August 2012
84 posts
“I think the situation will be solved through diplomacy … The Swedish government...”
– Wikileaks founder Julian Assange • Speaking about his situation in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he’s been granted asylum but effectively can’t leave. He thinks that it’ll eventually work itself out, but he’ll probably be stuck in the embassy for as long as six months to a year. (via...
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When Tempest Toss'd, Embrace Chaos.: First Day →
cripesonfriday:
We brought Gracie over to school for her first day today, she started crying as we were leaving the class. Little silent tears.
I know she’ll be fine, I know she’s probably fine already, but I left my little girl crying in a room full of people she doesn’t know, and I don’t think I will ever be…
I’ve done this twice. It truly is the weirdest feeling.
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That awkward moment you hit enter and realise it posted the post before you finished, have to edit it, and it instantly has a note…
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I am beginning to see why Samsung really got...
Like, well, this. If you can, hold an iPhone 2G/3G/3GS up next to it. And this isn’t much better, bar that cluster of little circular sensors at the top.
Oh, and this. That is pretty troublesome too.
As an aside… HTC? You still have to go to court against them yet. So, while you have the chance… change the design of this. Please? For your own good.
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Condi Rice Can’t Name A Specific Obama Foreign... →
motherjones:
O’DONNELL: Can you be specific about somewhere where you think President Obama has failed on foreign policy.
RICE: What we should do tonight, is talk about what a President Romney would mean for America. It’s not a time to look back, it’s a time to look forward. We have real challenges out there…
O’DONNELL: But if President Obama isn’t doing anything wrong, then why change...
No, Anne Romney, we aren't attacking your...
joegressivism:
It’s a fucking question of fairness!
That, and the fact he still owes half his taxes, should he really have only paid 13% on average, at the very least.
STFU, Conservatives: curiousgeorgiana: The... →
curiousgeorgiana:
The Wire
serene-quill:
It wasn’t a coat hanger. It was a wire.
The theory was that by inserting the wire through the cervix, moving it around a bit and then removing it, an infection would result and the pregnancy would be aborted. It worked. It was March 1967.
Here’s the question I wonder if anyone ever asked them:
What would Jesus do?
Seriously, what would he...
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An attendee at the Republican National Convention... →
shortformblog:
joshsternberg:
WTF?
The incident would be ugly anywhere, but it is especially troubling for a party whose nominee attracted 0 percent of the black vote in a recent NBC poll.
In case you didn’t hear about this, this is perhaps the lowest point of the entire 2012 campaign.
And this is what happens when people start swinging hard right and nobody brings them back from the...
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Damnit, not again!
So, I’ve found it pretty impossible lately to go to sleep.
The second I’m ready to hit the pillow - boom, head full of crap. It’s getting beyond a joke now, especially as tomorrow’s the only early start I’ll have all week.
The worst thing is, I’m not even tired now. Argh.
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“It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices....”
– A statement from Samsung • Expressing anger over yesterday’s ruling in their patent case against Apple, in which a jury largely ruled in favor of Apple, pushing a $1.05 billion fine on Samsung. For what it’s worth, Apple CEO Tim Cook came out with a statement of his own: “We owe a debt of gratitude...
Big news: In a high-profile patent trial, the jury... →
shortformblog:
The jury in the landmark Apple-Samsung trial announced moments ago that Samsung infringed on patents for ’381 “bounce back” scrolling functionality on all devices.
On the ’915 patent, relating to one finger to scroll, two to pinch and zoom navigation, all but three Samsung devices (Ace, Intercept and Replenish) infringed.
For Apple’s ’163 patent (tap to zoom) all Samsung...
look at all the excellence in this reblog.
barackobama:
vh1:
meredifsteppy:
i cant tell whether vh1 or barackobama is my favorite blog and it is distressing me
Does the president ever reblog Darren Criss gifs? We think not. POTUS: Needs more Darren GIFs!
Hey, Darren: Should everybody register to vote and bug their friends to register to vote?
Your move, VH1.
Oh America, I’d kill for a UK politician half as awesome...
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“You may have heard about Spain’s ‘Robin Hood Mayor’, Juan...”
– From BoingBoing
I had no idea Spain had got this bad. I mean, I’d heard “economic crisis” and “Spain” in the same sentence, but wow. I honestly thought this was a post-apocalypse fiction story at first, and then realised:
This is real.
Amazon Kindle book link
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“Thought you might like a little exchange my wife and I had with our sons, 12 and...”
– Email from WWdN reader Ian H, who identifies as “also old”. (via wilwheaton)
Take solace: I’m 29, and to my 8 year old son I’m some sort of Time Lord.
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Republicans approve the "most conservative...
stfuconservatives:
think-progress:
It includes:
No abortion in cases of rape or incest
A salute to mandatory ultrasounds
No legal recognition of same-sex couples
Arizona-style immigration laws
Audit the Federal Reserve
No women in combat
No statehood, but more guns for Washington D.C.
Find details at ThinkProgress
Sick, sick, sick. Anti-woman, anti-choice, anti-immigrant, and...
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Tony Nicklinson, locked-in syndrome sufferer, has...
guardian:
before he died, he asked us to tweet: ‘Goodbye world the time has come, I had some fun’
— TonyNicklinson (@TonyNicklinson) August 22, 2012
Tony died six days after the failure of his high court bid to be allowed to end his life with the help of a doctor.
In June, he used Twitter to speak with readers and Observer journalist Elizabeth Day about his life, his hopes and living with...
Wow...
I have been on Tumblr 885 days.
I have 11,855 likes. That’s 13.4 likes a day.
I like too much stuff!
EDIT: 11,891 now. That’s 13.44 now…
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“Historically, if you look back through all the elections throughout time, women...”
– Fox News contributor Jedediah Bila, arguing that feminist women rely on the government to be “their big daddy.”
h/t stfusexists
(via reallyfoxnews)
Uh….
Call me a rampant gender traitor, but that might have a lot to do with the right’s history, worldwide, of attempting to undo all...
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Just had the most frantic catch up phone call...
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an actual thing my thirteen year old brother just...
if girls are asking to be raped because their clothes don't completely cover all of their bodies, then boys are asking to be kicked in the balls just because they don't wear cups everywhere.
“[TW: Sexual Assault, Rape] I was shocked to see parts of the very Left which...”
– When the Left apologises for Assange (via commiebabe)
YOU CAN CONDEMN ASSANGE AND STILL SUPPORT WIKILEAKS.
(via seriouslyamerica)
YES THIS. I keep having to explain this to people. Wikileaks was an awesome display of freedom of speech in the digital age. But that doesn’t mean Julian Assange...
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Tech: why make a mini iPad?
So, it’s looking more and more likely that the rumours of a post-Jobs reversal on the idea of a smaller iPad is true. It’s made pretty obvious by the fact companies are making cases for it. But the question people are still asking is:
Why bother?
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The full size iPad is 70% of the market now. Recent revelations from the suit against Samsung reveal they account for a mere 9%,...
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“This is a traumatic thing — she’s, shall we say, she’s uptight. She is...”
– Dr. John Wilke trying to explain the science the bullshit right wing lunatics made up behind how a woman’s body shuts down when she’s being raped. Disgusting.
Read the rest of the article at the New York Times.
(via joshsternberg)
Fixed that for you.
(via wilwheaton)
Clearly, he’s...
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