'I'm always looking for people to play racist buffoons,' Sacha Baron Cohen tweeted after Trump called him a 'creep' upon the new 'Borat' film's release.
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Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Learn Welsh fast with the Cadw Swn home study Welsh course. A full course including 20 lessons with audio and a printed book.
An interesting method, but likely not any better than SSiW or other exercises I’ve been doing.
Fred Wilson (AVC)In almost thirty five years of working on boards, the hardest decisions I have had to make involve removing the CEO. It is an important decision and one that must be made from time to time. I am not a fan of removing the CEO until and unless it is abundantly clear that it must […]
He indicated in a tweet that he was talking about POTUS here and not CoinBase.
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s excellent volume. Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: ideal romance, travel adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A new foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
Referenced in lecture by Dale Martin in Lecture 20: The “Anti-household” Paul: Thecla of Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature (RLST 152)
Picked up pdf copy today.
Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52 percent since March. Publishers say their easy availability hurts sales.
"They sued me to silence me."
This is just abominable, not only what they’re doing to students actively, but then going the step further to try to silence the teachers watching out for them.
W3C opens parts of its annual all-group meetings (TPAC) to public participation
Great that they’re opening up and are more welcoming to the public. This looks interesting and possibly worth attending a few. I really wish I had the time…
The man learned a valuable lesson about removing street art from its original location.
A subtle power shift is emerging on Capitol Hill as Republicans face a possible future that might no longer include President Trump.
The dessert kingdom, television’s delectable oasis, must be saved
A hilarious, but honest set of development notes for the show.
The prank is one of the notable moments in the Sacha Baron Cohen sequel due out Friday.
I can’t wait to see this.
Bookstores across the Southland and the nation have long been challenged by a changing marketplace increasingly dominated by online giants such as Amazon, but the increased pressure placed upon local brick-and-mortar booksellers by the ongoing pandemic is pushing some to the brink of closure.
President Donald Trump tweeted about CBS News’ Lesley Stahl for a second day in a row Wednesday, posting photos of their “60 Minutes” interview with no caption or explanation. Trump posted three photos showing the chat he had with Stahl before he cut the interview short Tuesday and began tweet...
The warnings about Iran and Russia came less than two weeks before the election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
To improve transparency and contextualise our journalism accurately even off platform, we’ve introduced two specific changes
I’ve noticed how they highlight these changes in the past. Pretty cool that they’re working at creating this sort of additional context.
I wonder how they’re doing the portion for the images on the social media cards. Are they simply replacing them outright or doing it programatically somehow?