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@aramzs documents a lot of interesting stuff about Facebook Trends. For example, I recommend you check out his short post about Facebook Signal, a tool Facebook gives media companies to survey how trends are flowing around Facebook. And follow his twitter. The other day he made some interesting notes about articles in Facebook Trending…
Live shot of the Times copy desk.Gus Pasquerella/Public domain/via Wikipedia 1. Thursday morning libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson went on MSNBC and responded to a question about Aleppo, Syria, by saying he didn’t know what Aleppo was. 2. The New York Times ran a story about Johnson’s gaffe that itself misidentified Aleppo as the…
The Times‘ Gary Johnson/Aleppo story.Screenshot/New York Times Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today and admitted in response to a question about Aleppo, Syria, that he had no idea what “Aleppo” was. This was a pretty big mistake for someone who is likely to get…
During the presidential forum on NBC News tonight, nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton separately took questions on national security and veterans issues in a broadcast from New York. Meanwhile, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus decided to concentrate not on theses important issues, but on Hillary’s demeanor. Sigh. “Hillary Clinton was angry + defensive…
Enlarge / The Tesla Model S. cache hit 527:single/related:4f5b12bac369e16ac29b58d0bd49fb9e empty A state court has ruled that Tesla cannot issue itself a franchise to sell vehicles directly to consumers in Missouri, a blow to the electric carmaker that wanted to comport with the state’s franchise requirement without having to sell cars through an independent dealership. In…
To be Muslim in 2016 America is to feel like eyes are always on you; like a task as simple as driving a car could end in murder; like any given day you might need to plead for your life with a racist neighbor. Imagine that people who look like you, speak like you,…
How to be perfectly unhappy – The Oatmeal. Source: How to be perfectly unhappy – The Oatmeal
.entry-header Ask anyone who knows me. I am a VERY outgoing person. Extroverted? Yes. A less known fact is that I hate uncertainty. I need to know what is happening. And when. Without that, chaos. Yes and Yes Yes (@YxYY on Twitter) is a gathering of “thinkers/futurists/nerds/weirdos” that happens every July in Palm Springs, California….
The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice. “Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,” she remembers him saying. She didn’t really have a choice: by the end of the evening, she had…
© Lakeshore Entertainment Kate Beckinsale is being hunted on all sides in the gritty first teaser for Underworld: Blood Wars. The quest for power among the vampires, lycans and all of their hybrid enemies is bloodier than ever before in the upcoming sequel – and only a Death Dealer can battle them all. Advertisement – Continue Reading…