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thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

aneverydaynerd:

I was at Target yesterday and this little girl wanted to buy Halo 4, but this lady came up to her and said video games are for boys. This lady had a box of trix in her cart and so the girl grabs the box and said ‘and trix are for kids.’ and ran off with the cereal and the game.

GOD BLESS THIS GIRL :D

typette:

sigfodr:

A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

if Malala doesn’t get the peace prize she was nominated for, fuck the nobel laureate.

meme4u:

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Posted at: 2013-03-18 07:43:29
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Well, in that case!

 

A Time Warner Cable, companhia de TV, internet e telefonia dos EUA, lançou há poucos minutos no Youtube esse spot sensacional convidando todo mundo a acompanhar Game of Thrones através das mídias e serviços que a HBO que a operadora oferecem. Drogon porcurando sua mãe pelas ruas da cidade foi a coisa mais fofa que eu vi em muito tempo. Assista:



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“The stigma of being labelled a sex offender will follow those boys all their lives because of one mistake.”

“We can’t be too quick to judge, we don’t know what really happened.”

“Who hasn’t done something regrettable back when they were young and foolish?”

Hey geeks! Our friends at GaymerConnect are raising funds for a documentary. Please give it a look and consider donating. You can get VIDEO GAMES for it!

slavin:

“What happens when you can’t find the City Hall’s Bible and you need to promote some firefighters to Battalion Chief and Fire Captain? If you’re the Atlantic City Fire Department of Atlantic City, New Jersey, you grab an iPad and load up your favorite Bible app to complete the swearing in ceremony.”

(iPad app replaces physical Bible in New Jersey swear-in ceremony | The Verge via Irwin)

“The most fascinating reaction (to Palmer’s TED talk) was that of a trumpet-player friend who decided to include the video in an email he sent to three up-and-coming Chicago big band leaders he works with. His request was not to let the bands’ audiences pay — they were already doing that with a tip jar, after all — but to actually start charging for the shows. He watched a successful musician talk about how she makes money by asking her fans to contribute, looked at his own situation, and instead of going with her plan, he went for the polar opposite. Because her plan does not make logical sense to anyone who doesn’t have her level of fame.”

- Mad Art Lab | Amanda Palmer and the Privilege of Success

caffeinatedqueer:

thescienceofobsession:

luciawestwick:

are you ok, tumblr?

And that’s all it takes…

I tried to scroll passed without reblogging, but then I 

esse cachorro é que nem vampiro http://t.co/R2MZoGPsTi

Iguazu Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil. (Protyreus)

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Se o mundo acabar amanhã eu sei onde vou estar... CANDY MOUNTAIN!! http://t.co/qdGZRXGODh http://t.co/QfTNjVIgLH

The beloved but doomed Google Reader is still a healthy source of traffic. Google+, on the other hand…

According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users, Google Reader is still a significant source of traffic for news — and a much larger one than Google+. The above chart, created by BuzzFeed's data team, represents data collected from August 2012 to today. (Yesterday, Google announced that it would close Reader in July.)

We should add that this data isn't complete. Google Reader traffic became much harder to measure last year when Google began defaulting users to SSL encryption in such a way that masked referral data. And this doesn't include data from apps that use Google Reader as a sync service, such as Reeder. In other words, it's likely that we're actually missing some Reader traffic here.

The second graphic* shows measured Reader and Google+ referrals over time. This one, too, requires qualification: The changes in Reader's numbers can be explained mostly by the addition of new sites to BuzzFeed's partner network, not growth in Google Reader (the total number of visitors to partner sites increased, in other words).

But the relative numbers are still surprising: Despite claims that it has over 100m monthly active users, Google+ barely moves the needle for sites across the network, while Reader is a healthy source of readers.

*For reference: in August of 2012, according to the same data, Facebook drove over 70m visitors to sites in the network while Google Reader was well under 10m.

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Ennio Morricone, who has worked on four Quentin Tarantino films, told film students in Rome that he would never collaborate with the director again, saying he “places music in his films without coherence.”

Earlier this month, doctors announced that a baby had been cured of an HIV infection. Now, using a similar technique, it appears that 14 adults have likewise been successfully treated for the disease. The trick, say the scientists, is to tackle the infection early.

The research was conducted by Asier Sáez-Cirión of the Pasteur Institute and his results now appear in the open source journal PLOS Pathogens. His team analyzed 70 people with HIV who had been treated by combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) just a short time after infection, a range spanning 35 days to 10 weeks. This is much sooner than people are normally treated. And in fact, these patients, called the Visconti Cohort, were all diagnosed with HIV early (and by chance) when they turned up at hospitals to be assessed for other conditions.

The cohort stuck to the antiretrovirals (ARVs) for an average of three years, during which time the drugs kept the virus in check (they do not eradicate HIV from the body). Eventually, all of the patients stopped taking the ARVs for various reasons (personal choice, different drug protocols, etc.).

Normally, HIV will return when patients stop taking their ARVs. But this time, something interesting happened. The authors of the study described it this way:

We identified 14 HIV patients (post-treatment controllers [PTCs]) whose viremia remained controlled for several years after the interruption of prolonged cART initiated during the primary infection.

