February 2010
81 posts
I want to do an Atlanta Tumblr meetup!
thomaswheatley:
prettysmart:
If you live in Atlanta, reblog this so I can see how much interest there would be for this and I’ll TOTALLY organize it! LET’S DO IT Y’ALL!
Totally interested!
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“In early January a friend mentioned that his New Year’s resolution was to beat...”
– Begley, “The Depressing News About Antidepressants” (via newsweek)
roomthily:
According to the Self-Storage Association, there are 2.35 billion square feet in the United States. That’s 7.4 square feet of self-storage for every man, woman and child in the country, meaning all of us could stand inside self-storage units at the same time.
via Pruned
Most of the people in my neighborhood park outside their garage. Every time one of those is open boxes fill the...
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January 2010
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New patients--- Are you prepared for your visit? ...
hjluks:
Physicians are under pressure to see patients in a timely, effective, and efficient manner. Take a little time, organize your thoughts, come prepared and your visit could be much more productive.
What to bring:
Pad and pen… you will likely receive recommendations and many patients forget them as soon as they leave the office.
A list of your medical problems
A list of your...
“We had lost 650,000 jobs in December [2008] - I’m assuming your’e not faulting...”
– President Obama | TPMDC
I keep asking myself why the Republicans would have agreed to let Obama smack down their nonsense for 90 minutes on live television. And I keep coming to the same conclusion. They’ve started to believe their own bullshit. These people weren’t at all prepared for Obama to...
“We had lost 650,000 jobs in December [2008] - I’m assuming your’e not faulting...”
– President Obama | TPMDC
I keep asking myself why the Republicans would have agreed to let Obama smack down their nonsense for 90 minutes on live television. And I keep coming to the same conclusion. They’ve started to believe their own bullshit. These people weren’t at all prepared for Obama to...
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Women, the best freaking firewall in the world! →
jayparkinsonmd:
franklieu:
One human cell contains 75MB genetic information. One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB. One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms. In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen. This means that the throughput of a man’s member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1 687 500 000 000 000 byte/second = 1,6875 Тerabyte/sec This...
Unhappy Hipster →
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Spot-on Prediction of Apple thinking on iPad
marco:
My favorite point in John Siracusa’s excellent Apple Tablet post is the focus on software. More than anything so far, this has gotten me excited about the mythical, still-a-figment-of-our-imaginations gadget.
This, in particular, is a reason for something like the Tablet to exist:
The “reconception” part comes in when you consider how many people really need the power—and the...
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“That is the American tragedy of the early 21st century: a vital and...”
– James Fallows, in a devastating piece on American decline. He seems to be saying that what we think are the real problems are just mirages that distract us from more insidious structural decay and a calcification of the democratic institutions that got us this far - but may not have the agility to...
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GizModo Knows About Sucking, Apparently →
Everyone at work who fits into the non-geek category finds this new device very useful and cool. People cited its use in travel, because it is bigger than an iPod/iPhone and doesn’t have the clunky form factor or laptops/netbooks which with few exceptions have the hardest time fitting on tray tables. Most people also raved at the possibility of this being their kid’s first computer....
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Small birds sometimes hitchhike on the backs of...
ohyeahfacts:
(What Makes Flamingos Pink? Bill McLain)
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“Do you know who the most frequently booked guest on Meet The Press was this year...”
– journalist Eric Alterman on how the mainstream press is lying down again, allowing an inaccurate narrative to occur. (via dominickbrady) (via thomaswheatley)
Watchjayparkinsonmd:
topherchris:
Lawrence Lessig outlines why money + politics ≠ democracy for his Change Congress group back in 2008. After searching for news and opinions in the wake of the Citizens United v. FEC decision, I’ve found that this speaks to me more than anything else. (I love Lessig’s presentation style, so I’m already predisposed to like this.)
Like I’ve said in the past, Lessig...
“The engineers and I handle customer support. When I tell people that, they look...”
– The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak (via soxiam) (via superamit) (via joshmohrer) (via arigreenberg) (via mikehudack)
“I guess that explains why the market is up 16% since Obama took over, and it’s...”
– Jon Stewart in response to Wall St. “hating” Obama’s economic policy (via soupsoup) (via mikehudack)
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Stay at home parent should earn $122,611 per year
champagnecandy:
fyeahsocialism:
redguard:
An interesting site with wage calculators, executive pay, job search, salary wizards, income statistics, and more. http://salary.com/mysalary.asp Here is one calculation: “If paid, the typical Stay-at-Home Mom in the United States would earn the pay shown below for her work as a mother [with one pre-school and one at-school child].” $122,611 is the...
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Final Frame: The Augmented Reality T-Shirt →
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Usually I just laugh at the idiots who call into...
amberlrhea:
thepoliticalpartygirl:
“I see people on food stamps buying steaks!” First of all, no you don’t. How do you know they’re on food stamps? Those debit cards are also used for social security and unemployment benefits. I get the feeling these people see minorities buying steaks and assume they are doing it with food stamps. And if the person you’re talking about is on food stamps...
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Campaign finance reform
squashed:
McCain-Feingold, despite the great things it’s supposed to do, isn’t a great law. And (as Jeff appropriately points out) it wasn’t defended well before the Supreme Court. So it’s hard for me to care that a chunk of it is now dead. I would rather talk about how campaign finance regulation should work. Generally, I want to steer on the side of protecting speech. That said, copious...
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Free Speech, Corporate Speech, and Corporate money
squashed:
I can’t relaly bring myself to care about today’s Supreme Court ruling. Sure, it weakens campaign finance laws, but the campaign finance laws were broken to begin with. They were more like a string of fenceposts rather than an actual fence. They won’t stop much—but might make you slow down enough to check you didn’t accidently run into a pole. And maybe, once in a while, somebody...
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