November 2010
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Tracking your fleeting assets made easier →
Exciting news: Mint is finally coming to Canada in December. If you bank with someone like TD, that operates banks in the states, you’ve been able to use it for a while.
“When I am assertive, I’m a bitch. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He...”
– Nicki! (via sadydoyle)
The Guardian: One in three South African men admit... →
More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy.
Researchers found that more than three in four men said they had perpetrated violence against women.
Nearly nine in 10 men believe that a woman should obey her husband – and almost six in 10 women also agreed with the statement.
South Africa...
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The best of the rest of the internet
rachelhills:
If you read one thing this weekend, make it Maria Bustillos’s scathing but thought-provoking take on the politics of Harry Potter:
Rowling is a self-avowed liberal who gave a million pounds to the Labour Party in 2008, but her values are Tory through and through. In her books it is the hoary old white guys who run everything; women are popped in here and there for liberal flavor....
Black Mountain — “The Hair Song”
White Women, Race Matters →
-kissdistinctlyamerican:
White women are at the forefront of the Tea Party, a political movement that’s trying to move American backward on race and civil rights… So, why does it matter that these are white women, and what does it have to do with race? It matters for a few reasons:
Because of sexism, white women get a pass on racism. – There’s a pervasive myth that women are somehow less...
scottfriday:
black velvet // alannah myles
you...
The more you know:
britticisms:
Suzanne Vega’s song “Tom’s Diner” was used as the reference track in an early trial of the MP3 compression system, earning her the distinction of being the Mother of the MP3. It was chosen because her a cappella vocal with relatively little reverberation was used as the model for Karlheinz Brandenburg’s compression algorithm. Brandenburg heard “Tom’s Diner” on a radio playing the...
I use photobooth to put on makeup and fix my hair.
morganism82:
Judge me.
Ditto. I’m lazy and willingly admit that I’ll use pretty much anything at my disposal if it means I can avoid getting up to look in a mirror.
See also: my iPhone’s front-facing camera.
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