2 month ago
gleuschk : The Speech - Chicago Magazine - June 2007 - Chicago - four years ago this week, Obama
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Andy Baio : Patton Oswalt's commencement speech at his old high school - "There Is No Them." [via]
gleuschk : Patton Oswalt's high school graduation speech - high-larious
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3 month ago
Linkorama : 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights - The governmental role that companies play online is taking on greater importance as their services — from online hangouts to virtual repositories of photos and video — become more central to public discourse around the world. It's a fallout of the Int
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4 month ago
deusx : 3 Internet Providers Agree to Block Access to Child Pornography - NYTimes.com - "This literally threatens our children, and there can be no higher priority than keeping our children safe." Just Usenet? Why not just shut off the whole net?
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6 month ago
Linkorama : From Al Gore’s Chief Speechwriter: Simple Tips for a Damn Good Presentation
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7 month ago
Linkorama : How to Inspire People Like Obama Does - Public speaking skills are critical to the success of every leader. Here are four techniques you can borrow from the Presidential candidate
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10 month ago
gleuschk : The Mythical 5% - very similar things could be said about mathematicians
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14 month ago
deusx : Tact Filters - "Most "normal people" have the tact filter positioned to apply tact in the outgoing direction. ... "Nerds," on the other hand, have their tact filter positioned to apply tact in the incoming direction."
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Linkorama : For Corporations Spending is Speech - And let's be clear, the lawsuit gives corporations and not individuals the right to freedom of speech. Roberts explicitly argues the case for 501c(4) and PACs.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Old Revolutions Good, New Revolutions Bad - Clay's response to Gorman
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Linkorama : Why We Hate - What it comes down to, I think, is that we are emotional creatures under enormous modern stress and prone to groupthink.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct - Good guidelines for blogging literacy, but I wouldn't call it a code
jimray : Tim O'Reilly calls for a blogger's code of conduct - This will go over well...
Khoi Vinh : Tim O’Reilly: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct - Overview in today’s New York Times.
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gleuschk : How the Internet is saving the interjection. - By Ben Yagoda - Slate Magazine - It's so hard not to type "Meh" here.
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gleuschk : Benjamin Peirce's outgoing Presidential Address to the Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. - people just don't give speeches like this anymore.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Bloggers are Journalists - Or a third way: let it go
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30 month ago
philgyford : Speech Accent Archive - Hear people from different parts of the world recite the same paragraph. Fascinating.
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30 month ago
philgyford : IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive - Another archive of people from around the world speaking texts with their different accents.
jkottke : The International Dialects of English Archive has a ton of mp3 files of people speaking English from all over the world - The International Dialects of English Archive has a ton of mp3 files of people speaking English from all over the world. "All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the acc
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31 month ago
plasticbag : A grid explaining the various characters of the International Phonetic Alphabet - This is actually sort of beautiful if you're nerdy - a one page representation of all the noises that people use in speech, quite well typographically laid-out. From Wikipedia...
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33 month ago
Linkorama : an open letter to blizzard entertainment - It would be deeply regrettable if incidents such as this were ignored, when they might be used to explore how we can live together within the virtual worlds.
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33 month ago
kayodeok : C-SPAN: State of the Union - Transcripts of State of the Union Addresses from 1945 to 2006
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33 month ago
jkottke : 3quarksdaily has the full-text of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech given on August 28,1863 at the Lincoln Memorial in Wash. DC - 3quarksdaily has the full-text of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech given on August 28,1863 at the Lincoln Memorial in Wash. DC. Audio of the speech available here. (Also, King's I've Been to the Mountaintop and declaration against the Vietnam
kayodeok : I have a dream - This is the full text of MLK's heroic and devastatingly moving speech delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. I strongly urge you to read it again, if you haven't done so in a while, and I defy you to remain unmoved by it
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33 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : Hindsights by Guy Kawazaki
kayodeok : Hindsights - Delay, as long as possible, the inevitable entry into the workplace and a lifetime of servitude to bozos who know less than you do, but who make more money
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Trolling Is Now Illegal: Two Years In Jail - If you're anonymously annoying online, you face two years in jail.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Sanger on Seigenthaler’s criticism of Wikipedia - That was a part of Seigenthaler’s column that bothered me: what exactly does Seigenthaler want Congress to do?
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