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An Islamist Beheading In Britain, Ctd « The Dish

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:06:26 -0400

An Islamist Beheading In Britain, Ctd « The Dish:

First comment is my contribution. Divided in two paragraphs total.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 21:35:23 -0400

nevver: Before and after

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:26:44 -0400

nevver:

Before and after

motherjones: Here are the 20,000 shipwrecks in US waters. Some...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:57 -0400

motherjones:

Here are the 20,000 shipwrecks in US waters. Some of them are still leaking oil, because of Hitler. (No, really, they were sunk by German U-Boats—it’s a serious environmental problem.)

dvdp: 130518/2

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:24:11 -0400

dvdp:

130518/2

marissamayr: The great workplace dilemmas of our time…

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:50:49 -0400

marissamayr:

The great workplace dilemmas of our time…

parislemon: marissamayr: I’m delighted to announce that we’ve...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:45:29 -0400

parislemon:

marissamayr:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

They really executed this announcement well — right down to the GIFs.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 20:52:30 -0400

"The whole fantasy that we had, and whole dream that we had, was could we still do, or can we still..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:36:37 -0400

“The whole fantasy that we had, and whole dream that we had, was could we still do, or can we still make, today, dance music without a drum machine?”

- The robots speak! Hear the elusive Daft Punk in an interview with NPR’s Audie Cornish (via nprmusic)

shadowkat104: kellyjacobsbooks: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:35:56 -0400

shadowkat104:

kellyjacobsbooks:

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!

NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE…

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.

A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.

The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911.

Rather than sharing another joke please contribute by broadcasting this which can save a person’s life!

Be prepared and become part of the solution. Get your free next-of-kin notification card today. Click here: https://www.InCaseOfEmergencyCard.com/

major signal boost

fotojournalismus: A Pakistani youth runs after his horse along...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:34:47 -0400

fotojournalismus:

A Pakistani youth runs after his horse along a field as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad on May 17, 2013.

[Credit : Muhammed Muheisen/AP]

fishingboatproceeds: #sass

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:34:24 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

#sass

cassiatsura: Oneonta Gorge | Oregon (by Alan Howe

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:23 -0400

cassiatsura:

Oneonta Gorge | Oregon (by Alan Howe

zablotny: ‘photos every day’ this is a spot by tbwa/chiat/day...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:10:00 -0400

zablotny:

‘photos every day’

this is a spot by tbwa/chiat/day for apple, called ‘photos every day’. the craft is fantastic, and there’s some subtle, unusual attention to detail in it.

let’s take a look at the sound mix. here’s a waveform of the spot:

and now here’s the waveform of a conventionally mixed spot — this is that ‘old spice’ commercial everyone flipped out for a couple years ago. it might as well be any ad you see on tv today.

huge difference. there’s incredible restraint in the amount of compression applied to the music in ‘photos every day’. (from wikipedia, compression “reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or “compressing” an audio signal’s dynamic range”.) my point here is that if you caught this on tv, it would be substantially ‘quieter’ sounding than other ads around it.

the other interesting thing about the mix is that the iPhone shutter click sound is substantially undermixed. it comes across as incidental, and unobtrusive. the ambiences are the real star here, and the sound editor wasn’t even afraid to drop them out entirely for effect (see snowy skyscraper, 0:23).

other observations:

• there’s a real nice match-cut at 0:06 of the guy jumping off his skateboard into the shot of the jogger running.
• 0:25, the iPhone bobs up and down at a concert, and halfway through, the shot itself starts bobbing with the phone, keeping the screen stationary in the frame.
• overall, there’s a very careful variety of perspective, scale, and involvement. are we peering over someone’s shoulder? watching from across the street? ostensibly taking the picture, ourselves?
• i could have done without the voiceover at the end.

gregcohn: EFF: Who has your back? Basically quit everything...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:34:32 -0400

gregcohn:

EFF: Who has your back?

Basically quit everything but twitter

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Tue, 14 May 2013 18:32:12 -0400

yourdailynarcissist: Tanhayee -Dil Chahta Hai

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:31:39 -0400

yourdailynarcissist:

Tanhayee -Dil Chahta Hai