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Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation – Max Fisher – The Atlantic #MUSTWATCH
You need to watch the video, but a lot of my friends won’t be able to cope without the analysis: Park Jaesang is an unlikely poster boy for South Korea’s youth-obsessed, highly lucrative, and famously vacuous pop music. Park, who performs as Psy (short for psycho), is a relatively ancient 34, has been busted for
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It’s an Austrian Wine Dispenser – well done Superelf!
regards this, it seems to be one of these: Austrian Wine Dispenser – Google Search.
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Yet more interesting reading on the #Lendink fiasco
Including what may be a retrospective face-saving manoeuvre; read this and note the “update” at the end: http://feralintensity.com/2012/08/10/online-mobs-controversy-and-lendink/ See also: …which helps explain things.
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Digital rights activists set up in Manchester – MULE # #ORGManchester – Meeting 28 August, 7pm /cc @openrightsgroup
Set up to promote and protect rights to free speech, privacy and freedom of information in the internet era against “governments and vested interests”, the group is encouraging local branches to set up and take action across the country. Organisers say they wish to campaign against internet censorship, “snooper’s charter” government powers to track online
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Yellow Pages? Why?
It’s definitely thinner than it once was. But who is it for?
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Can anyone identify this Curious Booze Contraption?
Photoset on Flickr This is a friend’s device, inherited. Estimated date of manufacture: ~1950 (just a guess, but plausible) Initially I was thinking that it screamed Absinthe Fountain – but the vine decoration and optic-like push dispenser suggest not. Perhaps it’s just a white wine cooler? Update: I suspect the lid is from a different
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Homemade Apricot and Flat-Peach Pudding, with Vanilla Sugar Syrup
From scratch: Now just needs to cool a little, then add ice-cream and friends. If you’ve not tried flat peaches, they’re lovely; they satisfy Muffett’s Law of Ugly Food[1] and are a lot sweeter. Small pips, too. — [1] “generally tastier because a) they have to be and b) they are less popular so more
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The Witch Hunt of E-books #lendink #publishing #copyright #sharing #kindle #incaseyoumissedit
So I read this article: Piracy witch hunt downs legit e-book lending Web site On August 1, a vitriolic, hysterical mob of authors mistook e-book lending Web site Lendink for a piracy clearinghouse, rallying a terribly mistaken call to action. The site remains offline today as details emerge revealing just how wrong these authors were
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-26
@evgenymorozov The ones looking at the advertising "impressions" # Before anyone says how cheap #CCDP would be to implement, they should be required to give a lecture on fully meshed backbone topologies # RT @hvcco: @AlecMuffett cheapest option would be to sub #CCDP out to the Chinese, they already have the kit in place 🙂
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Lance Armstrong doping campaign exposes USADA’s hypocrisy # Even if I had the ability, I wouldn’t bother.
Anyone who thinks an athlete has a fair shot in front of CAS should review the Alberto Contador case. Contador was found to have a minuscule, insignificant amount of clenbuterol in his urine during the 2010 Tour de France. After hearing 4,000 pages of testimony and debate, CAS acknowledged that the substance was too small