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For those of you looking for Christmas Light displays in Silicon Valley: http://www.lightsofthevalley.com/
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RT @onicarpeso: "I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy" - Ludwig
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Consider giving a gift this holiday to legal fund of America's political prisoner, @LeonardPeltier http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/donate... 30 years in a cage
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RT @Alyssa_Milano: Free the hikers! http://freethehikers.org/ ♥ Angel Standing By http://www.youtube.com/watch... #SSJ (@freethehikers @Kevin_DeSoto)
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#in2010 My friends, the #USHikers detained in Iran, will be released from Evin Prison! #SSJ @FreetheHikers
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Funniest Christmas Decorations - Huffington Post put together a fun little slide show of the funniest Christmas dec... http://www.zillow.com/blog...
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@laddiethemutt Merry ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Christmas Laddie! ...snicker...Gotcha! ❆ ¸.•*´¯) ¸.•*´¯) #twittersnowballfights (¯`*•.(¯`*•.¸ ❆
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RT @GenaLivings: The greatest power we have is the power to change our mind.
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@PattyTownley http://www.twitpic.com/upzru picture of my dear friend I just lost-- him and I posing at Third Day :) @jasonmitchener
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RT @MARCOME: Problems are chances 4 us 2 do our best.-Duke Ellington http://www.dukeellington.com/
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How to Minimize Stress and Maximize Cheerfulness during the Holidays - http://www.positivityblog.com/index...
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"“May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart!” Eskimo proverb The holidays are here. It is snowing and blowing a cold wind outside of my window. Christmas decorations are hanging in just about every window in the house next door. The holidays bring a lot of things. There is great food, awesome presents and wonderful company as you spend time with the people closest to you. But there is also the stress and sometimes negativity that often comes with the holidays. So you may feel the need to relax and let go of some negativity. Here are four simple and effective tips for doing just that."
- Melissa
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I'm a big fan of peace :)
- Michael W. May
@LEKKERGOED @Pecor @robert3242 @CynGagen @Nosakhare @TheShamley @theComplexMedia I truly appreciate you! #ThanksForBeingAmazing
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Open Question: HOW TO USE BLUETOOTH?? 10 EASY POINTS!!? http://answers.yahoo.com/questio...
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♥ “The greatest healing therapy is #friendship and #love.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
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"If #you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches" ~ Andrew Davidson
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What can you do today 2 elevate your experience & match your true nature?
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Pray
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"Nothing is #impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." ~ Jonathan Winters
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I choose to be free from any resistances, internal or external. #resistance
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"A vision without action is an illusion. An action without vision is confusion!" ~ Willie Jollie
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Heating and cooling with solar energy. All year lo... http://vikingmservices.blogspot.com/2009...
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Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.-S.Rabin Tks 4 all the smiles! http://www.marcome.com/blog...
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An Eerie Video Tour of the World's Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall - http://gizmodo.com/5432221...
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'South China Mall, built in Dongguan and more than twice as large as Minnesota's Mall of America, was completed in 2005. Today, it sits almost completely empty. It is, by any account, the world's largest ghost mall.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
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Now we know where to film the next Blues Brothers movie.
- Spidra Webster
Damn, I wanna visit. Looks like it'd be a great place to shoot. They got gondolas and human-sized hamster balls on water fer cryin' out loud.
- ronin
turning creature comforts into spiritual comforts at the South China Mall!
- veo
Exclusive: Producer Dan Lin on the Live Action/Animation TOM AND JERRY Movie and BONE by Jeff Smith - http://www.collider.com/2009...
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"Dan Lin: No, it’s very, very different. I mean, the best way tonally again is Shrek meets Lord of the Rings. Very fantastical but between the Bone characters just a lot of comedy."
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"Dan Lin: It depends on the title. Bone, honestly, is not because of the Comic Con crowd. It’s just that we loved the book and the studio loves the book. And in that case it’s a big seller as far as the Comic-Con world and it’s a cult favorite, but the fan base isn’t big enough when you look at other properties that justify the studio saying okay we’re going to buy it just because of...
