May 2008
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May 28th
“Loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of...”
– Barack Obama (via robot-heart) (via obama08)
May 28th
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May 27th
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“The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The...”
– Modern Love - Instant Message, Instant Girlfriend - Series - NYTimes.com(via herkamer)(via peterwknox)
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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“I’m a 56 year old doctoral student at the University of Missouri. I would...”
– Readers’ Comments on Exposed by Emily Gould NYT
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May 21st
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Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit →
onemoretimewithfeeling: “It’s a hard job, answering phones and talking to customers for hours at a time. So when Zappos hires new employees, it provides a four-week training period that immerses them in the company’s strategy, culture, and obsession with customers. People get paid their full salary during this period. “ …. “After a week or so in this immersive experience, though, it’s time...
May 20th
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May 20th
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Skribit: Blog Topic Suggestion Application →
May 19th
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“Let us not forget, Tony Blair vetted this book, and thus approved the references...”
– Ewwwwwwww Cherie! I will still buy your book, but ew! Review: Speaking for Myself by Cherie Blair| guardian.co.uk Books
May 19th
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May 19th
“Hey babe. Thanks for coming on Saturday night, good work… did you have a good...”
– My friend J is workshopping a text msg to her love interest. The strategising around this message has taken at least 90 minutes. I’ll be advising her that it needs some work.
May 19th
Re: Hey man first in town!
Every girl in town talks about him! He is so attractive and handsome! And what wonderful things he do in bed! Damn! He is a Pleasure Machine! You want be? You can be! Junk mail I received today. 
May 18th
“Rife with big egos and competing centers of influence—veterans of...”
– Voices in Her Head
May 18th
“Her people spent all of 2008 making lists blaming each other (but never...”
– What Went Wrong?
May 18th
Adventures in the ageing process
All grown up: Harry Potter’s Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis)
May 18th
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“Women are still held to a double-standard, and they tend to buy into it...”
– Who Will Be Hillary Clinton’s Successor? - New York Times
May 18th
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“Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton may or may not become the first female president...”
– Who Will Be Hillary Clinton’s Successor? - New York Times
May 18th
“California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created shock and awe in the Republican...”
– Schwarzenegger calls for ‘rebranding’ GOP: SF Chronicle
May 18th
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“your gay your ggggggaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy your gay your gay your gay your gay...”
– Indeed. Commentor on 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed. Link to the article via topherchris via cheekythoughts.
May 18th
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“The challenge for traditional media companies and the advertising ecosystem that...”
– Micro Persuasion: The Hyperconnected vs. 84% of Everyone Else on Earth
May 18th
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May 18th
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mobaganda* PROPAGANDA FOR YOUR FRIENDS * event... →
link via bijan
May 18th
“I have been friends with the lead singer Antony Ellis for years and have always...”
– I hate transparently PR-written press release quotes. Nobody talks like this. Newspapers should be forced to write, “she said in a media statement,” or, “she said via her PR agency” after every quote as inane as this. Supermodel Agyness Deyn plans pop career - Telegraph
May 16th
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“Ms. Holmes was blowing the whistle on bodysnarking, the snide, often witty,...”
– The Rise of Bodysnarking - WSJ.com (via jessicagoldharalson)
May 16th
“Suck on it, Clintstones. And note to the rest of America — we may not be as sexy...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: How the Valley put Obama over the top (via claudia) (via britticisms) (via soupsoup) (via seriouslythough) (via dadsandmice) Interesting.  
May 16th
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May 16th
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1000 refugees receive protection, not detention
MOHAMMAD DAWLAT HUSSAIN is among 1000 refugees who can apply for family members to join them in Australia after the Federal Government scrapped temporary protection visas in Tuesday night’s budget. Previously, asylum seekers found to be in genuine need of protection under Australia’s international obligations were confined to temporary protection visas, or TPVs, which restricted their...
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“Sure, Generation X survived AIDS, Reagan, the Cold War, Tipper Gore, and A Flock...”
– Radar Online : Generation Slap
May 15th
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New feature: Tag filtering
staff: You’ve been able to enter tags on posts for a while using the “Show advanced options” link. Most people use tags to indicate categories or topics, such as vacation, music, photography. Today, we’ve added two new ways to use tags: Tags can now be displayed for each post in your theme (see the Custom Theme reference’s new Tags section). You can link to URLs that look like this: ...
May 15th
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May 15th
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“New Media and Digital media experts worry about how snazzy the digital content...”
– From Laurel Papworth’s post New Media is not Social Media (via everythingontheinternetistrue) (via kapookababy)
May 15th
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“Prolific artists don’t question their artistic identities. They own the title of...”
– Zen Habits
May 14th
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“The most popular who, what and how queries were who is god, what is love and how...”
– Google’s most popular searches for 2007 via Twenty amazing facts about the internet
May 14th