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California Gets Reader Privacy Act: Still Not Enough | ReadWriteWeb • by Joe Brockmeier
…superseded by the Patriot Act, which means that California police may not be able to easily grab your Kindle history – but there’s not a corresponding protection against the feds, even for users in California.Finally, it only applies to books and ebooks. It does nothing for materials outside that realm, which still leaves users subject to all manner of requests about online history or cell phone tracking (for example).
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Unreal | Flickr Blog • by Zack Sheppard
[Spectacular, surreal pics.]
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PassMyWill Sends Out Your Passwords After You Die | Lifehacker • by Thorin Klosowski
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Four-year-old learns Darth Vadar is Luke’s father | kottke.org
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18 Examples of Amazing Long-Exposure Photography | WebUrbanist • by Steph
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Teachers see change coming in Common Core State Standards | ajc.com – September 27, 2011
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…show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives share shots—small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on.
…Shots are to Dribbble as tweets are to Twitter.
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Kordofanian Language Family | About.com African History
The branch is geographically separate from the rest of the Niger-Congo language family and its inclusion, under the 1963 classification scheme of Joseph H Greenberg, is still controversial. …
There are four recognized language groups of Kordofanian: Heiban, Talodi, Rashad, and Katla. Their respective branches are given below.
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Another Royal Wedding: Not Will and Kate, but Jigme and Jetsun | About.com Asian History
…the 31-year-old King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, will marry his 21-year-old fiancee Jetsun Pema.
Actually, in keeping with Bhutan’s low-key and intensely Buddhist nature, the wedding will be a relatively simple affair. Given that television only came to the Himalayan kingdom 12 years ago, a CNN-style 24-hour wedding coverage blitz is most unlikely.
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This Day in African History — Botswana Gains Independence From Britain — September 30, 2011
Originally home to the indigenous San peoples, they were displaced by migrating Tswana in the 17th century. In 1885, under the urging of Cecil Rhodes, the region became the Bechuanaland Protectorate…
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This Day in African History — Italy Invades Abyssinia
…the Italians had been humiliated in an earlier attempt to colonize the region, with an overwhelming defeat at Adowa (Adwa) – where 100,000 Ethiopians crushed an Italian army of 17,700 men and 56 field guns.
On 3 October 1935 a sizeable force of Italian soldiers and Eritrean Askari under the command of General Emilio De Bono crossed the border from Eritrea and marched towards Adigrat, Inticho, and Daro Tacle. The Northern Front involved the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Italian Army Corps and the Eritrean Army Corps, and included Italy’s elite troops, the Alpini and Bersaglieri. …
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Hall of Femmes: The Female Icons of Graphic Design
After spending some time in the creative industry, Swedish design duo Hjärta Smärta (“Heart Pain”) observed that there weren’t nearly enough female design role models at the forefront of our cultural awareness. So they started Hall of Femmes, an online project (alas, in Swedish) highlighting female designers and art directors who have significantly influenced creative culture. …
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People Who Became Nouns: The Music Video | Brain Pickings • by Maria Popova
Semi-relatedly, this reminded me of a lovely illustrated children’s book called If You Were a Noun.
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corrade | English Spelling Rules • by ibeforee
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day …In Latin “rodere” means “to gnaw” and “radere” means “to scrape.” The latter word is at the base of both “abrade” and “corrade.” “Corrade,” which carved its niche in the English language during the mid-17th century, is used when something, such as moving water, “rubs” or “scrapes” something else away. In contrast, the word “corrode,” derived from “rodere,” is fitting when something “eats away” at something else especially by chemical action. …
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The Link: Food for Thought | Librarians’ Internet Index: New This Week • by theipl2blog
[Solving hunger; genetically modified foods; school nutrition; harvest traditions]
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The No-Evictions Sheriff: Interview with Cheri Honkala | YES! Magazine
Cheri Honkala…who launched one of the country’s biggest multi-racial movements led by the poor and homeless, is running for sheriff of Philadelphia.
Her platform? No evictions. No throwing people out on the street because of a financial crisis that they didn’t create. Her slogan: “Keeping families in their homes and protecting the ‘hood.” …
As a homeless mom, she faced a stark choice when the shelters filled up: a night on the frigid Minneapolis streets with her young son, or breaking and entering a vacant HUD-owned house, where the heat was left on to prevent the pipes from freezing. Cheri chose the latter.
