January 2010
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“Why settle for a 48-year-old, 6-foot-1, organic arugula when we can have a...”
– Maureen Dowd, comparing Barack Obama to Scott Brown
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Young Ladies Who Can Picket Please Sign Below
“One quiet afternoon some weeks ago, with the dogwood on the Spelman College campus newly bloomed and the grass close-cropped and fragrant, an attractive, tawny-skinned girl crossed the lawn to her dormitory to put a notice on the bulletin board. It read: Young Ladies Who Can Picket Please Sign Below.
The notice revealed, in its own quaint language, that within the dramatic revolt of Negro...
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listening to "Bishop Lamont ft Phat Kat →
The way @black_milk (or is it Bishop?) says “Bounce…” at the end is downright X-rated. Heard it on my run yesterday, so I was already sweaty.
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Washington Post on my friend who was killed in...
“At 38, she was a woman of penetrating intellect and many cultures, as comfortable grilling gang members about genocide in Congo as nurturing her son’s passion for soccer. She is one of nearly 400 U.N. workers listed as missing or killed, a toll certain to eclipse by far the organization’s previous worst losses.”
Intellect, yes — and grace and poise and warmth and...
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Are oil companies profiting from the Haiti...
All week I have been Tweeting about the disparity between the amount of money given for Haiti Relief by individual celebrities vs. gigantic corporations. For example, this Tweet on 1/14/10:
* Google, a billion dollar corp, donates $1 Million to Haiti Relief. Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie, 2 people, donated $1 Million. Pony up, Brin.
The Huffington Post has published a list of corporations that...
listening to "Regina Spektor - Eet" →
You’ve spent half your life trying to fall behind / using your headphones to drown out your mind.
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Roald Dahl on Writing
My daughter and I are huge fans of Roald Dahl’s work. The first one we read was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — I mean, what five-year-old can resist that title? We reveled in the fantasy of the luscious chocolate factory, and tried to figure out the tunes to the Oompa Loompa’s many songs. The book swept us along in its rivers of chocolate, a love of reading flooding my girl...
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A Girl's Life
I watched “A Girl’s Life” last night with my husband, and it really opened our eyes — us, the self-identified street-smart parents who didn’t think we were letting anything slip by. Turns out, the issues I dealt with as a girl are magnified 137,000x for girls today.
The documentary is divided into stories of four girls (and an intro). The whole thing runs a little...
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Gyn/Ecology Was Like a Labrys to the Brain, and I...
Mary Daly — Wiccan, lesbian separatist, wiseacre — was a true original. Ironic, then, that the white radical feminist stereotype hung from her back.
One of the original feminist philosophers to deeply explore the concept of “patriarchy”, the truly radicalized Daly wouldn’t allow any men into her classes, which eventually got her canned from Boston College.
She died...
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January is now National Slavery and Human...
Obama declares January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month. Presidential proclamation here.
“Fighting modern slavery and human trafficking is a shared responsibility. This month, I urge all Americans to educate themselves about all forms of modern slavery and the signs and consequences of human trafficking. Together, we can and must end this most serious, ongoing...
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The Daily Show
But this segment, where Aasif Mandvi lets loose his sympathy for Christians, is just terrific. He kills it.
H&M (and Walmart) destroy their unsold clothing.... →
Two articles: About New York - Clothes Discarded by H and M in Manhattan Are First Destroyed - NYTimes.com and a post about it on Racked: http://racked.com/archives/2010/01/06/herald_square_hm_regularly_destroys_unsold_clothing.php
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“Finishing up Adrian Shaughnessy’s Graphic Design: A User’s Manual;...”
– AShakur
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Small but essential list of Good Design books.
(Submitted by Guest Blogger Abdullah: Visit Ashakur on Twitter)
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be.
by Paul Arden
Whatever You Think. Think The Opposite.
by Paul Arden
Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design
by Michael Bierut
Don’t Make Me Think
by Steve Krug
Making and Breaking the Grid
by Timothy Samara
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type...
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formspring.me
what is the ONE thing you know ‘now’ that you wish you knew ‘then’?
I knew everything then. It’s only now that I see the gaps.
Don’t be shy. I only bite when provoked.