May 2012
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“We have a ritual where he tucks me in, because I’m usually in bed before...”
– Michelle Obama: President Obama tucks me in every night - NY Daily News
OMG THEY TUCK EACH OTHER IN JUST LIKE US.
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Don't Share with Friends of Friends on Facebook
world-shaker:
Based on the most recent information I could find, the average Facebook user has 234 friends. Assuming you have 234 Facebook friends, and they each have 234 Facebook friends, you’re sharing your information with almost 55,000 people.
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Daily Tao
#149 - Pivoting
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Some days, you and I go mad.
Our bellies get stuffed full,
Hearts break, minds snap.
We can’t go on the old way so
We change. Our lives pivot,
Forming a mysterious geometry.
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DMD:
Life revolves. You cannot go back one minute, or one day. In light of this, there is no use marking time in any one position. Life will continue without you, will...
“The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than...”
– Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via humanformat)
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The 10 Commandments of Logical Fallacies
ladyatheist:
Thou shall not attack the person’s character, but the argument. (Ad hominem)
Thou shall not misrepresent or exaggerate a person’s argument in order to make them easier to attack. (Straw man fallacy)
Thou shall not use small numbers to represent the whole. (Hasty generalization)
Thou shall not argue thy position by assuming one of its premises is true. (Begging the...
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25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English →
acapareda:
1 Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude
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Jirisan (지리산) Camping
Just got back from a wonderful camping trip! A long weekend, perfect weather, Buddha’s Birthday and a beautiful temple; we couldn’t have asked for more! Hopefully some pictures to come soon after we clean everything up! ^^
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“If you had in this chair some of the people who developed quantum mechanics back...”
– Cosmologist Brian Greene, in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Investing in basic science must be disconnected from traditional returns, and instead viewed as an investment in the intellectual capital of tomorrow. It’s hard to put a price tag on inspiration, and Goldman Sachs has yet to write an...
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“Eight months after a repeal of the military’s “don’t ask , don’t tell” policy,...”
– Air Force Academy Graduates First Openly Gay Cadets - Yahoo! News (via sarahlee310)
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“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at...”
– Thomas Szasz (via zenhumanism)
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Romney Pledges 6% Unemployment By 2016... In a... →
joegressivism:
Well at least he isn’t pledging to make it worse I guess?
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“The country is in deep trouble. We’ve forgotten that a rich life consists...”
– Dr. Cornel West (via socialistscum)
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101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later Exonerated →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
A new report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan and Northwestern law schools, chronicles over 2000 cases where a person convicted of a crime was later exonerated between 1989 and 2012. More than half of these exonerated persons “were cleared since 1995 in 13 ‘group exonerations,’ that occurred after it was discovered that police officers...
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