That's roughly one in ten of the patients, a group that included four women and 10 men. On average, they were off the medication for seven years.

It's important to note that the patients still have the HIV infection. Also, they're not "supercontrollers" (the <1% of people who are naturally resistant to HIV). But their bodies are able to keep it in check — and without the assistance of medication. Sáez-Cirión suspects that the early treatment limits the reservoir of HIV that can persist, limits the diversity of the virus, and it preserves the immune response to the virus that keeps it in check. That said, he's not entirely sure why only a fraction of the patients were functionally cured.

Ultimately, Asier Sáez-Cirión's work shows that, in the words of the study, "early and prolonged cART may allow some individuals with a rather unfavorable background to achieve long-term infection control and may have important implications in the search for a functional HIV cure."

Read the entire study at PLOS Pathogens. Find out more about this remarkable breakthrough at New Scientist and BBC.

Top image: Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding from cultured lymphocyte. Multiple round bumps on cell surface represent sites of assembly and budding of virions. Via CDC.

avidoatlion:

lifemocker:

thejordanator:

An expertly done three point turn

Weren’t expecting that house

#I have never seen someone nope that hard before

Even if you don’t use an RSS reader, you still use RSS.

If you subscribe to any podcasts, you use RSS. Flipboard and Twitter are RSS readers, even if it’s not obvious and they do other things besides.

Lots of apps on the various app stores use RSS in at least some way. They just don’t tell you — because why should they?

RSS is used for mundane things too, like Mac app updates (for non-App-Store apps) and Xcode documentation.

And those people you follow on Twitter who post interesting links? They often get those links from their RSS reader.

One way or another, directly or indirectly, you use RSS. Without RSS all we’d have is pictures of cats and breakfast.

Boring

RSS is plumbing. It’s used all over the place but you don’t notice it. Which is cool.

But here’s why it’s great plumbing:

• There are many millions of feeds, from the smallest blog to the many feeds at the New York Times. Just about everything that gets published on the web is available via RSS. (Outside of Twitter and Facebook.)

• There are no user caps. No company can tell your favorite app how many users it can have. (Twitter does this.)

• Nobody can tell you how to display an article from an RSS feed. (Twitter does this with tweets.)

• The formats are stable. Code I wrote five years ago to parse feeds would work today and will work in five years. (The formats are simple, too.) Other services have APIs that change and break existing apps.

• RSS can’t be shut down. Any number of companies can go out of business, but nobody can stop anybody from publishing and reading RSS feeds.

• Nobody can force ads on you. A given RSS reader could add ads, but you can switch — because another RSS reader can read the same feeds. A given publisher could put ads in their own feeds, but you can unsubscribe. There is no company that can force ads on everyone, as Twitter and Facebook are working on for their systems.

• Nobody can force you to be tracked. If you’re not using a syncing system, then nobody knows what you subscribe to and what you read.

• You don’t need to register anywhere to write an RSS app. (You do need to register to write Facebook and Twitter apps.)

• In the general case there are no security issues with feed reading. (Unless you’re using a sync service or reading authenticated feeds.)

This is elegance. It derives from the design of the internet and the web and its many open standards — designed so that no entity can control it, so that it survives stupidity and greed when it appears.

Lots of things work like this. Not just RSS.

Capitalism

A naive reading of the above makes it sound like RSS is anti-business. That’s not true at all. (I did well with my RSS business.)

Instead, it’s anti-monopolist. By design it creates a level playing field. Anybody can write RSS apps, and anybody can use RSS however they want to.

This means that competition and innovation are permitted to thrive.

But it’s not a guarantee. In the past several years it seems to have slowed way down.

Prague 1948 Forever

When Eastern Europe opened up, following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Prague looked like it had been sealed up in a bubble since 1948.

Google Reader isn’t communist Russia, obviously, duh — but it’s a similar pattern. There was one gigantic player and a bunch of satellites, and RSS readers more-or-less looked like it was still 2006.

Not that there wasn’t any innovation — there was some — but it’s been pretty quiet, especially compared to the several years before 2006.

RSS the format has remained as useful and cool as ever, but RSS readers haven’t done so well.

My hope — my expectation, even — is that a few things will turn this around:

• The end of Google Reader takes away that one dominant player. The market for RSS readers is no longer frozen — and it will interest more developers than it has in recent years.

• Over-reach by Twitter and its diminishing user experience makes people interested in other ways of finding good stuff to read.

• The lower costs of server-side development and deployment brings creating RSS services within reach of smaller companies.

The challenge — as ever, with everything — is to make useful and delightful apps that people love.

But now, if I’m right, we’ll have more people working on that challenge.

In the meantime, the loss of Google Reader syncing is going to be tough. That’s a big hurdle. Marco proposes some baby steps. I don’t like Google Reader’s (undocumented) API, but I like the pragmatic approach.

Well

At any rate — these are interesting times! I know that’s a curse, but I take it as a blessing, because it’s way more fun that way.

chronicles-of-a-cast-member:

These 3D gifs are getting too good