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"So you’re thinking that for fans of the material sometime early next year we’re going to hear something either way? Dan Lin: Yes. I’m thinking in first quarter of next year you’ll hear who’s the director of Bone and that’ll give you a sense of where we’re going. "
- RAPatton
Jeff Smith comes from an animation background (owned his own animation company after graduating from Ohio State, and that is often attributed to his success), so I am hopeful any animated effort will benefit from it
- RAPatton
The Unreal 3 Engine running on a 3rd-gen iPod Touch - http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpre...
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I do NOT want these for my birthday. And if anyone ever *thinks* about buying this crap for my girl, I'll stomp a hole in them AND talk bad about they mama all over the internet.
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You thought I was annoyed when I posted all the pink MiniBlocs and Tinkertoys crap, this had me fuming. A fucking pink 8 ball? SERIOUSLY? This stupid marketing to girls has got to stop. I managed to play Yahtzee just fine without a furry pink cup and dice with friggin' butterflies and flowers.
- Admiral Anika
The telescope and microscope had me seeing red. What bull.
- Admiral Anika
All that pink is right up there with the science sets for girls that focus on making thinks like lip gloss.
- Katy S
I was scared to pick up the 8ball. I didn't want to see responses being, "OMG, like, totally!"
- Admiral Anika
Everything here has terrified me.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
My 5 yr old daughter would love these :(
- WorldofHiglet
Pink is so overdone with girls' stuff... and it looks like it's gotten worse.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Hig, you do see Ilia's hand on the telescope. I just sucked my teeth and kept on walking.
- Admiral Anika
The latest offense I've seen is the lilac *Hanna Montana* PSP. This stuff aggravates me so. much.
- Kamilah Gill
Anika, is Ilia not allowed to have ANYTHING pink?
- Soup
I don't mind the pink telescope in particular. I don't feel that girls should have to shun pink in order to like science (and while I'd be really, really annoyed to be limited to lip gloss and makeup...if you think about it, all of those products require a mastery of chemistry as well as many other things and yet they're looked down on simply because women are the primary market…I had a...
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- joey
What's wrong with a science set that makes lip gloss? It's still chemistry, and not all chemists have to be pharmaceutical researchers. If it gets a young girl interested in science, let it be pink. Maybe then if it is pink, she won't have to worry about her peers thinking she's a nerd or somehow less-than-feminine for liking things that aren't traditionally thought of as feminine pursuits.
- cecily
The pinkification I still find dangerous - again this idea that to be "ok" a girl has to fit such a narrow narrow narrow range, this conformism you pick up, this required constant worry about fitting in and what others might think... I think it is conditioning. On the other hand the trivialisation of "girly" interests is also negative, the idea that if you make red ink or light acid...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I'm raising my kid not to be worried about what others think of her. I don't care what the chemistry set makes, it's that it's pink. She can make lip glass with a standard chemistry set. I don't see how making things pink make it okay for a girl to pursue certain interests. I had most of these toys as a child in normal primary colors. Besides extracting more money from parents (because yes, these do costs more than the "regular" ones) what purpose does the pink serve besides to trivialize?
- Admiral Anika
And Ilia has pink stuff. I don't like it, but she does. <--That has nothing to do with pink being "girly" I just think the color is pukey. But I don't go out of my way to buy her pink stuff (Sanrio stuff, excepted) and depending on the item, I'll let it slide. But this stuff? HELL NO.
- Admiral Anika
Pink doesn't trivialize. Pink is a colour. We put our own meaning on it. EDIT: And while I'm not a parent, I was a little girl/teenage girl once, and I know that sometimes the opinions of our peers counts more than the opinions of our parents. If that weren't the case, I never would've ridden my bike in the street, rollerskated down the huge hill at my elementary school, or as I got...
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- cecily
Joelle, that's how I feel about it...that there are implications on both sides for conditioning and of trivialization of traditionally 'feminine' interests. It's tough, because both of them are things that I want to avoid.
- joey
Okay, maybe the color itself doesn't trivialize, but the flowers and butterflies on the Yahtzee game, the fact that the telescope is less powerful, but costs more, the microscope that that doesn't come with blood or bug slides...I have a pretty smart, girly girl who is interested in science as it is.
