How lessons learned in privilege can still help make cities a better place.
Paul Constant
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Google+ Enables Gender Privacy
Until yesterday, the only information everyone could see on every Google+ profile were your name and your gender. Last night, Google+ Profiles Product Manager Frances Haugen posted this video announcing that soon Google users would be able to control their gender information: In a nutshell: If you decide to make your gender private, you will […]
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Netflix Raises Rates
Apparently, everyone is in a huff because Netflix is splitting their Watch Instant and DVD plans into two separate services and raising their rates accordingly. So for instance, our current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans: Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 […]
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Obama: No Guarantees Social Security Checks Will Go Out If the Debt-Ceiling Deal Doesn’t Go Through
What will the teabaggers do now? I would love it if they had to march on Washington D.C. to get their checks. In an interview with CBS Evening News, President Obama says he can’t guarantee Social Security checks will go out Aug. 3rd if a debt-ceiling deal is not reached by the Aug. 2nd deadline. […]
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Tintin: Now 300% Creepier!
Here’s a trailer for that Tintin movie that’s been creeping me out for months now: Motion capture technology just doesn’t work. Jackson and Spielberg had an opportunity to bring Hergé’s delicate lines to life—maybe hand-drawn animation, or possibly just computer animation made to look like hand-drawn animation—and they blew it; this plastic-looking crap is just […]
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Conservative Pledge Updated to Say Black People Were Not Better Off Under Slavery
The marriage pledge from evangelical conservative Iowa group the Family Leader, which Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have already signed, is about to be updated: The original “marriage vow” from the Family Leader, unveiled last week, included a line at the opening of its preamble, which suggested that black children born into slavery were better […]
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Here Comes the Sun
It’s cloudy outside, but we want to make sure you get your daily dose of summer sun. This unfortunate (or very fortunate, depending on how you look at it) USA Today infographic arrives in your eye sockets via Charles Apple:
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End of the News of the World
Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-plagued scandal sheet just released a surprise announcement that they’re shutting down on Sunday: The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and become Britain’s best-selling […]
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Fill in the Blanks: “Family values politician caught ____________ with a _________.”
One of [Ohio’s draconian anti-abortion] heartbeat bill’s staunch advocates is Ohio Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, a Catholic from Cincinnati who represents western Hamilton County. Mecklenborg loved the bill so much he was one of its nearly 50 co-sponsors. In fact, he led the fight to get it passed. He is all about family you see: he […]
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Facebook Gets Video, Google Gets Pretty
As This Is My Next reports, Facebook just announced that they’re adding Skype to their chat options, allowing you to video chat with your Facebook friends. (Facebook didn’t announce that they’re making it harder to export your friends’ information to, say, Google+. I’m sure that must’ve been some kind of an oversight.) I’m still enjoying […]
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Santorum’s Slippery Math
Wonkette found this video of “Slippery” Rick Santorum accusing President Obama of destroying 40 million jobs, or 30 million jobs, or something like that. Whatever! Santorum says he doesn’t know how television news anchors count. Failed Senator Santorum says that first the Obama administration “claimed…they created 280 million jobs” and “now they’re saying they only […]
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Michael Bay: Environmentalist
Sure, he’s the American patron saint of blowing shit up. But Michael Bay has a sensitive, hippie side, too. Turns out, he’s a big advocate of recycling: