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Kids in today’s school system are not being prepared well for tomorrow’s world.
As someone who went from the corporate world and then the government world to the…

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Sleazy promotions

Social media has transformed the way that promotions and competitions are run, and not always in a positive way. The temptation to offload marketing onto customers can be difficult to resist, and too …

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Story about Battle Damaged A-10

You're correct, Santorum. Women *are* capable of "flying small planes." Like this totally fucked A-10 with no controls:

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20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes | LitReactor
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Forget The Fridge: Using Chemistry And Nature To Store Food | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Lovely & practical RT @FastCoExist: Your fridge is ruining your food. Use chemistry and nature to store it instead.

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RT @debcha: Must-read for music people of any stripe: @maura's "How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide." ...

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How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide - New York Music - Sound of the City

Must-read for music people of any stripe: @maura's "How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide."

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Beatrice the Biologist: Biology Doesn't Support Gay Marriage Bans

RT @brainpicker: "Sex is not the binary system we think it is." A biologist takes on the gay marriage ban http://t ...

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fogus: Programming language development: the past 5 years

Programming language development: the past 5 years « Send More Paramedics -

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The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt - Cascadia Ruby 2011
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Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman - WSJ.com
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Notes from a Minimalist Teen

Courtney Carver: Notes from a #Minimalist Teen - Guest Post on Be More with Less | http://t.co/iVLFDrlC

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Vim anti-patterns | Arabesque

Vim anti-patterns, great list of dos, don'ts and suggestions to improve productivity working with Vim:

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HTML5 accessibility - February 2012

Interesting #HTML5 #a11y support update. FFOX highest on PC, Safari on Mac. Detailed chart. Great info. :)

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Erik McClure: "Programmer" is an Overgeneralization

RT @HackerNewsYC: "Programmer" is an Overgeneralization

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Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
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Feet In Smoke: A Story About Electrified Near-Death

Something To Read: Feet In Smoke: A Story About Electrified Near-Death (John Jeremiah Sullivan, @Deadspin): http://t.co/HakSB3Fr

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How I'm watching the Superbowl with netcat, ffmpeg, mplayer, stdin and stdout. - YouTube

RT @climagic: # I'm watching the Superbowl using netcat, ffmpeg, mplayer, STDIN and STDOUT.

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Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time « Mathalicious

RT @steveklabnik: Khan Academy won't work (and never did)

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The Pervocracy: A different kind of love.

RT @pervocracy: New post! "A different kind of love!" Warning: Super sappy mushypants post about wuuuv.

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The Washington Post tries a new weapon to fight the trolls: humans » Nieman Journalism Lab
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amednews: Cyberchondria: the one diagnosis patients miss :: Jan. 30, 2012 ... American Medical News

Doctors are worried about "cyberchondria" -- anxiety from online self-diagnosis. http://t.co/NZqZtHbH

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This Is What A Scientist Looks Like

RT @ashedryden: This is what a scientist looks like. #science #diversity

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Abstruse Goose » O.P.C.

I hate reading other people’s code

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The Corner: How Amazon's KDP Select Saved My Book

This is amazing. One author's story of Kindle Publishing Also note spectacular 'social media' failure for 'marketing'.

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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
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Hollywood Edition « Aaron Klein
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The Caging of America

Something To Read: The Caging of America: "why do we lock up so many people?" http://t.co/D2arQ6R6 #longreads

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FtpMustDie - Greg's Wiki

FTP Must Die - Interesting rant about just how much of a "legacy" protocol FTP really is

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Alice Bradley - Blog - On being an object, and then not being an object
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A brief, opinionated history of XML - bobdc.blog
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Tumnus: Dear Google: Browser History ≠ Gender Identity

“If the gender ratio of something isn’t 50/50, you don’t get to round up to 100/0.” /v:@madebycori

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Private PaaS with Mongrel2 and ZeroMQ - Technology Notes - Céondo Ltd

RT @zedshaw: Loic has a great article on creating a Platform as a Service (PaaS) with Mongrel2:

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On pirates and piracy - O'Reilly Radar
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Things I Found Ponderable: #scio12 Report the First | Thus Spake Zuska
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Binary Tetris - 140byt.es — Gist

un. real.

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RT @JonelB: Since They changed Philosopher's Stone to Sorcerer's Stone for America, I decided to change the rest since... ...

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I Heart Chaos — Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

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The Pregnancy Project: Why One Girl Decided to Fake Her Baby Bump and Take a Stand on Teen Pregnancy | Healthland | TIME.com

One teen girl faked her pregnancy as — surprise! — part of an academic exercise to examine stereotypes |

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RT @aleksaas: This has to be the best Privacy Policy ever written!

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Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily
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Personal names around the world

@joshsusser I wish there was an article like this one only for gender:

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'Cause You Can Get Better at Anything You Want

Joshua Becker: On Becoming Minimalist | You Can Get Better at Anything You Want » Becoming Minimalist http://t.co/2gbutZRb

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Public speaking for normal people - humbledMBA
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"Content" Creep
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Making It in America

Something To Read: Making It in America: the flow of goods from US is rising while factory employment falls (Adam Davidson, @TheAtlantic): http://t.co/FzAJ86f4

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The Fragile Teenage Brain

Something To Read: The Fragile Teenage Brain: "An in-depth look at concussions in high school football" (Jonah Lehrer, @Grantland33): http://t.co/JwlB61en

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