June 2011
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RHPolitics: Okay, I am finalizing the rape... →
idiosyncratic:
Nobody deserves to be raped. Nobody asks to be raped. If a man rapes a woman, (or a woman rapes a woman, how about that?) anybody rapes anybody, they deserve to be skull fucked and executed removed from the general population. Women don’t go out looking to get raped (can you…
Pow right in the face.
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Girls Can Tell: a homogametic summer mixtape →
blownspeakers:
1. Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci 2. Robyn - Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do 3. Friends - Friend Crush 4. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me 5. The Cardigans - Lovefool 6. Ladyhawke - Back of the Van 7. Muscles - Brilliance 8. Gloria Jones - Tainted Love 9. Mariah Carey feat. ODB - Fantasy (Bad Boy Remix) 10. TLC - Creep 11. Dominique Young Unique - Hot Girl 12. Beyonce feat. Andre 3000...
“Similarly, some recent hires in the communications department hint at Facebook’s...”
– Signs That Facebook Is Acting Like a Sovereign Nation - The Atlantic Wire
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Paper goes back on its promise →
shortformblog:
gaywrites:
I’m lacking in recent news updates on this, as the gay media world is abuzz with New York news, but it seems the newspaper that left out a deceased man’s partner from his obituary has gone back on its promise to reprint it.
GLAAD got involved when the man’s partner, Terrance James, noticed his name was missing from the obit. They offered to pay the fee to reprint,...
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In Which Content Farming Comes to Its Logical... →
markcoatney:
(h/t Jay Rosen)
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“[I]n this frenetic fight for eyeballs at all costs, the attribute that is most...”
– The Washington Post
Fixing Your Tarnished Brand →
From Adweek:
According to research from GroupM, 58 percent of consumers begin their purchasing journeys with a Web search, and nearly a third of them report that what they hear about a brand…
“As the beer boils during lunch break, McGovern sidles up to the brewery’s...”
– The Beer Archaeologist | Smithsonian Magazine
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“Patrick Keyes, superintendent of education for the TCDSB, says many parents have...”
– The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) may soon try to pass amendments to its equity policy that allow religious doctrine to trump the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Among the eight amendments, only two passed at the last board meeting, on May 16. The meeting came to an end before trustees...
Posterous Launches Friend Finder →
Yay!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Dr. Dre (46)
Leonard Cohen (26)
Deltron 3030 (19)
Amy Winehouse (10)
The Hood Internet (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Instapaper Blog: The FBI stole an Instapaper... →
instapaper:
One of Instapaper’s five leased servers was hosted at DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company leasing blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. Early Tuesday morning, the FBI raided the datacenter to seize servers used by another DigitalOne customer for fraudulent “scareware” distribution, according…
Read this. Hilarious and sad.
The Winklevoss twins says they won't sue Facebook... →
joshsternberg:
That’s ok, because this guy is going to wind up owning half of Facebook.
“However, Twitter and other such tools also present a great opportunity to bring...”
– Why Twitter’s Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller (and why this is an important issue) | technosociology
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Why having fun in Toronto is (another) part time... →
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“This last point (emphasis mine) is something that is underemphasized,...”
– From my long-form blog: Getting Paid, Earned and Owned Media to Work Together
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“In your article of June 17, you listed Darth Vader as the third worst...”
– Death Star PR: An Open Letter to TIME Magazine re: Darth Vader
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“Data flows today like electric power over copper wires. This means that one...”
– Steve Rubel: Cloudy with a Chance of Communications
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