• Feminists Agitate To Ban Paternity Testing « Citizen Renegade
  "Uncertainty allows mothers to select for their children the father who would be best for them. The point is that paternity was ambiguous and it was effectively up to the mother to name her child’s father, or not… Many men have, of course, ended up raising children who were not genetically their own, but really, does it matter…in making paternity conditional on a test rather than the say-so of the mother, it has removed from women a powerful instrument of choice." - is she serious? the choice to sleep around with whoever you want and foist the child on your unwitting husband?
• The impact of house demolitions on Palestine suicide bombing – Chris Blattman
  we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide terrorists and terror operatives) cause an immediate, significant decrease in the number of suicide attacks. The effect dissipates over time and by geographic distance.  In contrast, we observe that precautionary house demolitions (demolitions justified by the location of the house but not related to the identity or any action of the house’s owner) cause a significant increase in the number of suicide terror attacks.  The results are consistent with the view that selective violence is an effective tool to combat terrorist groups, whereas indiscriminate violence backfires.
• Visual Inspiration: 30 Beautiful Web App Site Designs
  lots of common design patterns
• How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - Master of 500 Hats
  facebook is unhappy medium between highly private, public conversations: Because Facebook has chosen to emphasize growth over monetization these past few years, they have de-prioritized close, meaningful connections over broadly relevant ones with a larger group of friends.  While this will help them get to a billion users faster, and increase their share of brand spend on advertising (where Facebook is really killing it these days), it may create vulnerability to another social network player who focuses on a more tightly-defined social graph with only a few, specific & meaningful Intimate relationships. Intimate relationships that might just monetize more powerfully with 3 close friends, than they do with 300 acquaintances. Better be careful, Zuck. maybe there's a reason Facebook should care more about Intimacy & Privacy that has absolutely nothing to do with government regulation, and everything to do with simply making more Meaning... not to mention more Money, as well.  
• How to drink vodka like a Russian
  breathe out before taking a shot, immediately start chewing a savory hors d'oeuvre, then breathe out

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