“Gotta find me some of that…”
Dear Photograph,
It was the falling down and the burrowing into, a pile of crunchy leaves, that made you get up and go out and play. I need to go find me some of that…again.
Rachel
Tumblr as a platform for civic action? Yes, indeed. Historic and notable.
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.
(Source: staff)
Via Tumblr Staff
Been stuck in my head since Sunday night.
Tonight’s end credit song on How to Make it in America
Found via @laughingsquid: 9/11 Memorial: Reflect
It’s a wonderful image. Also eerily similar to this poster from Tuesday’s Children:
(Source: nevver)
Yes! So excited that the world of a capella is alive an well with the next generation. :)
Today wasn’t such an exciting day for me. I was sick at home, ON THE 3rd DAY OF SCHOOL! Well at least I got to watch a bunch of TV (5 episodes of Doctor who). By the way, I’ve got a cool video I’d like to show you. I hope you love this a cappella Dr. Who Theme song.
Via days in the life of Quinn
So much potential to learn from the data aggregated by USA.gov’s link shortener. Very excited to see what comes out of the hack day next month!
In March, we announced a new URL shortening service called 1.USA.gov. 1.USA.gov automatically creates .gov URLs whenever you use bitly to shorten a URL that ends in .gov or .mil. We created this service to make it easy for people to know when a short URL will lead to official, and…
The most subversive protest of all: An Egyptian protestor kisses a riot police officer.
/via kateoplis
David Klinghoffer, a former literary editor at National Review, lamented that “urbane visionaries and builders of institutions” such as Buckley have been replaced by media figures “who make their money by stirring fears and resentments.” Conservatism, Klinghoffer added, “has undergone a shift toward demagoguery and hucksterism,” and is now ruled by those he called “the crazy-cons.
– Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and the Republicans (via Instapaper)
The World According to San Francisco.
It’s too perfect to be offended.
Via generic1 — show them some love.
So…where do Tumblr messages come from? Is that the /ask thing? P.S. Sorry to everyone who has been sitting unanswered in my Tumblr Inbox!
love love love this idea.
allang:I think it’s only right that I post this to tumblr ar 3AM.
Most nights, I come home from work and get right into one of my side projects. I know I’m not the only one in this city stays up late working on a project. A few nights ago, I posted the following to tumblr: There should be a club/meetup in NY where night owls can get together in the dead of night and hack on their side projects. Any takers?
The city is a very quiet place in the middle of the night, but a few people did speak up to show interest. We shouldn’t be left to work alone in our apartments, or worse - to feel as though we are alone.
So, I’ve put up a page for the New York Nightowls, a late night co-working group. There’s no better place for this type of co-working group than New York. It’s something I’d be a part of, so I suspect there are others out there. From the NYNightowls website:
In the dead of the night, the city skyline is punctuated with lit windows. We like to think they’re people sitting in their apartments working on their side project or big idea.If that sounds like you, and you want to participate, email me at hello@nynightowls.com. I’m collecting email addresses and gauging interest at this point. With enough participants, we could commandeer an office space that’s not being utilized at night.
Or - if you’re someone with office space who’s interested in hosting this kind of thing, let me know (hello@nynightowls.com).
About me
me:
day job-having,
web geek,
urban sherpa,
photographer wannabe,
coffee-drinker,
wife,
dog-mom,
sister,
daughter,
friend,
twit.
