1. Exploring the new offerings from Apple’s iBooks Author program and thought twice after seeing the number of ratings. 

Hail Jobs!

    Exploring the new offerings from Apple’s iBooks Author program and thought twice after seeing the number of ratings.

    Hail Jobs!

  2. When you own a dog you never eat alone.

    When you own a dog you never eat alone.

  3. wnycradiolab:

newsweek:

urlesque:

scottfriday:

“Depending on the amount of time and participants, we define a project for every workshop.”

“Indeed, like in any endeavor, change and neural rewiring takes hard work over time.” : |

“There were differences between the groups.” Woo boy.

“This finding seemed to imply that natural selection favored innately aggressive, warlike men in human pre-history.” 
Uh-oh.  That’ll teach me to keep nothing but books about war and murder on my desk. 

Funny. Closest book to me happened to be a magazine and on its 45th page lived an ad. The first sentence of said ad read:‘Now available for free!’Yeah, 2012 is going be an awesome year.

    wnycradiolab:

    newsweek:

    urlesque:

    scottfriday:

    “Depending on the amount of time and participants, we define a project for every workshop.”

    “Indeed, like in any endeavor, change and neural rewiring takes hard work over time.” : |

    “There were differences between the groups.” Woo boy.

    “This finding seemed to imply that natural selection favored innately aggressive, warlike men in human pre-history.” 

    Uh-oh.  That’ll teach me to keep nothing but books about war and murder on my desk. 

    Funny. Closest book to me happened to be a magazine and on its 45th page lived an ad. The first sentence of said ad read:

    ‘Now available for free!’

    Yeah, 2012 is going be an awesome year.

  4. Down with the shine. Happy New Year everyone! 

Cheers to 2012!

    Down with the shine. Happy New Year everyone!

    Cheers to 2012!

  5. New Year’s Eve dinner - found a hole in the wall Vietnamese place. So good - maybe worth a trip back to Greenville.

    New Year’s Eve dinner - found a hole in the wall Vietnamese place. So good - maybe worth a trip back to Greenville.

  6. An old friend and her new baby. Hickory, NC New Years Eve, 2011.

    An old friend and her new baby. Hickory, NC New Years Eve, 2011.

  7. futurejournalismproject:

    The New York Times today published its Year in Pictures. Above, one image from each of its six categories.

    Arab Spring: The body of Ahmed Farhan, 30, was cleansed before burial. Security forces in Sitra, Bahrain, killed the man on March 15; 5,000 people attended his funeral. — Andrea Bruce/New York Times.

    Nature: A cloud of ash billowed from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile. The June eruption, its first in decades, prompted the evacuation of 3,500 people. — Claudio Santana/Agence France-Presse

    Nation (US): Julie Holzhauer stood among her family’s possessions after they were evicted from their home in Centennial, Colo., on Sept. 15 after falling behind on the rent. Her husband, John Holzhauer, a home building contractor, said he had lost up to 40 percent of his business because of the weak economy. — John Moore/Getty Images

    Milestones: The space shuttle Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 21, ending NASA’s 30-year shuttle program. — Sandra Joseph and Kevin O’Connell/NASA

    Occupy Wall Street: Police officers led Brandon Watts out of Zuccotti Park in November after they said he threw a battery at officers and took a deputy inspector’s hat. His forehead was bloody after a scuffle with the police. — Change W. Lee

    World: Residents looked on at the body of a man killed by gunfire in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Security forces loyal to the country’s incumbent leader, Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to cede power, fired volleys of gunshots in January, leaving at least four people dead after they cordoned off a section of a neighborhood known to be a stronghold of Mr. Gbagbo’s rival. — Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press

    Select an image to embiggen.

  8. The Daily: 4 Americans won't be home for Christmas because they're still missing in Iraq

    thedailyfeed:

    Although Operation Iraqi Freedom ended last week, the families of 4 Americans still officially categorized as missing in Iraq haven’t stopped searching yet.

    The Army’s investigative unit told Megan von Ackermann in 2006 that her husband had been killed in a botched kidnapping the day he…

    4 Americans won’t be home for Christmas because they’re still missing in Iraq

  9. Apres-edit … and beer.

    Apres-edit … and beer.