February 2012
“Sure! Look, it’s really gross and gauche to talk to another human while...”
– When Is it OK to Talk to Your Phone? An Etiquette Guide to Mobile Voice Recognition
“The number of ™ and © marks that appear in a product’s description tends to be...”
– Dustin Curtis (via chartier)
“There’s another reason why atheists might be better off out than in. Researching...”
– Atheism in America - FT.com
“Psychotherapist Marlene Winell, who practises in Berkeley, California,...”
– Atheism in America - FT.com
“I came here knowing this was the Bible Belt, but I didn’t realise it was a more...”
– Atheism in America - FT.com
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“A Gallup poll last year showed that, while 9 per cent of Americans would not...”
– Atheism in America - FT.com
This is positively scary, if those numbers are right!
“We had met in a private room because Johnson worried that anywhere else in the...”
– Atheism in America - FT.com
“Look at it this way: if a single tweet from someone on your staff gives away...”
– To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition — Tech News and Analysis
“Some in the Internet world, including Tim O’Reilly, a noted investor and chief...”
– In Piracy Debate, Deciding if the Sky Is Falling - NYTimes.com
“There is less mobility in the work force because the computers are not simply...”
– Rick Bookstaber, The Bifurcated Society (via courtenaybird)
“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
“The content creators with the broadest reach will be the ones who care the least...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
Capacity is a horrible measure of throughput
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“People change and forget to tell each other.”
– Lillian Hellman (via paperlover)
“Browser Sniffing is, to my mind, a relic that should have been put to rest years...”
– Turning up our noses at browser sniffing - thebeebs - Site Home - MSDN Blogs (via adactio)
“Tech coverage these days tends to be fluffy, if not outright cheerleader-y, and...”
– - Elizabeth Spiers, Hiring! Betabeat, social reporters, commercial mortgages via spiersblr
I have to agree with Spiers, the editor of the New York Observer and BetaBeat: there is a decided tendency in the tech world to pull punches, or to never punch at all. Just consider the lovefest over the...
“Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are...”
– Warren Ellis (via planb-becomeapirate)
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“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via sandyohstar)
“I collect books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just...”
– Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack, Literacy and Longing in LA (via whimsicalimpertinence)
“Don’t let your cousin design a cover for you that looks like clip art. Make no...”
– The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing a Book that Doesn’t Suck | Goins, Writer
“Prof Richter said Western gap-year students should be discouraged from trying to...”
– Volunteer holidays ‘do more harm than good’ - Telegraph
“In a nutshell, the fundamental difference between excessive enthusiasm and...”
– BBC News - Why anything can be addictive
“Même les Grecs travaillent davantage que les Suisses. Exactement 40 heures de...”
– Au boulot, bande de fainéants! « Politblog
“Souvent, les adultes s’alarment davantage pour un joint. Mais une «biture» peut...”
– Boisson: Les jeunes et l’alcool, un dangereux tandem qui commence à 12 ans - News Vivre: Société - 24heures.ch
“After the interview, Homeland Security reported: “Mr Bryan confirmed that...”
– BBC News - Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US
“Tweeter account” FTW (don’t mess with Homeland Security)
“The modus operandi is usually as follows: At almost every industrial zone and...”
– Nokku kooli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Outbreaks of water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis, and...”
– Kerala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Kerala’s annual total of road accidents is among the nation’s...”
– Kerala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 2012
“A growing number of cases also concern the character of the would-be...”
– BBC News - India’s ‘wedding detectives’ enjoy booming trade
“It is normal practice for Mr Prakash to wear disguises. He dresses as beggars,...”
– BBC News - India’s ‘wedding detectives’ enjoy booming trade
“Lawyers in Pune said they will not represent the driver, who works with the...”
– BBC News - India: Lawyers boycott Pune bus driver
What, seriously? Lawyers saying things like this?
“It might be a start to revive or recapture some of the wider, non-medical...”
– BBC News - Not depressed, just sad, lonely or unhappy
“First, when it comes to work-life balance, we often adopt a victim mind-set. Our...”
– Work/Life Balance Is A Myth; Here’s What You Can Do About It | Fast Company
“L’histoire ne raconte pas, en revanche, comment ni pourquoi les fins limiers de...”
– DCRI contre Anonymous » OWNI, News, Augmented