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Apr 29

designtank: Slavery Footprint is a vivid demonstration of how to use the principles of design and the latest animation and jquery tools to tell a compelling story about the continued existence of slavery and how slaves are involved in producing the stuff we use every day. Wow. If only they didn’t have it as a continuous-scroll page, it might look a lot smoother.

designtank:

Slavery Footprint is a vivid demonstration of how to use the principles of design and the latest animation and jquery tools to tell a compelling story about the continued existence of slavery and how slaves are involved in producing the stuff we use every day.

Wow. If only they didn’t have it as a continuous-scroll page, it might look a lot smoother.

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For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.

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—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

I graduated from medical school in 2002. As of today, I am $202, 012.79 in debt. I pay about $840 a month. I will pay this for the next 29 and a half years and will therefore be 65 when I pay off my medical school loans. I am fortunate that my parents paid for my undergraduate education at Washington University in St. Louis. 

(via jayparkinsonmd)

(via jayparkinsonmd)

Apr 28

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jayparkinsonmd: My WWII Red Cross flag arrived. It smells like my grandparent’s home in Arkansas.

jayparkinsonmd:

My WWII Red Cross flag arrived. It smells like my grandparent’s home in Arkansas.

Apr 15

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Apr 14

Lee Rubenstein: How Tumblr Changed my Life -

lee:

I was in the room.

It was Fall 2006 and I was working in a shared office space with this small web shop called Davidville.

The open office space was different than what I was use to. Around 12:30 pm everyone stopped working and we would all cram into the elevator and head to the…

Sleepy Russell. (1/6, f3.5, Canon EF 100mm f2.8)

Sleepy Russell. (1/6, f3.5, Canon EF 100mm f2.8)

Apr 13

Spam from Nigeria via Ukraine

I just got an interesting piece of spam in my Gmail inbox, that made it past the spam filters.

I noticed a few points:

  1. Originating IP is assigned to Direct-on-PC Limited, Lagos, Nigeria.
  2. It was SPF-passed, it actually came from ukr.net.
  3. It had a valid DKIM signature too.
  4. It was sent from freemail.ukr.net, a Ukrainian mailhost.
  5. Spammer used Firefox 3.6.13. That release dates to December 9, 2010.
  6. It had part of my name on it.

Dropbox tech blog » Blog Archive » zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation -

A decent discussion of estimating password ‘strength’, or entropy. It’s certainly a more sophisticated (and nuanced) approach than most password requirement schemes. I hate it when systems require capital letters or numbers or special characters, there’s a strong whiff of design-by-committee.. and yes, my normal set of no-special-character passwords contain a lot more entropy than my conformist ones!