February 2012
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“If you’re scratching your head, you’re not the only one. There’s clearly nothing...”
– Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice | Techdirt (via publicknowledge)
artem15s replied to your post: artem15s replied to your photo is this the view…
::applause:: I realized, in taking pictures of anything and everything, I somehow didn’t take a picture of a view I stared at almost every day for two years. SO happy to have this. (!!) are you taking philosophy classes?
No, I’m taking a survey of critical theory around the “nonhuman turn”...
artem15s replied to your photo
is this the view from curtin hall?
it most certainly is.
oh my god it's windy and sunny: Today the MPAA... →
convincingindie:
Today the MPAA rejected the Weinstein Company’s request to get their film Bully - which, in an attempt to educate kids and adults alike, documents the real problem of bullying - lowered from an R to a PG-13 rating…because of strong language. This, of course, means that a good number of children who might benefit from seeing a film like this will not get to see the film in...
zincalloy asked: 10cc, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Sparks, Iggy, Elastica...you been rifling through my collection? If you hit Wire and T. Rex I'm getting security cameras.
“We’re dying. I’m currently on the side of “no” that we can pull out of this tail...”
– California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter
Read the rest of this comment. It is astounding.
(via unlibrarian)
Seriously, this comment is amazing.
convincingindie replied to your post: Question
Bow-tie. Preferably one that doubles as a disguised water gun.
one that preferably goes off at totally socially inappropriate moments.
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Bow-tie or not?
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Elastica has a VEVO →
convincingindie:
Elastica has a VEVO
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“We have the capacity to send every customer an ad booklet, specifically designed...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
(via aakruse)
My Big, Gigantic Drum Kit: Ill-Educated Musings on... →
davebloom:
Despite not being dog owners or having a sense of how dog breeds are evaluated beyond what we’ve learned from Best in Show, Raina and I watch a bunch of televised dog shows. Chalk it up to dog envy from apartment dwellers. Here are my uninformed, possibly stupid, reactions to the first night of this year’s Westminster Kennel Club dog show.
Early on, one of the announcers...
Mrs Tsk *: The new edition of Mousse magazine is... →
mrstsk:
The new edition of Mousse magazine is out, and in it you’ll find my essay about the Abbey Road webcam, which I became strangely fascinated with during December. I’d sit on my tatami mats in Osaka, watching London tourists line up in real time to reproduce the Abbey Road sleeve. Better yet, I’d catch the cam in the middle of the night, when nobody was there, the Beatles were...
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“In our Web 3.0 world, as we share our identities so publicly with everyone else,...”
– Does society benefit when we share personal information online? Or do social networks prompt us to publish unhealthy amounts of personal data, while little enriching our lives? Author Andrew Keen and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis lead the arguments in our debate.
(via theeconomist)