An appeal regarding the Widow Penalty (do it for Eshi!) (1)
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As you know, Eshi Otawara is still pending notification about her status in the US. While recent news has been positive for her, things are not as good for all widows of American citizens.Brent Renison is a lawyer fighting the Widow Penalty in the US. Eshi contacted Brent a few months ago after listening to a podcast both Crap Mariner and I told her about, and he agreed to help her with her case. At ...
The Rewrite: Camille Paglia (1)
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(Friend of the blog Randolph Brickey has offered to rewrite Camille Paglia’s latest column, boiling it down to its essential Pagliatude. It’s recommended that you read the source material before proceeding. Pushback may make The Rewrite a regular feature, so if you have any suggestions of pundits who should be rewritten, leave them in the comments. ) One thing I’ve noticed recently is that the election has ended. My readers will recall that at the ...
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Goldie Katsu said:
Definitely read the original (linked in the beginning) but both were enjoyable.
A New Scholarship for Making Games (4)
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As reported earlier this fall by the San Jose Mercury News and others, UC Santa Cruz recently received more than $450,000 from Sony Computer Entertainment America (as part of a class-action settlement) to fund undergraduate scholarships. I’m happy to announce that application information is now online. The first scholarships will be available to students applying this year — each will provide $10,000 to students entering the B.S. Computer Science: Computer Game Design degree.
Cheap Oil (1)
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For my own part, I like paying $11.00 to fill up the bike, and $30 or so for my little car - just last summer I was planning my driving habits around being close to an base exchange when the needle hit “E” and digging ever deeper each go-round. I’m not sure I’m 100% in love for the reasons underlying the recent price decline, however: Global economic malaise, financial upheaval, reduced demand. Jules has the ...
Anyone care for a dance? (1)
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I’ve got a great selection of music ready to go… I rented out the ballroom here at The Breakers for the grand event. Be sure to bring a few of your favorite MP3s on a thumbdrive and we’ll get em into the rotation!
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Goldie Katsu said:
There is something about the shiny reflections of the floor that makes me want to touch it. My mind imagines it to be very cool to the touch and smooth.
13 Thrilling Ways Steampunk Art Hijacks Hi-Tech [30 PICS] (70)
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Steampunk art, fashion, design and mods are seen by some as a reaction to today’s generic, plastic gadgets that all look the same until one gets very, very close - practical yes, pleasing no. So polish up that monocle, bring on the brass and banish cookie-cutter clutter as Steampunk artists find thirteen more ingenious ways to redesign and refashion the world by hijacking hi-tech back to the future (past)! (image via: Geekologie) How to take ...
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Andrew said:
i love this x 10
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imma said:
ooo, pretty :)
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Goldie Katsu said:
I love the creativity and style of steampunk. My personal style is very Victoriana (taste in Jewlery and clothing) so I suppose that when this extends to technology it is no wonder that I love it.
Marketing (1)
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Talk about “not getting it“: The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation’s capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy. If you’re going to go to the American people - during a recession, mind - with your hat in your hand, it’s probably best to fly coach.
Jonathan Coulton on CC (16)
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From the CC Blog: The ever innovative Brooklyn-based singer songwriter Jonathan Coulton has teamed up with Creative Commons to release his greatest hits compilation “JoCo Looks Back” on a 1gb custom Creative Commons jump drive to help support our 2008 campaign. If that weren’t enough, JoCo and CC have also included all of the unmixed audio tracks for every song on the drive. That’s over 700mb of JoCo thing-a-week goodness. Since all of JoCo’s music ...
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Goldie Katsu said:
Ok this is pretty cool.
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UJ said:
Found via @goldiekatsu
cory ondrejka: cscw08 keynote (4)
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The slides from my CSCW 08 keynote last week in San Diego.CSCW 08 KeynoteView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: cscw08)Thanks to everyone who helped put together such a great conference!
The Thinning Line Between Virtual and Reality (4)
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Mashable’s startup review for TigerBow has raised a few questions regarding the subject of privacy and security online. This is a service that will allow anyone to send a real gift (movie or book at this time) to anyone they want via an email address or social networking ID such as their Facebook name. The gimmick is that you’ll be able to receive things without having to divulge your actual address which is nice when ...
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I remember talking about something like tigerbow back in 1999/2000. Now there is a context for it and a market for it. Interesting watching society evolve.
Beautiful example of the visualization of a story (13)
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This morning I caught this short story on CNN (video below) on a very cool organization called D-PAN (Deaf Performing Artists Network) which, according to their website, "...create[s] media designed specifically to serve deaf audiences through the use of American Sign Language (ASL)." Their latest video is a visual interpretation of the song "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera. I never paid much attention to the song until I heard it augmented visually today by D-PAN. I ...
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How much do we take our senses for granted and how can we used multi-media to share an experience that would otherwise be unavailable to many with only one medium.
"What's a blog?" (20)
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Ray Schraff is the person who convinced me to start a blog. He found this email (note the date!). At the time, I was running a mailing list for my book, Rules for Revolutionaries. Three years later I started my blog with this post and a brief history of mine So much for me being an early adopter!
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Pål Hivand said:
Andres kunnskapsløshet er av og til det beste vi har. Slike meldinger fra dagens bloggkonger er selvsagt ubetalelige.
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Fernando Johann said:
priceless
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Goldie Katsu said:
What a great post. What do we assume others know?
The Non-Profit Challenge by Tiessa Montgolfier (1)
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Although there are many in Second Life, those ‘non-profits’, we don’t talk about them that much, unless they organise a shoe, fashion or hair fair. And because there are so many, it is hard to keep an overview, know them all. And because there are so many, we - the ‘average residents’ hardly do anything more but buy a beautiful new outfit for ‘the good cause’ and feel we’ve done our part. So I was ...
