When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool,” Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. “The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately.
Allison Kilkenny: Philadelphia Private Swim Club Forces Out Black Children
SERIOUSLY?? Wow. WOW.
(via fillup)
“Nearly 60% of Americans now say that they approve of the way the Supreme Court is doing its job. Before Mr. Obama’s election, Republicans approved and Democrats did not. In June, even though the make-up of the court had not altered, it was the other way around. That’s the Obama effect for you.”
- The Economst (here’s the Gallup poll)
This is such a good idea; turning old dumpsters into pools. Not as bad as it sounds.
A architect in Brooklyn is turning old dumpsters into urban swimming pools. (Link)
One thing I’ll grudgingly grant to MySpace - the site works. That’s more than I can say for Facebook over the last month or so.
In the past Facebook has had desperately slow page views and…
This morning the blogosphere is abuzz with the late-breaking news about Google’s new Chrome OS, a combination of the Chrome browser and windowing system running on top of a Linux kernel. But…
“Dear Grandma, would you like to come out to the bar with my friends and I for a drink tonight?”
Your grandmother is on Facebook now and Facebook introduced today a new way to invite all…
This is why I stopped reading open ended comics. The X-Men Universe Relationship Map.
An amazing Mondrian cake. Wonder if it tastes any good.
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Mondrian Cake
From here
Amazing.
