[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Video: Potty Training Orphan Sloths
- [Wired: Science - Betsy Mason]
- Georgia Teacher Fired for Trying to Stop Anti-Gay Violence
- Dixon was personally responsible for talking three kids down from suicide, and dozens of other students stayed in school because of the mentoring and support that Dixon gave them.
But today, Dave Dixon is out of a job. Why? Because his school didn't like the fact that he was trying to combat anti-gay bullying…
Send the principal of Haralson County High School, Charles Needham, as well as the Haralson County Superintendent a message that Dixon deserves to be reinstated.
- DJ Jaffe: What should we call people with mental illness?
- [HuffingtonPost.com - DJ Jaffe]
[How about we start with NOT calling vapid and/or dangerous political extremists by derogatory terms like "nuts" and "crazies"? -L]
- An embedded journalist for neuroscience
- [Mind Hacks - vaughanbell]
I’ve just discovered a new blog called The Brain Detectives by the writer-in-residence at the Montreal Neurological Institute, who has the wonderful job of hanging around and writing-up the most interesting things she hears.
Although the writer, journalist Maria Schamis Turner, has just started, the project looks very promising.
- Streaming Surpasses DVDs on Netflix: Streaming-Only Option Inevitable
- [ReadWriteWeb - Mike Melanson]
[So when the fuck are they going to include captions for people with hearing difficulties? -L]
- Stop Texting Me and Download Kik Before It’s Pulled from the App Store
- [ReadWriteWeb - Mike Melanson]
…automatically [imports] your contacts without asking permission.
[That's the bad news. Everything else is the good news. Send text messages for free to non-Kik users; live chat with Kik users. -L]
…soon be adding three new features to the app – the ability to block contacts, picture messaging and a third feature they call "Sneaky Rhino"…
"Basically, Kik's technology lets you wirelessly 'sling' any content on your phone to any device running on any software."
…cancel that expensive $15 a month SMS plan because you soon won't need it. Sure, Kik isn't alone in the SMS-replacement market, with apps like GroupMe, TextPlus or PingChat, but it is alone in being completely free, fast, multi-platform and growing in popularity by leaps and bounds.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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