August 2011
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Earthquake intensity calculator
newshour:
Enter your ZIP code to see how intense the quake was reported to be where you live and how far you were from the epicenter in Virginia.
(This is using the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale NOT Richter scale. MORE) Embed this yourself - get the embed code here.
Seven floors up, 5.1 felt pretty intense. (Sort of made me nostalgic for tornadoes, where at least the ground stays...
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“The original story of Times New Roman’s genesis goes like this: Morison wrote a...”
– Katherine Eastland traces the secret history of the world’s most popular font, Times New Roman. (via thedailyfeed)
“The kids seem to particularly like the dog-themed books; they seem to think the...”
– from “Reading to dogs may have benefits for children” (Boston Globe)
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“People in restaurants have a sense that they want to create an entertainment...”
– Eng San Kho, a partner at the New York design firm Love and War, quoted in a Slate piece exploring why so many restaurant websites are “so horrifically bad”
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via PEJ: For Communications Grads, Slight... →
From the post:
The report shows a 2.7% rise in employment from 2009, when 55.5% reported having a full–time job one year after graduation. And 2009 was the worst year in 25 year history of the survey and the first time the rates dropped below 60%. Lee Becker, the report’s co-author and the director of the Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of...
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Book Titles I Love: The Cambridge Handbook of... →
via this interesting Slate piece on writing [faster]
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