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“There should be a drug class, there should be sex education, there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on Apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on.. gym.”

-Young Tupac

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A great inspiring story. Misfortune is no match for perseverance. Good luck Samantha!

A New York teen who was living at a homeless shelter when she was picked as a semifinalist in a prestigious national science competition has moved into her new home.

Samantha Garvey and her family were handed the keys to their house in Bay Shore, Long Island on Saturday.

Garvey says she was “overwhelmed” by the support and generosity she’s received since being named a semifinalist in the Intel Science contest last month. She wasn’t among the 40 finalists.

“I was homeless, and I didn”t have a house, and because of the kindness of all these strangers, I do—I have a house! I couldn’t have gotten here without education—you make the best of it because it’s the end to so many things,” Garvey told Newsday.

The Brentwood High School senior and her family had been living in a homeless shelter when her two years of research on a mussel population garnered her accolades.

Suffolk County officials helped find a three-bedroom home where the family could live. Officials also noted that Garvey’s family received no special treatment. Deputy Social Services Commissioner Edward Hernandez told the Daily News, “It’s perfect timing. The house opened up while they were in the shelter. They’re exactly the type of family that is eligible for this program. They can stay until they don’t need it anymore.”

deployable and disgusting

Nooreen Hayat, 7, holds her tools after finishing her work of breaking coal in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad on February 1, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

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Connery says Dr No to Steve Jobs

Scammers beware. Your days are numbered.

Companies such as Google, PayPal, Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up to create a standard to help boost email security. They are part of a working group to create the DMARC standard, for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance. It’s aimed at authenticating email to stop the spread of email that looks like it’s from a legitimate sender but is really an attempt to get someone to visit a malicious web site and enter his passwords.

Zocial CSS social buttons

I basically rewrote this entire set so they are full vector buttons, meaning:

• @font-face icons
• custom font file for all social icons
• em sizing based on button font-size
• support for about 44 different services
• buttons and icons supported
• no raster images (sweet)
• works splendidly on any browser supporting @font-face
• CSS3 degrades gracefully in IE8 and below etc.

Check out the demo. Fork at GitHub

Now Twitter can expand into China ;)

Mesmerizing! The Seven Best Auroras From the Biggest Solar Storm In Seven Years

♥ Internet Rebellion by Arion should be the theme song for the Internet Spring. So much angst I luv it

Don’t forget to freely download and share Internet Rebellion :)

Phottik is helping me work ;)

Photik - Trance Addiction (Episode 008) [Arty Tribute Mix]

1. Above & Beyond vs. Arty vs. Ferry Tayle & Static Blue - Good Trapeze (Above & Beyond Mashup) 
2. D-Mad - She Gave Happiness (Arty Remix) 
3. Cosmic Gate - Back To Earth (Arty Remix) 
4. Arty & Mat Zo - Rebound (Original Mix) 
5. Kyau & Albert - Are You Fine (Arty Remix) 
6. Above & Beyond vs. Kyau & Albert vs. Arty - Anphonic Thing Called Love (Photik Mashup) 
7. Mike Foyle presents Statica - Blossom (Arty Remix) 
8. Darren Tate vs. Jono Grant - Let The Light Shine In 2010 (Arty Remix) 
9. Arty - Kate (Original Mix) 
10. Mat Zo & Arty vs. Oceanlab - Satellite Dynamics (Mat Zo Mashup) 
11. Mat Zo & Arty - Mozart (Original Mix) 
12. Arty feat. Tania Zygar - The Wall (Arty Remode Mix) 
13. Paul Van Dyk feat. Sue McLaren - We Come Together (Arty Remix) 
14. Ferry Corsten - Punk (Arty Rock-n-Rolla Mix)

Liquid Kaos Feat Kirsty Hawkshaw - Back In Time - CaPa Remix - OUT 30.1.12

We don’t look back in time!

"Most people are willing to trade fidelity for utility
I’ll forgo utility since it’s within the fidelity that holds the deeper art"

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A couple of responses to NYTime articles, How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work and In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad.

There are two stories about Apple: one is about its brilliant business performance, and the other is about the blood and sweat behind Apple miracles. I strongly recommend that all Apple fans read this. Corporations should bear social responsibilities, and customers should also understand and be responsible to the society. — 花甲小猪

I read this story and I’m saddened. It’s not only Apple that should be blamed, but also the system that tolerates its existence. Made-in-China should not be synonymous with the blood and sacrifice of young lives. — Evita

If not to buy Apple, what’s the substitute – Samsung? Don’t you know that Samsung’s products are from its OEM factory in Tianjin? Samsung workers’ income and benefits are even worse than those at Foxconn. If not to buy iPad – (do you think) I will buy Android Pad? Have you ever been to the OEM factories for Lenovo and ASUS? Quanta, Compaq … factories of other companies are all worse than those for Apple. Not to buy iPod – (do you think) I will buy Aigo, Meizu? Do you know that Aigo’s Shenzhen factory will not pay their workers until the 19th of the second month? If you were to quit, fine, I’m sorry, your salary will be withdrawn. Foxconn never dares to do such things. First, their profit margin is higher than peers as they manufacture for Apple. Second, at least those foreign devils will regularly audit factories. Domestic brands will never care if workers live or die. I am not speaking for Foxconn. I am just speaking as an insider of this industry, and telling you some disturbing truth. — Anonymous

1) It is a pity that, we know that for Apple fans, such a story won’t stop their enthusiasm. Just like people are still buying Nike and Adidas shoes, knowing that shoe manufacturing is highly environmentally hazardous; 2) if a government cannot guarantee the welfare of its own 120 million disadvantaged population and even suppresses their appeals, then how could we require an overseas company to protect the labor rights in a Chinese factory? —Jionglegejiong