February 2011
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WatchSpoon - Black Like Me
Via La Blogotheque
January 2011
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3 Ways to Listen to Music with Friends (over the...
fascinated:
MixApp - this is the original app in this space. Earlier, they even had a desktop app that was able to sync the audio streams to <1s precision. These guys rock. Add your friends from Facebook and listen.
Two newer other apps are:
Listening Room - The imposing visualisation of the play queue has an interesting effect.
Mumu Player - CUTE! The little characters bounce when...
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Been wasting too much time online...
…so I’m going to dial this way down, indefinitely. Will probably still waste plenty of brain cells on Twitter.
Weather Monitoring Company Turns to Greenhouse... →
The company behind one of the largest networks of weather monitoring stations on the planet — and the purveyor of the ubiquitous WeatherBug application and Web site — is betting that providing greenhouse gas data will also prove to be a lucrative market.
AWS Convergence Technologies of Maryland plans to announce on Wednesday that it is rebranding itself Earth Networks, and that it will be...
U.S. axes permit for Arch's giant mountain... →
The Obama administration revoked a permit on Thursday for Arch Coal Inc’s proposed Spruce 1 mountaintop coal mine in West Virginia, effectively shutting one of the biggest in the United States.
“The proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine would use destructive and unsustainable mining practices that jeopardize the health of Appalachian communities and clean water on which they depend,”...
Handsome Furs – Handsome Furs Hate This City
“It would be really nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn’t in any way...”
– Jon Stewart (via gbattle)
(bringing it all together / rescuing the rant)
John Vanderslice - Pale Horse
Rise like lions...
“I first got involved with politics because I was frustrated when I was opening...”
– Rep. Gabrielle Giffords • Explaining why she chose to get into politics. This is probably how a lot of people feel. Whatever happened to the congresswoman is a significant moment, one that really makes us sad for our country at large. Look … whatever happened with Jared Loughner, whatever his...
Arizona Sheriff : "Arizona has become the Mecca... →
soupsoup:
NY Times Caucus Liveblog :
Mr. Dupnik called the shooting a “very sad day for Tucson” and a “horrendous, horrendous, senseless, unbelievable crime.” And then he blamed the crime on the rhetoric — presumably political rhetoric — in the country.
“When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the...
unburyingthelead:
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run, than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller, The Open Door
Anyone else alarmed by all these mass wildlife...
List of common misconceptions →
(XKCD is a national treasure)
“The awesome, wicked power of western medicine: Using poison to poison the...”
– Sans Taste (via petersheik)
“The awesome, wicked power of western medicine: Using poison to poison the...”
– Sans Taste (via petersheik)
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SOMETHING, SOMETHING, SOMETHING, DETROIT - LAZY... →
I’d already felt like a pretty massive prick driving around devastated neighborhoods all day with an enormous camera hanging out the window, but I didn’t know from shitty until I pulled up at one of East Detroit’s community farms and tried to talk to a couple kids who were either loading or unloading some boxes of stuff. After staring at the mic clipped to my shirt like it was a severed baby’s...
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Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion... →
parislemon:
Again, just to preempt, that’s “B” as in “Billion”, not “B” as in “Bubble”.
We worry about a new bubble, we worry about private, unregulated investment markets - but wouldn’t it be nice if a future bubble only scarred those private markets?
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