June 2008
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I mentioned that at The Grates’ incognito...
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“If you typically high-five your monitor when someone leaves a brilliant comment...”
– Paul, A Pressing Question (via robot-heart)
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“You know, you CAN laugh at him.”
– Jon Stewart on the Daily Show last week after a joke about Barack Obama received a lukewarm response from his audience.
Jon has always said his show is not about Bush-bashing, nor bias towards the Democrats. The show is about ridiculing the hypocrisy of those in power.
However it seems to me that...
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“what matters is not experience per se but “effortful study,” which entails...”
– The Ultimate Code Kata (via danw)
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Some mother fuckers think they're born to dance
1. Was subtley and coolly bopping up and down just then at a coffee shop while humming Inside Outside and the cashier told me to stop. Fair enough?
2. Forgot to mention that if you go to a Grates gig in the near future they will use their powers of persuasion, influence and cuteness to betray your trust by making you drink from one of three cans of lemonade that will be passed around the entire...
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Two Thousand and Grate.
The Grates played a secret show incognito (albeit in name only, no disguises :( ) last night at the Troubadour in Brisbane to test their new material / burn off some excess energy before the secret shows and music festivals in a few weeks time. They played six songs from the new album. Besides Burn Bridges I really loved Earthquake, Biggest Largest Adventure Ever and Aw Yeah . Look out for these...
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Opportunity Cost
I hate having to experience opportunity cost in real life. Was so much more fun learning about it and applying it to imagined scenarios during economics tutorials at university.
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Watchvia freedomtodither.
Firefox 3 just got The Colbert Bump.
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The Future of Public Service Broadcasting →
Speech about the BBC by Stephen Fry.
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“The best measure of the value of time is not money but waste. Having more of the...”
– The Wisdom of Drama - June 18, 2008
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“oldmedia ppl no laptop/mobile, newmedia not listening but twittering random shit”
– Nick Hodge via Twitter commenting on the conference attendee behavior differences at PubCamp - The Web 2.0 Media Day in Sydney today.
I’m going to be kind of un web 2.0 but I was just thinking earlier today that bringing a laptop to conferences is a bit useless and distracting. Like really...
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“You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason...”
– Stephen Fry on people underestimating the power of depression
(via paperflowers + lozzy)
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Best ever description of The Grates.
rach...
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Show your Tumblr content in a digital photo frame →
This tutorial is only to do this with quotes but it shouldn’t be too difficult to hack it to make it work with photos as well.
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And she will now disappear in a puff of smoke. →
(via cvxn + soupsoup + jessicacoen + suitep)
Nothing to see here folks, move along. There’s 132 videos at Vimeo. Unless of course this cry for pity means there are many more multiples of that number which were in existence, then it may very well cause instantaneous implosion. Though I’m sure because JA is such a Geek Girl™ she would have bitchin back up system - usb thumb drives,...
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“Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is a solemn promise that no one will ever...”
– Snarkmarket on a word that was unfortunately uttered in a story on how the internet will play a roll during the election.
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via fred-wilson)
Ummmm I was always under the impression that this was a quote by HST about the television industry…
“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the...
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It’s time to grow up. →
While I wouldn’t ask any self-respecting man to give up his love for a beautiful pair of breasts, there’s something awfully creepy about grown men who can’t walk along Plage de Tahiti in Saint Tropez without gawking like pubescent boys.
Since Apple is to geeks what breasts are to men, it’s worth pointing out that all of the Apple fanboys are essentially those pubescent boys.
via The Drama 2.0...
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Wanted: Apple News Reviewer
I’ve glossed over all tumblr posts, rss feeds and tweets about Apple from the last 12 or so hours. I love and use Apple just as much as the next bloke but the sycophantic behaviour by normally rational people gets tiring especially when those who inevitably come down from their own uber hyped expectations have a dopamine crash with blogged tears and disappointment.
In one week, after the...
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Future
patrickmoberg wrote:
I caught myself wondering if I’ll still have a blog in 20 or so years, when I have a kid. Will I write a blog entry after I give him ‘the talk’ about sex?
“Gave the boy a sex talk today. It ROCKED! I nailed it.” (illustration of what happened)
Will he write one too?
“Dad gave me the sex talk today… what a loser. I’m having unprotected, future sex tonight. He sucks at...
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“The way great things happen is when people are willing to submerge their own...”
– Barack Obama speaking to his campaign staff in Chicago on June 6, 2008 (found via julyshewillfly). This stuff is heaps better than The West Wing. The access they allow…gotta love the internet.
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Rewriting 'Almost Famous' for the internet biz
If you go to the Valley, you’re gonna have friends like crazy, but they’re gonna be fake friends. They’re gonna try to corrupt you. You got an honest face, they’re gonna tell you everything. But you cannot make friends with the CEOs and Founders. If you’re gonna be a true blogger, a tech blogger, first, you’ll never get paid much, but you will get free schwag at conferences…. (laughs) There’s...
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“In truth, the Internet is a great communications tool. But with all the glitz...”
– Old Media is choking on New Media
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I’m feeling uncool today so found the text of my fave scene from Almost Famous:
LESTER BANGS Aw, man. You made friends with them! See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong
WILLIAM (ruefully) Well, it was fun. LESTER BANGS They make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not "cool". WILLIAM I know. Even when I...
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“Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you...”
– This question eats at me all the time. (via vasta)
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International Unused Vote Exchange
So has anyone made my idea from February a reality yet?
Considering so few Americans vote anyway. Why can’t the people who aren’t going to participate list their rights to vote on eBay so someone from a foreign country whose own Government is influenced and affected by US policy could buy that vote and make the US Citizen place a vote for whoever the buyer nominates? Put caps on the amount of...
Booyah!!!
That is all.
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I must be sick
I think I miss doing tech support. It’s been 18 months since I’ve been away from the help desk barrage but I’ve been answering easy internets/computer questions of people I don’t know via re-blogs and the other day on the radio I agreed to talk people through the best ways to deal with and eliminate email spam. Doing anything like that used to make me want to cry but now I...
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Have You Ever Seen A Rabbit Climb A Tree?
clembastow wrote:
Right, so my iMac “crashed” before. Which is a) specifically why I gave up my lifelong love affair with PCs, and b) one of the scariest things that has ever happened.
This ‘curtain’ lowered across the screen, dimming everything in its wake, then this multilingual big button with the power symbol behind it popped up and said “YOU NEED TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER”.
Did it...
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copyright question.
jackieheartsb wrote:
i received an email from a flickr user who claimed i violated their copyright by simply posting the photo (and additionally not listing the photographer’s actual name).
i did, however have the usual link to the photo source on flickr, which clearly stated the photographer’s username.
i removed the offending photo, but after reading flickr’s faq’s, i am not sure whether...
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May 2008
23 posts
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What would Jesus have on his tumblr?
I think he’d be a totally cool blogger here and not preachy or anything like he would be on his regular blog. Sure he probably wouldn’t stay up all night having flirtatious re-blogging conversations with female bloggers like Ryan Adams used to (whatever happened to him? He was like Obama on here for two or so weeks) but I still think he would embed South Park videos whenever they took...