“Boerum Hill and Park Slope residents are outraged that a shuttered Fourth Avenue KFC that’s slated to become a McDonald’s has become a garbage-filled eyesore, saying the world’s biggest burger chain must clean the site and make the drive-thru fancier before they’ll consider lovin’ it.”
Lauren & Dan’s new puppy, Doc Emmett Brown
The world of corporate logos, as seen through the eyes of identity designer Adam Ladd’s 5-year-old daughter. (via laughingsquid)
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East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo
The day after East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo made his controversial “tacos” comment, a grassroots immigration reform group visited his office and delivered hundreds of tacos in response.
By now, you are probably aware of the comments that put East Haven in the national spotlight.
Hours after several members of the police department were arrested, accused of racial profiling, a reporter from PIX asked the mayor what he was doing for the Latino community.
“I might have tacos when I go home, I’m not quite sure yet,” Maturo said, in part. He apologized on Wednesday afternoon, but the backlash had already begin.
In response to the comments, Reform Immigration FOR America launched a Twitter campaign, promising to send the mayor one taco for every text it received with the word “TACO.”
As of 10 p.m., the group had received more than 2,000 text messages, they posted on Twitter. They delivered the first wave of about 500 tacos on Thursday.
via Immigration Reform Group Brings Mayor Tacos | NBC Connecticut
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Some of these are pretty great, even though liking them means you’re officially old.
Thanks, Dad.
Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.
It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.
And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.
You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.
“You have your fans. I have mine. Someday your fans are gonna work for my fans.” —Alex, on Modern Family
Today SOPA and PIPA votes were both postponed. This is definitely a win for the nerds.
This victory get me excited because the tide had turned. The nerds won for once. In the great battle of jocks vs nerds, the nerds came out on top, like I always knew they would.
But then I started thinking about who is on the other side of the SOPA/PIPA battle and I realized that the people we beat up aren’t the jocks like I had hoped, but rather the only people lower than nerds on the totem pole: theater kids.
Every “Doh” in the first 20 seasons of the Simpsons. Wow.
