December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 23rd
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Faded & Blurred: Music: Photography's Double... →
fadedandblurred: Earlier this week, PDN ran a story about a wedding photographer who found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit for using Coldplay’s “Fix You” in a wedding video that went viral on YouTube. The photographer settled for an undisclosed amount, but the bigger picture… Agreed - on all counts.  I work in media licensing.  I am also a content creator, through photography...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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The accidental universe: Science's crisis of... →
dachesterfrench: Great article summarizing the idea of multiverses. From the piece: “On one thing most physicists agree: If the amount of dark energy in our universe were only a little bit different than what it actually is, then life could never have emerged. A little more and the universe would accelerate so rapidly that the matter in the young cosmos could never pull itself together to form...
Dec 22nd
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Shell spills 13,000 gallons while drilling near... →
inothernews: foulmouthedliberty: cultureofresistance: Shell International spilled 13,000 gallons of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf on Sunday while drilling an exploratory well near the site of last year’s Deepwater Horizon accident, according to a federal report on the spill. The area where the well was being drilled is about 20 miles from the site of the BP oil spill. Shell is...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.”
– Albert Einstein
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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“My crime? Talking too much about Occupy Wall Street (I’m not an Occupier, but as...”
– Welcome To The United Police States of America, Sponsored By Twitter (via diegueno)
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson
Dec 18th
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“Many eulogizers have prefaced their obits with “love him or hate him…,” but...”
–  Sean O’Neal puts it nicely in The AV Club. In the end and at the end, Hitchens made me feel braver about most things, and especially non-existence, than any sermon ever could.  That is all.  (via areasofmyexpertise) —- YES.  In fact, I am less saddened by his passing than I expected to...
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Tonight, I have confirmed that the New York Times has stopped the presses to...”
– Nicholas Jackson, The Atlantic - Hitchens Dead at 62; New York Times Redraws A1 for Obit (via brooklynmutt)
Dec 16th
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Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera →
soupsoup: More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk. Now scientists at M.I.T.’s Media Lab are using an ultrafast imaging system to capture light itself as it passes through liquids and objects, in...
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Something I don't understand
apoplecticskeptic: unprepared-: is the people that call themselves Atheists, and say “religion is a joke,” or “Christianity is a lie,” yet the celebrate Christmas. Just so you know: Atheism is a religion. Christmas is a Christian holiday. In the history of hilariously misinformed tumblr posts, this one just might be my favorite. Interesting how readily it is overlooked that the...
Dec 13th
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You can't really do anything right. You can just...
baitandswitch:  - Louis C.K. in his reddit thread I’m starting to wonder if a few generations from now, Louis C.K. will be regarded as one of the profound philosophers of our time. His ability to convey simple truths with a healthy dose of wry humor makes him one of my favorites, without a doubt.
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Suncor Energy is responsible for benzene leak into... →
welcome to your fracking future, folks.
Dec 3rd
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The Wind that Shakes the Parley: Police Voice... →
But as tensions build between Occupiers and Big Brother, what’s also true is that individual officers are increasingly concerned about their role in combating Occupy. Even in cities where the overall police response has been barbaric, there’s a growing sense that cops who’ve been charged with breaking camps are unnerved by such orders. Earlier this week, Los Angeles authorities avoided a...
Dec 2nd