May 2008
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Loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of...
– Barack Obama (via robot-heart) (via obama08)
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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)
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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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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. “
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“After a week or so in this immersive experience, though, it’s time...
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Skribit: Blog Topic Suggestion Application →
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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
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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.
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.
Rife with big egos and competing centers of influence—veterans of...
– Voices in Her Head
Her people spent all of 2008 making lists blaming each other (but never...
– What Went Wrong?
Adventures in the ageing process
All grown up: Harry Potter’s Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis)
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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
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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
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created shock and awe in the Republican...
– Schwarzenegger calls for ‘rebranding’ GOP: SF Chronicle
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.
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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
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mobaganda* PROPAGANDA FOR YOUR FRIENDS * event... →
link via bijan
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
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Ms. Holmes was blowing the whistle on bodysnarking, the snide, often witty,...
– The Rise of Bodysnarking - WSJ.com (via jessicagoldharalson)
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.
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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
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: ...
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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)
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Prolific artists don’t question their artistic identities. They own the title of...
– Zen Habits
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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