April 2012
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10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You →
by Charles Wheelan, The Wall Street Journal 4/28/12
10. Don’t try to be great. Being great involves luck and other circumstances beyond your control. The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.
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“Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a...”
– “Waiting for the Barbarians,” Constantine P. Cavafy (1904)
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From Princeton FML:
“Springtime malaise is setting in. FML”
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Critical theorist 4:31 am on April 22, 2012
The Subject first experiences malaise as a response to a perceived fracture in the otherwise impeccable veneer of the Symbolic Order. Once the Subject has glimpsed the other side (or “Other”side, as my post-Althusserian colleagues may attest), the Real ceases to...
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
In a recent TED talk, Chip Kidd walks us through the design process he used to produce iconic book covers over the last 20 years, from Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park to David Sedaris’ Naked.
His thoughts about digital books and tablets: “Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is...
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“One’s a prolific novelist who writes triple-deckers packed with plot...”
– Michael Bérubé, defending Harry Potter from its detractors by pointing out the similarities between J.K Rowling and Charles Dickens. From “Harry Potter and the Power of Narrative”, which I read for my Children’s Literature class.
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“Hilariously, the closest the RISUG people have gotten to international...”
– The Agonizing Ecstasies of Male Contraception, by Eleanor Ray, The Hairpin April 12, 2012
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An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram →
By Alexander Haislip, marketing executive at ScaleXtreme - April 15, 2012
The Instagramers were lucky. That’s not to diminish what they accomplished. Systrom found someone willing to put out serious money for his startup. It’s every founder’s dream, but the reality for too few in the consumer space.
Enterprise technology has minted many more millionaires. Instead of hoping to score with some...
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textsfromhillary:
A submission from Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Original image by Diana Walker for Time.
Amazing.
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“People are just very reactive online. Things happen very quickly and we expect...”
– Psychologist Nathalie Nahai • Speaking about how anger builds online in a very reactionary sense, which often manifests itself in a mob-like form. Anonymity is a major factor to this, Nahai says, as is the lack of clear human response. “There is no filter for this,” she says. “Social platforms...
Maid's Cries Cast Light on Child Labor in India →
by Jim Yardley, NYT 4/4/12
A 13-year-old maid was left locked in a house when her employers went on vacation. The couple, both doctors, were arrested when they returned, and preliminary charges of violations of the Juvenile Justice Act, the Child Labor Prohibition and Regulation Act and other violations of the criminal code were filed against them. The story casts light on child labor, but it...
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“…Governor Romney has said that he hoped a similar version of this plan...”
– President Obama, at an Associated Press luncheon on Tuesday, regarding the House Republican budget plan
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