July 2010
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I had not been back to Philadelphia until she fluttered into my life, intoned her plea, and passed away, delicately, the way a flower might exhale. A powder like pollen showered from her wings, and I knew then that I must go. It did not take long. The trains are very fast these days.
When I am asked for hep it is not for me to turn away. It is not what I do, though perhaps in old age I have...
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“Many of the designers I studied, from Bruce Mau to Richard Saul Wurman to Paula...”
– The Four Phases of Design Thinking - Warren Berger - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
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Okay THE INTERNET, it is time for goodnights.
I...
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Horowitz: Why CEOs should tell it like it is. →
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Facebook prohibits the word ‘Palestinian’ →
robot-heart-politics:
the-semblance:
The folks at Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet thought they’d create a Facebook page only to discover: Facebook blocks the term “Palestinian”! (H/t Jillian C Cork.)
Are Palestinians the only group so blocked from making pages? Well, not really… after a little fiddling around, I discovered that al-Qaida Refugee ResearchNet and Nazi Refugee ResearchNet are...
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c'mon sea legs: I am currently in Ottawa apartment... →
I am currently in Ottawa apartment hunting.
So far I’ve checked out two places - one in New Edinburgh, a basement apartment that is much smaller in person than it is in the photos. However, the neighbourhood is extremely cute and it is only a 20 minute walk to the Byward Market. The price can’t…
Luck luck luck!
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Hipsterotic.: Vocal Therapy. →
It’s my friend Matt Moskal’s birthday today. It would make him happy if you read his blog.
Hipsterotic.:
“Is that a vapourizer?” I ask.
“Yeah,” sheepishly replies a member of Boys Who Say No.
“Is that for smoking marijuana?”
“No, our singer destroyed his vocal chords. It’s to help his voice for the show.”
I can’t say in the lifetime of being a loudmouth, I’ve ever needed such...
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A fairy tale.
The demon Mahishasura, at birth, was gifted with two bodies - one the body of a man, the second was the body of man’s enemy, the tiger. Mahishasura the man had none of the fierce powers of his brothers, nor was he so strong as to keep back the chill hand of death. But when his human body was slain, a tiger would roar forth from the corpse, and when the tiger fell out crawled the man again.
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The Economist, on the global death of the... →
Now this centuries-old tradition is slowly coming to an end. If statisticians in Britain get their way, for instance, the census planned for next year could be the country’s last. Instead, they are considering gathering information from the vast, centralised databases held by government, such as tax records, benefit databases, electoral lists and school rolls, as well as periodic polling of a...
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“Interactive Landscape Dune, Daan Roosegaarde: We were disappointed when we found...”
– Torontoist’s early preview of this year’s Nuit Blanche installations - Fire, Tears, and Shadows Will Headline Nuit Blanche 2010
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At this time tomorrow I'll be posting my first...
Just a heads up <3
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“Any effective social media marketing strategy involves multiple channels. Yes,...”
– The One Mistake That Will Kill Your Facebook Page Strategy - Mashable explains the disaster of Ducati killing off its corporate blog.
“We may conceive humanity as engaged in internecine conflict between youth and...”
– Alfred North Whitehead, 1916
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A sage and a young man stand on a bridge.
Sage: I wish I were a fish, they are so happy.
Young Man: How do you know fish are happy? You're not a fish.
Sage: How do you know what I know about fish? You are not me.
If you'd like to see about twenty pictures of two... →
(via hman)
This is effing gratuitous.
“An Arab man convicted in Israel of rape because he pretended he was a Jew when...”
– BBC News - Israeli Arab who ‘raped’ a woman says verdict ‘racist’ (via curate, inascaldingjoy,robot-heart-politics)
In many jurisdictions “sex under false pretenses” constitutes rape. (PDF) I’m not terribly sympathetic to the Arab man. If consent is obtained by deceit, it’s not consent. And Not...
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“By and large I treat my blog, its content and my resulting online personae with...”
– jaimeleigh, explaining why people need to stop freaking out that revealing themselves online will be the ultimate end of their reputation
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I'm going to start posting my fairy tales here.
I’ve built up a bit of an archive now. Any particular day you want to see them?
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