Coffee Science
- Phil: "Okay, what's the bad news?"
- Chemist: "There was so much caffeine it oversaturated the detector and probably blew the calibration."
- P: "Crap. What's the good news?"
- C (jumping up and down with glee): "There was so much caffeine it oversaturated the detector and probably blew the calibration!"
- (http: //www.funranium.com/BBotE.html — and why are there no links in chats? TUMBLRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!)
“ Religious congregations generally express more prejudiced views towards other races. Furthermore, the more devout the community, the greater the racism.
They Don’t Just Hate Fags | Slog
… seems like a gimme, but it’s nice to see it confirmed. Nice? Sad? Well, you know …
“ How,” asks Zeldman, “can we be truthful and wise as editors, publishers, writers, journalists, and marketers straddling this scary yet exhilarating new divide?
Print & Paper Über Alles: A more perfect publishing today - AustinChronicle.com
“ ‘Since Anonymous has come forward,’ said Marc Headley, who belonged to the Sea Org for 16 years, ‘more and more people who have been abused or assaulted are feeling more confident that they can speak out and not have any retaliation happen.’
Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse - NYTimes.com
The 4chan-born protests against Scientology have helped people turn their lives around and escape an oppressive cult.
That’ll do, Internet. That’ll do.
(via nickdouglas)
Social Software Narcissism/Utility Graph
(via ztaylor)
Drawn by Brad O’Neill for his post “Is There a Magic Zone of Narcissistic Utility?” This seems like a pretty reasonable unified field theory of social software to me. In my opinion, for example, Twitter has come to achieve a near perfect balance of the two axes, while Foursquare is going to have to shift themselves further to the right on the utility axis if they’re going to grow and have an appeal that outlasts the narcissistic appeal of their game mechanics.
Concur. Nothing to add at this time.
