The girl in the window Three years ago detectives and a social worker arrived at a dilapidated house in Plant City and made a heartbreaking discovery: A tiny girl living in a dark closet. (tags: social news article toread psychology reading children people crime family parenting society abuse feral sad child …)
Uncle Bobby's Wedding "But if the library is doing its job, there are lots of books in our collection that people won't agree with; there are certainly many that I object to. Library collections don't imply endorsement; they imply access to the many different ideas of our culture, which is precisely our purpose in public [...]
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Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation Academy Award-winning director (The Incredibles and Ratatouille) talks about the importance, in his work, of pushing teams beyond their comfort zones, encouraging dissent, and building morale. He also explained the value of “black sheep”—restless co (tags: Animation Cinema Pixar art article business cartoons creative creativity culture design directors disney film [...]
Craigslist vs. Spammers Random text is added to each spam message to fool Craigslist's duplicate message detector. IP proxy sites are used to post from a wide range of IP addresses. E-mail addresses for reply are Gmail accounts conveniently created by Jiffy Gmail Creator ("Who E (tags: antispam article craigslist design social spam technology web [...]
The Most Curious Thing – Errol Morris The background story behind one of the notorious Abu Ghraib scandal photos. (tags: AbuGhraib Photography article education interview iraq news newyorktimes photo politics terrorism toread war writing …)
How We Are Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take Shoes are bad. I don’t just mean stiletto heels, or cowboy boots, or tottering espadrilles, or any of the other fairly obvious foot-torture devices into which we wincingly jam our feet. I mean all shoes. Shoes hurt your feet. They change how you walk. [...]
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The Wire's War on the Drug War By Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon "Our viewers worry or grieve for Bubbles, Bodie or Wallace, certain that these characters are fictional yet knowing they are rooted in the reality of the other America, the one rare (tags: Culture activism article crime drugs [...]