Month: January 2014
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Explaining Boy Bands
“Love with training wheels, basically.”
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Why the Floppy Disk Should Remain the Icon for Save
“When the industry and market collectively decide on a uniform standard you don’t fucking change it.”
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Ex-convicts defy the Silicon Valley techie cliche | Al Jazeera America
Outreach program profiled in Al Jazeera America – we have one of their participants on our web dev team. Ex-convicts defy the Silicon Valley techie cliche | Al Jazeera America At California's San Quentin prison- inmates learn to be startup entrepreneurs
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Jamie Dimon's Raise Proves U.S. Regulatory Strategy is a Joke
"If you make a big show of punishing someone- and when you're done they still don't think they have a behavior problem- you probably picked the wrong punishment." Jamie Dimon's Raise Proves U.S. Regulatory Strategy is a Joke After a year of multi-billion-dollar penalties- JP Morgan Chase rewards the guy in charge
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Old old old old music we used to listen to in Chicago. I'm imagining walking to the gym in the freezing snow. You couldn't walk to fast or the CD in your Discman would skip. That's why I got the MiniDisc player. 😮
Paul Oakenfold – Perfecto Presents Another World (CD1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3opDpjbqhHc Disc: 1 01. Dead Can Dance – The Host Of The Seraphim 02. Tone Depth – Into Being 03. Chilled Eskimos – Take Me Away (Circulation Mix) 04. Led Zeppelin – Bab…
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S.F. rents up more than 3 times higher than national average
SF rents up 3x national average. S.F. rents up more than 3 times higher than national average In case you haven't heard- it's hard out there for a tenant. San Francisco rent price increases are outpacing the nation– more than three-fold. In December- rental prices in
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Ketchup isn't the king of American condiments. Mayonnaise is
Kill whitey. Ketchup isn't the king of American condiments. Mayonnaise is If you think ketchup is king of American condiments- think again. The US now consumes some $2 billion worth of mayonnaise each year. The ketchup market is worth less than half that–around $800 million- according to data from Euromonitor. Ketchup is followed by soy […]
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Elementary School in Utah Seizes Lunches From 40 Students in Debt
Elementary School in Utah Seizes Lunches From 40 Students in Debt As many as 40 students at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City had their lunches–which they'd already received from the cafeteria–seized and trashed by school authorities because their parents were behind on payments.
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Republicans won the food stamp war
I'll say it again and again. If you cut food stamps- you're a fucking monster. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/republicans-won-food-stamps-farm-bill Republicans won the food stamp war Congress is set to approve $9 billion in cuts to the food stamp program even as a record number of Americans live in poverty.
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Blogging turns 20: look back and cringe with us
Blogging turns 20: look back and cringe with us It's never easy to face the past- but in honor of the blog's 20th birthday this month- we asked brave Guardian readers to dig up vintage posts and share them with the world. Check out the cringe-worthy quotes – and their priceless reaction shots – below