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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.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-11
: Apparently #Outlook is now a good thing ; also: Regards domain-squatting http://t.co/2yrlLMQw # : Perseid Meteor from Above http://t.co/yoZ5tSCQ # : New word on the rise in the UK: "shonky" http://t.co/dw2dwLrt # @churchnewspaper "Six million abortions – just 143 to save the mum’s life" – 1) link us the data. 2) how do you
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BBC News – Vast volcanic ‘raft’ found in Pacific, near New Zealand
A vast “raft” of volcanic rocks covering 10,000 sq miles (26,000 sq km) of ocean has been spotted by a New Zealand military aircraft. A naval ship was forced to change course in order to avoid the cluster of buoyant rocks, located 1,000 miles off the New Zealand coast. The unusual phenomenon was probably the
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New word on the rise in the UK: “shonky”
As a Pratchett fan I’ve known about it for years and it seems to be in common use down-under, but “shonky” is on the uptick over here: It’ll take more than one shonky film for me to lose faith in Pixar. Besides, the Dingwalls are in it. The Counter opened serving excellent coffee on a
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Apparently #Outlook is now a good thing ; also: Regards domain-squatting
From an IM conversation: friend BTW: the new outlook is pretty awesome – EMAIL IS EMAIL AGAIN me outlook on what ? [I genuinely had no idea what “Outlook” might mean in this context] friend outlook.com – omg – you should camp out a username there me oh, e-mail ? friend yes, it’s so easy
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-10
Is there any nice co-working space in #Bristol City Center with good Internet? Exclude ThirdFloor BushHo, StNicholasHo, IoD, Regus. #