May 2010
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The Racist Breeding Grounds of Harvard Law School →
Hold your fists of rage for a second.
In the comments, I found this:
How to Tell People They Sound Racist
“Because the ‘what they are’ conversation is a rhetorical Bermuda triangle, where everything drowns in a sea of empty posturing until somebody just blames it all on hip-hop and we forget the whole thing ever happened.”
Love it.
Okay, fists of rage: go.
April 2010
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Embracing the digital book →
Book designers long ago established rigorous rules for laying out text blocks so they disappear to the reader. They took pride in turning the physicality of a book into a tool for efficiently and elegantly getting information into the mind of the reader. As any good typographer knows: the best typography goes unnoticed.
Our e-readers seem to have forgotten this heritage. They’ve ...
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Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYTimes.com →
sasquatchmedia:
seoulbrother:
CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company.
But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her...
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Can JK Rowling write more non-fiction, please? It’s not that I don’t love the HP series, duh, it’s that “The single mother’s manifesto” (via Jezebel and Kim) is quite good and I should like to read more things written in her way. Would you look into that? Merci.
Read the whole article, but herein lies my favorite bit:
I chose to remain a domiciled taxpayer for...
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“When [the A-10] fires, it makes a ripping sound like someone is tearing the sky...”
– Evan Wright, The Killer Elite, Part Two
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Ego, a sketch.
Nicholas Sparks, Miley Cyrus share a “Last Song” love story.
Picture me keeled over laughing and barely able to catch my breath.
“There’s a difference between drama and melodrama; evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It’s a very fine eye-of-the-needle to thread. And it’s very rare that it works. That’s why I tend to dominate this particular...
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