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“What are you most thankful for?”

This is how you do it. [Starts at 18:30 mark] Pretty normal pre-game press conference from Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel…there’s usually a gem in each, & his notion of gratitude & responsibility to everyone around him has been a consistent vibe since he took over the team.

[via] Why Every Twitter User Should Archive and Lock Down Their Data

“Now is a good time to take steps to lock down your Twitter account, grab what data you can, review where you’re using Twitter to sign in to other online services, and delete anything you’d rather not live on a site that may be on its last legs. Taking these steps could protect you from […]

Where will newly unemployed ‘tech workers’ go?

This: “It has become fashionable for VCs to talk about how all these tech companies are overstaffed,” wrote Emily Mazo, an organizer with the labor advocacy group Collective Action in Tech, in an email. “Any of the workers who just got laid off will likely tell you that they were in fact understaffed, that they […]

[via] Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man?

“One of Vonnegut’s most famous lines is from 1961’s Mother Night: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Vonnegut often pretended to be nicer than he was, which was good for both his ego and his income.” Source: Dorian Lynskey in UnHerd: Was Kurt Vonnegut […]

Glad tidings, our 10th “xx Day” is upon us.

From 4/26/2012 (my first hearing) til now, #1 on the chart…well, I mean TBH this Last.fm chart isn’t really accurate — there was a time when my phone wouldn’t scrobble & it was a lazy few months before I fixed it… & of course all of the vinyl spins are missing — the analog curse […]