January 2010
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Jan 1st
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On Being a Grammar Douche →
If you’re an English nerd, read this! It’s absolutely hilarious!
Jan 1st
December 2009
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Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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Boys get cool stuff, girls get pink stuff  →
“Someone somewhere observed that when it came to technology, there was a stereotype that men were the engineers and designers and women were the consumers and users,” she writes. “Well, that’s essentially what Toys R Us told me.” The top results for boy techie-builders were “13 building/engineering games (like Lego and KNEX), 3 ipod accessories, 4 portable DVD...
Dec 29th
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Welcome to the fashion funhouse  →
“The message is clear: High fashion has no size limit,” writes Ben Barry, CEO of an eponymous Toronto modeling agency that specializes in diverse body types, in a gushing blog post about V magazine’s upcoming “One Size Fits All” spread. The spread features size 2 model Jacquelyn Jablonski and size 12ish model Crystal Renn in matching outfits “by high-fashion...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“One of the biggest risks is being too cautious.”
– David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk (seriously) at Cambridge University
Dec 27th
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The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises →
funeral:somethingintellectual:studentloansforbeermoney: “PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.”
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 22nd
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Last night, I watched Rent at CSULB. It has reignited my girl crush on Rosario Dawson. yeah.
Dec 21st
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Nan Goldin
Dec 21st
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Dumbing down the first lady | Michelle Obama... →
A year and a half after her approval rating hit a low of 44 percent, Michelle Obama is now enjoying the “overall favorable” opinion of many more Americans — 68 percent, according to a recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll. Even 67 percent of Republican women gave the first lady a thumbs-up in an April Pew poll. Lynn Sweet at Politics Daily says the reason for...
Dec 21st
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Dec 16th
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“Fashion isn’t an obviously brainy thing to write about — it is a fairly hermetic...”
– Cintra Wilson
Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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“A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has...”
– New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via pianississimo)
Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Wikipedia has helped me find religion (I'll...
Ignosticism Ignosticism, or igtheism, is the theological position that every other theological position (including agnosticism) assumes too much about the concept of God and many other theological concepts. It can be defined as encompassing two related views about the existence of God: (1) The view that a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can...
Dec 6th
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Is My Kids Making Me Not Smart? →
The common misconception of childless, alcohol-imbibing party guests and cyber-ether baby-haters alike is that parents blabber constantly out of some arrogance or indulgent desire to show off their great kids and their perfect parenthood. Nothing could be further from the truth. We parents have so little now; the children have taken so much. We just have nothing left to say. We sometimes hear...
Dec 5th
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List of Free Foreign Language Lessons →
Dec 5th
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“It’s a bit mad, isn’t it? It feels like it’s happened all of a...”
– Christopher Kane
Dec 4th
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