The Water Cooler

May 28th, 2010

This Week’s Topics…

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    Parenting
    It really is startling to see how affected baby names are by popular culture, as the…
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    Human Rights
    Just ask Rani Honig, who was sold into slavery at the age of seven. Now, she's started an…
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    Technology
    According to a widely published email exchange between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and a…
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    Charity
    This guy was so convicted that he took out a full page ad in the Dallas Morning News…
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    Parenting
    If you are a mommy, or have one in your life, you might enjoy following this mommy's…
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    Parenting
    "Get. Your. Jacket." What parent hasn't struggled in getting his kid(s) out the door?…
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    Coincidences
    A grandfather, a father, and a new son all share the same birthday. Odds of that…
Parenting

Name that baby

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by Tom Walsh
It really is startling to see how affected baby names are by popular culture, as the latest rankings of current baby names show. Apparently today's parents feel the need to name their progeny after a werewolf, a vampire, or the girl who completes their triangle of interspecies teen love.

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Human Rights

Slavery, today?

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by Mark Basnage
Just ask Rani Honig, who was sold into slavery at the age of seven. Now, she's started an organization to fight child trafficking, the Tronie Foundation.

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Technology

One thing your iPad won't do

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by Rebecca Cusey
According to a widely published email exchange between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and a technology blogger, the iPad and iTunes store will not be dealing in pornography. According to the published reports, Jobs told the blogger that he'd understand the value of "freedom from porn" when he had his own family. Kudos.

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Charity

Admitting you were wrong

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by Steve Haas
This guy was so convicted that he took out a full page ad in the Dallas
Morning News with the appropriate tag line "We Were Wrong" about AIDS.

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Parenting

Mom Tweet Mom

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by Editorial Staff
If you are a mommy, or have one in your life, you might enjoy following this mommy's twitter feed: -- the 140 character musings of a mother of four... who tweets mostly hilarious kid observations to a rapidly growing audience. Just a few days ago, she had ~300 followers, and then Roger Ebert let his readers know, and now she's got more than a thousand.
One of her gems: "If your mother drives you to school--you ain't no gangster. Pull your damn pants up." With at least one teenager in her house, it's no wonder she's doing it anonymously.

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Parenting

Smile, your family's on camera

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by Jean Yih Kingston
"Get. Your. Jacket." What parent hasn't struggled in getting his kid(s) out the door? What if all these struggles were recorded over the course of three years? This article stressed me out, but perhaps the analysis and conclusions will prove helpful to our generation of over-tasked parents!

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Coincidences

What Are The Chances of That?

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by Nancy French
A grandfather, a father, and a new son all share the same birthday. Odds of that happening are 272,910 to one. Wanna place a bet that this baby eventually has a son born on his, his dad's, and his grandfather's birthday?

Read more about this family that defied the odds.

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