January 2012
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December 2011
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Astrologers and the Ottoman →
No one knows the future, although a lot of people would like to. No one knows either when mankind first looked at the stars and thought they saw the future. There is general agreement that astronomy and astrology arose in the Middle East and passed through the ancient Greeks to the Romans. Where Islam is concerned, it was the Arabian Desert Bedouins who knew about the moon and stars. Later,...
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“This day I had ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the...”
– Elie Wiesel, Night
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A couple weeks ago, I was involved with localizing...
Pretty cool, right? Here’re some screenshots of the Google docs we were using.
One was solely for the .tr people, and this was a collection of all the languages. Both are now closed, and any suggested translation fixes will be submitted as bug reports via email.
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The most important lesson I have taken from the last three and a half years is this: that even though we find ourselves drawn to the things we know and are comfortable with, it is important to challenge this comfort. If you are standing at the edge of a precipice between two stages in your life and you feel nervous or even scared, you’re doing it right.
So I guess I’m an alumnus now.
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“Yet what, in our brave new mediated world, is friendship becoming? The Facebook...”
– William Deresiewicz, Faux Friendship
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Can Turkey Make Its Mosques Feminist? →
A campaign to make Istanbul’s roughly 3,100 mosques more welcoming for women could set off a gender revolution in Turkey’s places of Islamic worship - and one that may not be uniformly welcomed.
Read more…
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Facebook's 'Other' Messages: Mail You Are Probably... →
On Nov. 15 at approximately 11:45 p.m., I left my 1-month-old MacBook Air in the back of a New York City cab. Quickly realizing my error, I freaked out: Hands shaking, I dialed the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, reported the cab’s medallion number (I had a receipt) and jotted down the phone number of city precincts where my cargo could end up (if a good Samaritan turned it in). Then, I...
“Tercihlerimin sonuçları katlanmayı için çok fazla olur.”
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http://jhnmyr.tumblr.com/post/13865661961/if-you-wa... →
jhnmyr:
If you want to be truly intimidating,
If you want to make an impact,
If you want to have strong connections with others
just be sincere.
Sarcasm is not an attitude, and it’s not a personality trait. It’s a style of rhetoric meant to be used occasionally to highlight a larger point. Saying you’re a sarcastic person is like saying your favorite cuisine is salt. Sarcasm is easy because...
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“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets...”
– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
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