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Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:15:10 -0500

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Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:14:55 -0500

Cairobserver: Bread and Urbanism

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:14:40 -0500

العيش و العشوائيات: العلاقة بين رغيف العيش و النمو العمراني في المدن المصرية

Egypt, once the breadbasket of the Mediterranean, is the world’s biggest importer of wheat and grains. Egyptians are the world’s biggest consumers of bread per capita. Over the years Egypt’s dependency on…

Cairobserver: New Construction: St. Regis

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:14:23 -0500

Cairobserver: New Construction: St. Regis:

cairobserver:

Actually this construction isn’t so new, it has been slowly trying to make its way out of the ground for a few years now and it will be another few years before it is complete. The 6 billion+ Egyptian pound investment by Qatari Diar is expected to be finished in 2014, however it may take…

If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is Doing To Them - The Future Buzz

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:14:07 -0500

If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is Doing To Them - The Future Buzz:

stoweboyd:

chartier:

Case in point, this weekend I tried to share a link to a story in The Guardian I found interesting. You’ll note (as I highlighted in a red box) even my browser recognized this was a link to the publication’s website, not Facebook.

However, due to how The Guardian has configured their site’s Facebook integration, anyone clicking the link is not taken to the expected URL. Instead a user is taken to this page to authorize use of The Guardian application.

Facebook is hijacking links to external websites of publications that have built social news apps on Facebook, and redirecting users to said internal Facebook apps. Ridiculous.

Sounds just like Facebook.

ncpr: They’re in formation - as if in flight gmork: IMG_2835...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:13:50 -0500

ncpr:

They’re in formation - as if in flight

gmork: IMG_2835 (by C. Eichelberger) “Goodbye”

biomedicalephemera: Tooth Extraction and Extraction Tools I...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:13:31 -0500

biomedicalephemera:

Tooth Extraction and Extraction Tools

I don’t know a heck of a lot about dentistry, but I do know a few of the names of the extraction tools used (both back in the 1830s and today), and they’re excellent:

Greyhound

Cow horns

Bayonet

Root

Elevators [I know, I know, but still can’t help but see a lift in someone’s mouth, rather than a tool meant to elevate a tooth]

Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme comprenant la medecine operatoire, par le docteur Marc Jean Bourgery. Illustration by Nicolas Henri Jacob, 1831.

aljazeera: Websites ‘blackout’ over anti-piracy bill | Online...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:13:16 -0500

aljazeera:

Websites ‘blackout’ over anti-piracy bill |

Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia joins other sites in temporary shutdown in opposition to proposed US anti-piracy laws.

archiveofaffinities: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ten Million Oil...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:13:01 -0500

archiveofaffinities:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ten Million Oil Drums Wall, Project for the Suez Canal, 1972

"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:12:46 -0500

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.”

- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil (via kissmeimlazy)

aplacetolovedogs: topit.me Three adorable white, fluffy...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:12:31 -0500

aplacetolovedogs:

topit.me

Three adorable white, fluffy Samoyeds in a row

Original Article

pongorojo: vimeo: The Shrine / An Argument by Sean PecknoldIt...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:12:15 -0500

pongorojo:

vimeo:

The Shrine / An Argument by Sean Pecknold

It usually sucks to make a music video for your brother’s band. He asks only because you’ll work cheap, and you agree only out of familial duty. The exception to this rule is animation wunderkind Sean Pecknold, who just made a video for Fleet Foxes, fronted by his brother Robin.

The Shrine/ An Argument is an ambitious and fully realized product of sibling collaboration — a story of life, loss, nature, and spirituality.

“In the ocean washing off my name from your throat”

Nest's Learning Thermostat

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:11:59 -0500

Nest's Learning Thermostat:

parislemon:

Holy crap this thing is beautiful. It makes me want to buy a home just so I use it.

I really hope this takes off to continue the trend of beautiful, thoughtful design winning over cheap shit. Imagine if every piece of technology in your home was designed like this?

Right now, of course, basically just Apple products are. Tony Fadell learned well.

Carrie Bradshaw Math

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:11:45 -0500

thefrenemy:

Don’t get me wrong- I watch Sex and The City. I never got why she wore a lot of shit on her head, or why she thought Chris Noth was remotely fuckable, but I still dug that slutty old lady who made all the cock puns. I’ve seen most of the episodes, I’ve drank booze and saw them with my ‘girlfriends’ and at one point I concluded I may have been a Miranda even though I’m not a ginger bitch. However, there’s been something about the show that has been gnawing at me lately.

