Month: August 2012

  • underpaidgenius: “Kathleen Nolan’s book Police in the Hallways is a damning portrait of what happens when this more powerful authority becomes dominant. By exhaustively profiling an unnamed Bronx high school — shadowing and interviewing students, teachers, administrators, security guards, and police officers over the course of an academic year — Nolan reveals the worrying ways…

  • You know what also hurts to hear? People tell you that your experience didn’t happen, that you asked for it. Laurie Penny guest post Zunguzungu in The New Inquiry. Trigger Warning Week This guest post from Laurie Penny comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault that should be visible from space. [author’s words]…

  • (via The Legend of Miyamoto: How Nintendo Shaped UX)

  • discoverynews: Do you think you’ve been “exposed to art” here on tumblr? I think it should count. Does Art Make People Nicer? Want your kids to be altruistic, tolerant, and open-minded? Expose them to the arts. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report that people who engage in the arts — or even…

  • kchayka: From Century of the Child, at MoMA. 

  • DEBBIE’S RULES FOR SEX WITH NEW PARTNERS

    areyouoverityet: 1. I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH MY BODY. 2. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH YOUR BODY, LIKE YOU DON’T HAVE TO ASK IF YOU WANNA MASTURBATE DURING SEX. 3. IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING TO ME YOU HAVE TO ASK AND YOU HAVE TO BE EXTREMELY SPECIFIC. GOOD REQUESTS:…

  • bashford: NORMALTYPE – a custom typography tool developed by NORMALS (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • The Cheapest Generation – The Atlantic

    The Cheapest Generation – The Atlantic wilwheaton: adambozarth: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy HAHA NO MONAY!!!!! Maybe our generation aren’t buying houses and cars because EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKED You want us to actually talk to bank people and get home loans and auto loans? They…

  • (via New Geometric Paper Art from Matthew Shlian | Colossal)

  • Proposed NASAD Handbook Revisions: Draft II AUGUST 17, 2012 Call for Comment by September 5, 2012 NASAD is presenting for further review and comment a set of proposed revisions to the NASAD Handbook 2011-2012 forwarded in advance of the Annual Meeting as required by the NASAD Bylaws. Please note that included in the amendments is…