was black.”
– A Woman’s Story - raganwald’s posterous
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“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who...”
– (via wretchedoftheearth)
This.
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White People's Attitudes Towards People of Color:...
1300s White People: THOU ART BRINGERS OF THE PLAGUE!
1400s White People: THY MOORISH SKIN DOTH MARKETH THOU AS EVIL!
1500s White People: LOL WE SHALL NOW STEAL YOUR ALGEBRA AND SHIT
1600s White People: WHY HULLO THURRR, STEADY SOURCE OF INCOME AND OPPRESSIVE SLAVERY!
1700s White People: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THESE NATIVES WANT TO BE TREATED LIKE HUMANS, NOT SMALLPOX GARDENS?
1800s White People: WE SHALL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS TO OWN YOU ALL! PROPERTY! LIBERTY! JUSTICE FOR US! NOT YOU!
1900s White People: LOL @ trying to sit at our COUNTER! DIS MINE!
1990s White People: what is this thing called rap and how may I obtain street cred, ahem, yo?
....and 2000: WE ARE ALL THE SAME ACTUALLY WE ALL BLEED RED REALLY SO LIKE, STOP CALLING US RACISTS! WE ARE ALL HUMAN!
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“The photo captions most likely to signify an uninspiring photo are San Jose,...”
– Bizarre Insights From Big Data - NYTimes.com
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“A few years ago I was speaking with the founder of an African mobile phone...”
– Bizarre Insights From Big Data - NYTimes.com
“When you hold a gun, you’re more likely to think someone else is also holding is...”
– When You’re Holding a Gun, Everything Looks Like … - Ideas Market - WSJ
Guns kill people, etc.
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“When you glorify shipping, there are two risks that you are taking:
1. Shipping...”
– Think Twice Before Adopting The “Ship Or Die” Mentality (via socialuxd)
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“The actress Amandla Stenberg literally looks like a tiny angel, but this...”
– Racist Hunger Games Fans Are Very Disappointed
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“It’s worth noting that all five of the fastest-adopted technologies were...”
– Guess What’s the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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“customers typically switch to iced from May through October. But with this...”
– The Iced-Coffee Economy: Why the Cold Stuff Costs More — Grub Street New York
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“When people agree with me, it may feel good, but I don’t learn anything.”
– Design Research and Innovation: An Interview with Don Norman | Johnny Holland
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News.me: Getting the News — Hilary Mason →
newsme:
one of the systems we’re working on is something designed to tell us what the world is paying attention to at any given moment — and not at the link level, but at the idea level, where we consider ideas to be collections of phrases. We’re measuring the click-rate on any given phrase, so we can tell you that “Jennifer Lopez,” for example, gets a typical 0.01 clicks/second click-rate, but...
How the Republicans described immigration in 1864
cardiffgarcia:
“Resolved, That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.” — Republican Party Platform of 1864
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“The point is that, for anyone—but especially for girls— it can be very hard to...”
– Sady Doyle, On Taking Yourself Seriously
(via shannonpareil)
“using Jessop;
public class TheTruthHandler
{
public static bool Can()
...”
– A Few Good Men | Movies as Code
Brilliant.
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“When it comes to making decisions, Lulu has gone back to basics. It...”
– Lululemon’s Secret Sauce - WSJ.com
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“The biggest thing that’s different is that Facebook is not about human-computer...”
– Facebook VP of product Chris Cox
Thank Facebook’s Design Team For Every Warm And Fuzzy Moment You’ve Ever Had On The Social Network (via socialuxd)
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“In the past three years, Facebook’s design team has grown from 20 people to 90.”
– Thank Facebook’s Design Team For Every Warm And Fuzzy Moment You’ve Ever Had On The Social Network (via socialuxd)
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“The third R of McClure’s model – “referral” – is just net promoter score with an...”
– Ent!
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“a high percentage of tweets are from people sharing information that’s important...”
– The personalized web is just an interest graph away — Cloud Computing News
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“piracy is really a form of advertising. It allows people who would never have...”
– Is Piracy the New Advertising? - Forbes
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“Every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in...”
– How many photos have ever been taken? | 1000memories
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“London is contracting as an idea. Where previously outsiders could get a sense...”
– London, the most grotesque city in the world: haunt of Bashar, Boris and Ken | Marina Hyde | Comment is free | The Guardian (via felixsalmon)
One of the reasons I don’t live there anymore.
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“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem...”
– Hillary Clinton (via shannonpareil)
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“we see this sort of thing happen all the time on the internet, all these great...”
– Matt Langer · Stop Calling it Curation
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“The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the...”
– Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
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“The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its...”
– Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
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“you should never pin an image on Pinterest for which you don’t own the copyright...”
– Don’t Get Stuck By Pinterest, Lawyers Warn - Law Blog - WSJ
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“Reddit was originally going to be a way to order food on your cellphone.”
– New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea
One hell of a pivot there, reddit.
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“qualitative feedback is most effective when it’s overwhelmingly negative. A...”
– Build Your Lean Startup Through Conversations
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“Shaping culture comes strategically from the top down. It takes a deep...”
– Don’t Be Hands Off With Corporate Culture | PandoDaily
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica is no... →
seldo:
I only picked up a Britannica once in my whole life, when I was about 8. I remember how dense the information was, how bright the pictures were, the feel of the paper. It’s not something I ever really used but I liked the idea of it, the distillation of the world’s knowledge into a single physical object. Obviously Wikipedia is orders of magnitude better in every metric, except — what if...
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“Herein lies the true cost and risk of start-ups: Time.”
– Face It: You’re Clinging On - WSJ.com
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“The ability to influence customer behaviour through the development of product...”
– Velocity – The Agile Vanity Metric – itkanban
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“The idea of a link on FB / twitter that doesn’t take you to the story, but...”
– Twitter / @tomgara: …
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“Surely the single worst development in news media of the last year has been the...”
– Twitter / @tomgara
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“while, on the surface, sharing our pins and wishlists are entertaining and even...”
– The Big Duh: How Speaking With Women Shifted the Focus of My Biz (Away From Curation) | SERIAL SCHEMER
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“Reacting well to competition requires critical analysis of your own product and...”
– Marco.org
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“over in the UK the majority of Pinterest users are male. Is the UK press going...”
– Pinterest and Feminism » Cyborgology 