May 2010
81 posts
“People who ate the most full-fat dairy had a 69% lower risk of cardiovascular...”
– Whole Health Source: Full-fat Dairy for Cardiovascular Health
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via novazembla, loudandsoft)
I wonder at this. I wonder if there’s really a celebration of democratic anti-itellectualism or if it’s really resistance to classism. That is, there has always been an upper class/elite that distinguishes itself from the lower classes through attendence...
“I long for the day when a mixed race is a rally involving canoes, bicycles, and...”
– elustran comments on “Our marriage was once illegal, too”.
“A good friend will help you move. A great friend will help you move a body. A...”
– Me, but you, but me [dive into mark]
“Catholic social teaching calls us to both charity and justice. Charity meets the...”
– Why Do Americans Emphasize Charity Over Justice? (via azspot) (via katoleary)
“The real issue for modern feminisM is, and always was, the social and economic s...”
– Bitch Ph.D.
“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company....”
– JIMMY FALLON, Late Night (via fingertwitch) (via nickelcobalt) (via asdfspace) (via isabelthespy) (via thecurvature) (via katoleary)
[#SOLR-945] JSON update handler - ASF JIRA →
Oh yeah.
Do IMF Reforms Make Civil Wars More Likely? →
abbyjean:
jakke:
abbyjean:
Yes, say Caroline A. Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie, and Molly Bauer in this article (gated) in the most recent issue of International Organization.
Just tracked down and read the article - wow, this is a pretty awesome piece of scholarship, and the issue of institutional breakdown is pretty under-addressed in economics in general, so it’s good to see people...
Results of the 2010 Entrepreneurship survey
caterpillarcowboy:
These are the high level results of a survey sent to entrepreneurs living in NYC, Boston, and Palo Alto.
Public Funding
Ø Just 13% of respondents sought public financing; 42% sought private financing
Ø The median public raise was $2 Million, while the median private raise was $275,000.
Ø 69% of companies that applied for public funding received...
“We try to get government departments to open their data feeds to us. We’ll go to...”
– Adrian Holovaty in Stand in the Place Where You Live - The Future of the City - The Atlantic (via llimllib)
“Another caller said the children of Mexican immigrants should be called...”
– SPLC (via brownfemipower)
MulletDB: MulletDB →
This is the MulletDB project, a new database server that aims to use protocols, not storage, as the means of scaling a data store. It combines ZeroMQ with sqlite, tokyo cabinet, and the disk to create a server that can handle both NoSQL style storage needs, document storage needs, or SQL database models in one easy to use server.
Using ZeroMQ you can then mix and match multiple servers...
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land....”
– (via africansunset) (via so-treu) (via thingsimreading) (via brownfemipower)
BREAKING: White House Issues Statement In Support... →
abbyjean:
Moments ago, following a pair of meetings with advocates, the White House issued a statement in support of attaching an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would repeal the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy this year but delay implementation until President Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen...
“In Study 1, Americans rated men as less interdependent than women; Koreans,...”
– Are men better at everything? - Eric Barker (via llimllib)
“The best and brightest only occasionally “go into” CS, many of them...”
– [FoRK] Enterprise software development: Do we have an age problem?
“New state motto — New Jersey: There Is No Escape.”
– Confessions of a Community College Dean
ha! this is a bad idea. Funny that La Crosse has a similar law that you can’t work for the city government unless you live in La Crosse. So since Tisha and Chris live on French Island another municipality he can’t work for the city govt’ in La Crosse.
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Washington Post Ombudsman on Gender Bias: 'We're...
equalitymyth:
In Sunday’s Washington Post, ombudsman Andrew Alexander takes on the ongoing criticism of his newspaper for sexism—most recently, for its cutting review of the new PBS public affairs program, “Need to Know,” in which author Tom Shales declares that cohost Alison Stewart, an award-winning journalist, looks, during a “fawning” interview with Bill Clinton, “as though she would have...
“That poverty is a cause of crime is [well understood.] That crime is a...”
– When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, by Mark Kleiman (via abbyjean)
“senior women […] may be more reluctant than their male colleagues to move...”
– pandagon.net
Fred Wilson on Product and Engineering →
caterpillarcowboy:
alexismichelle:
Thought this was a very helpful and interesting post. This was one of my favorite parts:
“If you have a super strong engineering team but a weak or understaffed product team, you will struggle. If you have built a functioning organization in engineering but not in product, you will struggle. If you have a team where one of your two team leads is weak, ...
“…[W]hat about red-lining? Does Paul know anything about blockbusting? Does he...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Proud Ignorance of Rand Paul” (via ryking)
vruz: this is one of those times when fuckers like Paul really need to be grounded and put to shame publicly. I expect a very low vote for this fucktard and a massive DNC operation descending on his contested districts.
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Will the Carriers give the Location business to...
siminoff:
On Wednesday Google announced that they would be opening up a API for Latitude, their mobile location product, so that any developer with a users permission could get location data from there.
To me this announcement just continues to show the inability of the mobile carriers to leverage their competitive advantage over Google.
In the Location Based Services (LBS) race, Google’s...
