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By J on January 27th, 2012

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard

And a good Friday to you, good friend.

The Book of Faces is preparing to file for an IPO. Are you my friendster yet?

In other Social Media news: Twitter announced a new “micro censorship” policy. Ah. Good. I was worried about free speech being too free, but it seems they’re getting it under control. Thanks, guys and girls.

What’s the deal with Fracking? Some countries look down on it or have outright banned it, but the US is really into it. Reminds me of this map of Metric System usage:

Speaking of backwards: more and more law enforcement officers are speaking out about the epic fail of monumental proportions called “The War on Drugs.”

A gallery of Time covers that have been altered for the US.

An interesting 1969 film by Saul Bass pitching his Bell Systems rebrand:

A gallery, because I love you:

xo,

Stuff

When

By J on January 26th, 2012

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.

~Buckminster Fuller

New research finds that low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies and racism.

The FBI released plans to monitor social networks. Wait. They aren’t already doing that?

The new Press Freedom Index has just been released. Where does your country stand? Mine came in at 47. Right below Taiwan and Comoros.

Tom Green got some fans to harass another Tom Green because he’s not famous and he’s got the @tomgreen twitter handle so why doesn’t he just give it up?

The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.
The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
The Benjamin Franklin Effect.