- Is BMO From Adventure Time Expressive of Feminism?
This dudes videos are fantastic. For example, Can D&D Make you a Confident and Successful Person.
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- Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice.
When you have a society that takes at its founding the hatred and degradation of a people, when that society inscribes that degradation in its most hallowed document, and continues to inscribe hatred in its laws and policies, it is fantastic to believe that its citizens will derive no ill messaging. It is painful to say this: Trayvon Martin is not a miscarriage of American justice, but American justice itself. This is not our system malfunctioning. It is our system working as intended.
I thought I had linked to this, but apparently Textpattern at my post. MetaFilter has a discussion of the verdict, but it’s mostly crap. I’ll repeat one of my comments there here: “The guy chased some kid down and shot him. Where else in the known universe would the prosecution need to do anything but show up and give each other high fives to get a conviction?”
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- Our Vigilante Nation.
Well, “Their,” if you don’t live in the US.
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- Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary.
This is a pretty handy site.
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- ON PRINCIPLE.
“[Americans] endorse, but do not demonstrate, democratic basics.”
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- Dove Camera Shy.
There are few companies out there that do advertising better than Dove. It’s a shame Unilever is so evil.
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- Dance in a Year.
Lady teaches herself to dance in a year, makes time lapse video and writes about it.
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- Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure.
I didn’t watch the video, but maybe you want to. (Some what related.)
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- Dropbox Blows Up the Box, Connecting Every App, File, and Device.
Can’t stop, won’t stop.
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- The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5Â Seconds.
Man, remember when Twitter was that site that would go down all the time? Memories.
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- Motorcyclist rescues coffee cup.
This doesn’t seem safe.
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- Toronto storm causes flash floods and traffic chaos.
I left work super late, but actually got home fairly quickly all things considered. The TTC said the Bloor line wasn’t running past Ossington, but it turned out that was a lie. Nevertheless, what a crazy storm. Best tweet from last night: ‘Guys, @TOMayorFord is advising everyone to get your families into your Cadillac Escalade and crank that AC.’ Why do we even have a mayor?
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- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego.
This Q&A is pretty fascinating.
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- Wizards of the Coast, Equity Distributions.
This is the second part in a series of posts on the early history of Wizards of the Coast. It’s nice reading a story where people aren’t shafted out of their stocks.
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- Wooden artistry adds warmth to Apple's 'cool' keyboard design.
I want this keyboard.
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- Why Lego Minifigures Have A Hole In Their Heads.
Lego is so god damn awesome.
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- Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center.
The photographer is Ben Roberts, someone who used to hang out in the HCSP Flickr group.
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- A few words on Doug Engelbart.
The man who gave The Mother of all Demos back in 1968 has passed away.
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