Series: Today’s Tidbits
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History, Science, and Animals
Short list today. I’ve been too busy to really take in as much as I usually do. I’ve never been interested in being a programmer. At least not since the “good old days” of BASIC where I toyed with the idea briefly, just like everyone else, until I realized just how much ridiculously complex work…
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Community News, Wolverine, a lot of Culture Talk, Some Science, a Little Food, and The Wonder Years Reunion
I was asked in a comment stream today why I post (or, technically, share… since other people have found most of them first) the articles I do, especially about the whole misogynist culture stuff that’s really being talked about a lot right now. The answer is simple: Awareness needs to grow. I know far too…
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More Than a Weekend’s Worth of Stuff
Missed another Friday of posting the (week)daily feed. Ended up out and about late into the night catching the “best of” showings of the 48 Hour Film Project films. Some very, very impressive things were made in that weekend. (And, hey!, I even know some people who made one of them! You can find that…
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FCC Overloaded, Rough Road to College, Red Velvet Mites of Love, Genderless, and Slenderman Delusions
One of the strangest bits of news that came through today (amid a crazy work schedule and some really annoying Facebook problems), was the story of two 12-year-old girls who stabbed another 12-year-old “friend” of theirs in an attempted murder. They did it, the article said, to gain the favor of the Slender Man and…
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Authenticity, Spooked, For the Love of Villains, Poor Decisions Make the News, and Taking Risks
One of the articles today talks about how keeping our kids super safe may actually be doing them more harm than good. It raised the question in the comment thread of just how much has the world changed since I was a kid? On a macro level, sure, lots of changes–we’ve got no more Soviet Union…