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Apr 16

spytap: think-progress: Is it nearly the end of video sharing as we know it? A disturbing lawsuit from Motion Picture Association of America could set the precedent that embedding copyright video, rather than hosting it, is illegal. The internet is fixing things, therefore it must be broken.

spytap:

think-progress:

Is it nearly the end of video sharing as we know it?

A disturbing lawsuit from Motion Picture Association of America could set the precedent that embedding copyright video, rather than hosting it, is illegal.

The internet is fixing things, therefore it must be broken.

interestingsnippets: This is the made up story about two very real girls – Ada, the world’s first computer programmer, and Mary, the world’s first science fiction author – caught up in a steampunk world of hot-air balloons and steam engines, jewel thieves and mechanical contraptions. For readers 8-12. (via Wollstonecraft by Airship Ambassador — Kickstarter) An historical fiction adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief!  ”If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book.”

interestingsnippets:

This is the made up story about two very real girls – Ada, the world’s first computer programmer, and Mary, the world’s first science fiction author – caught up in a steampunk world of hot-air balloons and steam engines, jewel thieves and mechanical contraptions. For readers 8-12. (via Wollstonecraft by Airship Ambassador — Kickstarter)

An historical fiction adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief!  ”If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book.”

Proving that Pinterest is for Brides, Oscar de la Renta’s team began “live-pinning” photos to a designated bridal board.  “Pinterest has got a lot of momentum right now, and we want to be involved with people [and platforms] who have momentum, ” admitted Alex Bolen, Oscar de la Renta CEO. And the tumblverse sighed collectively.

Proving that Pinterest is for Brides, Oscar de la Renta’s team began “live-pinning” photos to a designated bridal board. 

“Pinterest has got a lot of momentum right now, and we want to be involved with people [and platforms] who have momentum, ” admitted Alex Bolen, Oscar de la Renta CEO.

And the tumblverse sighed collectively.

un: (via eatsleepdraw) original photograph here: mamjakty.deviantart.com hand drawn tessellations

un:

(via eatsleepdraw) original photograph here: mamjakty.deviantart.com

hand drawn tessellations

(via proofmathisbeautiful)

think-progress: Ablogalypse via Pinteresting…

think-progress:

Ablogalypse

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flavorpill: Stuttgart city library in Germany and the other most beautiful public libraries in the world  I want to go there!

flavorpill:

Stuttgart city library in Germany and the other most beautiful public libraries in the world 

I want to go there!

Apr 11

unconsumption: Books from a “defunct U.S. Navy base library” form Colombian artist Miler Lagos’s impressive, self-supporting igloo-like sculpture. (via A Dome of Books | Colossal) See also: Earlier Unconsumption book-related posts here. P.S. Remember it’s National Library Week!

unconsumption:

Books from a “defunct U.S. Navy base library” form Colombian artist Miler Lagos’s impressive, self-supporting igloo-like sculpture. (via A Dome of Books | Colossal)

See also: Earlier Unconsumption book-related posts here.

P.S. Remember it’s National Library Week!

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Apr 06

unconsumption: It’s the best of Unconsumption — Easter edition! Dye eggs naturally — using spices and other items that you may already have in your kitchen Make your own baskets from paper — three basket-weaving ideas DIY simple centerpieces — plant plants! — other ideas here, here and here And more (Photo via via Kyle Bean; reblogged from here.)

unconsumption:

It’s the best of Unconsumption — Easter edition!

(Photo via via Kyle Bean; reblogged from here.)

Mar 25

A series of “swarm” quakes has riled up residents and has created a bit of a media circus in the small town of Clintonville, Wisconsin. But where are the scientists? 

A series of “swarm” quakes has riled up residents and has created a bit of a media circus in the small town of Clintonville, Wisconsin.

But where are the scientists?
 

Mar 19

cordjefferson: Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old kid walking home from a convenience store with an Arizona Iced Tea and a pack of Skittles last month in Orlando. He’d gotten the snacks for his little brother during a break in the NBA All-Star Game. Martin’s grandparents lived in the gated community he was walking through, but that didn’t stop George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, from tailing Martin in his car and calling the police to tell them a “suspicious person” was in the area. That also didn’t stop Zimmerman from confronting Martin before the police arrived and then shooting the teenager with his 9-mm handgun. By the time police got there, Martin was dead, and Zimmerman was telling everyone he’d acted in self-defense. It’s now been weeks since a black kid got killed for doing nothing more than trying to get home to see his family, and police have yet to charge or arrest Zimmerman with a single crime. Yesterday, hundreds of miles from Orlando, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the best way he knows of to clean up gun violence in New York is by stopping and frisking random men of color on the street, essentially treating them all like they’re suspicious, dangerous, the kind of people who can be menacing with only a pack of Skittles in their pocket. It sounds that there is more to this story like the background cries for help heard in the 911 recording. Will this be shown to be racial prejudice or become a political tipping point? 

cordjefferson:

Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old kid walking home from a convenience store with an Arizona Iced Tea and a pack of Skittles last month in Orlando. He’d gotten the snacks for his little brother during a break in the NBA All-Star Game. Martin’s grandparents lived in the gated community he was walking through, but that didn’t stop George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, from tailing Martin in his car and calling the police to tell them a “suspicious person” was in the area. That also didn’t stop Zimmerman from confronting Martin before the police arrived and then shooting the teenager with his 9-mm handgun. By the time police got there, Martin was dead, and Zimmerman was telling everyone he’d acted in self-defense.

It’s now been weeks since a black kid got killed for doing nothing more than trying to get home to see his family, and police have yet to charge or arrest Zimmerman with a single crime.

Yesterday, hundreds of miles from Orlando, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the best way he knows of to clean up gun violence in New York is by stopping and frisking random men of color on the street, essentially treating them all like they’re suspicious, dangerous, the kind of people who can be menacing with only a pack of Skittles in their pocket.

It sounds that there is more to this story like the background cries for help heard in the 911 recording. Will this be shown to be racial prejudice or become a political tipping point? 

(via mindbabies)

Mar 15

It’s a little known fact that Julius Caesar did not die from stab wounds by Brutus, but rather he was poisoned. At the huge banquet on that fateful ides of March, Brutus slipped some poisonous hemlock leaves onto Julius’s salad. (This was the world’s first Caesar’s salad.) When Julius slumped over into his salad, Brutus feigned concern and asked: “My dear friend Julius, how many hemlock leaves have you eaten?” To which Julius gasped in reply, “Ate two, Brutus.”

It’s a little known fact that Julius Caesar did not die from stab wounds by Brutus, but rather he was poisoned. At the huge banquet on that fateful ides of March, Brutus slipped some poisonous hemlock leaves onto Julius’s salad. (This was the world’s first Caesar’s salad.) When Julius slumped over into his salad, Brutus feigned concern and asked: “My dear friend Julius, how many hemlock leaves have you eaten?” To which Julius gasped in reply, “Ate two, Brutus.”

Mar 12

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