And we thought the woman-hating couldn’t get any worse (1)
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You know the argument: the Hillary-haters don’t really hate women; they just hate Hillary. All the sexism and misogyny thrown at Hillary is for her alone, not for all women. Yeah, right. The Crucifixion of Sarah Palin is one of the most revolting things I’ve ever seen. After the Trashing of Hillary I thought the misogyny couldn’t get any worse, but goddamn. God. Damn. Anglachel is absolutely on fire with her post on the sexism ...
The Politics of Attacking Daughters (1)
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Quote of the Day"When I was 14 years old, a reporter questioned my father about me having a hypothetical abortion, had I been pregnant at 14. This reporter's question single-handedly changed my life. .I have not known Bristol Palin very long, but there is a certain kinship I feel to her as I do other political daughters such as Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush and Mary Cheney."-- Meghan McCain,at McCainBlogetteMisogyny Watch: Liberal Bloggers Sink ...
Labor Daze (3)
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Every once in a while, a commenter writes that I should spend time on my Research rather than writing this blog. That is, the time I spend writing this blog would be better spent doing my research rather than whining about how difficult my life as a Female Science Professor is. My priorities are askew and/or I enjoy wallowing in victimhood so much that I will never be a truly successful science professor.It would be ...
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Stephanie Willen Brown said:
interesting post, but totally worth it for the cat picture & thought bubble at the end.
Publishers should all have a /covers directory (25)
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Here's a lazyweb idea for publishers: I often blog books here and when I do, I like to put up a picture of the cover. Normally I get these off of Amazon or Amazon UK, but it's often the case that Amazon's covers are grainy, missing, too small, or otherwise unsuitable (for some reason, an enormous number of Vertigo graphic novels have the wrong cover on Amazon). So here's the idea: publishers should create default ...
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Tony Ruscoe said:
This would make things so much easier for CoverBrowser.com to grab covers too! :-)
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Rahul Das said:
Excellent Idea. If this is ever implemented, it would be a wonderful resource
Dehumanizing headlines 101 (3)
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You can always count on The New York Post to bring you the bottom-of-the-barrel headlines. And this one is no exception. 38 year-old Elizabeth Acevedo, a human being, was murdered in Brooklyn after someone hit her in the head. The police are still looking for a suspect. Renee at Womanist Musings has more. Via Ren at Feministe.
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martian said:
the reason new york smells like a toilet may be part in due to it being the home of the new york post...
As Facebook hits 100 million user mark, twenty percent have already opted in to the redesign (2)
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Will Facebook users like the redesign? The company made a big gamble in changing the interface to focus on feeds — it’s a move that many in the “early adopter” crowd liked (including myself). But it’s also been met with some pockets of resistance from people who preferred the old site (including my college age sister, who’s in the company’s original demographic). The company tells me today that around 20 million users have chosen to ...
As Facebook hits 100 million user mark, twenty percent have already opted in to the redesign (3)
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Will Facebook users like the redesign? The company made a big gamble in changing the interface to focus on feeds — it’s a move that many in the “early adopter” crowd liked (including myself). But it’s also been met with some pockets of resistance from people who preferred the old site (including my college age sister, who’s in the company’s original demographic). The company tells me today that around 20 million users have chosen to ...
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北城 said:
facebook 1亿用户
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Leonid said:
While 20% may seem low, I have same the same adoption curve on other major UI redesigns. I guess people don't like change or are just not active users of facebook. I for one like the new UI.
UPDATE: US citizens detained in Beijing over Tibet protests are released, returning home. (4)
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A spokesperson for Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that the 6 US citizens who were detained last week by Chinese authorities for participating in pro-Tibet protests around the site of the Olympics have been released. The group included videobloggers and artists whose work has previously been featured on Boing Boing. All were sentenced to 10 or more days in jail. "James Powderly, Brian from Alive in Baghdad, and everyone else all arrive ...
Teenage DNA detectives expose US fish fraud (4)
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If You Use the Web, You May Have Already Been Enlisted as a Human Scanner: Scientific American (5)
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You're just about ready to buy a pair of tickets on Ticketmaster, but before you can take the next step, an annoying box with wavy letters and numbers shows up on your screen. You dutifully enter in what you see--and what a bot presumably can't--in the name of security.But what you may not know is that you also have helped archivists decipher distorted characters in old books and newspapers so that they can be posted ...
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Tometheus said:
OK, there are smart people out here getting this feed, so please fill me in on why all of the hype about this? I've seen this several times recently through various sources. Here's my problem: Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the CAPTCHAs in the first place? How is using an /unknown/ image to validate a person supposed to um.. actually validate that it's a person and not a 'bot? Secondly if all the archivists need is a single word decoded.. well, seems rather pointless to me. Third, if the computer doesn't know what a segment is, what's to keep it from giving some fragment like "ot.Th" as something the human is supposed to 'decode'. Someone please clue me in to why this is such exciting news...
306 - The Genetic Map of Europe (38)
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Genetically speaking, Finns and Italians are the most atypical Europeans. There is a large degree of overlap between other European ethnicities, but not up to the point where they would be indistinguishable from each other. Which means that forensic scientists now can use DNA to predict the region of origin of otherwise unknown persons (provided they are of European heritage). These are among the conclusions to be drawn from a genetic map of Europe, produced ...
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Soren said:
wow. that's really really really cool.
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Isaac said:
Unsurprisingly, the UK is also an outlier
FSP's Guide to Academic Etiquette (1)
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From time to time, I find myself giving advice or making strong suggestions via this blog, although I am not much of an advice-giver in real life. As issues arise in the blog, however, I have been randomly numbering snippets of advice and referring to an imaginary guide to academic etiquette. I decided to scroll through the archives and extract some of these, giving them more realistic numbers and lining them up to see what ...
Why is fooling Google News as easy as s-p-o-o-f? (1)
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Because software has no sense of humor, and software -- not human editors -- runs Google News. On Monday, that lack of a funny bone resulted in a spoof of the MIT-hackers-vs-Boston-transit story leaping over 331 serious news accounts to be listed No. 1 on the Google News front page. It's happened before and it will happen again.
Science-Wrecking Diversity-Mongers (1)
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In the midst of an otherwise bland Chronicle of Higher Education essay by Peter Wood (8 August issue) about why there are more foreign-born graduate students in science and engineering than there are US students, were these amazing statements:The science "problems" we now ask students to think about aren't really science problems at all. Instead we have the National Science Foundation vexed about the need for more women and minorities in the sciences. President Lawrence ...
Story of flying without ID (28)
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Sherri Davidoff wrote about what it was like to go through airport security without identification. The TSA kept telling her, “you need to have identification to pass through security,” but they eventually let her get on the plane. Here's here analysis of the experience: • Recall that to indicate that I required extra screening, staff wrote in red Sharpie on my boarding pass. If I had simply printed off a second boarding pass at home, ...
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ocular avulsionist said:
Not completely true in that you have to show ID at the medal detector with your boarding pass.
Russia allegedly launches cyberattack on Georgia (5)
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As Russian tanks roll into Georgian territory, Georgian web sites are also under attack. The Georgian embassy in the United Kingdom has accused Russia of launching denial of service attacks against Georgian web sites, according to published reports. Since Russian troops attacked the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia on Friday, Georgian sites have been hit with “denial of service” attacks that throw so many packets at the sites that they effectively shut them down. ...
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Boris said:
international cyber warfare.
Musharraf faces impeachment (1)
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