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Month: May 2013

  • You're at a party. What is the inevitable question you dread?

    The historians of Reddit's /r/AskHistorians go off on the query that drives them insane: "Have you ever seen that show Ancient Aliens?" http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1dv49y/tt_youre_at_a_party_the_people_around_you_find/c9u5o2p You're at a party. What is the inevitable question you dread?

  • An Alternative to Righteous Failure

    'People love stories and they love casting themselves in stories… I think people often turn their journeys into odysseys larger than themselves in order to preemptively give themselves permission to fail- but fail righteously. Because if Christlike perfection is the only option- if every food choice is a moral judgement about whether you are a […]

  • Teen Pregnancy Rate Prompting More High Schools To Eliminate 'Fuck Your Brains Out' Program

    Teen Pregnancy Rate Prompting More High Schools To Eliminate 'Fuck Your Brains Out' Program WASHINGTON–A 150 percent increase in teen pregnancy rates over the past decade has led more high schools to eliminate "Fuck Your Brains Out-" a national sexual education program that encourages adolescents to have sex frequently and with…

  • Maddow corrects PolitiFact's 'half truth': In 29 states- you can be fired for being LGBT | The Raw S

    Maddow goes off! Maddow corrects PolitiFact's 'half truth': In 29 states- you can be fired for being LGBT | The Raw S On Tuesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show-" host Rachel Maddow addressed a statement by athlete Martina Navratilova that in 29 U.S. states- employers can fire a worker for being LGBT. The […]

  • Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty's Narrative

    What's that one word for when government shapes arts and media? Starts with a P. Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty's Narrative Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But […]

  • The future of Adobe Fireworks

    Adobe is killing off Fireworks. Dammit. The future of Adobe Fireworks Today at the MAX conference we announced the latest generation of our creative tools now known as CC including Photoshop CC- Dreamweaver CC- Flash Professional CC- Edge Animate CC- and many others. As you may have noticed this announcement did not include updates to […]

  • 'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong

    “That’s the piece that most people forget: The flapper movement wasn’t simply a fashion trend… it was a full-blown, grassroots feminist revolution. After an 80-year campaign by suffragists, women were finally granted the right to vote in the United States in 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. When the U.S. entered World War I […]

  • Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog- the book that changed the world

    Can't tell you how many hours I spend reading through the Whole Earth Catalog as a kid: Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog- the book that changed the world Stewart Brand was at the heart of 60s counterculture and is now revered as a tech visionary whose book anticipated the web. Carole Cadwalladr met him

  • Gay of Thrones: Game of Thrones Ep. 4 Recap

    Okay this is actually hilarious. 'Girl- I was four hours into a juice cleanse and I was ready to knife a bitch!' Gay of Thrones: Game of Thrones Ep. 4 Recap Jonathan loves three things – hair- a fierce brow and Game of Thrones. Watch every week as he breaks down new episodes. Warning: The […]