February 2012
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January 2012
12 posts
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All... →
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
The program will not allow students to earn an M.I.T. degree. Instead, those who are able to exhibit a mastery of the subjects taught on the platform will...
Renegade arborists creating forbidden fruit in San... →
yep. san francisco. we have renegade arborists. <3
“Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, a married gay San Francisco couple who...”
– Gay Bi-National S.F. Couple Wins Deportation Reprieve: SFist
‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians... →
After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’ in response to the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid song, ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’. Speaking at the launch of their song, the musicians praised Geldof’s relentless quest for an answer and said they hoped their collaboration would free the...
December 2011
4 posts
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s...
Gay Dads Find Out They're Going to be Grandpas,... →
oh how this made me smile.
the laws of tab mechanics
abbyjean:
if i have a tab open for more than 2 days, there should be some mechanism by which i automatically know or understand the material on that tab. leaving tabs open should have some effect other than cluttering my desktop to the point of unuseability.
this is relevant to my life.
want.
November 2011
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October 2011
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Does it matter if you’re black on the Internet? →
Sadly, yes. A field experiment involving baseball card auctions on eBay:
Photographs showed the cards held by either a dark-skinned/African-American hand or a light-skinned/Caucasian hand.
Cards held by African-American sellers sold for approximately 20% ($0.90) less than cards held by Caucasian sellers, and the race effect was more pronounced in sales of minority player cards.
A new...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“In response to the controversy that SFist wrote about earlier this week...”
– Contemporary Jewish Museum to Host “Hand Holding Day” This Sunday: SFist
just another reason why i love living in san francisco.
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Watchgiggling madly and eagerly awaiting more comic-con footage, fellow losties, you must watch this. unless you’ve somehow not finished the series first, in which case, um, do that first.
(via See a ‘deleted’ ‘Lost’ scene that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse revealed at EW’s ‘Totally Lost’ Comic-Con panel!! | Inside TV | EW.com)
June 2011
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May 2011
7 posts
“Living in San Francisco Means Continually Dealing with Impermanence.
It...”
– Living in SF Means… - The Bold Italic - San Francisco
Watchstreet art and immigration
(via Aliens on 24th Street – Mission Loc@l : News From San Francisco’s Mission District)
“Perhaps the real highlight of the whole day had to have been our human-mustache...”
– Politicians Take Over The Mission During Sunday Streets | Uptown Almanac
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April 2011
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“In the real world, it’s a generally accepted premise that taste is not a matter...”
– ‘Chicken John’ Rinaldi clucking over eats in San Francisco’s Dolores Park | Ken Garcia | Columnists | San Francisco Examiner
living in san francisco is really weird sometimes.
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a small request
san francisco can stop being on fire now please.