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Protection of State Information Bill in South Africa: The Dangers
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A History of (Non)Violence – By Steven Pinker | Foreign Policy
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Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy? – by David Kirkpatrick | Foreign Policy
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The FP Interview: Bill Gates – Interview By Charles Kenny | Foreign Policy
Bill and Melinda Gates on some unexpected new sources of aid — and what they’ve learned from trying to save the world.
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Two weeks ago, a rumor circulated that the Department of Homeland Security was “behind” the crackdown at Zuccotti Park.
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Frank Mugisha: Ugandan Gay-Rights Activist Talks Homophobia | The Root
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StoreFront — Occupy Supply Online Store
Buy anything and we will match your purchase with an identical donation of Union / American-made gear to Occupations in need.
[Or donate your entire shopping cart to occupy. This is a Firedoglake project.
From the email:
"Place your orders by December 13th for delivery in time for the holidays -- and if you buy 3 or more items, you can get FREE SHIPPING using the coupon code SOLIDARITY at checkout."-L]
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Egypt: Military Promises Power Transfer
NPR reports that the offer to transfer power was immediately rejected by tens of thousands of protesters at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, who want to see the interim military council resign immediately. They responded to Tantawi’s proposal by chanting “Erhal,” or “Leave.”
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The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
- converter from plain text to (X)HTML. easy sytax. – post by yasuo kominami
- Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). – post by Kevin Wen
- Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). – post by Kazuhiko Uebayashi
- Introduction to Markdown – post by Jesse Hallett
- Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). – post by Alexander Tsang
- his markdown – post by jeevs sinclair
- Program to translate a plain text syntax into html pages
Programa para traducir sintaxis de texto plano en hojas html – post by Alberto Adrián Schiano
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Understanding Art? There’s an App for That
Museum apps could send the audio wand the way of the dodo bird.
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20 Awesome #LiteraryTurducken Tweets Mash Together Popular Book Titles
Publishing company Doubleday plopped #LiteraryTurducken into a tweet Tuesday, asking followers to combine “not one, not two, but three classic works into one, in the spirit of the turkey+duck+chicken creole classic.”
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Legal Analysis of SOPA / PROTECT-IP: No, It’s Not Censorship | ReadWriteWeb • Scott M. Fulton, III
What SOPA’s principal sponsors appear to be doing, says Parness, is “clarifying the Copyright Act. …”His analysis indicates that the intent of the bill is to focus on specific instances where a foreign site gives clear reason to be suspected of activities that are already illegal from a U.S.-based site, and take such actions against them that are in keeping with what actions may be taken against domestic copyright violations. …The safe harbor provisions created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998 would still apply to Internet service providers…
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DisplAir: Minority Report’s Gesture Interface, Only Real. And Russian
Ever since Microsoft Kinect debuted last year, controller-free gesture interfaces have gone mainstream. As popular as it is, the tech could stand some improvement: it would be more precise if users were able to manipulate 3D images in midair, a la Tom Cruise’s elaborate setup in Minority Report, instead of eyeballing things on a screen. Now a company from Russia has a working prototype of just such a device.
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The Quietly Brilliant Story of HTC
A short film about how the smartphone evolved – from some of the early pioneering handhelds to today’s most innovative smartphones.
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Cain and the black vote: wishful thinking – PostPartisan – The Washington Post
…in a seven-page mailer to Iowa Republicans, the flagging Republican front-runner lists a few reasons why he says he can win the GOP nomination for president, including this jaw-dropper: As “a descendant of slaves I can lead the Republican party to victory by garnering a large share of the black vote, something that has not been done since Dwight Eisenhower garnered 41 percent of the black vote in 1956.” …
Keep something in mind about that 41 percent of blacks who cast a vote for Eisenhower. That’s 41 percent of blacks who COULD vote in 1956. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with the discriminatory laws that blocked many African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
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Banks Unmoved by the Hard Times of Regular People
After seeing an increase in her monthly mortgage because of a bank error, Mary Mitchell writes in her Chicago Sun-Times column that it’s no wonder Occupy Wall Street protesters are so angry. While she can come up with the difference, she ponders the plight of the many Americans who cannot.
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The most informative outlets were found to be the Sunday morning news shows as well as outlets like the New York Times, USA today and NPR.
Another powerful source of news was the “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
Stewart’s viewers had a 12-point higher likelihood of correctly identifying the Wall Street protesters, for example.
“Jon Stewart has not spent a lot of time on some of these issues,” Cassino said. “But the results show that when he does talk about something, his viewers pick up a lot more information than they would from other news sources.”
[That's just fucking sad. -L]
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Young Black Voters: Study Dispels Myths
With unfounded statements like Herman Cain’s “Black voters are brainwashed” flying around, it’s nice to have some actual numbers about African-American political engagement, especially when it comes to young people…
The study, “Youth Civic Engagement in the United States, 2008-2010: Understanding a Generation,” shatters stereotypes and dispels many common myths about the ways in which young African Americans, ages 18-29, are involved in the U.S. political system.
…revealed six distinct patterns of engagement that have emerged in recent years:…
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Exclusive: Bachmann Reception on ‘Fallon’—Unfunny, Guys – Women’s Media Center blog
…calling a guest—let alone a seated U.S. congresswoman who is one of a small number of Republican women to ever run for the Presidency—a “lying bitch” is both sexist and unfunny. It’s not even what one could legitimately call “snark,” which is generally understood to mean a sarcastic comment or snide remark. Calling a powerful woman a “bitch” because you don’t like her views or her attitude is pretty much standard issue sexism—just ask Hillary Clinton, for instance.
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Al-Qaeda targets dwindle as group shrinks – The Washington Post
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Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments – Miller-McCune
Buried in the high hopes for electric cars is the very real possibility that they can make money by powering and regulating the grid.
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Bridging the Gap » Conflict Resolution
The first thing to recognize about conflict is that perception is not reality.
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Coker has come up with a recipe for success called the branded viral movie predictor algorithm. According to the algorithm, the four ingredients required for a video to go viral are congruency, emotive strength, network involvement, and something called “paired meme synergy.”
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…the explanation follows from a series of experiments that probed the relationship between memory and various types of home wandering. First, Radvansky assigned a group of study participants the task of selecting an object from one table and exchanging it for an object at a different table in another room. He then had a second group perform the same task between tables that were an equal distance apart, but in the same room.
The difference in the two groups’ performances was “big enough to drive a truck through,” …
But was it actually threshold-crossing that caused their memory lapses, or was it simply being in a different environment than the one in which they learned their task? To find out, Radvansky had the volunteers perform another object-exchanging task, but this time, the task required them to pass through several doorways leading back to the room in which they started.
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Jonathan’s Card: Lessons from a social experiment – O’Reilly Radar
Earlier this summer, author Jonathan Stark (@jonathanstark) launched a social experiment by releasing his Starbucks card to the general public. Based on the “take a penny, leave a penny” tray near some stores’ cash registers, Stark encouraged people to use his Starbucks card — to spend the money on it and/or to add cash back to it.
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Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries – O’Reilly Radar
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Good to know in case you’re on the #OWS lines | Pharyngula
I’ve heard of the Scoville scale, which measures the potency of spicy peppers. Those boring green bell peppers get a 0; habaneros get a score of 350,000.The stuff those UC Davis police officers so casually hosed into the faces of peacefully demonstrating students? between 2,000,000 and 5,300,000 Scoville units.
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