May 2010
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– T. Roosevelt
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"...furious at the Obama White House" →
The fact that White House political spin doctors would say this to Chuck Todd in time for him to go on the air with it at 5 p.m. Eastern, on a popular political show hosted by Philly native Matthews, with the polls open until 8 (!), enraged Brady. “I guess that’s the White House’s idea of loyalty,” he snapped. “They’re gonna hear from me.”
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Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss →
She tells him he will “go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a tech geek”. The reality, she says, is rather more upsetting: “I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.”
The real line would have been more compelling (and way less cheesy).
In the film Zuckerberg retreats to his college dormitory...
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How to become an Internet freedom warrior* →
Convince everyone that you used the Internet to organize the post-election protests in Iran; if it fails, get in touch with Twitter Executives and leak your communication with them to the NY Times. Continue telling everyone it was Twitter that caused the protests.
This is an interesting Op-Ed from Evogny Morzov who writes a column for Foreign Policy Magazine (think of it as...
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My Biggest Regret Ever: Wasting Time Playing... →
My biggest regret ever is wasting so much freakin’ time playing computer games. I used to game at least 10 hours a day. I’m an addict, really. Most of my “friends” lived in Korea or China or somewhere else thousands of miles away. I got booted out of community college and I got dumped by my…
I think I may have beat in him in SC2 last week. whiner.
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Learning French
mybiggestregretever:
My biggest regret ever is learning French. I decided to take French in High School when I was 16, just to learn how to speak a second language in the hopes that I could attract girls (as I’ve never been in a relationship). I studied hard for a good 4 years until I was 20, learning the language inside and out yet no women ever came of it. I wasted 4 years of my young adult...
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“As early as this month, the social-networking site will give users the ability...”
– I am fairly comfortable with the fact that you can pretty much piece together me as a person with a decent google search but geo-located data so closely intertwined with ones social graph is unsettling, even to me.
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“Apparently Facebook uses a mostly blue color scheme because blue is the color of...”
– Doublethink: Facebook doesn’t care about privacy
(via generic1)
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“social-news site Digg announced that it is laying off around 10 percent of its...”
– http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20004352-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Digg, once rumored to be getting “$100 million offers” lays off 10 percent of its workforce. That $100 mil valuation puts it at small-cap stock status. The killer part is 10% is ~12...
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“The final batch of opinion polls, published on May 5th, seems to augur a hung...”
– http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displayStory.cfm?story_id=16064089
For the Comparative Governments nerd in all of us (what your not?) this should be an interesting case study for those who believe that the American Bi-Cameral two-party system has become a gridlocked legislative branch to...
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“Mr. Bradley wanted to talk about the future of the National Journal, which...”
– http://www.observer.com/2010/media/high-tide-atlantic-justin-smith
Being a rabid eater of information I thoroughly enjoy the amount of information outlets their are in DC basically covering the same items. Sources like The Hill, Politico, and Roll Call provide the breaking news and NJ and CQ...
“If you’re someone who only reads the editorial page of The New York Times, try...”
– President Barack Obama
Quote For The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
(via think4yourself)
Exposing yourself to uncomfortable thoughts, opinions and notions is the only way to grow intellectually.
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