May 18, 2012

"To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and in expensive."

Steve Wozniak introduces the Apple II
posted by Artw at 10:35 PM PST - 30 comments

HAND THING

"Are you still doing that hand thing?" Creepy SLYT.
posted by Deathalicious at 8:54 PM PST - 68 comments

James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"

simply read Finnegans Wake. Since it is said to make more sense when recited aloud, you could start with this recording of James Joyce performing a passage from the "Anna Livia Plurabelle" section - which has been described as "one of the most beautiful prose-poems in English". [more inside]
posted by Trurl at 6:58 PM PST - 40 comments

Doing God's Work Is Better Than Just Mouthing God's Word

The letter of the day at the Savage Love blog tells a story of cruel abandonment, and provokes an outpouring of love in response.
posted by Ipsifendus at 5:47 PM PST - 48 comments

I believe I owe the gay community an apology

“I believe I owe the gay community an apology.” -- Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, recants a poorly conceived 2003 investigation that supported the use of so-called reparative therapy to “cure” homosexuality for people strongly motivated to change.
posted by slater at 5:22 PM PST - 29 comments

Of possible punctuation past.

Unicode’s sad lack of intellectual smileys | And, really, wouldn't this be a better world if we had a rhetorical question mark?
posted by titus-g at 4:49 PM PST - 27 comments

Career Implies I Had A Career Plan

Novelist Neil Gaiman tells the graduating 2012 class of the University Of The Arts everything he wishes he knew starting out and all the best advice he failed to follow. (Vimeo 19:55)
posted by The Whelk at 3:41 PM PST - 20 comments

why teaching equality hurts men

Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men: "It hurts them by making them unconsciously perpetrate biases they’ve been actively taught to despise. It hurts them by making them complicit in the distress of others. It hurts them by shoehorning them into a restrictive definition masculinity from which any and all deviation is harshly punished... It hurts them through a process of indoctrination so subtle and pervasive that they never even knew it was happening, and when you’ve been raised to hate inequality, discovering that you’ve actually been its primary beneficiary is horrifying – like learning that the family fortune comes from blood money." (via nooneyouknow)
posted by flex at 3:28 PM PST - 137 comments

Private Space

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to launch at 8:55 am UTC on Saturday, May 19, 2012 - a little less than 12 hours from now. [more inside]
posted by egor83 at 2:38 PM PST - 53 comments

Not Punk

In which a commercial humorously describes The Human League and Huey Lewis as Punk.
posted by freshwater at 2:25 PM PST - 98 comments

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 1925-2012

Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died (NYTimes). “Providence gives to some singers a beautiful voice, to some musical artistry, to some (let us face it) neither, but to Fischer-Dieskau Providence has given both. The result is a miracle and that is just about all there is to be said about it.” (John Amis) [more inside]
posted by Madamina at 1:41 PM PST - 26 comments

Beebs!

GQ Attempts to make a man out of Justin Bieber.
posted by eugenen at 12:02 PM PST - 96 comments

We [ can do / deserve / demand ] better

Ad·ver·sary responds to sexism and racism in industrial music: We Demand Better. [more inside]
posted by Theta States at 11:41 AM PST - 62 comments

mystery meat game

RPG [more inside]
posted by DU at 10:56 AM PST - 88 comments

It All Looks the Same!

Evoke - a game of creating symmetry by identifying differences. [more inside]
posted by quin at 10:21 AM PST - 15 comments

I'm Taggin' you, You're Taggin' me

Thank you Facebook! A song in celebration of the largest tech IPO in history.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:31 AM PST - 220 comments

Governments Can Stop Prison Rape

In other positive criminal justice news, the US Department of Justice has issued long overdue rules for combating sexual assault of prisoners in federal, state, and local penitentiaries. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead at 9:22 AM PST - 31 comments

...what the Communists sneeringly referred to as the “Anarchists' Marching Song”

Why I Wrote Solidarity Forever. "In the pantheon of American labor history there is a very special place for Ralph Chaplin, the man and his work. As the poet laureate of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), he is probably remembered best for giving organized labor its fighting them song, Solidarity Forever." [more inside]
posted by Stagger Lee at 9:00 AM PST - 27 comments

Tear it up in a hypernation for you

Originally published in 1983, Les Amies de Place Blanche [slightly NSFW] focuses on the transsexual community living around the Place Blanche district of Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

More photos by Christer Strömholm

Review in The Guardian
posted by BEE-EATING CAT-EATER at 7:45 AM PST - 13 comments

Everything ain't for everybody

Weak men pay this boxing coach to tell them they are terrible. Eric Kelly was a 2 time New York Golden Gloves Champion, 4 time National Champion, 2000 Olympic alternate, and 3 time Milwaukee Golden Gloves before an eye injury prevented him from competing. Today, he's a trainer at Church Street Boxing Gym in New York, coaching Wall Street bankers how to box.
posted by reformedjerk at 7:22 AM PST - 64 comments

Problematizing the Minifig

Historical perspectives on the LEGO gender gap. [more inside]
posted by latkes at 6:00 AM PST - 98 comments

Smile, You're On Camera

As police departments around the country are increasingly caught up in tussles with members of the public who record their activities, the U.S. Justice Department has come out with a strong statement supporting the First Amendment right of individuals to record police officers in the public discharge of their duties.
In a surprising letter sent on Monday to attorneys for the Baltimore Police Department, the Justice Department also strongly asserted that officers who seize and destroy such recordings without a warrant or without due process are in strict violation of the individual’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
posted by veedubya at 2:42 AM PST - 100 comments

How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death

Scientists investigate the use of psychedelic drugs in end of life therapy "Grob and his colleagues are part of a resurgence of scientific interest in the healing power of psychedelics. Michael Mithoefer, for instance, has shown that MDMA is an effective treatment for severe P.T.S.D. Halpern has examined case studies of people with cluster headaches who took LSD and reported their symptoms greatly diminished. And psychedelics have been recently examined as treatment for alcoholism and other addictions. "
posted by bookman117 at 12:11 AM PST - 57 comments

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