January 2010
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OS X Hidden Gems →
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Some of these may be well known to some of you but I am betting a couple are not.
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“MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed”
– Best headline ever!
MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed - Peterborough Today (via johubris)
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“1) It’s Fox.
2) Torchwood is a Doctor Who spin-off. Doctor Who for all...”
– Topless Robot - Fox Ready to Air, Fail to Promote, and Immediately Cancel U.S. Version of Torchwood
Rob Bricken sums up why a US Torchwood on Fox is a bad, bad idea.
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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right:... →
I absolutely acknowledge that the White House has inherited an exceptionally difficult situation, one made much more difficult when the economy continued to bleed 700,000 jobs per month in January through April. Many of the problems that they have encountered, I would not have seen coming, and many of the mistakes that they have made, I would have made too. But the Democrats do have the benefit of...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Some Frank Talk About Haiti -... →
Haiti isn’t impoverished because the devil got his due; it’s impoverished partly because of debts due. France imposed a huge debt that strangled Haiti. And when foreigners weren’t looting Haiti, its own rulers were. The greatest predation was the deforestation of Haiti, so that only 2 percent of the country is forested today. Some trees have been — and continue to be — cut by local peasants, but...
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My Blood Runs Cold: Where Was the Outrage Over... →
By now you’ve heard: Scott Brown, the Lt. Colonel of the Army National Guard, has just been elected to the United States Senate. Oh, also, he posed nude in Cosmo in 1982. And now that this campaign is over, I have to wonder – where was the outrage?
I have yet to find any. But had a woman candidate done the same, it would have cost her the election. No female politician could hope to make it out...
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How A Thorough De-Gazing Saved CBS's 'The Big Bang... →
Really interesting article about The Big Bang Theory and the changes they made to Penny’s character as the show progressed.
When people say things like “male gaze,” it’s easy for it to seem (1) extremely obscure and (2) absolutely no fun at all, in addition to (3) not really relevant if you aren’t in film school. But the changes in this particular show make for a...
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Slashed Ticket Prices Allow Lesser Nobility To... →
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2010 movie preview: 15 films you probably didn’t... →
