February 2011
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Egypt's Internet Kill Switch →
Our Internet Legislation in case of a Cyber Emergency.
(blogtown)
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Google built a voicemail-to-tweet app over the... →
jimray:
This is pretty incredible. The tweets themselves are linked audio files that Twitter users are then translating and transcribing.
January 2011
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Watchlivercake:
Esquire Sound Sculptures.
Maxistentialism: "Cookies," by Douglas Adams →
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong.
I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a…
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an island happened →
iarebchin:
pretty much an island forming out of nothing..
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Hospital saves woman’s life; is told by Catholic... →
rosietint:
Now, Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese has written a letter to the hospital in which he doesn’t deny that the procedure saved the woman’s life, but nevertheless deems it morally wrong and asks the hospital to promise that a life-saving abortion “will never occur again at St. Joseph’s Hospital.” That’s right: A religious leader wants a hospital to promise that it will not take...
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“This is a big surprise. I don’t agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but...”
– Banksy (via banksystreetart)
A job-killing plan for arts and culture? →
hydeordie:
If you gave me a buck, and next year I returned $18.75 to you, would you think that was a good deal? I would. With savings accounts, money markets and even stocks yielding just a few percentage points on investments these days, a return in excess of 18% is pretty staggering. Yet, that’s what happens with federal support for arts and culture. It pays for itself 18 times over. Federal...
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