MORE TROLLS THAN A MID-LEVEL DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN | chronicles of harriet I have been the victim of trolling. Recently, a person tried to bait me into an argument, or get a rise out of me by insulting my latest book release, A Single Link, without reading it. When that didn’t work, they said they were purchasing another book that released the same day as A Single Link. Fine by me; my short story, Brood is in that book, too. Silly rabbit. No, not rabbit…troll. In Internet slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a group forum, chat room, or blog. While trolling – the term for the discordant actions of a troll – can be accidental, it is usually done with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment and bullying. In Icelandic, þurs refers to trolls. Like this:
FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtown | Hollywood, Interrupted Three hundred miles due north of Deadwood, South Dakota and roughly half as many years past its 1870s heyday, a new gold rush is threatening to give that storied spectacle of exuberant capitalism a run for its money. In a country with an unofficial underemployment rate of 20%, the tiny railroad whistle-stop of Williston, North Dakota near the Montana border (population 17,000 and spiking) is currently at capacity: There’s not a motel room to be had in the city, housing prices are double what they were a year ago ($300,000 for a two-bedroom home), and the daily onslaught of new arrivals is reduced to living in their cars, RVs, sporadic tent cities or the rapidly proliferating “man camps” – clusters of trailers in an open field that pack in oil patch workers dormitory style, sometimes six to a room. Access to running water and simple sanitation is so rare that public businesses have had to lock their bathrooms to discourage makeshift sponge baths or the dumping of wastewater.
9 Easy Ways to Remember Your Presentation Material : Lifestyle Crush your anxiety with these methods that will help you thoroughly remember all of your slides before you get to them. April 11, 2012 One of the most common reasons we experience presentation anxiety is the fear that we will forget what we have to say and risk losing credibility. A method many use to address this fear is to create PowerPoint slides as a memory aid. However, this is short-sighted because nothing erodes your credibility as a speaker faster than signaling to the audience that you are dependent on your slides. Seasoned presenters are able to announce a slide before showing it. Here are nine tips to help you remember what you have to say. 1. Research into brain science has proven that there is a very deep connection between the way we remember an event and the space in which it occurred. 2. Mind maps are diagrams that allow you to lay out all of your presentation material in a visual shape rather than in list form. 3. 4. How long should you be rehearsing your presentation? 5.
Here is Some Legitimate Science on Pregnancy and Rape | Context and Variation Trigger warning: discussion of violence against women and graphic mention of miscarriage. So Congressperson Todd Akin of Missouri has said some interesting things. Referring to the possibility of pregnancy after rape, and whether abortion should be allowed in this circumstance, he said according to his understanding “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” but that, should one embryo slip through, that “the punishment should be on the rapist, and not attacking the child.” In Akin’s non-apology about his insensitivity towards the “thousands” of rape survivors each year, he remains firm on the point that abortion shouldn’t be allowable for pregnant victims, saying “…I believe deeply in the protection of all life and I do not believe that harming another innocent victim is the right course of action.” I don’t like writing about rape. Some legitimate context Think of all the illnesses and conditions that make the news regularly. But.
Dog stuck in a dog (1 HQ Photo) I received a story from Tim West this morning. He noticed a very awkward occurrence on his way to work today, “I was driving through Delano, CA this morning and I came across the strangest thing I’ve seen. I saw these two dogs trotting down the street, ass-to-ass, and I wondered what the hell. I pulled over and upon further inspection I found the larger dogs swollen and engorged penis was stuck inside the smaller chihuahua female dog. The big dog was dragging the little dog, her legs were raised high off the ground and the front paws were just sliding as she was being dragged.
90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies — betashop On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.” It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. The discussion quickly turned to those 57 things. As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. So, here goes. 90 Things I’ve Learned Founding 4 Tech Companies:
‘He had the courage to day unpopular things’: No praise for courting controversy By Guest Contributor Tami Winfrey Harris, cross-posted from What Tami Said This post is not about Christopher Hitchens. It is just that eulogizing of the writer has me pondering the adulation we give people and ideas believed to be outside the bounds of “political correctness.” Hitch was a polarizing figure: He could be a louche wit and raconteur, an exceptional writer, a tireless advocate for the Godless, a moving chronicler of the end of life and also a pompous sexist, racist warmonger and Islamophobe, drunk on privilege (and whatever else). Now, despite all that, many folks were fond of Hitchens–at least that is the impression I get from comments on Gawker, Salon, Slate and the like. At the root of the discussion is the myth of “political correctness,” which I wrote about a few years ago in this space: Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some important truth is not being spoken for fear of offending someone.
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