Oct
5
Check out the full thread at: http://canv.as/p/dpcs6?nav=funny.
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Oct
4
Real protestors only use bitcoin to buy lunch
As I was leaving, having spoken to scores of protesters, I noticed two of them walking over to the A.T.M. at Bank of America. As much as this group may want to get away from Wall Street and corporate America, it may be trapped by it.
from Nytimes
Sep
19
“Sunday night’s announcement from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the company was to be split in two was a bombshell that quickly became a joke. According to Reed, Netflix will continue to stream content, while a new company called Qwikster would handle DVD distribution. Unfortunately Netflix/Qwikster haven’t acquired the Qwikster Twitter handle from weed-smoking gangstaz, Jason Castillo.
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If Twitter refuses to allow Jason to sell his handle to Netflix, there’s always the consultant route. In order to get around Twitter’s TOS rules against selling names, CNN hired James Cox, the original owner of @CNNbrk, as a consultant. Part of his consulting contract stipulated that he would hand the reins of @CNNbrk over to CNN.” http://gizmodo.com/5841887/could-qwikster-make-mad-bank-with-his-twitter-handle
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If Twitter refuses to allow Jason to sell his handle to Netflix, there’s always the consultant route. In order to get around Twitter’s TOS rules against selling names, CNN hired James Cox, the original owner of @CNNbrk, as a consultant. Part of his consulting contract stipulated that he would hand the reins of @CNNbrk over to CNN.” http://gizmodo.com/5841887/could-qwikster-make-mad-bank-with-his-twitter-handle
Sep
5
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The Republican Party would use the debt limit vote, an otherwise routine legislative procedure that has been used 87 times since the end of World War II, in order to concoct an entirely artificial fiscal crisis. Then, they would use that fiscal crisis to get what they wanted, by literally holding the US and global economies as hostages….
Everyone knows that in a hostage situation, the reckless and amoral actor has the negotiating upper hand over the cautious and responsible actor because the latter is actually concerned about the life of the hostage, while the former does not care.
” Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
Aug
24
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!”
Steve Jobs http://on.wsj.com/n9ou2O
Aug
12
“Keynesianism is not about chanting “big government good”. It’s about viewing recessions through the lens of an economic model under which temporary increases in government spending can, under certain circumstances, help reduce unemployment.”
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/the-cracked-conservative-mirror/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
Aug
1
“What of our view of humanity changes if, when parents achieve an “attunement with their kids,” the molecule that “floods through their brains” is schmoxytocin, not oxytocin? The salient fact is that some molecule or some part of the brain underlies various aspects of consciousness or unconsciousness. But this is hardly news. As the philosopher Jerry Fodor once quipped, it’s been clear for a while now that mental processes occur north of the neck. The rest is a sort of biological bookkeeping that, while significant to the specialist, seems to provide the popular writer only with a long list of factoids.”
Fooled by science. The New York Review of Books.
Jul
15
from http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/moving-cinemagraphs-gifs/
Scott Rafer's Blog: Income Taxation of Founders' Stock: A Really Dumb Idea
Last year when there was a big debate about carry taxation, I came out in support of taxing carry as income (even though that will clearly mean a much higher tax bill for me personally). With the budget battle in Washington reaching ever new heights this issue is coming…
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Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. Limit her TV-watching time and her internet-playing time and take away her cell phone. Give her a whole summer of lazy mornings and dreamy afternoons. Make sure she has a library card and a comfy corner where she can curl up with a book.
Give her a notebook and five bucks so she can pick out a great pen. Insist she spend time with the family. It’s even better if this time is spent in another state, a cabin in the woods, a cottage on the lake, far from her friends and people her own age. Give her some tedious chores to do. Make her mow the lawn, do the dishes by hand, paint the garage. Make her go on long walks with you and tell her you just want to listen to the sounds of the neighborhood.
Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken. Occasionally be too busy to listen, be distracted by other things, have your nose in a great book, be gone with your own friends. Let her have secrets
” Make Your Kid A Writer (via Ta-Nehisi Coates)(Source: theatlantic, via roelofbotha)
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