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Obama's team eyes Arizona's Latino voters

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:55:59 -0400

President Obama, seen here speaking in Arizona, is looking to turn the state into a battleground with the help of Latino voters, a group that has traditionally punched below its weight at the voting booth in the Grand Canyon State. (Flickr: Intel Photos)

By URIEL J. GARCIA
Channel: Politics

PHOENIX – President Obama’s reelection team wants to turn Arizona from red to blue in 2012 with the help of Latino voters, but it will have to reverse a decades-old problem to accomplish that goal.

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Lower Manhattan on an amazing springish day. (Taken with...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:11:43 -0500

Lower Manhattan on an amazing springish day. (Taken with instagram)

I am watching Premier League “Warming...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:49:33 -0500

I am watching Premier League

“Warming up for SB Sunday. Chelsea vs. ManU tearing up the pitch.”

275 others are also watching Premier League on GetGlue.com

Climate Adaptation: Voting, not OWS, will change America

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:50:43 -0500

Climate Adaptation: Voting, not OWS, will change America:

climateadaptation:

Voting, not OWS, will change America

A low progressive turnout in 2010 got us into this mess. We can’t let that happen again

“Cop-out at the Polls

In 2008, more than 65 million Americans cast Democratic votes in congressional races, a 13 million-vote edge over the Republicans. In 2010,…

caturday: The History Of Art

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:03:32 -0400

caturday:

The History Of Art

Forrester to your IT dept: Let them use Macs

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:14 -0400

Forrester to your IT dept: Let them use Macs:

Employees are not only asking IT departments for Macs at work, they’re bringing their own into the office. The Forrester report finds that 22 percent of enterprise businesses foresee the use of Macs owned by employees “increasing significantly.” But at the same time 41 percent of those same companies don’t allow those employees to access e-mail or the company network on those machines, either at the office or from home. As analyst David Johnson writes, that just encourages people to spend their own time figuring out how to bypass these rules:
That leaves a lot of employees to find their own ways to get around corporate prohibition. Companies Forrester spoke with for this document described a gray market emerging internally, where employees share tips and strategies to use their Macs at work and bypass corporate roadblocks.

"Many city governments around the world are encouraging agriculture in urban areas—so long as it..."

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:29:48 -0400

“Many city governments around the world are encouraging agriculture in urban areas—so long as it stays small scale and doesn’t challenge the status quo. Mike Duff argues that cities must learn to embrace ‘urban ag’ social movements as a way to engage citizens in shaping their own cities, and encourage these movements to scale up to reduce the power of ‘big food’ businesses to subvert planning processes. The key challenge will be regulation—cities should create a new land use designation entitled ‘urban agricultural use’ to accommodate a healthy balance between urban lifestyles and urban farming.”

- How cities can embrace urban agriculture and weaken the grip of ‘big food’ | The Global Urbanist (via smartercities)

climateadaptation: No comment. Not only just that much, but...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:51:18 -0400

climateadaptation:

No comment.

Not only just that much, but the South. Boo.

"I Finally Cracked It."

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:16:51 -0400

"I Finally Cracked It.":

parislemon:

That’s what Steve Jobs revealed to Walter Isaacson in an interview for his forthcoming biography.

What was he talking about? The often rumored (and just as often dismissed) Apple television. Not the Apple TV, the current product, a full fledged television.

Six months ago, I laid out why I thought an Apple television was actually coming despite (and perhaps because of) the current conventional wisdom that it’s a low-margin business that Apple won’t bother with. My original thesis holds: the current television experience is shit from a user perspective. It’s popular despite being severely hamstrung by the powers that be (mainly the cable companies).

If Apple can do to this market what they did to the phone market — the sky is very much the limit. The convergence of computing and the living room will finally be realized.

Jobs’ quote above is key. He didn’t just reveal that Apple was thinking about the Apple television, but that he “cracked it”. That’s very exciting. It reminds me of Alan Bradley’s quote from Tron: Legacy. Talking about the missing Kevin Flynn:

Sam, two nights before he disappeared, he came to my house. “I’ve cracked it!” He kept saying.

#Apple *television*? Yes pls. Only thing weirder is a computer co. getting in2 cell phones, no?

"The cloud is not just about flexibility of access to compute power and storage and bandwidth, or..."

