ferrydustings

“Twitter famously received a call from the U.S. Department of State nearly two weeks ago asking the company to postpone its scheduled maintenance to suit those in Tehran’s time zone, rather than those on Pacific time. Facebook recently added Persian language support for its iconic social networking site. Google took things to an entirely new level by launching its Persian version of Google translate, which allows for decent machine translation between English and Persian and vice versa.”

“So instead of superficial support, like Twitter users changing their avatars to green to support Iran’s reformist movement, Silicon Valley minds and money should pool resources as a way to help Iranians get around this information blockade by providing easier-to-use proxies, anonymizers and maybe even unfiltered Internet access through hardware.”

— Silicon Valley should step up, help Iranians (via steph)

“Have you ever considered the very real medical repercussions of this job? Forget the concussions, or the weak knees from constant, constant running. Think for a second about the mushrooms. Have you ever doubled in size in a fraction of a second? My bones are splintered, Princess.”

— Mario… or Luigi. Who cares? (via inky) (via huliwuxian)

myfengshuilife:

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“Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale.
It’s a chance to get rid of those things
not worth keeping around the house.
Bring your husbands.”

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.”

— Lynne Truss (via inky)