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28 Sep 09

Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking (Taryn's bookmarks on Pinboard.IN)

Yeah, Diigo V4, not so much. Rather TOO, & a headache.

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Readable App: read the web / Home page

Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It transforms text on any website using fonts, colors, and layouts of your choosing.

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3banana

Create notes on the web, on Android or iPhone. Everything syncs automatically!

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Social Beans

Social Beans is a community effort to establish Skeleton Portability across social media publishing platforms. It is an open standard that outlines the building blocks of the social web.

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27 Sep 09

James Joyce's "The Dead" (complete text)

re: previously-marked http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=19000

"Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him of

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The School Issue - High School - The Inner-City Prep School Experience - NYTimes.com

SEED was her refuge from the drama of the neighborhood, the bridge between home and the bigger world, the place that would help her be the first in her family to go to college. “I know what I gotta do when I’m at SEED,” she told me. She could move between

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On Language - Phantonym - NYTimes.com

A word that means the opposite of another is an antonym; a word that looks as if it means one thing but means quite another could be called a phantonym, and warrants wariness.

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In the Region - Long Island - The Island’s Changing Face - NYTimes.com

[they're moving to the wealthier communities] As with the generation of immigrants in the suburban boom after World War II, he added, this is a “dynamic demographic change” that is “literally and figuratively changing the face of Long Island.”

And it i

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When the Cool Get Hazed - NYTimes.com

Essentially, the slut list is the Goldman Sachs daughters list, a distorted assertion of wealth and power within a highly pressured upper middle class environment.”

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Doc Searls Weblog · On value and valuation

This earliest era of the Net’s history is one in which even the innovative companies follow industrial models of command and control. At the engineering level they may embrace openness and other forms of goodness, but at the corporate level — the one wher

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Gene for memory and IQ gives students low grades - life - 23 September 2009 - New Scientist

During the test, the cognitive benefits of the Met-158 mutation could have been masked by increased stress also associated with the variation.

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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Your personality type affects the situations you place yourself in

[link at end] People with so-called "avoidant" personalities, who fear intimacy, also tend to shun the kind of social situations that could lead them to forge meaningful relations with others, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle.

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Social Background Weighs Heavily On Teenage Diet

Middle class families look towards their children’s future, expecting young teenagers’ tastes to develop and have a good body shape to actively participate in adult life. Parents expressed concern that if children were overweight they would have poor heal

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America's Teacher (Naomi Klein interviews Michael Moore)

The point is that when you have capitalism, capitalism encourages you to think of ways to make money or to make more money. And the judges never could have gotten the kickbacks had the county not privatized the juvenile hall. But because there's been this

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Op-Ed Contributor - Bicyclists vs. Pedestrians - An Armistice - NYTimes.com

If we bicyclists cede the Brooklyn Bridge walkway, then it might be a step toward winning the public’s respect. Then, just maybe, pedestrians would call a truce and recognize that their real enemy is the car, that bikers are like pedestrians in that they

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26 Sep 09

Explorer - In This Maine, Oysters, Not Lobsters, Stir the Pot - NYTimes.com

Ms. Scully fits the image of the Maine fisherwoman well. Her tawny biceps and burly Muck boots contrast with a pearly smile and sea-green eyes. Her clapboard home along the rock-ribbed shore of the Damariscotta, a 15-mile bolt of the Atlantic that juts in

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