March 22, 2012


Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves (by JimmyKimmelLive)

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Why do more than fifty-five thousand people follow Horse_ebooks? Because he/it tweets “Pocket Change Written Plan Ball Games Family Haircuts” and, after you’ve read the name Santorum for the 456th time, these are the words that keep hope alive.

Sasha Frere-Jones: Good Things About Twitter : The New Yorker

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The new form had no space to report musculoskeletal disorders caused by repetitive trauma—thereby preventing a whole category of serious injury from being counted. Instantly, as if by magic, the injury rate in meatpacking dropped by almost 50 percent. “Recordable safety incident rate in plants cut in half since 1996,” the American Meat Institute proudly announced in a press release, without ever mentioning that the decline was due to the change in record keeping.

Still a Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later - The Daily Beast

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March 21, 2012


Blonde Paraplegic Girl goes Bungee Jumping - Whistler, BC (by Roug29)

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Okay, that was intense.

Firefighter helmet cam interior attack. (by smokeEatingtrucky)

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Super neat behind the scenes of video game sound design. (by Rev3Games)

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Hitchcock’s Definition of Happiness (by bg365247)

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Okay, mind blown. (by MrCrafty78)

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March 20, 2012


Little Boxes - Walk off the Earth (by walkofftheearth)

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March 19, 2012


Living in cities has made strangers into a multitude: we brush past thousands of them every day. Even the simplest exchange among strangers can contain a tangled accumulation of meanings: what transpires may have physical, emotional, social, political, technological and historical dimensions.

Stranger Studies 101: Cities as Interaction Machines - Technology - The Atlantic

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When given a very clear description of the standard for accuracy the show needed to meet, Daisey responded with a theatrically sincere email that was deceptive bullshit. He plays just dumb enough to thank the producer for explaining this concept to him. (As if now he gets it.)

4 important truths about Mike Daisey’s lies & the way ‘This American Life’ told them | Poynter.

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What I do know for certain is this: H.264 is absolutely required right now to compete on mobile. I do not believe that we can reject H.264 content in Firefox on Android or in B2G and survive the shift to mobile.

Video, Mobile, and the Open Web | Brendan Eich

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