May 2012
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April 2012
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alexainslie:
audi e-sound for e-tron electric vehicles (by designboom)
want.
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SIR – A recent issue of The Economist (March 24th) showed an Orwellian...
– An unhappy reader. (We will stop now.)
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March 2012
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Whitney Biennial Breaks with Corporate Sponsors;... →
alexainslie:
“The Whitney is proud to be able to redistribute resources from major corporate donors and super-wealthy individuals to deserving artists, especially within a political and economic system that concentrates wealth for a tiny minority while the majority grows poorer, suffers without healthcare, is forced from their homes, or goes without food. However, the Whitney also recognizes...
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That Seat Is So Taken. →
February 2012
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The Navy has long trained dolphins and sea lions to hunt for and detonate mines....
– U.S., Iran Poised for Mine Warfare in Persian Gulf
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Democracy
alexainslie:
“10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. ‘That’s not an abuse of power, that’s democracy. [Dodd] had best get used to it.’ ”
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd’s claim that SOPA blackout was “an abuse of power.”
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Dan Russell, a Google “search anthropologist” who studies how...
– Why Don’t We Teach Kids How to Use CTRL+F?
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foreverdigital:
(via http://www.nbc.com/30-rock/video/brotherhood-of-man/1383310/)
January 2012
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But this advice thing couldn’t be that hard. After all, Ben Franklin wrote an...
– “Bad Advice” by Alexandra Petri.
Excerpt of a brilliant commencement address delivered to the National Cathedral School’s class of 2011.
Read the whole speech here. [PDF]
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December 2011
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Some students, residents worry, will crave a rowdier college experience. Lisa...
– New Cornell Campus May Awaken Roosevelt Island - The New York Times
Obviously Ms. Torres has never been to Slope Day.
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My greatest goal is to go to Hong Kong’s airport and London’s...
– Excerpt of a letter I wrote in sixth grade (October 1999) to my future self. It was an assignment in class and we each were presented with our letters upon graduation from high school.
November 2011
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Their only liquid asset is tzatziki sauce.
– Stephen Colbert on Greece’s economic woes