June 2012
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech: We’re following 3 startups... →
Startup accelerators aren’t easy – teams are forced to focus hard on turning their businesses from ideas or prototypes with potential into seriously investable propositions in just a few short weeks. There’s often little chance to sleep or socialize, and business models – and even whole products – can be turned on their heads as killer startups are sculpted.
The first London-based run of...
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apoetreflects:
Who’s turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we always have the look of someone going away? Just as a man on the last hill showing him his whole valley one last time, turns, and stops, and lingers— so we live, and are forever leaving.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Eighth Elegy” in the Duino Elegies, translated by A. Poulin, Jr. (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
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Engines Within the Throne, by Cathy Park Hong
We once worked as clerks
scanning moth-balled pages
into the clouds, all memories
outsourced except the fuzzy
childhood bits when
I was an undersized girl with a tic,
they numbed me with botox
I was a skinsuit
of dumb expression, just fingerprints
over my shamed
all I wanted was snow
to snuff the sun blades to shadow spokes,
muffle the drum of freeways, erase
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Texas GOP Makes Opposition to "Critical Thinking... →
Texas Republicans are saying that their 2012 platform’s opposition to “critical thinking skills” was a mistake—but that mistake is now the formal policy of the Republican Party of Texas until 2014.
The stated reasoning behind opposition to critical thinking skills was that such education programs “focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the...
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“A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence,...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan, in consideration of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (via explore-blog)
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“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
– Cornel West
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“My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Cathedral Building: Things I taught the kids this... →
shapefutures:
What “flush” means (while building a garden box and trying to make the end of a plank flush to another)
How threads on a screw work (when I was asked why we weren’t just using nails)
That metal can be soft and flexible (while building a pizza box solar oven)
That complementary colors make one…
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doctor: so how long would you say you're on the computer for?
me: about 7 hours
doctor: a week?
me:
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me: ya lets go with that
bit.ly/N6vj4f: Americans spend more time surfing the internet than anyone else in the world, with users clocking up an average of nearly 28 hours a month.
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Don’t Outsource Local News →
Is there any job that can’t be outsourced?
Now even the local news is being sent overseas. Media giants including Sam Zell’s Tribune Company have begun to send local reporting jobs overseas. The Tribune Company and other mainstream news outlets have outsourced local news — to content farms in the Philippines.
According to a major story by This American Life1, news companies have outsourced...
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Religious Right propaganda shouldn't get free... →
Do you think public television should give free airtime to Religious Right propaganda?
Neither did two senior employees of Alabama Public Television who objected to airing a TV series produced by right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton — a Religious Right activist who supports imprisoning gay people.
But when they spoke up, they were fired by the Republican-controlled Alabama Educational...
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Teacher Plunges Herself into Mercy Mission for... →
Every great feat begins with that first step. No matter what the human achievement or endeavor, it always begins with that one impetus, that drive to achieve something that’s bigger than ourselves. For Baan Unrak Animal Sanctuary founder Gemma Ashford, it all originated from an encounter with a little puppy named Tigerlilly.
Back in 2007 Gemma went to Sangklaburi, situated near the Burmese...
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Why School Administrators Should Embrace the... →
By encouraging administrators to become learner-leaders, to use social media connect with each other, share best practices and experiment, Canadian school principal George Couros is leading by example, exhortation, and instigation the people who are supposed to be leading our schools into the future. He created and regularly contributes to the website that serves as an online...
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“This is how I am summoned from nothingness:
in faded cut offs, moonlighting at...”
– Rick Hilles, from “Larry Levis in Provincetown”
via Poem-A-Day by Poets.org: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/345
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“My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals,...”
– Joss Whedon (via joss-a-day)
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Tumblr Linear Theme CSS Experiments, Vol 3
[floating the search form right]
<div class=”column right”>
<small>Theme: <a href=”http://www.tumblr.com/theme/5136”>Linear</a> by <a href=”http://petervidani.com”>Peter Vidani</a><form onsubmit=”return tagSearch(this)” style=”float:right”>
<input type=”text”...
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Ten Recent Books of Poetry You Should Read Right... →
Of late there’s been a strong sense in the national poetry community, and not entirely without warrant, that those with the largest megaphones for their opinions — including certain writers for The Huffington Post — have more commonly used their pulpit to bully contemporary poetry and poets than to effectively promote either one. There have been, from this media outlet as well as...
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"Obamacare" explained very well. via reddit.com →
Already in effect:
It allows the Food and Drug Administration to approve more generic drugs (making for more competition in the market to drive down prices) ( Citation: An entire section of the bill, called Title VII, is devoted to this, starting on page 747 )
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1/1/2014
This is when a lot of the really big changes happen.
No more “pre-existing conditions”. At all....
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Got outstanding student loans? You’re in luck:... →
shortformblog:
Rates were set to double at the end of the month, but a huge package negotiated by Democrats and Republicans will retain the low(er) rates for another year (this only applies to federally-backed loans). The legislation passed the House and Senate today, and the White House has indicated that President Obama will sign it. So, yay! There’s a lot more policy in the bill, too,...
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South Carolina passes bill against municipal... →
South Carolina has become the latest state in the union to pass a state-level bill that effectively makes it difficult, if not impossible, for municipalities to create their own publicly owned Internet service provider that could compete with private corporations. The bill passed the South Carolina General Assembly and Senate on Wednesday and awaits the signature of the state’s governor.
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