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Hilarious Madden 15 Ad
LOL This is hilarious. I really do not care all that much for football or video games. And certainly, I do not want to just hand out free advertising venues. But, come on… you have to admit when something is so funny, it is worthy of you spending three minutes…
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A Fujoshi’s heaven on earth exists in Ikebukuro’s Boy’s Love Academy cafe
Japan should officially be known as the land of themed cafés. From cat cafés to owl cafés, character cafés and maid cafés… there’s even a café where you can pay 980 yen (US$9.57) to get two young men to share a stick of Pocky. Mouth to mouth. And that’s not all…
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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): You JUST hired this person…do you even know….
…how many Twitter followers they have? LinkedIn Connections? Instagram followers? Do you know if they have a blog/tumblr? Do you have any idea at all what kind of network that person will be bringing into your organization? Why not? No,… Source: blogoehlert.typepad.com
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Should the Internet Be Like the Public Library?
A recent study put the US at number 31 in the world in overall download speed, lagging behind much smaller countries like Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia. Source: truth-out.org
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Connectivity is not binary, the network is never neutral.
although the challenges of connecting people sound the same, every trip offers up a new angle on what connectivity means to the locals: its impact on gender roles in India; the rise of love-marriages in Afghanistan; a more level playing field for favela dwellers in Brazil; a stable point of…
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23 Unintentionally Gay Comic Book Scenes
With the success of movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers and Man of Steel, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time comic books […] Source: www.newnownext.com Talk about LOL
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Cosmic Flower Unfolding: An Abstract Metaphysical Animation by Ben Ridgway
Animator Ben Ridgway creates abstract animations that explore organic and metaphysical imagery, relating to aspects of life and interconnectedness. His latest film, Cosmic Flower Unfolding, recently won several awards and has been touring film festivals around the world since late last year. He sh Source: www.thisiscolossal.com Beautiful.
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Fracked on Their Own Petard: The Self-Implosion of an Industry on the Ropes
As Denton seeks to become the first city in Texas to ban fracking, the industry is trying to frame the fight in economic terms. But that turns out to be a poor choice. Source: www.truth-out.org Go Adam with your Op/Ed at Truthout: As the industry clutches at straws – and threatens…
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Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers
“Knowledge workers” tend to be more unfocused in both the early morning and mid-afternoon. Why force them to work when they’re least productive? Source: m.theatlantic.com
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The Philosophy of Big History
I attended the recent conference of the International Big History Association. The association is oriented toward researching and teaching “Big History,” which aims (as their website says) to “und… Source: becomingintegral.com
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63 Texas Republicans Sign Document Saying Marriage Equality Leads To Incest, Pedophilia And Polygamy
The Texas Republican party once again proved that it is living in a previous century, when over 60 of its members got together to sign a legal brief which states that same-sex marriage opens the do… Source: www.addictinginfo.org In states that have already legalized same-sex marriage, we haven’t seen the…
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Seeing Like a Network — The Message — Medium
Don’t Call It Threat Modeling Source: medium.com I think that Deleuze would find this a great introduction to the Society of Control: “Networks overlay each other and touch each other and affect each other all over the place. In this phase of human civilization the interaction of the vast networks…
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6 Ways Zac Efron’s Episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls Was More Romantic than The Bachelorette Finale
Quite frankly, we’re surprised it didn’t end with a rose ceremony. Source: www.vanityfair.com
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Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead
Take two kids, the same age, who grew up in the same city. Which one is more likely to go to jail … or college? Source: www.npr.org “Just 33 children — out of nearly 800 — moved from the low-income to high-income bracket. And a similarly small number born into…
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Prime Prep Academy, Founded by Deion Sanders, Comes Under Scrutiny
With its academics and its finances under fire, the Texas sports academy created by Deion Sanders, the Hall of Fame cornerback and N.F.L. commentator, faces the loss of its state charter. Source: www.nytimes.com If you understand Texans and football, you know why this kind of thing happens.
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A History of Gay Marriage
A History of Gay Marriage by Rictor Norton Source: rictornorton.co.uk
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Regenerative Agriculture: Sowing Health, Sustainability and Climate Stability
Destruction of land and soil by poor farming isn’t inevitable. Source: truth-out.org The perpetual cycle of planting mono-crops, saturating the crops and fields with toxic chemicals, tilling them under and replanting them destroys the soil and degrades the land by depleting soil nutrients and causing erosion. Overgrazing pastures instead of…
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