Posts from January 2015

Article posted 23 January 2015 Court strikes down Alabama ban on same-sex marriage [via Facebook] posted 10pm

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Court strikes down Alabama ban on same-sex marriage

No explicit stay included in order, so weddings can begin immediately

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Article posted 22 January 2015 More Progress Made Toward Learning Contents of Herculaneum Scrolls [via Facebook] posted 4pm

Technological civilization is awesome.

More Progress Made Toward Learning Contents of Herculaneum Scrolls

Researchers say that for the first time, they can read letters inside the scrolls without unrolling them, by using a laserlike beam of X-rays.

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Article posted 22 January 2015 Yo Channel [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

Yo automation. https://ifttt.com/yo

Yo Channel

IFTTT lets you easily connect the Yo Channel to other services and devices in your world. Put the internet to work for you.

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Article posted 21 January 2015 The State of the Union Address Will Be Awful, Because the State of the Union Address Is Always Awful [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

The State of the Union address is always awful. http://ift.tt/1BASJva #AbolishThePresidency

The State of the Union Address Will Be Awful, Because the State of the Union Address Is Always Awful

The speech is almost invariably a dull and dishonest collection of clichÃ©s, delivered with a set of semi-royalist rituals that should offend a free people.

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Article posted 14 January 2015 The FBI Says It Can’t Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot [via Facebook] posted 6pm

Good. This is an excellent reason to encourage everyone you know to smoke as much weed as possible. Light up today, dry up the Feds’ recruiting pool tomorrow.

The FBI Says It Can’t Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot

â€œI have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview.”

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Article posted 14 January 2015 Burn the textbook [via Facebook] posted 12pm

Textbooks are a fundamentally destructive feature of the educational landscape. It is like paying $400 a semester for someone to piss on your cognitive shoes and tell you that itâ€™s raining. http://ift.tt/1IxK11B

Burn the textbook

From Audrey Watters, at Hack Education last week, on Appleâ€™s Big Damn Announcement about digital textbooks. Emphasis mine. .Â .Â . One of the things that digital content makes obvious is that the current physical manifestation of a print-bound textbook is a strangely awful construct â€” one designed toâ€¦

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Article posted 14 January 2015 January 14, 2015 at 02:15PM [via Facebook] posted 12pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 Pirating textbooks isnâ€™t just against the law, itâ€™s a good idea, too [via Facebook] posted 11am / revised 11am

Happy Spring semester y’all. http://ift.tt/1syYia8 #AbolishTheTextbookIndustry #DestroyIntellectualProperty

Pirating textbooks isnâ€™t just against the law, itâ€™s a good idea, too

Hereâ€™s a recent story from the Washington Post, informing us that More students are illegally downloading college textbooks for free. Itâ€™s hard (if not impossible) to know just how prevalent this practice is, but some college students around the country are uploading their expensive college textbookâ€¦

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Article posted 14 January 2015 January 14, 2015 at 01:23PM [via Facebook] posted 11am

Happy Spring semester y’all. http://ift.tt/1syYia8 #AbolishTheTextbookIndustry #DestroyIntellectualProperty

Via MeÃ±o Santillana: <<< BREAKING: Today around 1 p.m., Mexico time, personnel of the 27th Battalion of the Mexican army attacked and injured at least 15 protesters -including parents and fellow students of the #Ayotzinapa43- who were demanding to enter and search the military base for the missing students #UStired2 #Ayotzinapa #AccionGlobalporAyotzinapa #Guerrero #Mexico >>>

ImÃ¡genes del enfrentamiento de hoy de los normalistas, padres de los desaparecidos y activistas con el EjÃ©rcito en Iguala, al intentar ingresar a las instalaciones castrenses a buscar a sus hijos desaparecidos. Fotos: Twitter de Omar GarcÃa.

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Posts from January 2015

Article posted 23 January 2015 Court strikes down Alabama ban on same-sex marriage [via Facebook] posted 10pm

Article posted 22 January 2015 More Progress Made Toward Learning Contents of Herculaneum Scrolls [via Facebook] posted 4pm

Article posted 22 January 2015 Yo Channel [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

Article posted 21 January 2015 The State of the Union Address Will Be Awful, Because the State of the Union Address Is Always Awful [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 The FBI Says It Can’t Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot [via Facebook] posted 6pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 Burn the textbook [via Facebook] posted 12pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 January 14, 2015 at 02:15PM [via Facebook] posted 12pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 Pirating textbooks isnâ€™t just against the law, itâ€™s a good idea, too [via Facebook] posted 11am / revised 11am

Article posted 14 January 2015 January 14, 2015 at 01:23PM [via Facebook] posted 11am

Article posted 14 January 2015 DesinformÃ©monos [via Facebook] posted 8am

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Article posted 23 January 2015 Court strikes down Alabama ban on same-sex marriage [via Facebook] posted 10pm

Article posted 22 January 2015 More Progress Made Toward Learning Contents of Herculaneum Scrolls [via Facebook] posted 4pm

Article posted 22 January 2015 Yo Channel [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

Article posted 21 January 2015 The State of the Union Address Will Be Awful, Because the State of the Union Address Is Always Awful [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 The FBI Says It Can’t Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot [via Facebook] posted 6pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 Burn the textbook [via Facebook] posted 12pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 January 14, 2015 at 02:15PM [via Facebook] posted 12pm

Article posted 14 January 2015 Pirating textbooks isnâ€™t just against the law, itâ€™s a good idea, too [via Facebook] posted 11am / revised 11am

Article posted 14 January 2015 January 14, 2015 at 01:23PM [via Facebook] posted 11am

Article posted 14 January 2015 DesinformÃ©monos [via Facebook] posted 8am