I’ve been out of college with a writing degree for almost a year now. I too, moved to NYC (well, Brooklyn, but I wear more skinny jeans than Charlotte) to pursue writing. And I’ve done pretty well with it, soo fucking whoop-de-do for me, but something’s been bothering me and I just need to get it off my chest:

Carrie Bradshaw, you gotta be tripping balls to have us believe that you can sustain yourself that extravagantly on that one stupid-ass column. You lying bitch!

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vogueaustralia: Ilona Hamer, junior fashion editor Vogue...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:11:26 -0500

vogueaustralia:

Ilona Hamer, junior fashion editor Vogue Australia

Image by Xiaohan Shen.

henrygaudier: Finch

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:11:12 -0500

henrygaudier:

Finch

dcwomenkickingass: Batgirl by Ryan Sook This is gorgeous....

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:10:57 -0500

dcwomenkickingass:

Batgirl by Ryan Sook

This is gorgeous. Wasn’t Gail Simone asking about new cover artists for Batgirl? I vote Ryan Sook.

Senator Claire McCaskill: Now this is the right attitude.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:10:41 -0500

Senator Claire McCaskill: Now this is the right attitude. :

clairecmc:

This is an excerpt from an interview with Sen Pat Toomey, Republican from Pennsylvania:

“I introduced a bill with Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, she’s a Democrat. She’s up for reelection. She’s considered one of the more vulnerable, incumbent Democrats. She and I happen to agree that we ought…

How To Curate the Most Creative and Unique Viral Wedding of All Time

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:10:26 -0500

bajillionhits:

Weddings are no longer about two people celebrating their true and everlasting love. They’re highly-expensive one-shot photo-ops to capture content that represents your uniqueness and originality, which you will meticulously edit, curate and self-publish as an expression of your personal brand/digidentity at its most beautiful.

Nobody wants to suffer the embarrassment of having an aspect of their wedding that is “normal” or “been done before”. Luckily, there are a lot of killer sites and social media services out there who understand this, and will make it easier than ever for you to turn your wedding day into a highly individual life advertisement, no matter what kind of budget you’re on.

Now that “Wedding Season” is over (which is when “normies” get married) and “Alt Wedding Season” has just begun, here are some more helpful tips on how to stand out from the crowd:

An Engaging Engagement — You can’t just get on a knee somewhere special and quietly ask the person you’re in love with to marry you anymore. If you really want to show that person you love them, you’ll come up with something “noisy” that will get linked all over the Internet. Nothing says love like “hits”. Try proposing in a viral video, or a Twitter feed, or if you’re the position to do so, hijack an entire social network and make everyone on it your personal proposal hostage. If you manage to get any aspect of your wedding onto BuzzFeed, you’re going to have a long and happy marriage — so the proposal is a pretty good place to start.

Wedding Domain Registration — You have to stake your claim for URLs, Twitter nicknames, vanity Facebook pages, and all the other places where people will be celebrating your wedding online. The good ones go fast, so I would recommend doing this before you’re even engaged. These are also great ways to drive traffic to your eRegistries. Don’t forget to check latest SEO best practices.

IRL Wedding Domain — Where you actually have the wedding in real life isn’t as important as the domain name, but still probably worth thinking about. Just try to do it in a place that will look nice in photographs, and has plenty of room for your coordinated Animal Collective Dance Routine. Also: make sure there is a strong and reliable wi-fi connection. This latter point is, far and away, the most important thing to consider. If people can’t upload content/access the Internet during your wedding, you might as well not even get married.

The Official Wedding Flickr Feed — This one is huge. This will be the primary visual record of your specialness, so it must be taken very seriously. The first thing you should do after getting engaged is get some Engagement Photos taken. These should be playful, showing you and your fiancee doing something whimsical and creative, like pretending to be old-timey Steampunk farmers, or dressing up as characters from “Mad Men”, or standing in front of some graffiti.

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youliveafterdeath: SQUAT OR ROT.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:10:09 -0500

youliveafterdeath:

SQUAT OR ROT.