Rhetorical Question of the Day: Why is it that every time I find an app or some software that I truly enjoy and/or find useful (e.g. Posterous, Astrid, Tumblr, etc.), it is sucked up by some huge corporation which, if not immediately, eventually kills it through “monetization”?
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If You Love Watching Videos Online, This Is Your Dream Job There are all kinds of dream jobs at Vimeo but getting paid to watch videos all day seems especially dreamy. Mashable grilled our Senior Curator Sam Morrill on what it’s really like to get paid for watching videos all day. (Spoiler: it’s pretty awesome.) Looking for your dream job? We’re hiring! (Photo credit Shantanu Starick, The Pixel Trade)
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If You Love Watching Videos Online, This Is Your Dream Job

There are all kinds of dream jobs at Vimeo but getting paid to watch videos all day seems especially dreamy. Mashable grilled our Senior Curator Sam Morrill on what it’s really like to get paid for watching videos all day. (Spoiler: it’s pretty awesome.)

Looking for your dream job? We’re hiring!

(Photo credit Shantanu Starick, The Pixel Trade)

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I love this new trend of actresses calling reporters out on their bullshit.

Can I just, Renner’s face is the second and third frames. He’s so disappointed in the male race at that moment. And so proud of Scarlett.

Scarlett Johansen, you are badass.

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“O’Brien’s map, which he unveiled this week at the Velo-City conference in Vienna, tracks each system for its real-time share of bikes in use, by dock. The data is automatically updated every two to 10 minutes from the operators.”

Emily Badger shows us a mapping service that displays real-time data from 85 different bike share systems around the globe.

Read: A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World

[Images: Paris (top), Daejon (above) taken at 11:30am this morning]

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The humanities give us a chance to read across languages and cultural differences in order to understand the vast range of perspectives in and on this world. How else can we imagine living together without this ability to see beyond where we are, to find ourselves linked with others we have never directly known, and to understand that, in some abiding and urgent sense, we share a world?
Philosopher Judith Butler on the humanities as a tool of empathy

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feministdisney: thisiswhiteprivilege: bougieblack: think-progress: Susan B. Anthony, badass. Lest we forget Susan B. Anthony sought voting rights for women because she was offended that black men were allowed to vote and she wasn’t, even though, as she said, their brains weren’t capable of understanding politics. Susan B. Anthony, racist. White privilege is Susan B. Anthony being an American hero. White privilege not understand why black folks should be skeptical of mainstream feminism when this white supremacist is one of the most seminal figures in the feminist movements. good note about how we frame history as often being from a white lens, not just a male lens.
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feministdisney:

thisiswhiteprivilege:

bougieblack:

think-progress:

Susan B. Anthony, badass.

Lest we forget Susan B. Anthony sought voting rights for women because she was offended that black men were allowed to vote and she wasn’t, even though, as she said, their brains weren’t capable of understanding politics. Susan B. Anthony, racist.

White privilege is Susan B. Anthony being an American hero. White privilege not understand why black folks should be skeptical of mainstream feminism when this white supremacist is one of the most seminal figures in the feminist movements.

good note about how we frame history as often being from a white lens, not just a male lens.

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