May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
2 posts
New school admissions framework published →
February 2012
2 posts
House of Cards
Have you ever felt like the world around you is just a house of cards, fragile and about to collapse. You have no control, no matter what you do.
You can only cry. You cry on the inside first. Sometimes it fades and the feeling goes away. But now and again it just surfaces and bubbles away… simmering until suddenly.
I use to think it wouldn’t happen to me, that I was too laid back....
Google: Microsoft Ad Campaign Is Full of Myths →
Google doesn’t want you to believe everything Microsoft is writing about its privacy policies — especially not in the ads for alternative Microsoft products set to appear in major newspapers. The search giant published a blog post written by policy manager Betsy Masiello, in hopes of sorting…
January 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
He Sees You When You're Chatting, He Knows When... →
Mashable Comics are illustrated by Kiersten Essenpreis, a Chicago-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com. More Mashable Comics: [nggallery id=1823]
October 2011
6 posts
“Carolyn Everson, vice president, global marketing solutions at Facebook, said,...”
– Randall Rothenberg: Even Technology Companies Know the Future of Advertising Is Storytelling (via mediafuturist)
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Stowe Boyd: Who Benefits? →
Bryce Roberts, For Whom Is This Service Built?
As I absorbed the new messaging around Facebook as the place to tell the stories of our lives I couldn’t help but be reminded of a post Fred wrote when Google launched their Facebook killer. In it, Fred surfaced a question he had when looking at…
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Love Mail
youarenotaphotog:
Like the site as a learning tool…
“I teach part time photography. I carry on at great lengths that it is better to concentrate on getting good photos and to stop using tacky special effects to try to cover up a bad photo. You have many examples of the overuse of tacky special effects to show my students. Thank you.”
See, we’re not only calling out the fauxtogs, we’re helping...
September 2011
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July 2011
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May 2009
3 posts
Justgiving - P & C Arrowsmith's Fundraising Page →
March 2009
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February 2009
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December 2007
4 posts
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Human evolution is... →
BBC NEWS | Politics | Dawkins: I'm a cultural... →
September 2007
3 posts
New Humanist Blog: US teacher dismissed for urging... →
I would hope this could only happen in America, but worryingly it could happen in the UK as well…
New Humanist Blog: The Senator who sued God →
thinking things through...
some people just don’t. They just don’t look at what they are doing, or trying to do, or trying to achieve. They don’t look at what else they are doing and assess doe this all fit together like I think it should. They don’t look at what might happen if it all goes wrong, or even if just part of it goes wrong. They blame other people for the things they are trying to do not...
August 2007
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BBC NEWS | Technology | State of Play: Violence... →
An interesting point, and one that is worthy of proper research. Like violence in films often the point is missed, and here the question is not “what is the effect of violent video games, but rather what is the effect of video games full stop?” I doubt its a bad thing really, as any self absorbed activity is or isn’t.
The Inaugural Very Short Introductions Column:... →
July 2007
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ducking for apples →
June 2007
8 posts
Simple →
Asking questions, asking you to think
Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism (Digested) →
