February 2012
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Help Saggio win $1,000! Please! For the love of...
Tumblr, we need your help. We’ve entered the Newsday Best Pet contest, in an attempt to win $1,000 and a year’s worth of dog food. I know it’s a giant, pain-in-the-ass favor. But if you could vote for Saggio, it would be so rad. Here’s the bad part: You have to create a log-in, or log in with Facebook. Yes, that sucks ass. But we could really use the help with food costs,...
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“Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and...”
– Robert Kennedy, Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968
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“If you’re drunk and you’re playing around with a [hand] saw,...”
– Economist Andrew Lo, who read 21 books about the economic crisis to figure out WTF happened.
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R.I.P. Jackie Treehorn: The actor behind the "Big... →
shortformblog:
You might also know him from such films as “Anatomy of a Murder.” But mostly as Jackie Treehorn, perhaps the best stealth doodler (warning: sketch NSFW) the world has ever seen.
Footage of Syrian embassy in Kuwait being attacked →
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What's Happening in Syria Now. →
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The situation has grown more dire since Assad’s regime began a violent crackdown last March—including reports of hundreds massacred this week.
On February 3, 2012, multiple reports from activists inside Syria described massive shelling and an army offensive in the central Syrian city of Homs. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the casualty figure at over a hundred, and...
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January 2012
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Ohhhhhhhh snap. Only a rumor, but still a handy... →
garik:
The Iran oil embargo and freeze of its central bank assets approved by Europe the other day has had an interesting unintended consequence – and not just another threat by Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz. According to this Debka report, India has agreed to pay for Iranian oil with gold instead of U.S. dollars and China is expected to follow suit.
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MegaUpload effect: FileSonic drops file sharing,... →
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January 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout: A quick guide →
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