I'm Getting In Line For Thor Movie Tickets Tomorrow. :D
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
" You Had Me At 'F-R-E-E'! " Stream 'Jerry Maguire' For F-R-E-E on Crackle.com
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Have a great weekend, and enjoy 'Jerry Maguire' on Crackle.com
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Reinvented, Ryle-Inspired, Recycled Cassette Art: Erika Iris Simmons' "Ghost In The Machine"
Here are just some of the works of Erika Iris Simmons' "Ghost In The Machine" collection.
" In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels. The idea comes from a philosopher's (Ryle) description of how your spirit lives in your body. I imagine we are all, like cassettes, thoughts wrapped up in awkward packaging. : ) "
Who better than Erika to describe this highly-creative collection? So, in her words:
" In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels. The idea comes from a philosopher's (Ryle) description of how your spirit lives in your body. I imagine we are all, like cassettes, thoughts wrapped up in awkward packaging. : ) "
Images pictured here are of: Robert Smith (The Cure), Bob Marley, John Lennon, Lauren Hill (Fugees), Jimi Hendrix.
The full collection can be seen on her Flickr page:
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
"When You Travel You Learn To Celebrate The Diversity On This Planet, Rather Than Be Threatened By It."~ Rick Steves (Video)
For those that would like to see the full video, you can click here:
http://fora.tv/2009/10/28/Rick_Steves_Travel_As_a_Political_Act#fullprogram
For more of a background on Rick Steves, this shortened bio is from his website, ricksteves.com:
Rick Steves grew up in Edmonds, Washington and studied at the University of Washington where he received degrees in Business Administration and European History. But his real education came in Europe — since 1973 he's spent 120 days a year in Europe. Spending one third of his adult life living out of a suitcase in Europe has shaped his thinking. Today he employs 80 people at his Europe Through the Back Door headquarters in Edmonds where he produces 30 guidebooks on European travel, the most popular travel series in America on public television, a weekly hour-long national public radio show, and a weekly column syndicated by the Chicago Tribune. Rick and his wife Anne have traveled each of the last 22 years with their two kids, Andy and Jackie.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Google Chrome Says Goodbye To “http://” {Now Let's Say Goodbye To "www."!} {From thenextweb.com}
So you know how Google Chrome is supposedly all about simplicity and speed? Well it’s just taken that minimalist mindset a step further.
In Google’s developer version of Chrome, you’ll notice that the http:// in URLs is there no more. Typing in any URL, e.g. http://thenextweb.com will reveal this:
As opposed to:
Might seem like common sense, after all to your average user including http:// simply adds to the complexity of typing in a web address. For developers however, it’s a different story. Many are not pleased.
Many developers have raised the issues you would assume Google had already considered:
First, what happens in other cases for example where the scheme is https or FTP? Google’s solution is to show those schemes in those cases.
The second concern raised was what happens when copying the URL from Chrome and pasting into another browser that requires the http:// scheme? Google’s solution, your clipboard should automatically still grab the http:// part, we just don’t reveal it. And it’s true, copying a URL from Chrome over to anywhere else will reveal the the http:// as normal.
It’s an interesting move and one that is likely to have other browsers take notice and eventually do the same, after all the most people http:// is just something that they’ve grown used to including and seeing rather than anything they understand.
The biggest question, as OS news; rightfully points out, lies in its implementation and whether other browsers follow Google’s lead and hide in exactly the same manner. If a standard isn’t set, we’ll be left with each browser doing this in their own way and leaving the average user more confused than ever.
Personally? Good riddance.
Zee Editor In Chief, The Next Web Network
Based in London, Zee is Editor in Chief of The Next Web. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
"The Depp Hatter's Tea Party", By MemoryPalace {Image} #JohnnyDepp
Great work by MemoryPalace; with a nod to Tim Burton's influence, MemoryPalace unites all of Johnny Depp's more memorable film characters for a cup of tea.
MemoryPalace's Gallery:
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Alan Moore's "What Is Reality?" Essay
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real. Then there’s the mind, half-focused on the TV, the settee, the clock. This ghostly knot of memory, idea and feeling that we call ourself also exists, though not within the measurable world our science may describe. Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know. The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we, like Faust, might better know them; deal with them; become them. Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably exist, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love’s name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred? The world of ideas is in certain senses deeper, truer than reality; this solid television less significant than the Idea of television. Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Social Networking > Email Usage; Mobile > Desktop (in 5 years): Morgan Stanley's "Internet Trends" Report
Great report just released by Morgan Stanley which documents and predicts two important things:
Social Networking Surpasses Email Usage
Mobile Internet Users Will Surpass Desktop Users In 5 Years
Very extensive and well worth the time to read in its entirety.
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