December 2010
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Dec 31st
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Visualizing Slavery →
designlanguage: The New York Times has a piece about this map from 1860. It’s the last visual record showing slavery from census data. (Via Flowing Data)
Dec 31st
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“The technological revolution is more intertwined every day with our economy and...”
– Steve Jobs to Playboy in 1985. We’re still waiting for this to happen. (via marco)
Dec 30th
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Amazed at how relatively safe New York City was (in 2009): check out the stats on Wikipedia and sort the “Total Violent crime” column. NYC had less violent crime per capita than Portland, San Francisco, Anchorage, and many other cities. Still not quite as safe as Honolulu, but…
Dec 30th
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life:...”
– John Rogers
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
Vacation: Day Two
Sleep in until 11 Blueberry pancakes for brunch Play with cats at the animal shelter Nap Play Words with Friends Order in yummy Indian for dinner Movie time Done and done.
Dec 26th
“Instead of praising Scrooge for his principled stand against the welfare state,...”
– Paul Krugman, “The Humbug Express” (via benzado)
Dec 26th
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Dec 21st
Law & Order: Los Angeles
So much for the franchise not having legs. They cancel the successful NY mainstay, and yet immediately start an LA edition? I get it, easy access to high-profile guest stars (and there have been a lot so far), but c’mon? Don’t mess with a good thing… Cold open with under fives stumbling across a crime scene: nope Dah dum: nope Cheesy, pre-commercial one liners: check Well, at...
Dec 20th
“When confronted with anyone who holds my lack of religious faith in such...”
– Ricky Gervais, in an excellent essay about why he’s an atheist
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“Portland is a city where young people go to retire.”
– Jason from LA, Portlandia
Dec 19th
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Don't Ask Don't Tell
daveholmes: This is a great day. It really is. But I have to say I’m getting a little tired of busting with pride when the United States of America joins the world. 
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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TONY: Best coffee in NYC →
I know what I’ll be doing for the next few months…
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Dec 12th
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“Included in that total is the largest corporate cash hoard of any US company:...”
– Dante Atkins, (rightfully) claiming that the era of shared sacrifice is over (if it ever really even existed)
Dec 8th
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Clients From Hell: Email Storage →
Technology FTW! clientsfromhell: A client came to me with a problem regarding her email, saying that she “couldn’t find them anywhere”. After several minutes of her attempting to articulate what her problem actually was, it became clear that she was attempting to save her emails to her computer and then be able to find them again…
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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“HEY NICE FACE!”
– Missed Connections I love that this was enough to make her wish she had given him her number…
Dec 5th
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Utter bullshit. Both the filibuster, and the media portrayal of it. Hey asshat Republicans: you claim to care about the deficit; if so QUIT PUTTING OUR COUNTRY IN DEBT! agreatnation: “Senate Republicans have blocked legislation allowing taxes to rise on upper income taxpayers on Jan. 1.” — Bill blocked to let upper-income tax cuts expire David Kurtz at TPM pointed out the AP’s...
Dec 4th
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