8 posts tagged with brokenlink by cgc373.
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Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves
The “Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves” is the perfect thing to send both white allies genuinely interested in learning more, and that special Facebook commenter who loves playing “Devil’s Advocate.” Whenever anyone asks you for stats, “proof,” or info no one who has an actual human schedule has the kind of time to provide, you can send them here. [Google Docs link via Teresa Jusino at The Mary Sue]
Lisa Charlotte Rost Charts 12 Data Visualization Tools
In an effort to get to know as many options to visualize data as possible, Lisa Charlotte Rost took the same dataset and visualized it with 12 different tools and 12 different charting libraries. [more inside]
"Why don't you do what you dream?"
A brief Tumblr rant about Fantasy: The great temptation, the fatal temptation, of adult fans of fantastic fiction is the temptation of Law. We want the contents of our imagination taxonomied and classified, ordered and indexed, subject to rules and regulations. Gaps exist to be filled. Mysteries exist to be solved. Legends are just timelines that haven’t been formalized yet. Fantastic fiction becomes a code to crack. [...] It’s like people really want to write a wiki, and have to come up with the pesky “moving, powerful, imaginative literature” stuff out of obligation. via
Joseph Gordon-Levitt covers "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt covers an iconic song that does not belong to him. [via Katie West's NSFW tumblr]
Famous 2.0
Famousr is a sort of celebrity hot or not.
Economic Principals and Some Pop Culture—David Warsh
Each week, David Warsh publishes a new essay about the principals of economics.
Previous topics have included rock 'n' roll economics, print journalism, and game theory.
He sets his task and carries it out, and he's been at it for more than five years now.
Tap Extravaganza
Fred Astaire said this five-minute sequence from Stormy Weather was the finest piece of tap dancing ever filmed. via
Idol.
Jason Toney at Negro Please says, "This is officially the whitest thing I have ever posted." I didn't know what Metal School was, and I still don't know.
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