May 2012
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“the pain completely dominates your senses, causing you to think unclearly about...”
– Pain Scale | Health Organization for Pudendal Education
This. Migraines are not “bad headaches”. They are debilitating.
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“Twitter is where news breaks; Facebook is where news goes. This is something...”
– BuzzFeed’s John Herrman • Making a wise point about how the Facebook IPO was really a much bigger story on Twitter than Facebook. Part of that, to us, is due to the way the networks work. “The site, as is, is great at building after-the-fact, heavily filtered digests,” Hermann explains, “While...
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“What intrigued me most of all when we did the test was not that “position A”...”
– Some insights into sharing buttons from The Guardian
Give share buttons their due - they do change user behaviour (via percolatehq)
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“Mango skin contains a less potent form of urushiol, the allergen in poison ivy,...”
– Been there. Follow-up question: all varieties of mango? Only ever experienced this with long.
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In the game of eurozone, you win or you die
Joseph Cotterill: Mario Draghi is the Grand Maester
Joseph Cotterill: I see Merkel as Cersei Lannister
Joseph Cotterill: Hollande is one of the Baratheons
David Keohane: > No! Just no!
David Keohane: The visuals are too painful
David Keohane: Hollande as Stannis
David Keohane: Principled and in thrall to the red god
Joseph Cotterill: OK then. Merkel as Tyrion.
David Keohane: hahaha
Joseph Cotterill: Not sure who Jaime would be...
Joseph Cotterill: Sarko!
Joseph Cotterill: No that's all wrong
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Izabella Kaminska: Can I just say that IMO
Izabella Kaminska: Lannisters have to be Germany
Izabella Kaminska: because of the debt thing
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David Keohane: Are we saying the Targaryens are China?
Izabella Kaminska: Yes
Izabella Kaminska: dragon
Izabella Kaminska: WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS!!
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This is the ugly truth of how the FTAV virtual newsroom spends major market meltdown days. Trying to translate the eurozone crisis into the Game of Thrones.
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“the two studies clearly showed that East Asian Facebook users are more likely to...”
– Cultural influences on Facebook photographs (via socialuxd)
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Theft is ok when you're a white guy in Silicon... →
foxtalbotnegatives:
bankuei:
“He’d been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company’s food, and exercising and showering in its gym.”
Basically, this dude moves into the AOL work campus, lives on the couches, eats the food, showers, uses the gym, does laundry there - for two months straight to work on HIS startup stuff for his own profit.
Compare this to...
“If you can’t tell whether a certain youthfulness in others represents an...”
– The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game « Thought Catalog
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Alex Teytelboym: Public responsibilities of an... →
t8el:
“I would sum up the public responsibilities of the economist as follows:
- be brave about your conclusions when they are firmly based on empirical research;
- be modest about your conclusions otherwise, and own up to the limits of our knowledge and the nature of uncertainty;
- do not hesitate to engage in the discussion of controversial subjects, especially if there are myths to...
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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it...”
– David Orr (via sitasays) (via thebeldam, free-wilderness) (via voiceofnature)
Always re-blog, as a reminder to myself if nothing else.
(via journeyers-scrapbook)
((via guerrillamamamedicine)
(via dreams-from-my-father) (via leonineantiheroine)
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“I see twenty-somethings having absolutely no problem with the Kickstarter way of...”
– The Kickstarter Generation Gap? | Manoush Zomorodi
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“You’re at a Parisian café, and you’re reading your Sartre book and you’re...”
– Jonah Peretti (via soupsoup)
Zing!
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“every time you visit a site that has a follow button, a “tweet this” button, or...”
– Dustin Curtis
“One could argue that seeing the future through a developer lens and not one of...”
– 4 Areas Where Facebook Must Focus Post-IPO (via socialuxd)
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“I’m not saying you should just blow off your communication-related obligations...”
– Confessions of a recovering lifehacker « John Pavlus (via maxlinsky)
I was acutely aware of just this morning, as I furtively and continuously replied to emails while at an (excellent) panel on women in technology. Next to me, a woman I greatly respect did not once check her phone.
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“An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is...”
– Michael Hastings, Congressmen seek to lift propaganda ban (via soupsoup)
W.T.F.
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iDoneThis blog: The Minor Miracle of Third-Party... →
idonethis:
Just punch your done into Alfred, and it will shoot out an email to us and in it goes into your done list. Not only did the extension rule, it also became the main way that I entered my domes!
Fine. I will finally, finally buy Alfred. Because this extension is awesome.
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes...
blakemasters:
If you think that the future is indeterminate, the most important people are statisticians.
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“[Shutterstock] is pretty much the Demand Media of imagery — and its...”
– The Tao of Shutterstock: What Makes a Stock Photo a Stock Photo? - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic
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“My point is, I’m not the bad guy. I’m just the rich guy. When you look at it...”
– Whitewashing, a history - Salon.com
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“there is actually a powerful economic argument for equal rights. If you believe...”
– Chrystia Freeland | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
Kickstarter - Camera Ready: Making Video... →
Backed.
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“I’ve learned that if I’m thinking about my productivity tools, I don’t have...”
– — C.J. Chilvers, Rethinking Productivity for Creatives.
Fabian Kruse writes about “the loop“ inherent to getting anything done, and the idea that periods of procrastination, having doubts, and losing momentum are just part of that natural productivity cycle. So, while productivity systems and...
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“Men selectively listen,” Ms. Wilderotter says. She recalls making points...”
– How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice From Female CEOs - WSJ.com
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“QOTD: being able to talk rich people out of their money and being able to...”
– FACT.
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