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The making of a kid's app: Counting Box Pro
Last week, Tom Klimchak emailed me with a link to a counting box app he made for his son. He said he'd been inspired by Cory's post about Nathan's beautiful wooden cased Kid's Counting Box (above), so I asked Tom to write about how he developed the app and the things he learned while developing [...]
 
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Three Tibetan herders burn themselves alive in protest
The crisis among ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan Province continues: "three livestock herders set themselves on fire to protest what they saw as political and religious repression at the hands of the Chinese authorities," reports the New York Times, bringing the total number of such self-immolations over the past year to 19, "an unprecedented wave of [...]
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New Yorker long-read on gay student who killed himself after his roommate webcam-spied on him
"That September, Tyler Clementi and Ravi were freshman roommates at Rutgers University, in a dormitory three miles from the courtroom. A few weeks into the semester, Ravi and another new student, Molly Wei, used a webcam to secretly watch Clementi in an embrace with a young man. Ravi gossiped about him on Twitter: 'I saw [...]
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"What breast cancer is, and is not"
[Video Link] The Komen kerfuffle that inspired this video may soon pass from the headlines, but for people living with the disease, breast cancer—and the fight for dignity, survival, and a cure— is forever. I now count myself among them. I watched this video many times this weekend, while recovering from the most recent round [...]
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Why is it more interesting to spend an evening with this book than a beautiful woman?
(Via This isn't Happiness)
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