February 2012
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that's what she said: things that are definitely... →
doubleentendre: Kelly S: this is kind of what I imagine your life is like. A lot of people seem to be connecting me to the new MIA video — emailing me about it, wanting to show it to me, etc. I think it’s because, if you imagine my friend’s minds as venn diagrams, I’ve been the sole occupant of the… All hail the former Queen of GanstArabia.
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NPR Streams Air "Le Voyage Dans Le Lune"
Air has recorded its share of soundtracks — some of the French duo’s best work has accompanied the films of director Sofia Coppola — but Le Voyage Dans La Lune is different. Commissioned in conjunction with the priceless and painstaking restoration of the groundbreaking1902 science-fiction film of the same name, Le Voyage Dans La Lune (translation: A Trip To The Moon) provides a springily...
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January 2012
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Charlie O’Donnell Launches Brooklyn Bridge... →
kmaverick: So awesome. Right on, Charlie! The real question is: will this get @kmaverick and @cstoller to come back to BK?
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“We need your help - please take a minute and act now. Legislation is pending in...”
– An email we received from Universal Music Group, obviously RE: SOPA and PIPA. (via thecultureofme) Nope.
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December 2011
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Are Creative People More Dishonest? - Carmen Nobel... →
underpaidgenius: Steve Jobs was theorethically channeling Picasso when he said ‘Good artists borrow, great artists steal,’ but he may have been onto something. It turns out that creatives are more likely to cheat, according to new research by Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely: Francesca Gino Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge Is there a link between creativity and unethical behavior? There...
Dec 20th
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nycdigital: Interior Rendering of New Cornell University-Technion Applied Sciences Campus on Roosevelt Island I love Ithaca bigtime, but jeezus why do Cornell campuses always have to be in the most depressing places: Ithaca, Upper East Side, Qatar, Roosevelt Island?!
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Underpaid Genius: New York Now Allows Benefit... →
underpaidgenius: New York has passed legislation to allo the formation of a new sort of corporation — a Benefit Corporation, or B Corp: Kyle Westaway, New Legal Structures for ‘Social Entrepreneurs’  The Benefit Corporation is a new class of corporation with a corporate purpose to create public benefit,… Woohoo!  If you want to learn more about the changing landscape of the...
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CIAT BLOG » Blog Archive » +2.3 degrees = 0... →
Over half of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced by smallholders in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, many of whom are fair-trade certified. The CIAT study has found that rising temperatures in cocoa-producing regions of these countries could spell trouble for this heat sensitive crop, and the farmers who depend on it. Funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it is the first of three...
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ListenDon’t You Want Me (Instrumental) - The Human...
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November 2011
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“The mayor, at his news conference in the morning, read a statement he had issued...”
– New York Times “Making it unavailable to anyone else?” Are you kidding me, Bloomberg?
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the knoblr: Austerity, Then and Now →
hotdoorknobs: Krugman: Postwar austerity in Britain was driven by real, obvious limits on resources. In particular, foreign exchange was in short supply. At a basic level, people knew why things were rationed — Britain had spent heavily on the war, it had to scrimp to pay its bills. Today, by contrast, austerity is being imposed because men in suits say that it’s necessary to satisfy the...
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