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Flickr and Twitter Usage Visualized

Remember the data visualization of racial and ethnic divides in America we saw a few months ago? The man behind it all, Eric Fischer, is back. This time he looked at geotagged Flickr photos and Twitter tweets to create See something or say something. He used red dots to represent Flickr photo locations and blue dots to represent the locations of tweets. If something was posted to both, a white dot was used. Like his previous projects, the results are pretty and informative. Continue reading →

Supreme Court Throws Out Class-Action Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart

In a 5-4 vote today, the Supreme Court decided a lawsuit claiming Wal-Mart discriminated against 1.5 million of its female employees did not qualify as a class-action lawsuit and will not be going foward. According to the justices, the plaintiffs were unable to show Wal-Mart had any common policies in place for discriminating against women workers, and individual store managers were allowed to promote and give raises at the manager’s discretion.

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Docs to Watch

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Do you guys know what I love watching more than anything else?

If you guessed hot, sweaty men playing soccer, you’d be right on the money. However, I doubt very many of you would be interested in reading a post about the four soccer players I think are hottest, so instead I will give you a post containing four documentaries based on children that I think will be worth your while to watch. Continue reading →

The Tale of the Man Who Refuses to Take a Hint

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About a year ago, I decided to give online dating a shot. One of my girlfriends has been utilizing it, and though not all of her dates were winners, she seemed to be having fun. I thought, “What the hell?” I didn’t put much effort into my profile because, really, I wasn’t expecting much. Continue reading →

Photo Phriday: Say ‘Cheese!’

Welcome to the April Fools’ edition of Photo Phriday! I hope your day was full of merriment, pranks, and foolishness. It has come to my attention many of you are having a bad day/week/month/life. Wasn’t this week one of the worst? However, you know what always makes me feel better?

Seeing someone smile.

So, I want to see your smile! If you’re too self-conscious to show us your pearly whites, feel free to post a picture of something that makes you grin every time you lay eyes on it. This could include pictures of, well, just about anything! The only rule is the picture has to make you smile.

: This guy knows what to do.

Have fun, babes!

Just follow these helpful tips for image sharing, adapted from previous Photo Phriday instructions:

This is the magic computer code you use to make pictures appear: [img src=”PHOTO URL HERE”]. NOTE: Replace the brackets with the carrots < >.
And it’s a URL, not photo file. Crasstalk doesn’t accept files from your hard drive – only from the Internet. You can upload your photo to Facebook, Flickr, TinyPic, or any other online photo hosting site to generate a URL for the photo.
Also, be sure to add a few words of text with your picture so it doesn’t get tripped up in the site’s spam filter.
To pick up an image online, right click (or ctrl-click on a Mac) on an image and select “View Image.” Copy-and-paste the URL and plug it into the img src html code.
To upload the picture you found, this is what you type (again, replacing the brackets with the greater than and less than symbols < >):

[img src=”http://www.smilessmilesandmoresmiles.com/grinning.jpg”]