Want!
48,000 backers. $7.2 million raised. Nearly three weeks to go. Meet the biggest Kickstarter campaign ever — the Pebble e-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android. (Personal opinion: Brydge is way cooler, but both are awesome.)
npr:
There’s some impassioned debate going on in the comments on the post about the couple in Texas failing to surrender a foul ball to the weeping child beside them. What are the real rules, here? Possession is nine-tenths of the law? Children first? What’s the right thing to do to avoid the censure…
I hope those people never have children.
npr:
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Remember.
The more important question is, why are Newseek interns forced to do their research on their iPhones, rather than a real desktop computer?
Rolling Stone! Why u make us watch Tyra video ad while reading insanely-paginated interview with the President?!
In more important news, Newsweek makes a “why u” joke and is apparently watching Tyra Banks on their iphone at work. Seriously, who the f*ck is…
This is an actual street in Omaha, Nebraska.
Please note that you cannot turn right onto this street, only left.
I think it depends on the reporter. CNN, Newsweek, etc.? Probably. Although, that’s not fair to monkeys, either.
From guardian:
It’s a day of rather dapper demonstration outside the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Burlington Gardens. Protesters are objecting to the company’s plans to open a children’s clothing store on Savile Row in London. They claim the chain store’s presence would signal the demise of a street dedicated to the bespoke tailoring trade Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
This is just all kinds of awesome!
From smithsonianmag:
The History of English in 10 Minutes
A compilation of ten videos on the history of the English language.
Video source: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language/the-history-english-ten-minutes?track=378501f80b
Ed note: Watch as one woman works to bring back the language of the Ohlone, a Northern California tribe.
I other words: The Romney campaign—and many pundits on the right—would like to remind all you “real” Americans that Obama is, you know, foreign-looking. As if you hadn’t remembered or noticed. They just want to make sure you remember that whatever image you have of an “American” or the “average Joe” (a man, white, probably lives in the suburbs, or at least in a nice middle class neighborhood with other families like his), Obama doesn’t fit it. He has that “funny” name and was raised in “foreign” countries (like Indonesia and Hawaii) and/or lived in “urban” environments. But it’s not about race. Oh, no. Not that. Don’t put words in their mouths.
Via shortformblog:
Note how the headline on Jake Tapper’s Obama dog story changed from this morning. Seems Jake was getting too much credit/blame for the story. It also didn’t help that Google News posted Tapper’s story with this unfortunate headline. “I wasn’t saying that was MY argument, it was the Romney campaign argument. I had to spell it out,” Tapper emphasized on Twitter. (thanks The Daily What)