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175+ countries. 2000+ events. A single day to move beyond fossil fuels. Check out the video to get a sense for what happened on September 24, 350.org’s Moving Planet Day.
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Exclusive: Ericka Huggins and “Black Power Mixtape” | Women’s Media Center blog
In her interview by author Emily Wilson, Ericka Huggins tells why a recent documentary on the Black Panther Party can help open up a needed conversation on race, gender and class.
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Legislating More Grocery Stores and Farmers Markets – The Bay Citizen
A statewide bill declaring that “access to healthy food items is a basic human right” is a signature away from becoming law.
The California Healthy Food Financing Initiative landed on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk last week, after the state Senate and Assembly both voted to approve it by a wide margin. …
The bill was introduced by California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles). The goal of AB 581 is to increase access to healthy foods in under-served communities, or “food deserts,” by funding grocery stores, farm stands, community gardens and other fresh food vendors who need financial start-up support.
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Diversity in TV: Producers Hire Few Nonwhite Directors | The Root
This conclusion comes despite many meetings between the Directors Guild’s minority and women’s committees and producers, networks and studio representatives to increase the numbers of women and minority directors. Paris Barclay — an Emmy Award-winning director who happens to be black, is the executive producer of Sons of Anarchy and was the executive producer of In Treatment — is tired of these dismissals.
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Odd Future: Kids Will Be Kids | The Root – By: Bassey Ikpi
I discovered Frank Ocean one night a few months ago…on YouTube. The young R&B crooner’s unconventional structure and vocals pulled me in. His song “We All Try” [link] became heavy rotation in my headphones as I worked. Then came “Thinking About You” [link] and just recently “Novocane.” [link] He is also responsible for writing one of the most mature and haunting songs — “I Miss You” — I’ve ever heard from the usually safe Beyoncé. In “Made in America,” on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne, he sings arguably the best, soul-dragging chorus of any song in recent years.
…I’m not saying listen to their music right now. As a matter of fact, I’m not saying listen to their music at all. What I am saying is listen to them — who they are, where they come from, what motivates them. What moves them. This is the so-called lost generation. We’ve begged them to speak; we can’t silence them just because we don’t like what they’re saying.
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New Life: Monica’s New Album | The Root
R&B songstress Monica plans to release her seventh studio album, New Life, next month… The album’s first official single, “Until It’s Gone,” with its sophisticated rhythm and slower tempo, was released last week to fanfare among devout Monica fans and R&B aficionados.
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Southern Poverty Law Center: Education About Civil Rights Movement Dismal
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Rochelle Riley: Region’s racism is roadblock to Detroit’s rebirth | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
A woman thanked me for my closing remarks. Her name is Sylvia Becker-Hill. She is 44. She lives in Rochester Hills. And when she moved here from Germany, she did not expect to find us living in the past. She had not seen racism in the way she has seen it here, she said, such as when a black woman moved in across the street and Becker-Hill’s neighbor asked whether she feared that her home’s property value would go down. This was two years ago, not last century.
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Is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Too Overweight to Run for President? | The Root
[The Root appears to have no comment.]
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Walter Payton Bio: Adultery, Depression and Drug Abuse | The Root
If anything was left out, we probably don’t want to know.
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Video: Obama Fried Chicken Is Latest Fast-Food Craze in China
…President Barack Obama’s image is being used to advertise fried chicken in China. Really?
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Super Cult Tycoon 2: Deluxe Edition is Free to all Believers | Kotaku
Built in Unity, so it runs in your browser, Super Cult Tycoon isn’t quite finished yet, so there’s some rough parts to it, but that doesn’t matter. What’s there and working shines through like the word my my savour, the prophet Zal’Nthar…
Once you’ve drunk all my Kool-aid and evaded the FBI, that is.
[Click through to play alpha version.]
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Parents of Autistic Kids Rally for Health Insurance Coverage – Quality of Life – The Bay Citizen
More than 100 parents and siblings of Bay Area children with autism rallied in Berkeley on Friday morning to ask Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill that would require health insurers to cover behavioral treatments for the disorder.
Health insurers had long resisted covering the treatments, claiming that they are not medical, but educational.
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Update: Sea Lion Recovering after Trek across Highway – Pulse of the Bay – The Bay Citizen
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