Reddit Users Attempt to Shame Sikh Woman, Get Righteously Schooled

rad 🙂

SNAC

S.H.A.M.E. Project › Shame the Hacks who Abuse Media Ethics…

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough | Fast Company

Plants in the Pollinator Pathway – Pollinator Pathway

The Political Awakening of a Republican: ‘I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People’ | Alternet

“No one wants to feel like a dupe. It is embarrassing to come out in public and admit that I was so miseducated when so much reality is out there in plain sight in neighborhoods I avoided, in journals I hadn’t heard of, in books by authors I had refused to read. “

More Data Suggests Fitness Matters More Than Weight – NYTimes.com

The vocab acrobatics in this are pretty hilarious. “The lowest mortality risks were among those in the overweight category (B.M.I.s of 25 to 30), while moderate obesity (30 to 35) offered no more risk than being in the normal-weight category.” So “normal” sounds really meaningful then 😉

ZIPPO tricks – YouTube

Native Appropriations: Paul Frank Powwow Party Update: Am I dreaming?

Yo, Is This Racist? | Actually, there would be nothing wrong with the name “Redskins” if they changed the logo and mascot to a potato.

The White Market – The New Inquiry

“Meanwhile, screenwriters (clever advertisers in their own right) have found that the easiest way to hook viewers on drug-dealer protagonists is to sell crack as small-batch artisanal rock cocaine.”

CAUSE I LIKE WOMEN, Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist

“So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly.  They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong.  God, what a Mary Sue. I just described Batman.”

Wondermark » Archive » #601; The Discovery that Changed the World

It Gets Fatter! with subtitles | Amara

IS8D (800×601)

ah, memories.

I was a siren | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

queer | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Pigeon Scout

From Simon. Nice one.

Best Pizza Dough Ever Recipe – 101 Cookbooks

Full Interview: Kelly McGonigal on Willpower

3quarksdaily: Health care reform does not start in your kitchen

Good morning.

What we deserve, and cultures of dissonance « gudbuy t’jane

The Next Internet? Inside PARC’s Vision of Content Centric Networking

… he thinks the Internet has outgrown its original underpinnings as a network built on physical addresses, and that it’s time to put aside TCP/IP and start over with a completely novel approach to naming, storing, and moving data. Jacobson’s alternative is called Content Centric Networking, or CCN, and it’s grown into the single biggest internal project at PARC… If the ideas behind CCN were broadly adopted, PARC researchers believe, it would speed the delivery of content and vastly reduce the load on the networking equipment at the Internet’s core. It would also pose a challenge to the model of utility-style storage and processing that’s come to be known as cloud computing.

Unrestricted Warfare

‘Editor’s Note: The following selections are taken from “Unrestricted Warfare,” a book published in China in February 1999 which proposes tactics for developing countries, in particular China, to compensate for their military inferiority vis-à-vis the United States during a high-tech war.’