Media Ideas

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Memories from Childhood (by George Arnaldo)

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RUGRATS: Teaching kids that it’s okay to marry someone of the same gender since 1999.

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Legendary bassist Ron Carter.

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When Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon in 1969, the spacesuit they were wearing was made not by a military-industrial conglomerate, but by Playtex—makers of women’s underwear.  Nicholas de Monchaux, author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, explains how the Apollo spacesuit holds crucial lessons for how we approach technology, and our own human nature.  (Image via boingboing.net)

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It’s a widescreen iPod! No, wait, it’s a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email! Best of all, it comes with Cingular phone service and Google’s groundbreaking maps!

It was six years ago Wednesday that Steve Jobs strode on stage...

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It could be so simple — you just leave your house and your Internet-connected T-shirt will tell your social networks where you are going.

At International CES 2013 on Tuesday, one of the creators of the Internet, Vint Cerf, gave a talk about the future of the...

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African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is Not Standard English with Mistakes

Items covered in this link:

Languages, Dialects, and Rules

The African American Vernacular Dialect of English

Myths about ‘Be’

Negative Concord: Don’t Want No Double Negation

Negative Inversion

Dropping Consonants Right and Left

Somethin’ Bout Nasals

Dialect Switching

Not All African Americans Know AAVE

AAVE is neither the language of the uneducated or slang of the streets. It is a language. A true language just as Italian, Spanish and British English are true languages. To imply otherwise is both factually incorrect and a sign of your own ignorance in a subject you know nothing about.

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Geekery, Welcome To Metropolis, Man Of Steel, Superman, Fan Art http://bit.ly/VjpZl0

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Tricycle House | People’s Architecture Office

If When an overpopulation crisis occurs, I’m grabbing one of these!

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In this photograph, Coretta is upset with her husband, who had been attacked the night before by a disturbed white racist but had not defended himself. Though the police urged King to press charges, he refused. “The system we live under creates people such as this youth,” he said. “I’m not interested in pressing charges. I’m interested in changing the kind of system that produces such men.”

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Foxconn Confirms Bribery Investigation After Chinese Authorities Detain Employee

#SuryaRay #Surya Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant that works with companies like Apple, Samsung, and Sony, has confirmed that it is being investigated on charges of bribery by Chinese authorities. At least one of the Foxconn’s employees has been detained after being accused of accepting bribes from suppliers. http://dlvr.it/2mdCnh @suryaray

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A new study from Common Sense Media shows the majority of parents (75%) feel that shielding children from violence is difficult. That same percentage of parents blame “media violence, such as content in TV, movies and video games” for adding to “America’s culture...