May 2013
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“In 2007, around the time it launched its second unmanned station, Bigelow...”
– Greg Klerkx: Living in space
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“Here comes the Royal Family now. The automobile has now stopped….
Oh, there’s...”
– From CBC Radio report of the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Winnipeg, where they were greeted by Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Winnipeg Mayor John Queen and Mrs. Queen.
Royal Moments in Broadcasting (via anglepoised)
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“tumblr_backup.py is a script that backs up your Tumblr blog locally. The backup...”
– Paper Bits: Tumblr Backup python script (GitHub)
Mainly reblogged for the benefit of iamdanw.
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“Political meaning: a formally constituted political group that contests...”
– Thick with meaning: 6 UK political terms explored at the OxfordWords blog.
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“HANNITY: You have been around Washington a long time and a number of...”
– Yes, the IRS as a political witch-hunt would be terrible, wouldn’t it? Good thing nothing like that happened while Cheney was VP.
In 2004, the IRS went after the NAACP, auditing the nation’s oldest civil rights group after its chairman criticized President Bush for being the first sitting...
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“Commonplace books that survive from the Tudor period contain a huge variety of...”
– Tom Standage: How commonplace books were like Tumblr and Pinterest, drawing from the research for his forthcoming book.
See also: the distractions of social media, 1673 style.
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Lupe Fiasco and Philosophy Sunday
Three posts from Lupe Fiasco’s Twitter account on Sunday:
A Marxist theory today:Actual Revolution which affects wholesale societal change is only seen via technological advancement i.e. industrial
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) May 12, 2013
Hey guys #LF Mgmt here. Gotta love his lively way with twitter but sadly he’s gonna be taking a break to focus on other things.
— Lupe Fiasco...
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“The master copies of all the shows and movies available to Netflix take up 3.14...”
– Ashlee Vance in Bloomberg Businessweek. via Tom Insam, who comments
This is presented to make the point that “Netflix use a lot of space”. But I see it more as “Facebook is already 50% the size of all of Hollywood’s output ever”.
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“Drones have killed untold thousands of civilians—the Bureau of...”
– Jason Koebler for Motherboard at Vice introducing Can Drones Make Us Laugh? (via)
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kevanagain asked: Afraid that Battlefield story is actually fake (other stories from the site are "No New Games Will be Announced at E3 This Year" and "Japanese Xbox 360 Sales Skyrocket after Microsoft Japan CEO says Rape of Nanking Never Happened"). This kind of dull, plausible satire - like the Bloomberg pizza story from last week, which other sources took at face value - is rather...
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“Battlefield 3′s realism was largely hampered by the lack of birds,” says DICE...”
– Battlefield 4 Uses New AMD Bird Rendering Technology: PecksFX at Play4Real.
Yes, AAA games studios are now spending their time worrying about rendering birds, and no, this isn’t an Onion article.
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“Planners also failed to consider that authorities might balk at an experimental...”
– Leon Mangasarian, Bloomberg: Berlin’s airport fiasco: German engineering falls flat at Skift.
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