- Dems helped GOP win the argument over the deficit and job creation – The Plum Line – The Washington Post
- I know you’re sick of hearing me say this. But today’s Pew poll offers some of the clearest evidence yet that Dems helped Republicans win the argument over the deficit and government spending…
The key in today’s Pew poll, though, is that there’s been clear movement in the direction of prioritizing the deficit over spending to create jobs. The public was roughly divided on this question in February (49-46), but now the public prioritizes deficit reduction by 10 points (52-42).
- Riding the Bridesmaids Wave > Women and Hollywood
- …I would really rather not have the next conversation to be about whether the success of Bridesmaids means that other supposed “raunchy” female comedies will also be successful. If the next several female R rated films fail (which all were made before Bridesmaids was released)—in the long gone days of one month ago before the power that be realized women existed—does that negate the success of Bridesmaids?
And by the way when did raunchy become the female equivalent of funny? Hangover dudes just get to be funny, but women, their funniness must be defined as raunch.
- A Tale Of Two Recoveries: Wealthy Rebounding While Lower-Income Families Struggle | The Consumerist • by Chris Morran
- According to a study from our research-happy relatives at Consumer Reports, America’s well-to-do have been on the upswing for almost 18 months while lower-income families continue to feel the pinch.
…it looks like the economic recovery began in February 2010 for those households earning more than $100K per year. It was at that point that the index crossed over into positive territory for this income bracket representing about 18% of the country. …
On the lower end of the scale are those households earning less than $50K per year. Since bottoming out in Oct. 2009, this group’s index has never crossed back into positive territory, nor has it recovered to pre-bust levels like the two other income groups.
…financial suffering among lower-income Americans has been three to five times the level of those earning $100,000 or more, over the course of the recession.
[There's a link to the study itself. -L]
- Observations: How to Know if Hackers Have Stolen Your Password
- …easy-to-use web tool that a security professional has created that will check your email address against 13 different databases containing 800,000 email address/password combinations. Called, appropriately, “Should I Change My Password?”, the site runs a simple search for your email in the known files.
- For-Profit Colleges: Preying On Hope and Vulnerable Populations | Tiger Beatdown • by s.e. smith
- Over at Alternet, Sarah Jaffe recently covered the looming student loan crisis
- Great Feminist Law Profs Who Blog | Feminist Law Professors • by Bridget Crawford
- There are many that I know about, and probably lots more that I don’t know about. Let’s try to crowd-source a list. Here’s my start …
- Robot Artist Draws Purposely Bad Portraits | Geekosystem • by Erin Podolak
- Scientist, artist, and engineer Patrick Tresset has developed a robot that can look at your face and draw a portrait for you while you wait. However, this robot is not designed with precision in mind. Tresset’s robot is designed to have some of the clumsiness and fallibility that make human created works of art so unique.
- What color are the sash and bonnet in this painting? Wrong. | io9 • by Esther Inglis-Arkell
- At the time this was painted, over 200 years ago, they would have been considered yellow. Colors aren’t as eternal as we imagine them to be. The way our cultures perceive colors changes over time, just like everything else.
- Smart Grid Challenges Individual Privacy – Miller-McCune
- All of these examples highlight that technology — and data in massive, massive quantities — may solve our problems at a much higher cost than advertised if policymakers don’t think simultaneously about the promise of software and the privacy issues, the innovative databases and the potential data breaches, the digital tools and the way some people may misuse them.
- Everyone’s a Critic: Babies Prefer Pablo Picasso – Miller-McCune
- …the young participants (who were seated on caregivers’ laps) were shown side-by-side images of two paintings …
[Clever Hans effect? -L]
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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