January 2010
Time to split Apple up
jhnbrssndn:
It so happens that last week’s brouhaha attending Apple’s iPad announcement coincides with a lecture I’m delivering next week on public policy and the internet. Over the past few days I’ve been reading a lot of commentary about iPad, about how it marks the shift from Old World computing to New World computing, and about how iPad is a golden calf of DRM. But I’ve also been reading...
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“Angry people are not always wise.”
– Jane Austen (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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debshock:
What was the hardest thing you ever had to go through in life and how did you get through it?
Wow, this was right next to a question about why am I eating chicken enchiladas. You warned me it would be a HUGE question. Some people on Twitter know this. Ok, deep breath. About 5 years ago, I was living in Florida, having just broken up with a very wealthy, very physically abusive...
“Films would have you believe that the lovable scamp makes it to the end of the...”
– Mr Beard
You know what I really don't like?
Monopolies. and I’m not just saying the name of the game in a cutesy lolcat way either. I really hate the practice of buying up everything and controlling so much. It’s unsportsmanlike and downright villainous.
I also hate monopoly, long-ass boring ironic piece of filth is what it is. I spit on monopoly.
“Don’t worry about proving you’re right, if you’re right...”
– Mr Beard
A human being is a union of vertebrate and virus |... →
It is also probable that this “virolution” is continuing today. HIV belongs to a group of retroviruses called the lentiviruses. Until recently virologists thought that lentiviruses did not endogenise, but now we know that they have entered the germ lines of rabbits and the grey mouse lemur. That suggests that HIV-1 might have the potential to enter the human germ line
Tony Blair
giftwrapped:
Much as I dislike the man I have a grudging respect for his performance at the Iraq enquiry. I have to admire him for refusing to give in to demands for regrets, apologies whatever. I don’t necessarily think he was right but I’m not sure what these sort of “enquiries” actually achieve.
I don’t condone conflicts and wars. I regret that men and women lose their lives. However I...
jwz - Australian censor board demands... →
“Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. They banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women. Presumably small breasted women taking photographs of...
Scientists grow solar cell components in tobacco... →
scientists are trying to harness the finely tuned systems in tobacco plants in order to use them as the building blocks of solar cells. Scientists predict that the technique could lead to the production of inexpensive, biodegradable solar cells.
Tony Blair accused of putting war with Iran on the... →
jhnbrssndn:
Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Iran, accused Blair of trying to make confrontation with Iran an electoral issue after the former prime minister repeatedly singled out its Islamic regime as a global threat in his evidence to the Iraq war inquiry yesterday.
Blair said many of the arguments that led him to confront the “profoundly wicked, almost psychopathic” Saddam...
“Save your best stories for your friends.”
– Mr Beard
giftwrapped:
mrbeard:
Why are you ladies so content to call yourself a bitch? When all of what I read on here is nothing but common sense and intelligent insights. Really now, stop that. Its nonsense and anyone with a good pair of eyes can see.
You are all very lovely :)
I can’t speak for anyone else and maybe you didn’t mean me - but I call myself the bitch because that’s how so many...
Why are you ladies so content to call yourself a bitch? When all of what I read on here is nothing but common sense and intelligent insights. Really now, stop that. Its nonsense and anyone with a good pair of eyes can see.
You are all very lovely :)
snowing
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giftwrapped:
mrbeard:
my house is now covered in a thick orange glowing mist cloud thing…again.
I think the government is trying out something on me. possibly poison.
it isnt working you sons of bitches i can still breath!!! though my left arm is twitching, oh lawdy.
You’re reading White Noise aren’t you?
“In the book’s second part, “The Airborne Toxic Event,” a...
my house is now covered in a thick orange glowing mist cloud thing…again.
I think the government is trying out something on me. possibly poison.
it isnt working you sons of bitches i can still breath!!! though my left arm is twitching, oh lawdy.
Just heard its going to snow here tommorow
ffs
In the Wake of iPad, Amazon Reminds Us the Kindle... →
thought i’d post something about iPad, seeing as everyone else is. Not really sure what the fuss is about tbh.
Japanese Scientist Develop Elastic Water - Gizmo... →
The material called elastic water is developed by scientists at Japan’s Tokyo University, with a mixture of two grams of clay, some organic matter and natural water that gives this a jelly like nature. Perfect to be used in medicines and tissue repair, this elastic water could also pave way for ecologically clean plastic materials.
Climate change experts argue for international... →
“Internationally coordinated research and field-testing on ‘geoengineering’ the planet’s atmosphere to limit risk of climate change should begin soon along with building international governance of the technology, say scientists from the University of Calgary and the United States. Collaborative and government-supported studies on solar-radiation management, a form of...
Write one leaf about something you will not eat.
“Eat the dog. The whir of machines in the chilled room sent up a chorus of approval to the notion. Wheezing and sniffing were all the response given by the animal, the sopping wet mottled fur and hairless pinkish patches of flesh made up a creature of children’s nightmares that looked through milky eyes at its master. Eat the dog. From his gut upwards came the urge like a murder of...
So
I’m gonna start writing again, just small bits to get me back into the swing of things. I still have a few unfinished things that are sitting in the dark, covered in cobwebs and whatnot. They need their papa beard back.
I'm not really feeling bad about being single on...
giftwrapped:
mrbeard:
livinglikeigiveadamn:
I don’t really like anyone atm and I don’t really feel like I should be with someone right now. I don’t know why I feel like that, but I do.
I like things the way they are right now.
I’m happy.
Commercial holiday is commercial. Do not, how you say, sweat it.
I always felt valentines day was like my parents forcing me to get with someone.
...
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awesome
livinglikeigiveadamn:
jmarie3:
livinglikeigiveadamn:
If I had one wish, I would wish to not be shy.
Me too. It’s terrible, but also what makes you such an insightful person. Double edged sword. Not sure if it ever goes away.
I don’t know either. I’ve tried and tried to be more outgoing but it never really goes away. I guess it can be a good thing though. Like you said, it makes you...
I'm not really feeling bad about being single on...
livinglikeigiveadamn:
I don’t really like anyone atm and I don’t really feel like I should be with someone right now. I don’t know why I feel like that, but I do.
I like things the way they are right now.
I’m happy.
Commercial holiday is commercial. Do not, how you say, sweat it.
I always felt valentines day was like my parents forcing me to get with someone.
I’m a’chargin mah lazar!
The age of the Misa Digital Guitar has dawned →
Tesla to use Panasonic's Nickel-based lithium-ion... →
