March 2012
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“At the start of 2008 we were of the opinion that there was a massive gap in the...”
– thequietus.com’s about page
Well. That about description earned you a fancy bookmark for my weekly Wednesday music reading.
(via fourstorylimit)
I need to make a conscious effort to read it more. I constantly read their stuff when Zite feeds it to me, but I’m sure I’m missing lots...
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February 2012
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“Our goal is not to please those whom we report on or to produce stories that...”
– NPR’s ethics handbook and Jay Rosen’s great post about it (via soupsoup)
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Anonymous Basks In Wikileaks Dump of Stratfor... →
Indeed, an initial look at the Stratfor emails that Anonymous and Wikileaks claimed would reveal the company’s conspiratorial ties turns up mostly expected information: Yes, Stratfor is looking to traffic in state secrets, much like Wikileaks itself. Yes, the organization is enamored with with Right wing talking points and conspiracy theories. Yes, Stratfor keeps an entertaining glossary of...
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“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were...”
– Ronald Reagan, 1984
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Mastered for iTunes →
How audio engineers tweak music for the iPod age
“Mastering for iTunes was a different challenge,” VanDette told Ars. “You can’t get around it—when you throw away 80 percent of the data, the sound changes. It was my quest to make the AAC files sound as close to the CD as possible; I did not want them to be any more loud, hyped, or boomy sounding than the CD.”
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“In a year in which the three most critically beloved movies were The Artist...”
– Oscar Week: Why Midnight In Paris Should Win Best Picture
via peterwknox
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Watchbliptv:
The Chris Gethard Show: Checking in With Alyssa
thechrisgethardshow:
This is my favorite episode we’ve ever done. It features Joe Mande, Jeff Rubin, Kay Cannon, Grizz Chapman, Jack McBrayer, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Zachary Levi, Bobby Moynihan, Ruby, and many more. It also features a very cool girl named Alyssa, and I think we did our best to give her a fun, memorable night. With music...
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Read this racist, homophobic, classist letter a...
To the Editor,
I am the president of the Smith Club of Westchester County. I enjoy reading
the Sophian online because it helps me stay abreast of developments at the school.
I read your article about [President] Carol [Christ]’s resignation and it had some interesting statistics. It mentioned the percentage increase in the population of women of color and foreign students. The gist of...
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This post combines content from two sources. Who... →
Would you handle the post differently? Is it a video post with someone else’s text or a text post with someone else’s video? Does it matter?
The text dominates the post on the dashboard, but the video dominates the theme. Why the hell does the Tumblr dash insist on shrinking the video thumbnail, anyway?
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Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings →
When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.
Google cannot be trusted.
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“Serious questions emerging about the behavior of Representative Michael Grimm,...”
– New York Times Editorial (via soupsoup)
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