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Dec 14

I can’t think of a single trait more attractive than intelligence.

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My sister is having another boy! This is exciting! 

My sister is having another boy! This is exciting! 

Social Networks as Foreign Policy

In August, after the suppression of Iran’s pro-democracy protests, officials in Tehran accused Western governments of using online social networks like Twitter and Facebook to help execute a “soft coup.” The accusation wasn’t entirely off-base. In Iran and elsewhere, this year showed the growing importance of social networks to U.S. foreign policy. Long before the protests in Iran started

The Advertisement That Watches You
“It happens when nobody is watching.” As the tagline on a poster raising awareness about domestic violence, that’s not bad. But it was the poster itself that was truly attention-grabbing — for it brought the issue of being watched (or not) to life.
The poster, placed in a bus shelter in Berlin, was a one-time installation sponsored by Amnesty International. When a person in the shelter was looking at the poster, he saw, along with the words, a photograph of an amiable couple: a stocky, professional-looking man in a blue oxford-cloth shirt, his arm around the shoulders of his girlfriend or wife. If no one in the shelter was paying attention to the poster, though, the image switched: now the man was raising his fist against the woman as she leaned away and protected her face. (There was a slight lag in the switch, so viewers could notice that the poster was changing its image.)

The Advertisement That Watches You

“It happens when nobody is watching.” As the tagline on a poster raising awareness about domestic violence, that’s not bad. But it was the poster itself that was truly attention-grabbing — for it brought the issue of being watched (or not) to life.

The poster, placed in a bus shelter in Berlin, was a one-time installation sponsored by Amnesty International. When a person in the shelter was looking at the poster, he saw, along with the words, a photograph of an amiable couple: a stocky, professional-looking man in a blue oxford-cloth shirt, his arm around the shoulders of his girlfriend or wife. If no one in the shelter was paying attention to the poster, though, the image switched: now the man was raising his fist against the woman as she leaned away and protected her face. (There was a slight lag in the switch, so viewers could notice that the poster was changing its image.)

Don’t get me wrong I like Obama, but I love Hillary more. I was reading both on CNN and Gallop that she has the highest approval ratings (within the cabinet) by democrats, republicans and US citizens.
<3  you girl! 

Don’t get me wrong I like Obama, but I love Hillary more. I was reading both on CNN and Gallop that she has the highest approval ratings (within the cabinet) by democrats, republicans and US citizens.

<3  you girl! 

I don't even recognize the country my grandparents call "America."

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8 iPhone Apps That Every Artist Needs

8 iPhone Apps That Every Artist Needs


Dec 13

abenoit:

Pixar Animation Studios

cute

abenoit:

Pixar Animation Studios

cute