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• Gay Rights in the U.S. (State by State) May 9, 2012
  Marriage, hospital visits, adoption, employment, housing, hate crimes, schools.. Get the picture! Interactive charts from the The Guardian
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• Maurice Sendak: 1928-2012 May 9, 2012
  If I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer. All children were in [...]
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• The Fairy/La Fée May 9, 2012
  Run to the Plaza Frontenac Before Friday! (1:40 4:10) 7:10 9:30 The film’s website with its US screenings My short review: The Fairy/La Fée As Wallace Stevens has eloquently bemoaned, “reality is a cliché,” and The College of Pataphysics in France has for years attempted to remedy that particular form of cataclysm. Unbeknownst to most [...] […]
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• Contre la Gueule de Bois (Against the Hangover) May 8, 2012
  Le Monde, Blogs: La soupe miso avec des oeufs Les Oméga 3: Vous en trouverez dans les algues, l’huile de chanvre, le lin, les poissons gras, les noix et les légumes verts. Le Kombucha Faites l’amour ou des câlins. Faites vous masser. Les hammams ou les saunas. Faites de l’exercice! Un smoothie banane/myrtilles/chou frisé/citron. L’eau […]
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• Marceline Loridan et sa surVIE May 1, 2012
  Premier Épisode de Cinq heures d’un Grand Entretien avec Marceline Loridan sur France Inter Et les quatres autres épisodes en Podcast Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Marceline Rosenberg) naît à Epinal le 19 mai 1928 de parents juifs polonais émigrés en France. Arrêtée avec son père par la Gestapo en 1944, elle est déportée à Auschwitz-Birkenau puis [...] […]
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• Ways of Seeing: the Iconoclast John Berger at the Confluence of Art & Commerce April 26, 2012
  The 1972 classic BBC four hour series - 40 years ago, still with a punch - Impossible to purchase, except in book form which is like trying to ingest the freeze-dried ingredients for a soup… This is a sound and visual event, a must see for anyone wanting to see behind the so-called high and [...]
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• ALL TALK April 26, 2012
  The Human Voice, as Game Changer by Natasha Singer in the New York Times Technology section (with Sherry Turkle giving her perspective).
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• “Smart Siri” – Voice Answer for $1.99 instead of $3.99 April 25, 2012
  Works on iOS devices and Android, powered in part by the all powerful Wolfram Alpha. The next Voice Answer update will integrate the above robot animation, as well as much of the functionality of Sparkling Apps‘ other app, Place. Examples of topics and specific questions: Mathematics: ‘Integrate sin x dx from x=0 to pi’ Units [...]
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• SayHi Translate NOW for $.99 instead of $3.99 April 25, 2012
  Until the imminent next update (which will boost the number of languages/dialects from 23 to 33). By Nuance, the makers of the many excellent Dragon apps, and Siri. Right now does English (United States, United Kingdom, Australia), Spanish (United States, Mexico, Spain), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin (China, Taiwan), Cantonese, […]
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• Bono’s “A Dog Called Hope” – Written in Israel April 18, 2012
  From Haaretz U2′s front man Bono surprised Israeli passers-by earlier this month with his sudden visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed published the note Bono left behind at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, which consists of a poem about how “hope is like a faithful dog,” and his sketch of “a dog called [...]
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