A little collage I made for my husband on our 6th year wedding anniversary.
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Always been a huge fan of this song and the album in came from
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Heard this song on the hype machine. Clicked over and saw it was from another Tumblr user. So I clicked ‘liked’ and reblog and now it’s my song of the day!
“The red increase in job loss is the climax of Republican rule. The blue decrease in job loss is Obama and the Democrats. Sort of like when Superman flies around the world counter-clockwise to undo Lex Luthor’s fiendish destruction.” - Juan Cole
Visualizing Citizens United v. FEC
Majority opinion on top. Dissenting opinion below.
(via frangry)
THIS. THIS IS NEW YORK IN ONE IMAGE.
Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Condemn Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill at Prayer Breakfast
Speakers at Tuesday morning’s launch warned that the Ugandan bill would cause a genocide of LGBT people in that nation. Moses, a gay man from Uganda seeking asylum in the United States, gave a chilling account of the harassment and terror he withstood growing up there—even before the bill, which would not only call for the death penalty and life imprisonment for LGBT people but also require friends and family to turn people suspected of being LGBT over to the authorities.
Moses, who addressed reporters with a paper bag over his head to conceal his identity, spoke of how in Uganda, “one would rather die than come out of the closet,” because LGBT people are so terrorized in a culture that portrays homosexuality as “deviant” behavior. He described being beaten at school and living in constant “fear of rejection, fear of isolation by my family, making my family a laughingstock… . fear of losing friends, fear for my life.” He experienced a “constant feeling of shame,” and ultimately abandoned his studies and lost his job. LGBT people in Uganda, he said, are routinely denied housing because of fears of “spreading” their “deviant” behavior.
A striking image.
Some experts think a tablet computer could extend Apple’s reach into the business market further. Alisa Bowen, head of consumer publishing at Thomson Reuters, said the tablet could become a significant business tool for executives, rather than just the entertainment device most commentators expect.
Recent Thomson Reuters research into how bankers, lawyers and wealth managers worked showed that most had ditched their laptops and traveled only with smartphones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, she said.
“The tablet represents the next generation of how these senior executives are going to handle mobile working,” Ms Bowen said, predicting that the device’s mooted larger size and more sophisticated touch screen could allow users to edit PowerPoint slides and work on documents with colleagues.
Thomson Reuters is developing contextual applications to offer profiles of relevant companies or people when an individual adds a meeting to the tablet’s calendar, or details of a city in which an executive’s flight has just touched down.
It expects to launch its first tablet applications by the end of the first quarter, Ms Bowen said.
I can’t really make much of a pronouncement about these apps but I was struck by the amount of restraint the apps’ designers used. A bigger screen increases the temptation to just keep adding interface elements. And yet it’s remarkably uncluttered. All of the features of a “real” spreadsheet are there, but there are appear to be fewer buttons and controls here than what you’d find on a typical Android tip-calculator app.
