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dailyshitnews: The 6 Corporations That Control 90% Of What You...

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:57:18 -0700

The 6 Corporations That Control 90% Of What You Read, Watch, And Listen To…America’s Media Monopolies…

"Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa coined the phrase “idiot compassion,” to explain that..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:58:51 -0700

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Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa coined the phrase “idiot compassion,” to explain that thing we do when we react to others from the Playbook of Nice rather than from an authentic arising of goodness, because our heart is simply open.

An open heart is never certain, it is in open dialog with this world and thus can respond with sweetness when sweetness is due, or wrath or silence or dismissal or an endless embrace. Because it is genuine, it is sharp.

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- Susan Piver

April 2012 Cocktail: Cosmopolitan Martini

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:25:43 -0700

This month’s cocktail is the Cosmopolitan Martini. Its been a while since I’ve made a vodka drink and realized that I’ve never really learned how to make one. This is a fairly simple recipe that includes vodka, cranberry and lime.

The shopping list is:

Vodka (Greygoose 750ml, $25)
Triple Sec (Hiram Walker, $9)
Rose’s Lime Juice ($4)
Cranberry Juice (Ocean’s Spray 46 oz., $5)
Lime ($0.25)

You may have most of this around the house already, with the exception being the lime juice. Substituting the lime juice is fine, but keep in mind that Rose’s Lime Juice is sweetened, so imitating may be a bit difficult.

When making drinks for two, mix 2 ounces of vodka, 1 ounce of triple sec, 1 ounce of cranberry juice and 1 ounce of lime juice in a shaker with ice. You want to quickly mix and shake vigorously to flash freeze the mixture before pouring.

Carolyn felt that it was too heavy on the lime and too light on the cranberry. I find that if you half the triple sec (0.5 oz.) and lime juice (0.5 oz.) and then double the cranberry juice (2 oz.) then it turns out pretty good and slightly more red in color.

Back to Basecamp

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:22:54 -0700

I’ve always been a 37 Signals fan and have used their products for a few years now. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an excuse to try out Basecamp Next.

There are a few things that I really like about it:

It is super easy to switch between projects. When I go from one project to another, I want my full attention and my screen real estate to be focused on the project that I selected. Getting between projects is quick and easy without having references to what is going on in other projects.
Everything has been broken down into 3 types of things: lists, discussions and files. I say 3 because there is a 4th type, text file, that is essentially a file on the site that is editable. I really like the minimal approach to organizing data and it works really well for me.
The permission system is simple and effective. I can add people, organize them by company and team and quickly view who can do what.
The daily progress view is really nice for a quick way to answer the questions “What did I do?”, “What am I doing next?” and “What is could potentially get in my way?”.

There are a few ways it could be improved though, although in my opinion, these are pretty minor:

To change the sort or priority of todo lists items, you’ve got to click around a few times and can only make changes while on the sub sub page for that specific todo list.
It isn’t obvious that you can undelete things if you accidentally delete something.
I wish the text documents were more like backpack pages and supported some type of structured markup.

"I live n a country where a chick that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site But the man..."

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:14:45 -0700

“I live n a country where a chick that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free”

- @RealFerrellWill

"Watching MTV Cribs makes me feel better about downloading music off the internet."

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:44:45 -0800

“Watching MTV Cribs makes me feel better about downloading music off the internet.”

- @ImTracyMorgan

"Remember that groundhog day-like Star Trek episode where the Enterprise keeps getting destroyed?..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:29:59 -0800

“Remember that groundhog day-like Star Trek episode where the Enterprise keeps getting destroyed? News coverage of Greece feels like that.”

- @karlseguin

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:42:39 -0800

"If Rush [Limbaugh] was the villain in a movie they would have to tone his bullshit down so his..."

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:25:39 -0800

“If Rush [Limbaugh] was the villain in a movie they would have to tone his bullshit down so his character would be plausible.”

- 0252

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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:09:33 -0800

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:46:22 -0800

"If God didn’t intervene in the holocaust, he’s not going to intervene in your football..."

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:44:11 -0800

“If God didn’t intervene in the holocaust, he’s not going to intervene in your football game. #fb”

- @LusciousPear

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Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:12:05 -0800

staff: Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:59:06 -0800

staff:

Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

— Representative Darrell Issa

We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives.

Bank Transfer Day is November 5th

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:13:10 -0700

Take America Back from the 1%

November 5th Bank Transfer Day

More info on finding a local credit union and moving your money.

liberalsarecool: Millionaires in Congress. Kind of explains why...

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:34:52 -0700

liberalsarecool:

Millionaires in Congress. Kind of explains why we always do the half-assed wrong thing.

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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:17:49 -0700

kateoplis: Bush tax cuts cost the rest of us $11.6 million an...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:23:45 -0700

kateoplis:

Bush tax cuts cost the rest of us $11.6 million an hour. Yes, an hour.

fat-moonkin: worldjumpin: I created this inspired by Andrew...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:57:26 -0700

fat-moonkin:

worldjumpin:

I created this inspired by Andrew Khunar, who recently created minimalistic posters of vanilla World of Warcraft bosses. His artwork can be found after the jump. [Link]

This is the Curator from one of my favorite instances in WoW: Karazhan.

“The Menagerie is for guests only”