February 2012
“44 percent of Social Security recipients, 43 percent of those receiving...”
– Paul Krugman, NYT
I never cease to be amazed by this stat.
(via arig)
The answer to “Who, other than the super-rich, votes for these people?”
“There is a particular kind of anxious frustration that starts to build with this...”
– Emma Healey, Maisonneuve (via staceymayfowles)
I can relate to this through the lens of race-focused discourse.
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Time for Apple to build its own social network... →
Apple buying Path would be the SMARTEST way for them to build a meaningful social presence. And Path would get better, with integration into iOS, and then OSX at a base level. It seems like a great solution, but when it comes to hypothetical acquisitions, there are too many variables to actually predict the outcomes.
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New Putty May Repair Bone Fractures in Days →
SCIENCE!
How this all started.
I went to Big Smoke Burger today for lunch.
About 4 years ago the chain was known as Craft Burger, and I used to work by a location near King and Portland.
My friend Dan Hocking, at that point totally unknown to me, asked if I wanted to grab a burger there, when a twitter conversation surfaced that both of us had studied at WLU at the same time.
And as I was sitting at Big Smoke Burger, having...
Randomized control trial shows increased hand... →
I’m fairly certain that serving me a push notification would be the best way to improve my compliance in pretty much anything. Medication, social behaviours, everything.
90+% of the time, the issue is not remembering, more than not thinking it is worthwhile.
I'm oddly proud of myself...
For not posting the incredibly emo thing I wrote last night.
This is modern life.
The Best Comic Ever →
This is actually my favourite thing Brian Lee O’Malley has released commercially. It’s about as close to perfect as a GN could be.
fulton’s chinatown uncut →
nice.
January 2012
Random thought.
I always wonder why companies don’t insist that former employees update their SM accounts to say they’ve left.
So often, I see someone who has moved on, or even been let go, still claiming on FB, Twitter, LinkedIn etc, that they still currently work somewhere.
This always confuses me.
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Big Changes.
attentionindustry:
2 years ago, I took a big risk. I left a job I’d only started 6 months before, because a friend was willing to take a bit of a chance on me, and hire me to work with him to build the digital team at an agency best known for print, direct mail, and in-store work.
Needless to say, it paid off. The last 2 years have been an amazing learning experience, and I’ll spend the rest...
My favourite thing on the internet
Is the way The Awl refers to Britain as ‘Knifecrime Island”
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“I’m rolling seven digits deep!”
– Actual quote from Stephen Colbert’s report to the Federal Election Commission after his SuperPAC raised over $1,000,000.
(via NPR News)
Sacha Baron Cohen has NOTHING on Colbert when it comes to pointing out that the joke is society.
“Forever underrated, so now I’m Nicholas Cage-ing it // Doing all about anything...”
– Asher Roth kills me sometimes.
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"We should be ashamed; what we did to Black Kids... →
The Lana Del Rey backlash backlash is more fun than the initial LDR backlash.
Listening to Video Games is still more fun than any of the freaking out about collagen or stage names.
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A thing to understand.
There was one day, years ago. I don’t even remember the name of the person I was talking to, but I remember the conversation.
She was hurting. We’d never met face to face, but she was dating a friend. At that point, in university, I spent a dozen hours a day in front of a computer. So I was usually pretty available.
A friend of hers had committed suicide.
And this girl, this deeply...
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“it’s not interesting to men to group together a bunch of related images....”
– Angus, on why dudes don’t generally ‘get’ pinterest.
THE FUTURE IS… →
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WatchJuicebox
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attention industry: Protest, Fixed. →
attentionindustry:
I spend a significant amount of my time in university feeling like protest, as a concept, was severely broken. To the point where I blogged about it a few times, completed a project under the name ‘ground war’ for a communication theory seminar, and basically attended a few protests in…
Serious Jon is serious.