The Fierce Urgency of Now

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Wed Jun 18

The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla

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Tue Jun 17

“ an individual spent more of his income on visible goods as his racial group’s income went down Inconspicuous Consumption

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Fri Jun 13

Christoff » Blogging for Burma

Yesterday, I kicked off a fund raising campaign I’m running called “Blogging for Burma”. Please help me raise money toward the Cyclone Nargis relief effort, which is only 40% funded.

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Thu Jun 12

Twitter is a Dudefest

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Wed Jun 11

A young Barack Obama is shown with his mother, Ann, in Hawaii shortly after his father, Barack Obama Sr., left the two to pursue his studies at Harvard. Barack’s mother was given the name Stanley Ann Dunham because of her father’s strong desire to have a son. (Photo courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng)
Young Obama — chicagotribune.com

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Tue Jun 10

“ the dirty, noisy tenement streets his family sought to escape have become postcollegiate playpens. Is State Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver an Obstructionist? — New York Magazine

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Department of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic 4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe’s water, the carcinogen bromate can form. (via The Big Picture - Boston.com)

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Mon Jun 9

Where Fuel Prices Pinch

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Sun Jun 8

Top Indie Labels

1) Epitaph
2) Ultra
3) Victory
4) Metal Blade
5) Merge

“Epitaph tops marketshare for independent labels with .33, followed by Ultra (.32), Victory (.25), Metal Blade (.22) and Merge (.14)”