“The point is that the narrative of white supremacy holds victimhood sacred. It...”
– The Vanessa Williams Rule - Culture - The Atlantic (via dixiecupua)
Freedom as White Supremacy →
abbyjean:
It seems that yesterday US Senate candidate Rand Paul let the cat out of the bag and admitted that under his brand of libertarian conservatism he can’t support the 1964 Civil Rights Act or other non-discrimination legislation as applied to private businesses. He goes out of his way to explain that he doesn’t actually favor segregated lunch counters, he just thinks it would be...
For your Rand Paul scrapbook
thepoliticalpartygirl:
southpol:
A 2007 Salon profile:
In the Speaker’s Lobby, Paul describes the federal airline security system as an extra-constitutional affront to civil liberties, and thinks security should be handled by the private sector. Then he takes a rather un-presidential jab at the appearance of many TSA screeners, a workforce heavily populated by minorities and immigrants. ...
Optimising pointer subtraction with 2-adic... →
The notion of completeness depends on an an idea of closeness. I’ve described an alternative to the usual notion of closeness and so we can define an alternative notion of Cauchy sequence. We’ll say that the sequence x1, x2, … is a Cauchy sequence in the new sense if all the numbers from xn onwards agree on their last n bits. (This isn’t quite the usual definition but...
Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid... →
without a law regulating the use of GMOs in Haiti, the Ministry of Agriculture rejected Monsanto’s offer of Roundup Ready GMOs seeds. In an email exchange, a Monsanto representative assured the Ministry of Agriculture that the seeds being donated are not GMOs.
Elizabeth Vancil, Monsanto’s director of development initiatives, called the news that the Haitian Ministry of...
Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid... →
boogieordie:
Haitian social movements’ concern is not just about the dangers of the chemicals and the possibility of future GMOs imports. They claim that the future of Haiti depends on local production with local food for local consumption, in what is called food sovereignty. Monsanto’s arrival in Haiti, they say, is a further threat to this.
Right on, Haiti.
FedEx Spent $21.1 Million In 15 Months To Preserve... →
abbyjean:
FedEx has been waging an intense campaign in order to preserve its special treatment, led by CEO Fred Smith, who was George W. Bush’s fraternity brother and has said that “I don’t intend to recognize any unions at Federal Express.” And according to Roll Call, in 15 months the company spent $21.1 million lobbying Congress:
Last year, it ranked 14th among all groups and ...
Bill Clinton offers himself as lottery prize to... →
Bill Clinton believes that he has come up with a better method to wipe out the financial obligations outstanding from his wife’s failed presidential bid.
He is raffling himself. In an e-mail sent to millions of people who supported Hillary Clinton’s White House campaign, the former President asks: “How would you like the chance to come up to New York and spend the day with me?” For those...
“I have long theorized that at least some of the leftward drift in academia can...”
– Why Does Academia Treat Its Workforce So Badly? - Business - The Atlantic
Much Ado About Straightening: Old Black Salons... →
abbyjean:
Armed with a blow dryer and brush, deft wrist action and shrewd promotional tactics, immigrants from the Dominican Republic are snipping away market share from African-American stylists whose mastery of black women’s hair ensured for generations that their customers wouldn’t, or couldn’t, leave them. Promises of seemingly healthier hair, swifter service and far lower prices are...
“The southern idea on race relations is, “I’d love an African...”
– AmbitionOfPhilipJFry comments on “Dear Americans, this is my biased, Swedish view of one thing that is wrong with your country, regarding why minorities and the poor are held back. Let’s have a civilized discussion.”
it's on now
abbyjean:
from the ACLU:
[Yesterday], the ACLU, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, ACLU of Arizona, National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice) filed a...
Knit A Mitten, Save The World →
abbyjean:
Over the last two decades, an entire industry has sprung up around the notion of packaging the products of Third World craft collectives to sell to the First World. Let’s examine the ways in which First World advertising both misrepresents and romanticizes the work and lives of these collectives to encourage First World consumers to buy their products.
Advertising encourages consumers...
TX Textbooks Proposal: Students Must Discuss... →
With the long-running Texas history textbooks standards fight scheduled to end with a final vote by the State Board of Education Friday, arch-conservative board member Don McLeroy is proposing a new set of changes that read like a tea party manifesto.
The new amendment, which is expected to get a vote on Thursday, would require high school history students to “discuss alternatives...
“Whether dressed up in the pseudo-sophisticated language of popular...”
– “Men are simple, women are complicated”: another corollary to the myth of male weakness at Hugo Schwyzer
. :: bagleworm :: .
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oooh ooh I have THOUGHTS HERE I HAVE THOUGHTS
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OH NOOOOES, I just threw up all over myself!!!!
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I wonder what health care will look like at a state level in 2014. 2014 is when the health care bill is supposed to go into effect and by that time, there’ll be exchanges set up either by one state, a group of states or the federal government so that people can shop around.
I’m really thinking about states that currently oppose the bill. Ie, TX, OK, KS are currently suing the...
“You know, Jay-Z’s got 99 problems, but this bitch ain’t one of them”
– Betty White
