January 2012
“We believe that the next stop in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay: ‘The Next Step in Copying Will Be Made From Digital Form Into Physical Form’ - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic (via interestingsnippets
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15 things learned from watching all the movies on... →
austinkleon:
For the past 5 or 6 years, my friend James Flynn has been making his way through the movies on the WGA’s 101 greatest screenplays list and blogging about them. Here’s a list of 15 things he’s learned.
“Forbes’ excellent privacy blogger, Kashmir Hill, may have coined (or...”
– Neologism Watch: From Hashtag to Bashtag - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic (via interestingsnippets
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Republicans Behaving Badly
Ex Wife Says Gingrich Asked For “Open Marriage”
Mitt Romney Is A Smug, Arrogant, Entitled Rich Kid
GOP’s New Hope: Bomb Iran, Send Nuke Scientists to Gitmo, Distract ‘Eye of Mordor’
Study: Romney’s Tax Plan Would Up Taxes On Low-Income Families
Ann Coulter’s Nonsensical Hatemongering: A Retrospective
How The GOP Became The Party Of The Rich
Newt Gingrich: Sarah Palin Could Be...
“I thought becoming rich and famous would make me happy. Boy was I right.”
– Mitt Romney, page 200 (via think-progress
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73 Million Tablet Computers Sold in 2011
Tablet makers shipped almost 73 million units in 2011, accounting for 25.2 percent of the global mobile PC market. According to new data released by the Displaysearch division of market research firm NDP, 72.7 million tablet devices were shipped in 2011, representing a staggering 252 percent increase over 2010, The Inquirer reports. NDP said that tablet devices with 250ppi to 300ppi screens will...
Newsweek: longreads: Announcing: Our first-ever... →
longreads:
Announcing: Our first-ever ebook!
Longreads: Best of 2011 includes seven of our favorite stories from the past year.
The ebook is a unique partnership with the writers and publishers—we want to help celebrate outstanding storytelling, and this is just another way for…
“You know I think it’s fine to talk about those things in quiet...”
– Those words, and the entitled attitude with which they are so luxuriously chandeliered, should kill any campaign being conducted in 2012. The country is still staggering, blinking, out of the rubble of an economy that was shattered by an industry full to its gunwales with Willard Romneys. Read more:...
WatchMinnesota Braces For Return Of Michelle Bachmann’s Full Attention
Wikipedia is going down the night before my school...
ijsuper:
And to think my senator helped draft the bill! If only I was old enough to vote.
