April 2012
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State-by-state, job numbers largely showing... →
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42 states had added jobs last month — the most in the past year
29 states had decreases in unemployment in the past month
13 states (and D.C.) stayed roughly the same with unemployment
eight states had increases in unemployment in the past month source
» Signs of overall improvement: Economists say that the modest growth the economy is showing is decent for now but could show...
March 2012
30 posts
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Batman pulled over on Route 29 →
The back tag on the Batmobile - in this case a black Lamborghini - was the superhero’s emblem rather than state tags required by law, according to police.
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A Beautiful Mine, RJD2 (Mad Men...
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“If you’re younger than 13, don’t use Tumblr. Ask your parents for an Xbox or try...”
– Tumblr Terms and Conditions (via angelawublog)
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Playing Princess
In the middle of discussing Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess in Children’s Literature a week or so ago, Professor Gleason brought up the “princess craze” that dominates the market of products for girls.
He cited a fantastic New York Times Magazine article by Peggy Orenstein called “What’s Wrong With Cinderella?“ to illustrate how...
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The Sentence as a Miniature Narrative →
by Constance Hale, NYT 3/19/12
I like to imagine a sentence as a boat. Each sentence, after all, has a distinct shape, and it comes with something that makes it move forward or stay still — whether a sail, a motor or a pair of oars. There are as many kinds of sentences as there are seaworthy vessels: canoes and sloops, barges and battleships, Mississippi riverboats and dinghies all-too-prone to...
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Turns Out Being Born a Woman Is a Major Financial... →
by Cassie Murdoch, Jezebel 3/20/12
…Marie Claire reports that California (where gender pricing has been banned since 1996) found that ladies paid about $1,351 a year in extra costs and fees. If you take that figure and run it across the entire country, it results in a total burden on women of about 151 billion dollars.
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Lady Gaga's $30 Million Twitter Account →
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The Wall Street Journal estimates that Lady Gaga’s Twitter account is worth $30 million.
The math is kind of fuzzy but they arrive at the number by saying that her ability to connect with, promote to and otherwise engage with her 20 plus million followers is worth about a third of the estimated $90 million that she earned over the past year.
Twitter’s a cash cow for...
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“For those of you who don’t know about Twitter, you send out tweets to ‘tweeples’...”
– Newt Gingrich explaining Twitter. (via officialssay)
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Words
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“Dear Sir: I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words,...
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Poor Abandoned Tumblr
It’s been so long… I’ve been super busy writing my thesis, which is due in THREE WEEKS! Struggles.
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For many California students, Harvard is now... →
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A 300 percent increase in tuition and lackluster financial aid from state schools is making elite private universities look more appealing. As the state has cut billions of dollars from education budgets over the past few years, California’s universities have begun admitting more out-of-state students, who pay triple the tuition. This makes private schools resting on billion-dollar...
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In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of... →
by David Streitfeld, NYT 3/3/12
A man named Brewster Kahle bought an industrial warehouse to save books from dying out in the Digital Age. 20,000 volumes a week come in, mostly from libraries and universities. Kahle also runs the Internet Archive (http://archive.org), which works to preserve websites, but he wants to save physical texts, too.
“We must keep the past even as we’re inventing a new...
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“Things to worry about:
- Worry about courage
- Worry about cleanliness
-...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie. (via aaknopf)
