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Ferris Mewler: ”I am trying to seduce you. Is it working?”
me: ”No. It’s not working. Because I’m married. And you’re a *cat*.”
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Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
…[Steve] Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen.
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CloudNotes: Evernote welcomes Google Notebook users with import utility
As promised, Evernote has released an import tool for disappointed Google Notebook users. I’ve just tried it out, and I’m happy to report it works largely as advertised. If you’ve tried Ubernote’s import tool the process is basically the same: export each of your notebooks in Google’s Atom format, then import those files into Evernote.
Unlike Ubernote’s no-frills import, Evernote actually gives you some options about how you want your notes to look once they’re imported (reminiscent of their impressive Delicious import tool).
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Wild card in Wall Street endgame: Bloomberg’s girlfriend – Occupy Wall Street – Salon.com
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s longtime girlfriend sits on the board of the company that owns the park where Occupy Wall Street protesters are camped out, and the NYPD is on the record saying that it’s the company’s call how long the protesters get to stay.
In other words, Bloomberg himself not only controls the NYPD, but also has a hand on the levers of power at Brookfield Properties, the huge real estate firm that owns Zuccoti Park (aka Liberty Square).
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Philly Police Radio Broadcasting 1st Amendment | Philly | 10/07/2011
…this morning, Philadelphia Police Department dispatchers are airing something you don’t typically hear: The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
…We’re betting the First Amendment broadcast has something to do with Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey’s memo to his officers, reminding them that people have the right to record sounds, pictures and video of police actions in public spaces.
[Kudos to the Commish! -L.]
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What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs | Gawker
We mentioned much of the good Jobs did during his career earlier. His accomplishments were far-reaching and impossible to easily summarize. But here’s one way of looking at the scope of his achievement: It’s the dream of any entrepreneur to effect change in one industry. Jobs transformed half a dozen of them forever, from personal computers to phones to animation to music to publishing to video games. He was a polymath, a skilled motivator, a decisive judge, a farsighted tastemaker, an excellent showman, and a gifted strategist.
One thing he wasn’t, though, was perfect. Indeed there were things Jobs did while at Apple that were deeply disturbing. Rude, dismissive, hostile, spiteful: Apple employees—the ones not bound by confidentiality agreements—have had a different story to tell over the years about Jobs and the bullying, manipulation and fear that followed him around Apple. Jobs contributed to global problems, too. Apple’s success has been built literally on the backs of Chinese workers, many of them children and all of them enduring long shifts and the specter of brutal penalties for mistakes. And, for all his talk of enabling individual expression, Jobs imposed paranoid rules that centralized control of who could say what on his devices and in his company.
It’s particularly important to take stock of Jobs’ flaws right now.
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Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn’t Dare… | The Nation – Katha Pollitt – 5 Oct 2011
First they came for abortion, but I didn’t care because abortion was for sluts. Then they came for sex ed, but I didn’t care because the kids can learn all they need to know at home. Then they came for birth control, but… Wait a minute! Birth control? They’re coming for birth control? I need that! For nearly a decade prochoicers have been warning that abortion foes were gearing up to go after contraception, but the possibility of losing birth control was too far-out for most people to take seriously. And you know prochoicers—they’re always crying wolf. Well, wake up, sleepyheads, it’s happening.
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March on Bank of America, Oct. 6th: Clarification | Occupy Los Angeles
The October 6 march was directed at the Bank of America branch at First and Figureoa in Downtown Los Angeles. Apparently, those who occupied the lobby were planning on being arrested and were accompanied by attorneys affiliated with their group, Make Banks Pay. Eleven people were arrested, none of them a part of the Occupy Los Angeles group.
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Google’s Chrome Browser Can Now Remote Control Your Computer | Geekosystem • Max Eddy
Called Chrome Remote Desktop, the app allows users to take control of a computer remotely and securely, all within a Chrome window. While this technology has been an established tool, especially for long-suffering IT support workers, placing it within a browser is an interesting move.
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What if Dr. Seuss wrote The Call of Cthulhu? | io9 • Cyriaque Lamar
…H.P. Lovecraft’s classic short story as Dr. Seuss book. Now, children of all ages can learn about he who slumbers in his house at R’lyeh.
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…for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and deceptive business practices.
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Drug Maker Adds Line To Pill’s Surface To Delay Generic Versions | The Consumerist • Chris Morran
There are numerous ways for makers of pricey brand-name drugs to delay the release of generic copies and hold on to the market for even a few months longer. They could make slight changes to the doses or even go so far as to buy a company that supplies a needed ingredient. But one pharmaceutical company is taking a new approach to putting off the release of generic versions — etching an additional score into the pill’s surface.
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Entertainingly mislead me | Mind Hacks 2.0 Feed • vaughanbell
A beautifully recursive study has shown that viewing an episode of the psychology of deception TV series Lie To Me makes people worse at distinguishing truth from lies.
