January 2011
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“[Writing is] like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of...”
– Peter Carey (via theparisreview)
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Curating Social Media From Tunisia's Jasmine...
I’ve put together a Storify collection serving as a timeline of user-generated content and mainstream media coverage of the escalating protests in Tunisia over the last three weeks. You can see the collection below or on Storify.com. If any of you speak Arabic, I’d love it if you could help us translate some of the videos. - @acarvin
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Double Take 'Toons: Unusual Suspects
Editorial cartoonists Jen Sorensen and Randy Bish offer different takes on what the left and right are saying about the Tucson shooting:
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Using Storify To Cover The Giffords Shooting
For those of you interested in the tool Storify.com, I tried using it this afternoon for documenting what was going on today regarding the shooting of Rep. Giffords. Please let me know what you think of it. - @acarvin
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Justice Scalia Courts Controversy For Agreeing To... →
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“This will affect millions of Pennsylvanians for whom the state police provide...”
– Mary Catherine Roper, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, after the PA State Police agreed to stop issuing citations to people for swearing. This all stems from an incident in which a Luzerne County woman was ticketed for yelling “asshole” at a motorcyclist “who...
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“You know these deep-dish pizzas—it’s not pizza. It’s very good, but … call it...”
– U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, giving his take on pizza deep-dish pizza. (via officialssay)
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