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On Doc Martens: Was I alone in experiencing these problems?
At school I used to wear Dr Martens shoes which had a certain cachet amongst the other students – yet they were “orthopaedic”, and therefore probably good for me, and therefore they were one of the few things which my parents could afford / would buy but which by coincidence also aligned with a counterculture…
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Kitty Cams UGA Home /ht @glynmoody
WELCOME! Kitty Cams research examined the nature of outdoor activities of owned cats by monitoring pets outfitted with "Kitty Cam" video cameras. Kitty Cams allow recording of a cat-eye view without disrupting behavior. We used Kitty Cams to investigate the activities of urban free-roaming cats in Athens, Georgia from Nov. 2010 -Oct. 2011, with goals…
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Thought for the Day: In America a Celebrity Politician is like Schwarzenegger. In the UK it’s like Boris Johnson
Spot the difference. Spot the similarity. Scary, isn’t it? Have a nice day.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-12
@jilliancyork Try living in a three-party state, it makes people a bit less hair-trigger. # @Greg_Callus Do we not face the same risk, somewhat generally, from the "presumption of innocence"? /cc @davidallengreen # @Greg_Callus My sense is that this is one of those risks which it is good to have; if it becomes a problem…
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Holocaust Foursquare – Tasteless Humour Alert
From IM: Michael When I was in Poland last month, Foursquare told me that “These places nearby are popular with foreign visitors”. Number one on the list was the “Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp”. This leads me to the somewhat frightening conclusion that visitors to Auschwitz feel the need to check in on Foursquare. Alec well, wouldn’t…
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Arts versus Customs # must-read illumination of the bureaucratic mindset
United States Customs officials opened the crates and uncovered 20 mysterious disks, eggs, and flame-like forms of carved wood, polished metal, or smooth marble. One work in particular left them dumbfounded: a thin, 4 1/4-foot-tall piece of shiny yellow bronze with a gently tapering bulge called Bird in Space. It didn’t look like a bird…
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We need to talk about Islam | Index on Censorship # fear of religion, fear of fear, & the #twitterjoketrial /ht @alomshaha
Interesting quote, my emphasis, from Alom Shaha on his book “The Young Atheist’s Handbook”: Perhaps publishers cannot be blamed for being cautious? After all, as recently as September 2008 the offices of Gibson Square were indeed firebombed just as it was about to publish The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the life of…
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I can’t be arsed with an iPad. Do I get a Nexus 7? #seriousquestion
I find the iPhone clunky and I don’t like the closed ecosystem; I did once have an iPod Touch which was fun but essentially closed-off and gave me the same inert sense that I get from Windows machines – that it was essentially a single-tasking, read-only device. I’ve played with friends’ iPads and iPhones and…
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Mars 360-degree Flash Panorama /ht @webmink
panorama is here – website seems to be annoyingly wedded to Facebook.
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Testing … 1 … 2 … 1 … 2 …
If this works it means the core of Dropsafe is back; still need to re-enable Crypticide E-mail and a couple more CMSes. Nonetheless it would be a good point to have lunch.