February 2011
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Dear friend. We received your kind letter in which you condemned the American...
– Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to a group of second-graders in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Students wrote the dictator in 1986 to ask him to stop bombing the U.S., and he replied.
(via minnpost)
Minnesota seems to be all over my tumblr dashboard and I can’t resist a good MN reblog. I’m not...
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Pack Like a Pro
Been there, done that.
Worst scenario this far? ”Leaving” drinks with friend in Hong Kong on Thursday night involving Tequila; followed up by a hung-over Friday morning review session with my manager and then an 18 hour flight back to NYC. I’d do it again, although, without the Tequila.
At Media Companies, a Nation of Serfs →
soupsoup:
David Carr at The New York Times
For the media, this is a Tom Sawyer moment. “Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?” he says to his friends, and sure enough, they are soon lined up for the privilege of doing his chores. That’s a bit like how social networks get built. (Just imagine if Tom had also schooled them in the networking opportunities of the user-generated...
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Whoa! Mubarak is out! (Either that or Egypt just...
Congrats, Egypt!
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I will not separate from the soil until I’m buried underneath.
– President Hosni Mubarak.
Also: “I have delegated to the vice president the powers of the president, according to the constitution.”
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I fear that this might sound like a challenge to the protesters.
Shits about to hit the fan…
(via thegreg)
Agreed. I think someone...
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
– Virginia Woolf (via kari-shma)
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Wow. I guess denial IS a river in Egypt.
– @Andrew Willett (via brooklynmutt)
HAHA!
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I admire the Egyptians who are hitting the streets to show what they want. I’m also beyond proud of my coworker gals who are heading up neighborhood ‘clean up’ events.
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Actually, I did the easiest thing, which was writing. At the end of the day, it...
– Google Executive Wael Ghonim, in his first international interview, admitting he was behind the Facebook page that sparked Egypt’s revolt. (via cheatsheet)
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