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:55:13 -0400

“

The cloud is not just about flexibility of access to compute power and storage and bandwidth, or about avoiding the thankless tasks of software installations, maintenance and upgrades; mobile is not just about ubiquity of access; cloud and mobile, together, are not just about the ability to “shift time” and “shift space”; social is not just about getting closer to the customer, about valuing relationships and capabilities; open is not just about the transformation of innovation, about partnering, about collaboration across boundaries.

The cloud paradigm is about all of this.

And about one more thing.

The capacity to change. Designed as an integral function. Native.

Changing capacity, scale, coverage, product set, devices, whatever. The cloud is about launching products, scaling them up, scaling them down, discontinuing them. The cloud is about entering …. and exiting … markets. The cloud is about delivering services to the device of choice; even if it didn’t exist when the original design was made.

The cloud is about change. Not about the steady state.

IT before the cloud was all about preserving and maintaining the steady state. And that’s why so many projects failed, and will continue to fail. A conflict of philosophy, as the agents of change try to batter down the walls of the mechanisms implemented to protect against change.

The monolithic systems of the past, largely concentrated on the back office, were built to achieve entirely different objectives: stable, repeatable processes executed at the lowest cost possible, designed to rebuff change.

The cloud is about change.

”

- J P Rangaswami, Thinking about change (via stoweboyd)
…we can believe in.

kateoplis: “[I]n my opinion there is no greater example of Washington politicians...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:52:55 -0400

kateoplis: “[I]n my opinion there is no greater example of Washington politicians...:

kateoplis:

“[I]n my opinion there is no greater example of Washington politicians and K Street lobbyists working against our future prosperity than in the treatment of student loan debt. To be clear, this problem existed even before the crisis; families have been taking on crushing debt to help the kids…

Truth.

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:17:22 -0400

Truth.

Never understood the hate for Kenny G. Brotha’s just doing...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:15:41 -0400

Never understood the hate for Kenny G. Brotha’s just doing his sax thing. Fun duet here.

Kenny G Is Apparently A Foster The People Fan, As Is Everyone Else It Seems
Up until a few weeks ago I had no idea who Foster The People were, but they came to play a show in my town and it seemed as though […]

Source: Uproxx

Pie. Used fresh apples me and the Mrs picked at Ripple Hill Farm...

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:34:05 -0400

Pie. Used fresh apples me and the Mrs picked at Ripple Hill Farm in Basking Ridge, NJ (always a fun autumn outing). This will get destroyed later :)

thebluthcompany: Four more years! Four more years! Change.

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:57:10 -0400

thebluthcompany:

Four more years! Four more years!

Change.

jessicavalenti: The trailer for “Being Elmo.” Yeah, I’m already...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:19:04 -0400

jessicavalenti:

The trailer for “Being Elmo.” Yeah, I’m already crying.

theclearlydope: Clearly Dope News: I think the world had...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:30:54 -0400

theclearlydope:

Clearly Dope News: I think the world had forgotten what good news felt like. Thanks cast and crew of AD for making this happen.

Woot!

sbnation: BEST NIGHT OF BASEBALL EVERRRRR And my old ass...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:41:53 -0400

sbnation:

BEST NIGHT OF BASEBALL EVERRRRR

And my old ass stayed up for the entire thing.

stoweboyd: Sean Carroll, Ten Things Everyone Should Know...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:00:14 -0400

stoweboyd:

Sean Carroll, Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language, yet it remains a mystery. We’ve just completed an amazingly intense and rewarding multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time, and my brain is swimming with ideas and new questions. Rather than trying a summary (the talks will be online soon), here’s my stab at a top ten list partly inspired by our discussions: the things everyone should know about time.

(via gravity7)

Time is fickle. That much I’m sure of.

Stowe Boyd: Google+ Is Worse Than A Ghost Town, It's Not Even Haunted

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:51:06 -0400

Stowe Boyd: Google+ Is Worse Than A Ghost Town, It's Not Even Haunted:

stoweboyd:

The verdict is rolling in. Commentator after commentator is ruling Google+ a failed experiment.

Dan Reimold, Google+ Social Media Upstart ‘Worse Than a Ghost Town’

Google+ is dead. At worst, in the coming months, it will literally fade away to nothing or exist as Internet plankton. At best,…

Something many saw coming. G+ — for all its inherent goodness — is simply the most pointless platform developed in the past five years.