5 Oct 2011

photojojo:

We’ll miss you, Steve.

Charis Devis created mosaic portraits of Steve Jobs using many images of the Apple CEO’s innovations.

Mosaic Portraits of Steve Jobs

via Good

Reblogged: photojojo

28 Sep 2011

discoverynews: Martian Life’s Last Stand If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot. Read more

discoverynews:

Martian Life’s Last Stand

If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot.

Read more

Reblogged: aginghipsterking-deactivated201

Tags: space. science. news. mars. life.

26 Sep 2011

thepoliticalnotebook: Could you live on $8 or $9 dollars an hour? A new computer game made by the Urban Ministries of Durham in North Carolina and an advertising firm called McKinney lets you play out life with a low-wage job as a single mom. The objective is to make it a month, juggling getting a job, rent, a place to live, food and coping with the costs of repairs, things for your child, insurance, etc.. Actually a very hard game to play and full of reminders of the difficulties of life on that kind of salary. Play the game. [Edit: Guys, guys… unbeknownst to me, Ilya Gerner was all over this a long time ago. I’m so lucky he likes me…]

thepoliticalnotebook:

Could you live on $8 or $9 dollars an hour? A new computer game made by the Urban Ministries of Durham in North Carolina and an advertising firm called McKinney lets you play out life with a low-wage job as a single mom. The objective is to make it a month, juggling getting a job, rent, a place to live, food and coping with the costs of repairs, things for your child, insurance, etc.. Actually a very hard game to play and full of reminders of the difficulties of life on that kind of salary.

Play the game.

[Edit: Guys, guys… unbeknownst to me, Ilya Gerner was all over this a long time ago. I’m so lucky he likes me…]

Reblogged: thepoliticalnotebook

26 Sep 2011

Please reblog this, Tumblr.

rosinhabela:

My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.

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Reblogged: inothernews

21 Sep 2011

“I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. What do I have to do so people will listen to me?”
—

14-year-old JAMES RODEMEYER, in a Facebook posting on September 9; days later, he would commit suicide over anti-gay slurs directed at him at school and on the Internet.

Rodemeyer taped a message four months ago as part of the “It Gets Better Project,” saying, in part, “Love yourself and you’re set.  I promise you, it does get better.”

This is what happens when our leaders allow people to think, and accept, that it’s okay to hate others based on their sexuality, their gender, their race, their ethnicity, their religious beliefs.

This is why we stand up for others.  To prevent good people like James from dying at the hands of ignorant, cruel, bullying brutes.

Tumblr’s thoughts and prayers are with James’s family for their terrible loss.

(via the New York Daily News)

Reblogged: inothernews

12 Sep 2011

inothernews: SECOND EARTH   European astronomers said Monday that they had found what might be the best candidate for a “Goldilocks” planet yet: a lump of something about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth, circling its star at the right distance for liquid water to exist on its surface — and thus, perhaps, to host life, as we narrowly imagine it. The planet, known as HD 85512b, is about 36 light years from here, in the constellation Vela. (Artist rendering: M. Kornmesser / ESO via the New York Times)

inothernews:

SECOND EARTH   European astronomers said Monday that they had found what might be the best candidate for a “Goldilocks” planet yet: a lump of something about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth, circling its star at the right distance for liquid water to exist on its surface — and thus, perhaps, to host life, as we narrowly imagine it. The planet, known as HD 85512b, is about 36 light years from here, in the constellation Vela. (Artist rendering: M. Kornmesser / ESO via the New York Times)

Reblogged: inothernews

11 Sep 2011

Today always weighs heavily on my mind.

This year though, I’m really more angry than anything.

I understand the need for grieving. That pain doesn’t go away ever. But I am of the camp that believes that the 9/11 families (in part, not the whole) have dragged things out too far and in the wrong way. Compared to families surviving comparable disasters especially, and years ago they were asking for more and more money and getting up in arms about way too many things. Even today watching television, it’s the same faces that have been on the air for years. Of course, I attribute part of this to the networks that continue to follow and build relationships with them. But nonetheless, they’ve had their moment in the sun.

Of course today is different. A decade is an easy metric, one that reminds everyone that the ones they lost wouldn’t have looked, acted, sounded or cared about the same things as they did before the attacks and if they had never happened.

What pisses me off is that the people who didn’t ask for much or even speak out until they were selling their cars and houses for cancer money, the first responders, have barely had coverage proportionally to what these families have. Neither have the soldiers who have taken their place.

Because you know what? These people have the mental scars too. Those sicknesses and burdens. Even worse than many of the people on tv now, because they saw it first hand from the inside, they had the towers fall on THEM. They weren’t going to safety, they were going towards danger to save people they didn’t know. Simply, they were doing their job.

And the fact that not even 3 months after we find out that the bill Congress passed nine years later doesn’t cover cancer there’s no big overblown form of news coverage - like there is with everything else. These people are dying, many of them silently. Why isn’t there as big of a place for them in today’s coverage?

