- On The Fucking of A Dead Pig’s Face.
It is difficult to imagine a way in which deciding to bone a pig in its dead face is actually much weirder than being a rich white guy already and then deciding that what you really needed to do was get yourself and your family really stressed out telling 64 million people what to do every day.
Zak Smith writes about David Cameron, who purportedly put his dick in a pig.
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- U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies.
What is the point of even being there? This story is terrible.
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- Meet The Children Experiencing An Instagram Afterlife.
Buzzfeed does a lot of really interesting reporting.
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- TV’s First Awesome Arranged Marriage.
I love The Mindy Project show, and didn’t realize it was back on.
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- This Homemade Clock Got a Muslim Teen Arrested at School.
This story is so infuriating. Of course, he has Obama inviting him over to the White House now so that school can basically go fuck itself.
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- Once again i'm raising money to help fight breast cancer.
You can help by donating!
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- 'Give Away Your Legos' and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups.
At the end of the day, what early startups really need are design principles that tell them who they are, what they like, what they want to select for, and who they want to be. That is what helps you scale.
The whole article is quite quotable.
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- The Sex Ed Revolution: a portrait of the powerful political bloc that's waging war on Queen's Park.
A fascinating story about disparate ethnic and social groups banding together in a beautiful multicultural mosaic to fight the new sex-ed curriculum. What?
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- YouTube: Chris Alexander defends Canada's refugee response, blames media for ignoring crisis.
And on the subject of beat downs …
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- YouTube: Desmond Cole and Police Chief Mark Saunders (split-screen) Toronto Carding Consultation meeting.
There are so many great quotes in this video I don’t even know where to start. What a beat down.
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- How and Why We Designed Lucida.
Once you are done reading about the design of Google, learn about the font you see on this website! Nothing says 2000s web design like Lucidia Grande.
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- Evolving the Google Identity.
The designers at Google talk about their new (goofy) logo.
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- INK - a short doc by Ryan Couldrey.
I bought a Lamy fountain pen last year. I’ve ended up getting more interested in fountain pens, and writing, as a result. (I suppose I have always loved stationary, though.)
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- One Hundred Years of Arm Bars.
Amazing reporting on the Gracie family.
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- H&R Block snuck language into a Senate bill to make taxes more confusing for poor people.
Lobbyists are going to be first up against the wall when the revolution happens.
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- Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters.
A great overview of the controversy that surrounded this year’s Hugo awards.
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- The Oppressive Architecture of the West Bank.
Art and writing by Molly Crabapple on her last trip to Hebron.
#Though rock-throwing is often treated as a serious crime when done by Palestinians, no settlers had been arrested. The soldiers stood idly by until, jostling the crowd aside, they cleared the settlers’ path into the Old City. That moment shows how impossible it is to untangle the violence committed by settlers from the mechanisms of the state: The settler throws a rock; the army protects him. The closed streets, the abandoned homes, the cut-up city—this is all for the safety of 600 settlers who live there in defiance of international law. So it is that Sayeed’s house has been taken over by both the settlers and the IDF; so it is that Ghassan’s shop struggles, that Ali Dawabsheh burned to death.
- Retro heroes adorn Toronto Neighbourhood Watch signs.
The man behind all the cool neighbourhood watch signs speaks to the CBC.
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A new favourite: a final fantasy 1 party.