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...British toy-store chain that sells such stereotyped merchandise as pink globes for girls. The sisters argued that these items sit uncomfortably with the company's claims of commitment to educational play. That won them press coverage in dozens of countries and more than 10,000 supporters on Facebook. "Girls like me shouldn't be forced to like pink," one 9-year-old wrote in an e-mail to the Moores...
When Y. Joy Ding ’10, a Computer Science concentrator, received an email from the script clearance team of the upcoming Facebook movie, she was excited—and totally surprised. As it turned out, Ding, who had designed the poster for the Fall 2009 Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production of “The Flies,” was asked to sign a release form. The film’s producers had seen and liked her poster and wanted to use it to decorate the set for the dorm room of Facebook creater Mark E. Zuckerberg...
...original play by Jean-Paul Sartre, so the Harvard production of the show featured a specific aesthetic invoking the American West. Correspondingly, Ding’s poster for the show incorporated this visual motif, and it was this unusual image which captured the attention of the producers of the Facebook movie...
...Student Employment Office website,” Ding said. “But more recently I was hired by Finale Desserts to do a small graphic design project.” Two summers ago, Finale gave Ding several images of desserts and she turned them into icons for the Facebook Gifts application, so people could exchange digital Finale desserts online. In this way, Finale was able to use Ding’s graphic design skills to gain a valuable marketing tool and Ding, in turn, was sweetly rewarded. “They gave me a few hundred dollars of Finale?...
...incite further acts of aggression, threats and abusive language that have come against legislators in the wake of the final health care vote. Palin herself has been the subject of criticism for urging her followers to "reload" rather than "retreat" after passage, and for using crosshair markings on her Facebook page to identify the list of Democrats she has targeted for defeat in the fall election. Quippy and tart, she mocked the "lamestream media," and offered her usual punch of charm and charisma, something the public and the press have hungered for since she mostly limited her exposure to Facebook...