June 2010
10 posts
the bug fix
jenniferanne:
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
the bug fix n. the satisfaction of updating software, which gains effortless new features inside the cocoon of the progress bar, whereas your personality—a beta version with compatibility issues, unstable memory and a quirky interface—is open source, trusting peers to collaboratively debug your emotional source code until it’s stable enough for...
“I saw this on the blog of someone in the process of adopting internationally:...”
– mimi smartypants
I would totally live in said fascist grammarian dictatorship.
(via bluishorange)
I might live there, too. Maybe. But what if it really was “Mom’s Without Borders”? My mom has few boundaries, so maybe this was just a statement of fact. Mom is without borders.
(via me3dia)
Or maybe...
No Oil is a Problem too, but don't take my word... →
Some of you may have seen my earlier post on de-demonizing the People of the oil industry. This New York Times article goes into more precise detail about the numbers of people/sizes of communities effected. For example, “the moratorium could last well into 2011, directly jeopardizing 50,000 jobs;” and that’s just deepwater work, expand that to include local oil service...
NASA Face in Space →
6 Ridiculous Arguments That Actually Happened on... →
(via rocketboom) not surprising at all, but definitely quite humorous.
De-Demonizing the People of the Oil Industry
An Open Letter to Those Who Would Boycott BP
Given the crisis in the Gulf, as the media has called it, I can understand some people’s knee jerk reaction to boycott BP in a show of disapproval of the oil company and solidarity with the Gulf. What they are not considering is the broader ramifications of such actions; namely, the effect of their boycott on local economies already devastated by a...
if you don't get it, I don't know you →
bluishorange:
shooshee:
[11:52] : here’s something you’ll appreciate [11:53] : @bigandawesome signed up for twitter and followed ~1000 people in the transmedia scene with http://bigandawesome.com in their user info… but they DIDN’T REGISTER the domain before doing so
NOTE: Visit bigandawesome.com for the punchline. In the geek world we would call this PWNED.
Illustrations of Women Scientists Improves Girls'... →
rocketboom:
Researchers from Rutgers University gave a short chemistry exam to local 9th and 10th graders—29 male and 52 female. The students read three pages of a chemistry text and then took the test on the material. All the texts were the same, but they were illustrated differently. One third of the students saw pictures in which everyone was a man. For another, there were only women in the...