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May 7th 2010
Tags: Linkage, apple, feminism, iphone, News, politics, psychology, race, science, sexism, Society, weight-issues

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Wal-Mart Discrimination Scandal - Why am I unsurprised to hear that Wal-Mart supposedly discriminates against its female employees? All sorts of subtle errors creep in when you forget race is a proxy for socioeconomic status | Prometheus 6 - "Nationwide, black women were twice as likely to be obese when compared ...

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September 9th 2010
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“Stealth” posted

"Stealth"--Chapter 11 of Witches--is up! "Actually," Darnell said as Hardi's hand moved toward the comm, "I don't think we're going to solve anything over a comm. I want to meet in person." Hardi hesitated, then said slowly, "I'll... talk it over with the folks here." "Hardi!" hissed Robert through the doorway. ...

September 8th 2010
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Weekly linkage

Just a few: Passive voice is killing your design documents - " I would argue that if the goal is to communicate clearly, actually stating and explaining the uncertainties is going to be much more helpful to readers." The Size Of Our World - Bad graphical quality, but cool comparison. 6174 (number) - ...

August 27th 2010
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Search-building: custom or Google

Until earlier this week, I had a lousy site search in place. It was one of Google's Custom Search Engines, barely configured and only on its own page, due to it's hefty (and blocking!) JavaScript. I'd long since disabled Wordpress's search since my stories aren't being run in ...