Rubber Duckie Flashback - Go Go Ernie

watch video: thanks David!

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The New Yorker's; Guide to Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs

From randomwalks/dj: The New Yorkers' Guide to Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs: A free 64-page, pocket-sized book including everything a New Yorker needs to know about military recruitment and resources for counter-recruitment in NYC. Profiles of former soldiers sit side-by-side information on the enlistment contract, military myths, the No Child Left Behind Act, action/legal resources, a Harper's-style index of facts, and much more. At the heart of the book is an opt-out form that students can tear out, fill in, and hand over to their school administrators to prevent their contact information from being released to recruiters.; You can order a copy, pick up a free copy around town, or download a PDF (2.9 MB). (via)

Originally - from Social Design Notes

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Meta Pain

I love this surreal moment that David posted to his blog:

"This Hurts: Perhaps more embarassing is that I didn't know I was being flickrd."

Meta - Originally uploaded by bckspcr.

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My Favorite Weekly Post Secret: See a Secret...Share a Secret

See a Secret...Share a Secret:

(PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.) (New secrets are posted here every Sunday.)

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Pregnant Couple Stabbed on C Train: Ohh Great Another Stabbing on My Train Line

I just read about Gothamist's report about a train stabbing on the C-Line 2 weeks later. Everyone RAN to the other end and no one helped chase the man down.

"A pregnant woman and her boyfriend were stabbed by a man on a C train after they were staring at him. It's unclear who started the "staring contest" or if the staring was menacing or who exhanged words, but they all got on a West 4th Street and the next thing that happened was that Bronx resident Edward Murphy got up and punched the woman in the head a few times. The Post reports that the boyfriend then defended her, only for Murphy to pull out a knife and stab the woman in the arm and then the boyfriend in the neck. Natually, the other passengers ran to the other end of the car. At 14th Street, the couple had chased Murphy out, with Murphy getting on a A train and dumping the knife on the tracks. The police arrested Murphy by 34th Street and say that the woman's pregnancy was not threatened. Yikes yikes yikes. The stereotype of New Yorkers being cold and aloof - looking off in the distance and not at each - might have something to it."

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