February 2012
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“Path does not retain or store any of your information in any way.”
– Path founder Dave Morin, in 2010.
Path was recently found to be uploading the entirety of iPhone address books to their servers, without permission, and storing them permanently. Morin’s response to the discrepancy between his words and his actions is that the statement was true when he said...
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Planned Parenthood vs AT&T →
In 1990, AT&T announced its charitable foundation would end a 25 year-old tradition of giving to Planned Parenthood $50,000 annually, which funded teen pregnancy prevention programs. Still, AT&T wanted to distance itself from the association with abortion and end the pressure it was receiving from pro-life activists.
With AT&T’s decision to cut off funding, Planned Parenthood faced...
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Libya’s Impotent New Government →
A sense of entropy lingers here. Some state employees have gone without salaries for a year, and Mr. Shamis acknowledged that the government had no idea how to channel enough money into the economy so that it would be felt in the streets. Tripoli residents complain about a lack of transparency in government decisions. Ministries still seem paralyzed by the tendency, instilled during the...
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“For the last number of years, we in the pro-choice community in general — and we...”
– Kellie Ferguson, executive director of The Republican Majority for Choice
The Elevation Dock About To Set Kickstarter... →
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As Trevor Gilbert notes on PandoDaily, the “best dock for the iPhone” project has now surpassed $900,000 in backing and is closing in on LunaTik’s (you know, the awesome iPod nano watch) record of $942,578 with 3 days to go.
If you want to know how much thought and care was put into the Elevation Dock, just watch the video on the Kickstarter page by creator...
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“All Israeli wars since 1973 were flawed wars of choice. Israel initiated all of...”
– Israelis should be afraid of their leaders, not Iran
via firthofforth
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“As with Republican efforts to eliminate federal funding for Planned...”
– Sarah Posner, Komen, Planned Parenthood, and Conspiracy Theories | Religion Dispatches
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WatchStephen Colbert from January 2011:
“If they don’t own the phrase ‘for the Cure,’ then people might donate money thinking it’s going to an organization dedicated to curing cancer, when instead it’s wasted on organizations dedicated to curing cancer.”
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Paul Krugman: Romney did mean what he said. He... →
First of all, just a few days ago, Mr. Romney was denying that the very programs he now says take care of the poor actually provide any significant help. On Jan. 22, he asserted that safety-net programs — yes, he specifically used that term — have “massive overhead,” and that because of the cost of a huge bureaucracy “very little of the money that’s actually needed by those that really need...
Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding... →
In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization.
That means the loss of $3.75 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, $4.5 million to the University...
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Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities... →
In addition to raising millions of dollars a year for breast cancer research, fundraising giant Susan G. Komen for the Cure has a lesser-known mission that eats up donor funds: patrolling the waters for other charities and events around the country that use any variation of “for the cure” in their names.
So far, Komen has identified and filed legal trademark oppositions against more...
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“What she and her colleagues found out was that [the number of mentions of a TV...”
– A VC: Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
The wider and broader the discussion of the TV show went within online social media, the more likely the show was to become popular.
(via tedr)
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“I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there.”
– Mitt Romney
This isn’t just a gaffe. Reasonable politicians of all political persuasions ought to be concerned about the very poor. Presidents must be. It is their job to be concerned about the very poor. It is their job to be concerned about everyone.
Mitt Romney should spend every waking...
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“Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music. His legacy is tremendous. But when he...”
– Neil Young
January 2012
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