July 2009
50 posts
Bill would restrict antibiotics in food animals →
mikehudack:
squashed:
Support this bill. There is nothing wrong with giving some antibiotics to sick animals—but that’s not how they are used. Antibiotics are mixed in with animal feed preventatively. The overuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistant bacteria that will affect both humans and animals.
In other words, because the feed lots are so crowded and unhealthy that they think it...
Wikipedia: List of common misconceptions →
david:
via ben
Awesome page, but don’t click if you have important things to do, I had to drag myself away..
The march to WAR
Yesterday we did our clean (what do we need?) and dirty (how are we going to get it?) meetings on the War on Playback. Today we dive into phase one, information gathering. This part is especially important, since we’ll use it now to make educated decisions, and later to monitor the effectiveness of those decisions. It’s especially exciting for me too, since it’s a rare...
New deals, new dashboard, now what?
So since all of my cohorts have already tumbled the big news to death, I’ll speak about where do we go from here? At blip we considered this somewhat of a coming out party. We’ve built all this stuff, we’ve made all these deals, and we’re here in a big way.
So what’s next. Well we’re going to continue building new stuff of course, more distribution, more...
“Prisons used to be a non-profit business, too. And for good reason — who the...”
– Bill Maher (via azspot) This has always infuriated me. (via asprettyasasong) (via mikehudack)
I feel really strongly about this. It’s one of the worst things about California, who imprisons practically as many people as Texas and whose prison guard union is one of the most powerful groups...
“Her daughter, Emily, sits at her table. Now 25, she’s a twenty-first century...”
– Vogue Magazine, August 2009 (the full article is only in the magazine, not online yet) (via emilydee)
Awesome! Congrats Emily!
“Davenport, Iowa has an airport. Tallahassee has one. And so does Lexington,...”
– Project Vision | The Manhattan Airport Foundation (via mikehudack)
Is this a joke? What an astoundingly terrible idea. Imagine all those swanky apartments facing the park now facing an airport. Ha!
Watchvegansaurus:
Introducing..VegansaurusTV!
We are taking this operation into multi-media mode, bitches! The above is our very first episode! It’s an interview I did with Vanessa Barg, the woman behind raw, vegan chocolate company Gnosis Chocolate. From her headquarters in NYC, I spoke to Vanessa about how the company came to be, and how the chocolate is made. Look for Part 2 to come very soon!
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TIME: Your Guide to the Weird, Wild Web →
jamiew:
Never fear, Internet neophytes! A new website has your back. The folks at Rocketboom, themselves a one-time viral sensation, have come up with Know Your Meme, a handy guide to the endless stream of random Internet madness.
Congrats!
HTML5 structure—HTML4 and XHTML1 to HTML5
boblet:
We’ve covered a lot of ground so far. To recap, HTML5 has four new block-level sectioning elements that we can use to give the parts of web pages more semantic meaning. These new elements are for ‘chunks of related content’—basically a logical section of the document:
<section>—a generic chunk of related content
<article>—an independent, self-contained chunk of related...
PingWire →
mikehudack:
From our very own Allan Grinshtein comes PingWire. Check it out. It’s completely addictive.
“CONNECT 3686400”
– That’s what you’re modem would say if it were as fast as your Cable/DSL connection.
+++ATH
What’s with the creepy photos on Tumblr lately? I’m finding myself closing the Dashboard more often these days.
Maps of Subway Platforms, Now on Your Mobile... →
soupsoup:
stoopdoc:
One way to know whether you have become a true New Yorker: do you stand at just the right subway car door? If you get on at the perfect spot, you’ll get off at the spot nearest the exit you want.
: HAPPY ( -- ) CR ." Happy Independence Day!!" ;
HAPPY
Bonus points for anyone who recognizes this language without the link.
iPhone: Text to pwn →
Charlie Miller demoed a text message to pwn your iPhone at Black Hat. Apple’s working on it. (via @dinodaizovi)
