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Sunday Scraps 58

1. TECH: Great analysis from NYMag about the technological differences between Facebook and Instagram, and what makes one distrusted and the other beloved. What happens after the billion dollar purchase? 2. PROM: Religious and cultural restrictions prevented many Hamtramck students … Continue reading

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Announcement!

Fifteen months later, and Rosie Says has a Facebook page! Yippee. Do you like me? Do you really, really like me? Prove it.

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iFOMO

Apologies for absenteeism. Does anyone else ever get anxious that real life is getting in the way of all of the things you want to read on the internet? That doesn’t seem super healthy, but it’s honestly how I feel … Continue reading

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Rosie in the News #2

It’s time for another round of Rosie in the News! In 1942, the Ad Council created everyone’s favorite advertising category, the public service announcement. Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires! Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk! Just Say No! More … Continue reading

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What is it they say about absence?

Yesterday, as everyone who lives their lives connected to screens and keyboards knows, wikipedia went dark to protest SOPA. I would never have called myself a wikipedia addict, but in its absence I noted three separate instances where I went … Continue reading

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In Defense of Hugo

To the average person, the recent blow-up about Hugo Schwyzer’s feminist involvement has registered on the pop culture spectrum somewhere below what I had for breakfast. But, if you run in the Facebook and Twitter circles I run in, the … Continue reading

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Sunday Scraps 38

1. OCCUPY: The internet works its collective magic once again with the pepper spray meme. Watch the California cop nonchalantly spray his way through famous works of art in this Wired gallery. 2. SIGH: One of these things is not  … Continue reading

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(Belated) Sunday Scraps 33

Fun fact: As a child, I thought “belated” was actually “delated.” It seemed to make an odd sort of linguistic sense, deleted + delayed, right? 1. FACEBOOK: Moms are funny about the interwebs. Here are Bryan’s mom’s voicemails in which … Continue reading

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The Library on Facebook

The Chicago Public Library is getting hip to Facebook. Here’s what they posted: Just when you think it’s all books and smiles, this commenter jumps in: Libraries are worthless wastes of taxpayer money. Buy a Kindle, you lazy fuck. Of … Continue reading

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The 8pm Ban

Every month, GOOD Magazine recommends a 30-day-challenge, “a monthly attempt to live better.” For August, the challenge was to turn off the internet at 8pm. TV-watching was still kosher (thank God), but no blogging, tweeting, Facebook-stalking, emailing, Google Reader-reading, etc. … Continue reading

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