It’s sickening me today more than most.
Because today, as much as we should be honoring and respecting the dead, morning their loss and the losses of their families, we completely forget about the living who are are still fighting.
Because ten years later we’re reflecting on those banners, that feeling of togetherness, that promise and declaration “We will never forget.”

Well, when it comes to the first responders, we have forgotten. And in a very big way.

11 Sep 2011

newshour: Watch Live: 9/11 Ceremonies Mark a Decade Since Attacks breakingnews: Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in the attacks at the World Trade Center, pauses at his son’s name at the 9/11 Memorial. (Photo by Justin Lane / Pool via AP)

newshour:

Watch Live: 9/11 Ceremonies Mark a Decade Since Attacks

breakingnews:

Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in the attacks at the World Trade Center, pauses at his son’s name at the 9/11 Memorial. (Photo by Justin Lane / Pool via AP)

Reblogged: worldviewinprogress

10 Sep 2011

Anyone else think 90% of this 9/11 coverage is in bad taste?

It’s ridiculously frustrating.

5 Sep 2011

The media keeps acting like victims over having to cover Sarah Palin related stories and it sickens me.

Get over it or GTFO my television. Do your job, don’t report on it when you know it’s stupid.

More importantly, don’t report on how you’re conflicted about whether or not to report it and don’t report on how frustrating it is to your reporting that she won’t decide what she’s doing.

31 Aug 2011

inothernews: Firefighters from the Skyline Lakes Fire Department in New Jersey tried to extinguish a Pompton Lakes blaze that was fed by a natural gas line. The line ruptured after the Pompton River overflowed its banks during a record flood in the wake of Hurricane Irene.  Residents in New York City’s suburbs continue to be evacuated due to rising waters three days after the storm passed.  (Photo: Chip East / Reuters via the New York Times)

inothernews:

Firefighters from the Skyline Lakes Fire Department in New Jersey tried to extinguish a Pompton Lakes blaze that was fed by a natural gas line. The line ruptured after the Pompton River overflowed its banks during a record flood in the wake of Hurricane Irene.  Residents in New York City’s suburbs continue to be evacuated due to rising waters three days after the storm passed.  (Photo: Chip East / Reuters via the New York Times)

Reblogged: inothernews

3 Jun 2011

I turn on the news..

…and catch the end of this story, see?

Some kid sold his kidney for an ipad.

His mom found out when she had no idea where the hell the ipad came from.

I’m sorry, WHAT?

27 Apr 2011

‘Journalism’

The American public doesn’t have time to read through every bill brought through the House and Senate. Even if we all did, most of it probably wouldn’t be understood. 

So, you’d have to think we’d trust our Senators and House Reps to read the bills and act in their state’s and district’s best interests. That they would propose sensible amendments and defeat asinine ones.

But c’mon, they’re politicians. We’ve come to expect much less of them.

If you were a person who knew of the reach and power cable and network news has, you might think that they would be the arbiters of rational thought and debate within the system. Wrong. The fact that we find out about this ridiculous amendment to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act MONTHS after it’s passed infuriates me, but sadly does not surprise me. I watched c-span as much as possible around school following the Zadroga Bill and I missed that entirely. Its ridiculous to think that any other person would have followed that bill as much as I did (including journalists, apparently.) What the hell else are we supposed to do?

People throw around the idea of late night comedy being a news source, but they’re all reactionary mediums with a comedic and entertainment agenda. As we saw with the Zadroga Bill, such a medium can be used to champion a cause, and be effective doing so when they’re influential enough to get the actual news networks talking, but they’re sadly not a replacement for what we need - and they shouldn’t be. They can point out absurdity and hypocrisy, make us laugh, and even filter things through different lights. Comedy and satire has their place in the system, but when are we going to have the substance we need? An active organization, that doesn’t take politicians and the government at its word, that has people that present the factual truths of each side, that actually has a department that reads this shit and gives a run down, and doesn’t waste its time perpetuating trivial stories and celebrity bullshit?

I’m not even 20 and I’m tired of this. Ever since I had to know about current events for school I’ve hated it. If I hadn’t discovered modern satire to get me to laugh at it, I still would have no grasp of politics and current events. The most pathetic thing is that, as ill informed as I was, I could get by in conversation and even debate with months old information on the 2008 campaign. Earlier than that, without knowing the name of a single politician other than the President, Vice President, and a few names by vague recognition, I could win debates by knowing what my stance on an issue would be, even if I didn’t entirely know what had happened. Because the politicians have the system wrapped around their finger. Essential information is not released, or takes too much time to get and process. I, honestly, can never see myself voting in a general election - ever. Maybe in elections for local officials, representatives, or governors - but even that I see as a seldom occurrence in my life.

EndRant

PS-Sorry, my read more page break won’t work. Otherwise, there would be a page break.