March 2012
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Google’s new privacy policy, straight talk edition... →
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Google’s new privacy policy starts tomorrow. Miles Lothe translated the whole thing into bro-speak, so it’s just entertaining enough to actually read what Google’s about to do with all your information.
He also translated the new Google terms of service.
Gizmodo called Miles’s translations “actually quite the public service”.
This is informative and...
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February 2012
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How climate change could be the ruin of Los... →
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“L.A. still gets nearly 90 percent of its drinking water from out-of-town resources, just as it has for more than a century. But the Sierra Nevada snowpack could shrink by as much as 90 percent by 2100, experts say. Runoff already peaks 10 to 15 days earlier today than it did 50 years ago, according to a 2008 Purdue University study.
Meanwhile, aquifers along the coast of...
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Dow Jones industrial average closes above 13,000... →
The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the psychologically important 13,000 mark today for the first time since the financial crisis. The blue-chip index has climbed 1,000 points in just two months to hit the milestone for the first time since May 2008.
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janetgliang asked: Dear Los Angeles Times Staff, could you spare a moment to help Janet Liang? If you don't know her story, she's a recent UCLA grad who's currently battling leukemia (after relapsing around Christmas). She NEEDS to find a marrow match by this June. We're trying to mobilize the Los Angeles community to help her find a match. Could you reblog Janet's latest health update video...
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Active video games may not promote more exercise... →
Kind of flips the thinking hope that games like Wii Fit would get people more active.
Children randomly assigned to a study group were allowed to choose two active video games over 13 weeks, while others in a control group chose two inactive videos over 13 weeks. Activity was measured in both groups after the first, sixth, seventh and 12th weeks via accelerometers.
No differences in levels of...
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What is California SB 375? (HealthyCal.org) →
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Groundbreaking legislation could change how neighborhoods are designed in California, curbing sprawl and creating safer, more walkable communities. But to make sure the law promotes public health on all of these fronts, Californians need to keep their leaders accountable.
“California’s Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act is the first law in the nation to link...
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Los Angeles apologizes for role in massive... →
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“Many still don’t know that under the guise of “American Jobs for Real Americans” and touting it as a panacea to end the high unemployment caused by the Depression, President Herbert Hoover and the federal government launched an aggressive anti-immigrant campaign together with local governments to “repatriate” people of Mexican descent, forcibly deporting scores of individuals....
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How much do colleges care about diversity? We're... →
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Economic and racial diversity isn’t a zero-sum game—both factors should be considered in admissions, for different (albeit related) reasons. If the Supreme Court bans affirmative action, we may discover how much colleges care about genuine diversity. We may not like the answer.
Read the piece on GOOD→
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“I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so...”
– A chance shake-up of Maryland House of Delegates seating assignments brought Republican Wade Kach face to face with gay couples who had come to make the case for a gay marriage law, and might have proved decisive in its final passage through the state’s General Assembly on Thursday. Kach, who...
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In which The Times launches a digital membership... →
More commonly known as a paywall.
What do you guys think? Are you willing to pay for news? Or do you think 15 articles a month is enough?
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Submit your art to SFMOMA →
sfmoma:
Submitting to SFMOMA’s Tumblr
We’re trying something new: Submission Fridays! We get a ton of really great original artwork submitted to our Tumblr, and we’d like to share more of it. SO, now we’ll be taking some time on Fridays to share a few of our favorite submitted works from the past week. Thanks to everyone who makes great art and shares it with us!
You can submit your work...
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“Blade Runner has been called “the official nightmare of Los Angeles”, yet this...”
– Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) (via tumbLAngeles)
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