February 2012
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UBC: Unending Building Construction
enochliew:
Michael Smith Laboratories by Henriquez Partners Architects
Structural members that challenge the limitations and preconceptions of timber.
(source)
We have too much timber or something. I blame the Forestry building for starting this trend at UBC: everything built in the past decade consists of the timber–steel–glass trinity.
Forest Sciences Centre, Dalla-Lana Griffin...
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Why nobody wrote about Vic Toews’ divorce →
We need politicians to act as our representatives, and while they are well paid and so on, it’s a tough life, and I’m not sure it is good for the country to make it tougher, except when their private lives somehow affect their work. When that is the case, journalists do invade the privacy of politicians. But there has to be a reason, and you have to weigh the importance of the story.
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
‘Chris Brown’s fame wouldn't make the pain of a... →
The Sun speaks to three women about the horrific reality of domestic violence — and why no one should make light of a crime that kills two women every week in England and Wales.
A cautionary tale for Chris Brown fans (and...
what-alchemy:
Warnings for descriptions of domestic abuse
drdonnaatx:
When I was 19 I married my high school sweetheart. He had never hit me in anyway. Never had yelled at me. He was in the Navy and we moved nearly 1000 miles away from home. We had been married one week when he first slapped me. I forgave him. We had been married about a year when he first punched me in the stomach. I forgave...
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“I am sorry, I did not hear what my hon. Friend said because this loquacious...”
– Andrew Faulds, MP for Warley East, in Parliament 29 Mar 1988
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January 2012
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December 2011
4 posts
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Life of a Cellist
pay4abortion: as a cellist i can confirm no one ever knows our name.
deltrois: Pachelbel knew a cellist’s name, and apparently she dissed him real bad; that’s why he wrote such a god-awful cello part for Pachelbel’s cannon [sic] in D. I don’t even know his first name.
pay4abortion: HATE those 8 notes.
I can relate all too well.
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Userscript: Pixiv Lazier →
Adds direct links to full-size image (arrow link beside image name).
Also adds a list of all images on the current page in the format “numerical id/name/artist” to a panel at the bottom of each page, so you can easily copy-and-paste it into a file for remembering where all your saved images are from.
Based on Pixiv Lazy, which doesn’t work any more.
November 2011
3 posts
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October 2011
5 posts
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“the system is constructed in such a way as to privatise most of the wealth of...”
– ‘I’m in the 1%. But I support the 99%’ - Brad Maher, Comment is Free (via guardian)
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September 2011
4 posts
heeroluva asked: Hi there. Your Stylist script for delicious is awesome. Is there anyway though that it could make the page content stretch across the screen rather than have it constrained? Thanks!
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Userstyle: Compactify New Delicious →
I missed the old compact Delicious layout, so I decided to fix it myself. This userstyle reduces font size and makes text darker (= more readable), make link actions (share/delete/edit) always shown, and hides user icons in link descriptions.
Install with Stylish.
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“The signal sent by opting not to criminalise [forced marriage] is a bad one.”
– A leaked memo from No 10 Downing Street. Yes, this is 2011.
August 2011
8 posts
“What infuriates me the most about posts like these is that people have the nerve...”
– Jean Hsu, Why Startups Should Try to Hire Women
What would Earth be like to us if it were a cube... →
What’s really cool is that the cube-Earth would have 6 completely isolated regions. There’s no good reason, beyond some kind of “local panspermia”, for the life on each face to be related to the life on each of the other faces. If the biospheres took different routes you could even have a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on some faces (like we have) and a hydrogen/nitrogen/carbon-dioxide atmosphere...
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French people having "Post-It Wars" with workers...
ukuzihs:
Here’s a (French) video: http://youtu.be/ORyPEFZYAVI
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Citizenship-by-Investment Programs offer you the opportunity to legally acquire a new citizenship quickly and simply, without any disruptions to your life.
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The US Virgin Islands, a US territory in the Caribbean, may be attractive for wealthy individuals and families interested in US naturalization, or for current US citizens wishing to relocate to a warmer climate while legally reducing...
July 2011
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June 2011
2 posts
Why Girls Are Liking Shonen Manga →
chaizer:
But what I really hate about this article is the fact that, not only is it incredibly under-researched and jumps to conclusions by pushing assumptions by the writer (who is likely male??) on all females, it does the thing I hate most: generalize shoujo manga as some boring-ass genre that is only ever romance and ~feelings~ while holding shounen manga up as this holy grail genre that...
“The best thing about mathematical jokes is left as an exercise for the reader”
– pozorvlak (via prolol)
May 2011
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April 2011
5 posts
“After I unveiled AdBlock For Safari at WWDC 2010, a guy came up and said that he...”
– Michael Gundlach, developer of AdBlock For Chrome & Safari
March 2011
6 posts
