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July 2011
Interesting Find: meet the world campaign.
Icaro Doria, a Brazilian man, working for a magazine in Portugal started this campaign using real data from the UN and flag images, he’s created whats known as Meet the World. The colors within the flags from its respective country are used to represent current, geographical relevant issues. Take a look.
United States
Angola
Somalia
China
Colombia
Burkina
June 2011
Fourteen years ago today, the magic began.
30th June, 1997: The first ever edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released.
GIVE ME A FUCKING COLOUR
- Purple: 10 facts about my room.
- Blue: 9 facts about my family.
- Green: 8 facts about my body
- Yellow: 7 facts about my childhood
- Orange: 6 facts about my home town.
- Red: 5 facts about my first bestfriend(s).
- Pink: 4 facts about my parents.
- White: 3 facts about my personality.
- Grey: 2 facts about my favourite things.
- Black: 1 fact about the person I like.
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“And more importantly, what authors mean doesn’t really matter, I don’t think. What’s important is that critical reading can be a way into thinking quite deeply about questions that are difficult and complicated. And not in some, like, boring and abstract way, like ‘Ohh, in Moby Dick, white is a symbol for nature’s ambivalence to man,’ but instead in a concrete and totally interesting way like, nature’s complete indifference to you, as expressed by the color white in Moby Dick, is something that you had better get your head around or else you’re going to end up like Captain Ahab! So it’s not so much about uncovering secret mysteries for the sake of uncovering secret mysteries, it’s about using story as a way into thinking about our actual lives and how we’re actually living them.”
—John Green, in his latest video. (I agree). (via asmuchasmyselfastoyou)
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Jon Stewart has always been critical of Fox News, but this week, the Daily Show host turned the volume up several notches. After shaming the network for selectively editing his Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on yesterday’s program, Stewart spent several minutes tonight reading off a list of statements by Fox that independent fact-checking organization PolitiFact has proven to be false.
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“What I have learned from this season is I think people want story arcs.”
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Wait, what? You JUST learned this?
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