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Les droits des gays aux USA, état par état
» Gay rights in the US, state by state. Une infographie intelligente du Guardian, qui se personnalise si vous vous connectez avec vos identifiants Facebook, pour vous montrer les lois de là où habitent vos amis (américains).
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Disaster looms
That wisest friend shares her pessimism—though not entirely: It’s a turning point for the country. Dark days could be ahead. It all depends on the markets and on Hollande’s capacities. If they’re as deep as the ones he showed in running a campaign against so many odds, then we’re okay—if not, disaster looms. » The
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Publicité et nouvelles façons de regarder la télévision
Here’s the wow-quote of the day, from Jeff Gaspin, the head of entertainment at NBC, explaining to The New York Times, with remarkable clarity and certainty, that watching TV shows on-demand is more satisfying than watching them live. « The commercials broke the tension … I hate to say this to the AMC executives and everybody
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Hunger Games Tweets : White until proven black
On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games, logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games
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It Gets Betterish
» It Gets Betterish.
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Bully et la véritable obscénité
With its unerring instinct for being on the wrong side of every major social and aesthetic issue, the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board has refused to budge off its R rating for Bully, an earnest and moving documentary made for and about tormented preteens and teenagers. There’s almost a perverse, Santorum-style integrity about the MPAA’s
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Not just for vegetarians
« For the people who are like, ‘I want to eat, but I want to eat something healthy,’ I think their only choice used to be a vegetarian restaurant, » Ms. Cohen said. « We wanted to be more mainstream, and not just for vegetarians. We really wanted to serve good food. » » When a Tofu Dog Can’t
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La révolution informatique de la Maison Blanche
In eight weeks, 40 applications were built, including a parking application that had previously been done in Excel, and a printer dashboard to tell them when a printer was running out of toner. The program also led to the development of survey tools, memo generators, and an online tool that replaced paper-based goods and services
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«This American Life» retire un de ses épisodes pour bidonnage
I have difficult news. We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth. This is not a story we commissioned. It was an excerpt of Mike Daisey’s acclaimed one-man show « The Agony and
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La culture toxique de Goldman Sachs
Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its