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California passes Dream Act for immigrant students | INQUIRER.net
…governor Jerry Brown signed the California Dream Act into law Saturday, making illegal immigrants eligible for state money to attend American universities and colleges, his office said.
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Jean Béraud | lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration … • Charley Parker
Originally trained as a lawyer, 19th Century artist Jean Béraud turned his attention to painting after his studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war. …It’s interesting to compare his Absinthe Drinkers (above, bottom) with Degas’s more famous painting of a similar subject.
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6 Green (and Easy) Ways to Heat Your Home | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
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Black and Jewish Celebrities: The Top 20
The Root takes a look at black celebs with Jewish roots. While some are Orthodox, practicing Jews, and others descendants from a Jewish lineage…
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Death Row Inmates: Troy Davis’ Tale Is Not Unique
The executed Georgia man wasn’t the only death row inmate whose guilt is in question.
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Nigerian Protesters Block 5 Million Phone Lines
The protesters, members of the Nigeria Labor Congress, the nation’s central labor movement, were protesting against the hiring of “casual,” or temporary, workers and the dismissal of 3,000 employees, charges denied by the company.
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Angella Reid Named White House Chief Usher
Currently general manager of the Ritz-Carlton at Pentagon City, Reid will run the household staff and grounds at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. — a job that has led to some long tenures.
Born in Jamaica, Reid will be only the ninth usher since 1885, and the first woman.
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The First 48 Shooting: Cop Who Shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones Charged
…a Detroit police officer was charged on Tuesday in the death of a 7-year-old girl who was shot during a midnight raid on her home by a special unit that was being shadowed by a reality-television crew.
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Prisons Retaliate Against Inmates’ Hunger Strike
In prisons throughout California, Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma, hunger strikes have been under way since July. Inmates are protesting what they say are inhumane prison policies, including one that allowed nearly half of Pelican Bay’s 1,111 prisoners to be held in solitary confinement for more than 10 years.
According to the federal receiver’s office, 12,000 prisoners are now participating. But ColorLines reports that, while some concessions have been made, there are concerns about intimidation and retaliation by prison officials, including some changes that victimize those who are completely innocent: the inmates’ families.
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Black ‘Occupy’ Protesters Start ‘Occupy The Hood’ | Loop21
Founded by Malik Rhasaan, 39 of Queens, N.Y., and Ife Johari Uhuru, 35, based in Detroit, @OccupyTheHood has close to 3,500 followers on Twitter, the growing support of notable figures and a cadre of volunteers devoted to getting the word out about the cause of the protests to African Americans and Latinos.
Rhasaan told Loop 21, Occupy The Hood has six core volunteers, but he’s already seen “Occupy The Hood” carried by people he’s never met.
Like many others, he was initially just curious about the protests.
…He got on Facebook to ask his friends why they weren’t out getting involved. …
Ife Johari Uhuru said the onus of awareness to new communities does not fall solely on the shoulders of Occupy The Hood. “They’re gonna have a problem with people of color [getting involved] if they don’t connect effects of capitalism to racism,” she said.
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Occupy Wall Street Doesn’t Adequately Represent Struggling Black Population, Experts Say
“Listen, I love these protests, “ said Julianne Malveaux, an economist who is also African American and is a self-described progressive and veteran of many movements and political gatherings. Malveaux is the president of Bennett College, a historically black women’s college in North Carolina, and a member of the United Negro College Fund Board. …
Wall Street is a business district where a physical barrier once stood to keep Native Americans out and where one of the country’s most active slave markets once facilitated the trade of human beings. …
Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed are African American or Latino. Together, the two groups make up only about 29 percent of the county’s total population …have also disproportionately lost their homes to foreclosure since the economic downturn began and have seen their assets decline sharply, creating the largest black-white wealth gap in 30 years, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The small number of black, Latino and Asian protesters involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement …speaks volumes about how the movement took shape and was publicized, Malveaux said. It also hints at how poorly understood the economic struggles of non-white Americans remain, she added. …
Occupy Wall Street’s core organizers are aware of the movement’s demographics. One of the standing committees working on the group’s recruitment, strategy and action plans has been dubbed, “Communities of Color.” …
“Have the young people behind this movement asked the NAACP to send a message to its list?” Malveaux asked. “The alleged post racial society that so many white people were so excited about doesn’t exist because we haven’t built it.” …
This is not the first time that the potential economic and social consequences of interacting with police have shaped who protests are and how they protest, Malveaux said. During the Vietnam War, the details of the draft and how people qualified for an exemption left a disproportionate share of black and Latino men to actually fight the war. But the protesters calling for the war to end were almost all white, she said. …
Mabry and a few of her friends carried a sign that read, “I’ve got 99 problems and Wall Street is #1”…
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