deleteyourself:

Twitter has reached such a volume of tweets that eventually everything that could possibly be tweeted, will be tweeted. I happened to notice the other day that someone tweets the exact time nearly every second. It got me thinking that you could make a clock out of these tweets, so I put together a simple site called Chirp Clock.

It’s interesting to watch it for a while and start to see the patterns that emerge. A lot of people will tweet their exact birth time, or a bus system will tweet their arrival time. I’ve seen some muslim call to prayers and a lot of people angrily tweeting that they have to head to work.

Check out Chirp Clock and let me know what you think!

http://chirpclock.com

saveplanetearth:

Original picture and time cover side by side

via Cyborgology at the Society Pages

Nathan Jurgensen asks whether in losing physical space, and thereby time, the Occupy movement loses momentum.

icancstructures:

photo by nathan jurgenson, taken at Occupy Toronto, November, 2011

At exactly the moment when tents are disappearing, when, at least for the winter, Occupy is trading long-term…

saveplanetearth:

‘The protester’ named Time’s person of year

Could you be more specific?

(Source: shenanergans)

My students already don’t understand the gesture….

1,097: Average number of hours U.S. teachers spend per year on instruction.

Students across the U.S. are enjoying or getting ready for summer vacation, but teachers may be looking forward to the break even more. American teachers are the most productive among major developed countries, according to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data from 2008 — the most recent available.

Among 27 member nations tracked by the OECD, U.S. primary-school educators spent 1,097 hours a year teaching despite only spending 36 weeks a year in the classroom — among the lowest among the countries tracked. That was more than 100 hours more than New Zealand, in second place at 985 hours, despite students in that country going to school for 39 weeks. The OECD average is 786 hours.

(Source: azspot)

commanderspock:

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King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”

leftish:

 ~ Stephen Colbert