Okay, more than a bit cheesy but hey, it’s monday…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUn3AWOw8k
May 20, 2013 at 3:13 pm
An absolutely brilliant blog. I’m sure I’ve recommended it before but here it is again. A shame that the author is going on hiatus, hopefully they’ll be back!
http://coffitivity.com/
Better than your garden-variety white noise generator. Coffitivity recreates the ambiance of a cafe to keep your attention levels up and your creativity flowing. All backed up with science. SCIENCE.
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I’ve recently swapped out MediaMonkey for my music library and playing needs in favour of MusicBee. Rather similar names beget, in this case, rather similar applications. Very similar actually… At first glance almost identical but everything seems to work just that little bit better MusicBee so far. It also seems far more customisable ‘out of the box’ and offer some pretty novel playback modes. Though it’s not open source it is freeware so that’s a plus.
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Most looking forward to watching the finale of Masterchef tonight.
May 3, 2013 at 2:45 pm
May 3, 2013 at 2:42 pm
The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu The Jams – Don’t Take Five Take What You Want
April 26, 2013 at 3:09 pm
April 25, 2013 at 9:34 am
Mee char from the noodle lady at the Russian Market never gets old. Some may scoff at the state of hygiene there but no one can deny the flavour!
April 24, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Punk in Burma: Cultural Appropriation & Resistance: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/23/punk-in-burma-cultural-appropriation-and-resistance/
Alright, that Facebok is crap is of little surprise to most at this point. The distorted egocentric reality that it (and the entire ‘social’ media project) has promoted is something that commentators have, for quite some time, been pointing out and criticizing.
Even Selinger has a good take on the most recent of Facebook’s advertisements released. Promoting the new Facebook Home, a homescreen appfor mobile phones, he characterises them as propaganda pieces, “transforming vice into virtue, they’re social engineering spectacles that use aesthetic tricks to disguise the profound ethical issues at stake”.
What’s at stake here is the normatisation of a deeply anti-social take on what counts as valid and worthwhile social endeavour. A social reality devoid of social responsibility and one where our only concern is the satiation of our own individual desires and tastes. Selfishness, Selinger points out, is contagious. And when it becomes endemic, as is depicted in Facebook’s vision, we’ll inhabit a world where:
“only one type of social connection would remain: fleeting entertainment buddies. And The very second we become boring, the moment we make communication anything more than a self-satisfying convenience, we’d be abandoned by fair-weather friends. No explanation necessary. No apologies given. No attempt to blunt the hurt feelings. Just an easy check of the unfriend box.”
Here’s one of the more egregious of the ads:
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It’s interesting to see SNC-Lavalin in the news out in this neck of the woods. Turns out they’re a rather corrupt lot. Though the Asian Development Bank has banned them from winning contracts on the Bank’s projects for the next 10 years due their involvement in bribery in Bangladesh, one can only speculate as to the transparency of their work here in Cambodia.
I’m really only familiar with them because of their ongoing involvement with rapid-transit in Vancouver. They are currently lined up to build the upcoming Evergreen Line and were responsible for building the Canada Line. At that time their involvement was being opposed for a number of reasons, one of which was their involvement in weapons manufacture. They’ve also notably been involved in screwing over temporary foreign workers, who only after 5-years of court orders and failed compliance on the part of SNC-Lavalin, got paid for their work on the Canada Line.
So now it turns out they’re also involved in bribery and corruption in developing countries elsewhere. Somehow it’s not much of a surprise…
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http://gnovisjournal.org/2013/04/12/7-years-of-twitter-the-potential-power-of-the-many-as-watchdog/