- Admiral Anika
And FWIW, I hated pink as a little girl, unless it was pale pink ribbons on the ends of my pigtails. :)
- cecily
Anika, if the telescope is less powerful and that the microscope is less complete, etc. then that is a totally different issue to me. THAT is trivializing. Like, 'oh here, have your play toy while the boys have their real one.'
- joey
What Joey said. It isn't about the colour necessarily, it's about that they're limiting the features because they're targeting girls.
- cecily
And Cecily, I was raised (as just about everyone in our family) that what others think of your (honest) pursuits, the clothes you wear and all that is frivolous as long as you do what makes you happy and enjoy your pursuits. I'm teaching her the same thing. I've never been a herd-follower. If anyone had an issue with it when I was little, I never heard it. I got mocked for clothes I wore, but then in a year everyone else was wearing it too. Still, never cared because I thought I looked good. =)
- Admiral Anika
Here's the boys version of the telescope. They look similarly featured: http://www.toysrus.com/product...
- cecily
I think it's less about being part of the 'herd', than it is part of a child's process of individuating from their parents and making their own choices, even if those choices are informed by their friends. There are different spheres of influence, and they all contribute to a child's development.
- cecily
I think so long as you don't make it not okay for Ilia to like pink your efforts, Anika, are commendable. She (and any other little girl) should never feel they can ONLY use some colours/toys/items just as they shouldn't feel they can NEVER use some colours/toys/items. As far as children following their parents example or their peers...it really depends on the child and on the home life. I never cared what other kids my age thought of me, in fact I generally thought they were immature little drones.
- Soup
By the way Anika, how old is Ilia? I think she might be quite small yet, yes? I ask because I have a book series I think you'd both enjoy but it's a chapter book series for young adults (late elementary-middle school depending on the kid)
- Soup
She's 6.5 right now. She's been getting read chapter books for the past 3 years. It's only recently that I started reading her fiction for her age group.
- Admiral Anika
Why is blue not crammed down the throats of our little boys the way pink is for our girls? How come all their toys aren't in blue? Where is the blue is for boys easy bake oven that makes bug shaped cakes? Little blue vacuum cleaners that don't pick up as much dirt as the ones made for little girls? Yeah sure you can say there is nothing wrong with all this inferior pink girly crap meant...
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- April Russo (app103)
April, I agree with much of that, but by saying that only the 'blue' one is the 'legitimate' one, we're already making it just as bad for boys and cramming each gender in their respective box. Why is blue or black or whatever real and 'regular' (the standard of normalcy) and pink fake and inferior? I just think the issues go deeper than the color. Who decides what is 'overly' feminine...
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- joey
As a parent of small children of both sexes, I think this hyper-gendertyping is dangerous for them both. It's almost impossible to buy my son regular clothes. They're covered in modes of transportations, reptiles and such. There IS a boy's version of the Easy Bake oven and it's blue and grey. My kids play just fine with their toys at home. Both of my kids used to carry a little pink...
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- Admiral Anika
Anika, I agree. I think we should have choices and that there should be more neutrality in general rather than things typed for one gender being 'normal' while others are 'inferior' or things being segregated. *&&*^#&$^ marketing.
- joey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguar... discusses some of the problems with the pinkification of everything for girls.
- Deborah Fitchett
Deborah, thanks for that link.
- Andrew C
Oh boy, Anika, don't come to Japan then. A story: a friend from the US came to a dinner, and we went to a nice Japanese restaurant in Tokyo called Gompachi (where Bush and Koizumi went, but that's a different WMD). He had to use the boy's room, and so I steered him in that direction. After a couple minutes, he comes back to the table and asks: so, er, which is the mens' room - the...
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- Rick Cogley
While this video is a parody of the feminizing of toys and games, it really does hit the nail right on the head with what is wrong with so much of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- April Russo (app103)
And a good article (with lots of links at the end) about how gender roles are learned from an early age through toys: http://contexts.org/socimag...
- April Russo (app103)
I can't help thinking that if it were really a "it's just a color; some people like pink" issue, then these toys would come in a rainbow of colors, not just a couple of narrowly gender-associated colors.
- Rachel Walden
+Rachel
- Kamilah Gill
Orangutan takes her own photos (video) - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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New Blog Post! Can You Identify These Animal Tracks? http://blog.virginiaparks.org/blog....
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