February 2012
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New York Fashion Week: Backstage at Cynthia Rowley
dailycandy:
To contrast the structured collection at Cynthia Rowley, hairstylists created textured ‘dos with a process that included alcohol-based mousse, a small-barreled curling iron, intricate bobby-pinning, and finger combing that created a unique look for each girl.
Against the grain. Love.
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Razing History: The Tragic Story of a Beijing... →
Written by my friend, Jon Kaiman!
Despite an inundation of official bulletins urging residents not to indulge in gossip, the remainder of Sun’s street was teeming with whispers. Some were tales of arrests and disappearances — a botched protest, a terrorized lawyer — but most were attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: what would they build once the street was razed?
Sun...
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Old News: Facebook sells data. New news (to me):... →
I think we can all agree that it’s old news that employers will Google your Facebook profile. What is not well-known to me, however, is that your Facebook/Twitter/Google searches and such will also be sold, compiled into data, and then can be used against you.
If your Facebook photos from your travelling keep showing up, the IRS can determine that you have enough money to keep travelling...
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Take God everywhere you go and if you can’t take Him there then don’t go
-Madea
– (via bonnafideboo)
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A crafty state senator has done something so wonderful that we should all be...
– Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam to Anti-Abortion Bill (via robot-heart-politics)
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Chinese in America - Join the Wall →
paach:
Hi Everyone,
Happy Chinese New Year! At long last, we are launching a Beta of the ”Chinese in America - We are Family” Virtual Wall at www.JoinTheWall.org !!!
See your profile amongst thousands of other Chinese in America and search for others who have submitted their profile by last names, Chinese Provinces and U.S. Cites that might be the same as your family.
The USA Pavilion...
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Fides Processus: Love Is Friendship Set On Fire →
womyneosoul:
A poem by by Laura Hendricks “Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past. It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations,...
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January 2012
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That is precisely how I feel when I consider my own journey, my own family’s...
– Eric Liu (“Notes of a Native Speaker, The Washington Post, 1998)
and...I'm going to be in a parade today!
Happy CNY from Manila, Philippines!
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Our brains and bodies produce neurochemicals and physiological sensations that...
– Jane McGonigal, from her book “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”