Second Me by Anna Thommen (ft. Eifachfilm Vacirca) (1)
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There are not many documentaries on Second Life out there that apply the necessary ‘nuances’, that show the Opportunities as well as the Dangers that lie within this virtual world. Not many documentaries that do not brutally cut out & off the interviewed resident’s words, as to only serve the point their creator wants to get across. As it comes to getting ‘the whole deal’ across, the short film ‘Second Me’ by Anna Thommen nailed ...
Garbage In (1)
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Garbage out: A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record. This was startling. Across the world there were ...
Fake but Accurate? (1)
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How MSNBC and the NY Times got snookered by an agent provocateur: It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent. Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a ...
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How much of reality can be fabricated? How do we vet our news sources - mainstream or otherwise? Just because it is seen many places doesn't necessarily prove its veracity. It could all be from the same source. (Don't even need a DNS hack really - social engineering is so much easier.)
Stuck In Customs (3)
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The sound was deafening in this little canyon a few miles off the main road. I had no idea what to expect before finding this place and was getting worried as soon as I heard the roar of the glacial water. The crashing came in alarming waves just before I started moving my way down into the canyon. …and then there was the matter of finding a pretty position that showed all the layers and ...
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In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged on by commenters on Justin.tv and fellow forum users on bodybuilding.com. Biggs overdosed on pills while on camera and appeared to be breathing for hours until watchers realized he might be serious, at which point they alerted ...Shared by A Yule (1) Aaron (1) aches (0) Alex (7) Alex (1) Alex France (7) Alex Mitchell (1) Alex Winter (0) alin andrei (0) Allen Sentance (13) Allen Sentance (16) Ananya Walia (8) Andy (3) Anoop (1) Arijit Das (0) Ash Laws (0) AshTR (4) Austin Alvarado (0) Badam (34) Ben (1) Ben Jacob (0) Benjamin (80) Berci Mesko (2) Brad (0) Brady Brim-DeForest (1) Brandy Harman (1) Brian (16) Brian Edelen (2) Bryan Irrera (0) Caleb Brown (9) Cappy (16) Carrie (10) chantelle (0) Chris Nuttall (0) Christopher Skory (3) CineVegas (1) claudio rivera (1) CoreyC (12) Cyndy (0) Dan Arbaugh (0) Dan Frommer (1) Daniel Ted Feliciano (28) Danny (1) Dave (1) Dave Keffler (17) Deborah Petersen (124) Dennis Gonzales (2) derek markham (84) deusdiabolus (6) Dev (0) Dexter Zhuang (4) Divya Mistry (0) djskyler (0) dmah (0) Doron Ben Chaim (3) Dudu P (1) Ed (4) embee (5) Enrique Gutierrez (0) Eric Doerr (4) Eric Rice (3) Ethan Bloch (0) Floris Fiedeldij Dop (3) Fran Magbual (0) Frank Felix Debatin (0) Gaurav Sikka (3) Goldie Katsu (0) guoqirui (0) Harrison (1) HH (0) Ian Enos (12) Ian Froese (0) iDaniel (20) iJefff (0) ilia karasin (0) illu (2) Indigo (1) Jake (1) James Williams (0) Jamie Wallis (0) janko (0) Jason Toney (3) Jay (0) Jayce Haliwell (9) jdowland (0) Jeff (47) Jeff Rasmussen (0) Jeremiah Hester (3) Jesse Stay (3) Joe Dawson (8) Jonathan (6) Josh (0) Josh Mills (0) Kabren Levinson (0) Kathy Brewis (3) Keith B (1) Keith Bradbury (1) Kevin (0) Kirill Tikhonov (1) Kyle Weller (0) Laserone (0) Laughing Squid (1) Lee (3) Leena (85) Loren Morris (3) Lucas Wales (1) MakeUseOf (0) Marcus5s (55) Mark (0) Mark Frost (2) Matthew Snyder (4) metallicker (0) Michael (11) Michael (8) Michael Jung (0) Micheal Weihrouch (1) Miguel Lopez (30) Mikael Norling (0) Mike (0) Mike Abundo (6) mike3k (0) Mitch Wagner (0) mopperx2 (4) Mr. BabyMan (25) Nathan Waters (0) Natitude (25) Navjot Singh (0) Neal "thePuck" Jansons (18) Neil (2) Nicholas Chhan (0) nick (4) Nick (2) Nikole (6) Philip Campbell (4) phuckpolitics (1) px (2) Rajeev Edmonds (9) ratward (0) richard (0) Rob (0) Robert Svihla (0) Rommel C. Caibal (0) rony john (14) Ross Williams (1) Ryan (0) Ryan Cates (0) ryan.capote (13) Scott (5) scott78246 (0) Sean O' Grady (7) Sean Victory (1) sean808080 (0) smojo (0) soulcookie (1) Søren Hugger Møller (0) Stacey B. (1) Stewart Heys (0) Sun Tzu (100) sushaantu (0) Timo Heuer (1) Toby (26) Tom (11) tony (0) Troy May (0) Tubefilter (0) Vinny (0) wes (1) will (5) xavierv (0) Yorkali (18)PaulSwansen's Weblog (0) permalink
Even in my short time driving over the road, this never happened to me. http://www.youtub... Mobile post sent by paulswansen using Utterli. Replies.Shared by Goldie Katsu (0)Contribute commentChristopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero (1) permalink
From www.ChristopherSP... Yep, another economics crossover. Blizzard Entertainment’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack for World of Warcraft dropped last week, and its impact on the economy has been fascinating. Veteran players of the Auction House (the in-game free market) have been finding that since the expansion came out, very little has been selling. The reason, however, is not because the most advanced players in the game are in a new part of the ...
