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The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given
robertreich: Members of the Class of 2012, As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today. You’re f*cked. Well, not exactly. But you won’t have it easy. First, you’re going to have a hell…
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Introducing Inkling Habitat The world’s first scalable publishing environment for interactive content Inkling Habitat – Scalable digital publishing for professionals
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Inkling Habitat lets publishers create interactive e-books with HD video, interactive features and 3D content in a free, cloud-based program. E-books can immediately be published to iPad and the Web in HTML5, with updates pushed to both platforms at once. (Well, iPad is available now and Web publishing will be added later this year.) Multiple…
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You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and…
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DOUBLEFUCKINGSPACE
barthel: I was raised to put two spaces after a goddamn period. My dad, who made his bones typing on typewriters and all, taught me to, and he’s an English professor, so I listened to him. It’s only in the last year that I’ve broken myself of the habit, and honestly, I’m not really happy…
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kateoplis: “After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics,…
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You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and…
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Drawn-out Forms: Sketches and Shape Giving
thinkingaboutobjects: One of the reasons I find this blog useful is that it allows you to put down ideas in their embryonic state; to throw something down on (virtual) paper and see what comes out, to produce a sort of sketch. The sketch is a fitting analogy for this post, as it is an attempt…
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Drawn-out Forms: Sketches and Shape Giving
thinkingaboutobjects: One of the reasons I find this blog useful is that it allows you to put down ideas in their embryonic state; to throw something down on (virtual) paper and see what comes out, to produce a sort of sketch. The sketch is a fitting analogy for this post, as it is an attempt…
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theatlantic: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Meet Ben. He’s a high school senior from a middle class family in Massachusettes who is choosing where to attend college next year. He’s down to two schools: prestigious Boston College, or the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his state’s top public campus. Even with the…