- YouTube Testing LOL, OMG, WTF
- The post features screenshots of the new feature, which apparently lets YouTube users click reaction buttons to decide whether a video is LOL, OMG, EPIC, CUTE, WTF or FAIL.
- Boudicca’s Heritage | About.com Women’s History – By Jone Johnson Lewis
- Boudicca, a British Celtic queen, led a revolt against the Roman occupiers of Britain in about 61 C.E., burning London (Londinium) and killing those of its inhabitants who did not flee.
- Student finds Universe’s missing mass | Science Blog
- Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team at the Monash School of Physics, conducted a targeted X-ray search for the matter and within just three months found it – or at least some of it.
- From Snarky Truth to Reasoned Explanation, on FarukAt.eş
- He accuses me of applying my reasoning in such a way that it aids my world view. What he doesn’t realize is that my “world view” here is an as-neutral-as-possible perspective through the lens of a significant body of research, statistics, and a great deal of knowledge on how women (in particular) are treated differently throughout their entire lives.
- Wednesday Geek Woman: Henriette Avram, developer of the MAchine Readable Cataloging standard | Geek Feminism Blog
- Formerly she had worked at the National Security Administration, the American Research Bureau, and Datatrol Corporation, and by the end of her career at Library of Congress, she directed 1,700 employees.
The MARC format allowed the information from library catalog cards to be encoded and stored electronically. … If you have looked for something in a library within the last several decades, that information was almost certainly brought to you–more efficiently–with the aid of MARC.
- Secret Tape Reveals Wisconsin GOP Plan to Hijack Recall Election | Politicususa • by Sarah Jones
- Instead of having faith in their record or in the voters pleasure with them, the Republicans were planning to hunt down a spoiler candidate in order to beat Democrat Jennifer Shilling in Kapanke’s district.
- Awesome Wrongness – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- About a year and a half ago, all the Very Serious People said that it was time for a pivot in economic policy. Recovery was underway, so no more efforts to stimulate demand
- Why Is This Not Being Discussed? | Balloon Juice • by John Cole
- …the Scott plan to basically drug test everyone who moves in Florida is a blatant plant to make millions… [link]
- CPS Took My Kids Because I Don’t Hover | FreeRangeKids • by lskenazy
- “Never…would I have believed that missing a phone call, allowing kids to walk to the bus stop, letting them go to school with incomplete homework or sending late emails would be grounds to place a child in foster care, but that’s exactly what happened to us.”
…I posted this story NOT because it is common — it’s not. I posted it because it shows what can happen if we allow “helicoptering” to become the only acceptable way to parent. If not walking the kids to the bus stop becomes a form of abuse, we will be living in a very different country.
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