My geeky friends’ response when I came out… | ctnguy
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaygeek/comments/r7liv/my_geeky_friends_response_when_i_came_out
Awesome.
“Everyone…I’m gay. As proof this is not an account hack, I’ve posted a longer post on my blog.”
|_ _ “Well done. Could you possibly link a style sheet to that HTML? I hate bland markup.”
|_ _ “Good work. It takes a lot of guts to post things on a plain HTML page these days.”
|_ _ “Have you told your family you don’t use style sheets? That’s the hardest part.”
One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202
The boys crowded around her on the bus.Teenage bullies may be downright appalling, but true evil lies in the grown men and women who systematically enable and encourage this behaviour.
“Hey, Brittany, I heard your friend Sam shot herself.”
“Did you see her blow her brains out?”
“Did you pull the trigger for her?”
“Was there brain all over the wall?”
“You should do it too.”
“Dyke.”
“Slut.”
“Freak.”
When the Anoka-Hennepin district’s sex-ed curriculum came up for re-evaluation in 1994, religious conservatives argued that any form of gay tolerance in school is actually an insidious means of promoting homosexuality – that openly discussing the matter would encourage kids to try it.
But following 15-year-old Justin Aeberg’s suicide - Anoka-Hennepin’s seventh - individual teachers quietly began taking small risks to offer solace to gay students in crisis. “My job is just a job; these children are losing their lives,” says teacher Jefferson Fietek.
Anti-gay backlash was instant.
Minnesota Family Council president Tom Prichard blogged that Justin’s suicide could only be blamed upon one thing: his gayness. “Youth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk, because they’ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle.”
(Source: kari-shma, via wedontevencompromise)
The Kiss (or, The Artists) | BriTANicK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OQWjsqW6Ts
Atlantan comedic buds Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher are back, following up their viral success with “Trailer for Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever” by paying homage to Chaplin-esque slapstick in a rather cute short about two gentlemen vying for the affections of a lady in a park…with a decidedly dastardly and unnerving twist.
Surprise Dance on Finnair Flight to celebrate India’s Republic Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsnb3kUDAw
Video: The iPhone Economy | NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/20/business/the-iphone-economy.html
Ultimately, it’s not so much a tale of Apple as a tale of the disappearing middle class…
Modernization has always caused some kinds of jobs to change or disappear. As the American economy transitioned from agriculture to manufacturing and then to other industries, farmers became steelworkers, and then salesmen and middle managers. These shifts have carried many economic benefits, and in general, with each progression, even unskilled workers received better wages and greater chances at upward mobility.
But in the last two decades, something more fundamental has changed, economists say. Midwage jobs started disappearing. Particularly among Americans without college degrees, today’s new jobs are disproportionately in service occupations — at restaurants or call centers, or as hospital attendants or temporary workers — that offer fewer opportunities for reaching the middle class.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class | NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html
One former executive described how Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the Chinese plant near midnight.While the conclusion of the article seems lazy to me (“Isn’t it terrible that wealth is concentrating and society is becoming less upwardly mobile? But there’s nothing anyone can do - it’s just modernisation!”), the meticulously researched details are fascinating…
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
Lost in Motion | Bravo! FACT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OR-n3Rg6E8
Beautiful performance by Guillaume Côté.
The moments when he soars in slow-mo are breathtaking.
Nicki Minaj - “Stupid Hoe”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM
Nicki Minaj, delightfully deranged as ever, in her new hype single from upcoming sophomore disc, “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded”.
Electro-hop, happycore and ridiculous facial contortions galore. :o)
Severn Suzuki: The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0
The landmark “I am only a child” speech by 12-year-old Severn Suzuki, delivered at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, here in its entirety. Stunning…and saddening.
In 2002, Severn wrote in Time Magazine: “Now, a decade from Rio, after I’ve sat through many more conferences, I’m not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual’s voice to reach them has been deeply shaken.”
Twenty years on and with glacial progress on so many fronts, I wonder what she would tell her 12-year-old self now?
