January 2010
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““I am also proposing a new small business tax credit – one that will go to over...”
– President Obama during his State of the Union address
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Alpha Wives (& beta hubbies) →
i’m obviously not the, snap-my-fingers-boy-you-betta-recognize-type, and enjoyed these articles not as a celebration of feminism, but rather with a curiosity of what will happen to modern marriages as a result of women becoming more educated and earning higher income. more egalitarian marriages? great! baby, we can share it like the last slice. but can we really achieve mutual respect? will...
Reporters put Twitter, Facebook to 'Big Brother'... →
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Haiti Text Message Donations Top $10 Million →
amazing what we can do now with little sms’s
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Bing Cashback →
sweet. more cash moniez in my wallet yo
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Open your hotel room with your mobile phone →
1. I don’t understand how our cell phone technology is so far behind Japan, where they use their phone for practically everything (as phone/wallet/remote/keys/video chatting/etc); however,
2. I enjoy reading about the advances that are happening (e.g. viper smartstart), but
3. I’m apprehensive about most ideas.
- On Open Ways: could I just download the tone and break into...
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airplane survival statistics (popular mechanics)
flandrea:
via yesrefrigerator
goooood to know
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Asus Unveils Waveface Ultra Flexible OLED... →
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After Years by Ted Kooser
Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fell in the Cumberlands, holding only a handful of leaves, and an old woman scattering corn to her chickens looked up for an instant. At the other side of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times the size of our own sun exploded and vanished, leaving a small green spot...
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““If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in...”
– http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-Solitude/3708/
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“Facebook’s very premise—and promise—is that it makes our friendship...”
– http://chronicle.com/article/Faux-Friendship/49308/
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Loneliness in Numbers →
Finally—someone who has been able to articulate my unsettled feelings about using technologies nowadays. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love learning about cutting edge technology, am fascinated by new gadgets, and try to follow the techcrunchs/engadgets/wireds-of the world. However, the connectivity overload has turned me off in many ways, and I almost wish we could go back to the...