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Trying to get the Nexus S, I walked out of Best Buy multiple...

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:43:24 -0600

Trying to get the Nexus S, I walked out of Best Buy multiple times with a working headache.

marathonpacks: Revolution 2.0: the TV-B-Gone Hoodie

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:45:35 -0500

marathonpacks: Revolution 2.0: the TV-B-Gone Hoodie:

Anil Dash’s response to Malcolm Gladwell’s thorough takedown of social media as a revolution-facilitating infrastructure begins with a great point:

There are revolutions, actual political and legal revolutions, that are being led online. They’re just happening in new ways, and taking…

Supreme Court arguments will be available as weekly MP3s

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:44:01 -0500

Supreme Court arguments will be available as weekly MP3s:

savingpaper:

This is big news:

Beginning with the October Term 2010, the audio recordings of all oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court of the United States will be available free to the public on the Court’s web site, www.supremecourt.gov, at the end of each argument week. The audio recordings will be posted on Fridays after Conference.

The public may either download the audio files or listen to the recordings on the Court’s website. The MP3 files of the audio recordings may be accessed by clicking the “Oral Arguments” prompt on the home page, and selecting “Argument Audio.” The audio recordings will be listed by case name, docket number, and date of oral argument.

This is not as nice as same-day release, and nowhere near televising the arguments, but it’s a big step forward for the Court, scholars, amateur buffs, and the media. Previously the Court only released recordings of oral arguments to the National Archives at the end of each term, and if you didn’t have access to the National Archives, you had to wait until The Oyez Project could upload the arguments on its website. (And that wait could be a while: last term’s oral arguments still aren’t available.)

Now anyone with Internet access can become more knowledgeable of the Court and its workings.

lilykily: This is a pleasant analogy. Wow. Not sure I would...

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:36:32 -0500

lilykily:

This is a pleasant analogy.

Wow. Not sure I would have ever made this connection. Super funny

Dr Dave rocking my face off.

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:06:15 -0500

Dr Dave rocking my face off.

Dr. Dave & the Last Chance Jug Band at the Center for...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:50:39 -0500

Dr. Dave & the Last Chance Jug Band at the Center for Southern Folklore

"Whoever plotted the location of the Neander Valley near Germany is misinformed. New evidence..."

Mon, 10 May 2010 11:21:00 -0500

“Whoever plotted the location of the Neander Valley near Germany is misinformed. New evidence suggests this location was centered in the present southeastern region of the United States. The ancestral humans of this region were known by their unique affinity to reject new technology such as fire, wheels and farming. Despite this, their line is thought to have persisted through the spread of a now extinct microorgansim found in their excrement that actually promoted immunity and longevity. Oddly this microorganism was naturally passed from one member to the next as they spent most of their days throwing the defecate at one another and eating it. It is also thought that the orginal chia pet was invented by these people after one of them discovered foliage growing out of his fecal-covered head.”

- chat w/ a colleague, know to some by the initials of BB.

S.A. performing a poem of his own about Elvis.

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:59:01 -0500

S.A. performing a poem of his own about Elvis.

S.A. Griffin reading from Civil Disobedience

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:52:43 -0500

S.A. Griffin reading from Civil Disobedience

S.A. Griffin quoting the founder of City Lights Books - live in...

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:49:32 -0500

S.A. Griffin quoting the founder of City Lights Books - live in Memphis at the Java Cabana.

Photo

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:03:38 -0500

Buddy Wakefield opening up at the New Daisy

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:09:52 -0500

Buddy Wakefield opening up at the New Daisy

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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:47:03 -0500

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Stroking it

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:01:00 -0500

She: [on the phone w/ college friend] "So, how's [Aimee] doing?"

Me: [interjecting myself into the conversation - thinking I'm about to strike comedic gold] "Is she still blowing dudes for money!?"

She: [w/a mortified look of surprised disgust & bewilderment - she puts her hand over the mouthpiece] "She's had a stroke!" [now looking at me w/ irritated pity - as if I'm an excited 3 month old puppy pissing all over the floor again - she continues her conversation,] "Oh nothing - he's retarded and just can't help himself ..."

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Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:47:45 -0500

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Psychological barriers associated with matriculation of African American students in predominantly white institutions

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:39:49 -0600

Psychological barriers associated with matriculation of African American students in predominantly white institutions:

Yeah - there is no legacy of racial inequality still lingering in America - its a perfectly level playing field.

Article is from 2003 - I just found it - 2 pages into it - very useful - if only those sub-literate racists in my family could read this article…

Chinese Policy

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:31:46 -0600

Chinese Policy:

unsolicitedanalysis:

Go ahead and sell bonds, China. That’s what Bernanke wants. Anything to weaken the dollar, anything to juice exports. If you want real revenge? Keep buying that debt, keep propping up the greenback. We’ll strangle on widescreen television while you drown in losses, and the world will be destroyed in a silicon war.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:42:05 -0600

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unsolicitedanalysis: (via soupsoup)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:45:47 -0600

unsolicitedanalysis:

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Yesterday, my store manager basically told us our store was kicking ass far as profits go...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:32:43 -0600

comosehomo:

…nearly everything was up more than 20% and one department was up 85%…so we’re all like, cool maybe we’ll get bonuses, or a fucking raise.

No.

She plied us with pizza, like we wouldn’t understand the overall purpose of the meeting was for them to once again rain huge piles of shit down on us, and inform us that if we take breaks that are more than two weeks long, we’ve technically been fired and re-hired…and that, oh yeah, even though the store’s kicking ass while we’ve been taking our breaks, they’re cutting down on that next semester.

No breaks for us.

No bonuses for us.

No raises for us.

They wonder why the majority of us could give two shits about that fucking store.