Only female mosquito’s’ bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
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"There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again."Douglas Adams (via kari-shma)
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Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.
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Boston Back-Bay from the Long Fellow Bridge (by Werner Kunz)
kind of want to go home
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Calzones in the shape of the Sorting Hat with pepperoni decorations.
too many favorite things
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Let this be a reminder to me for whenever I try to waste time on Tumblr during finals week.
Internet Access and the New Divide
Telecommunications, which in theory should bind us together, has often divided us in practice. Until the late 20th century, the divide split those with phone access and those without it. Then it was the Web: in 1995 the Commerce Department published its first look at the “digital divide,” finding stark racial, economic and geographic gaps between those who could get online and those who could not.
“While a standard telephone line can be an individual’s pathway to the riches of the Information Age,” the report said, “a personal computer and modem are rapidly becoming the keys to the vault.” If you were white, middle-class and urban, the Internet was opening untold doors of information and opportunity. If you were poor, rural or a member of a minority group, you were fast being left behind.
Over the last decade, cheap Web access over phone lines brought millions to the Internet. But in recent years the emergence of services like video-on-demand, online medicine and Internet classrooms have redefined the state of the art: they require reliable, truly high-speed connections, the kind available almost exclusively from the nation’s small number of very powerful cable companies. Such access means expensive contracts, which many Americans simply cannot afford.
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