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The joy of taking some time out

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:22:40 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks:

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.Go to the shed with the intention of tidying up and instead fall asleep. Make mental notes. Read every single word of the newspaper - even the job ads - before getting down to work. Lose yourself in erotic reveries. Pat your pockets. Resolve to be more organised in future. Be useless.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular

The survey was carried out by the Learning and Skills Council, who, not surprisingly, argued we should instead use those three hours to Learn some Skills.

I beg to differ.

Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

Clearly these sorts of ideals are designed to make us faffers feel bad. Well, don't.

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tags: self, time, well-being, health, body, work, survey, opinion, advice, rest

I ♥ the whole world.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:22:31 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: Boom de ah dah!

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

People around the world have been creating their own versions of our 'Boom De Ah Dah' commercial and uploading them to YouTube.

Check here to see some

examples so far: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

dicsovery channel simpsons i love the whole world

[Video]

Tags: discovery, video, song, fun, people, earth, nature, life, work, nerdgasm

Wacky Sci-Fi “Laws”

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:14:27 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: If that’s not enough for you, check out Wikipedia’s list of eponymous laws.

Clip Source: www.mentalfloss.com

1. Hanlon’s Razor (aka Hanlon’s Law)

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

2. Sturgeon’s Law

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”

3. O’Toole’s Corollary of Finagle’s Law

“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.”

4. Clarke’s Three Laws

The third is by far the most famous:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

5. Asimov’s Laws of Robotics

First law: A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third law: A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

There’s also a Zeroth Law.

6. The Dilbert Principle

the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.. (See also: the Peter principle

Tags: laws, science, science fiction, writers, humor, list, people, robots, work, life

Have you met Tan Hong Ming?

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:57:14 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: He's so cute.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: commercial, television, children, perception, malaysia, video, cute, love, race, interview

Opt out of Yahoo and Google ads.

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:49:13 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: If you don’t want those cookies, you can decline Yahoo’s here and Google’s here.

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

Yahoo And Google Now Let You Opt Out Of Ads (Because It’s Better Than Letting You Opt In)

All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web.

Yahoo announced a new one-click opt-out policy today,

a direct response to Congressional scrutiny over the intrusiveness of online advertising and behavioral targeting.

Google’s announcement was buried in a blog post about Doubleclick cookies.

The truth is that both Yahoo and Google would rather take symbolic action themselves than be forced to take a more draconian one later. Who’s going to bother to opt out of ad targeting? Some people will, but the vast majority of people probably won’t. What would really mess up Yahoo’s and Google’s advertising ROIs is if Congress mandated that ad-targeting (via cookies) be opt-in. They’d surely get even fewer people opting in for those cookies than they will now get opting out. I know I’m too lazy to do either.

Tags: advertising, internet, web, privacy, options, yahoo, google, announcement, cookies

Learn to solve the Rubik's cube

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:20:42 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: ...or use scissors. Make it sexy.

I wonder what speed cubers think of this.

Clip Source: www.xkcd.com

Frustration

Tags: rubiks cube, xkcd, randall munroe, comics, web, bra, women, clothing, puzzle, humor

The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies in Pictures

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:49:00 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Beijing held its formal opening ceremony today for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The ceremony, held in the National Stadium known as the Bird's Nest, was attended by thousands, and watched by millions more on television. Below are some highlights of the nearly 4-hour performance. (24 photos total)

Tags: china, beijing, photography, olympics, sports, photos, collection, gallery, event, performance

7 Blunders of the World -- Gandhi

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:54:29 GMT

clipped by: adamc

Clip Source: www.doctorhugo.org

"Seven Blunders of the World"

1. Wealth without work

2. Pleasure without conscience

3. Knowledge without character

4. Commerce without morality

5. Science without humanity

6. Worship without sacrifice

7. Politics without principle

—Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: gandhi, mahatma ghandi, blunders, world, humanity, philosophy

Create Your Own PaloozaHead

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:52:40 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: HERE. Can't clip the flash site so I clipped a screen cap of what I made. I was tempted to make PaloozaHeads out of people's PIs but I managed to control myself.

Clip Source: i180.photobucket.com

Tags: flash, animation, fun, paloozahead, music, entertainment, performance

The Doctrine of Fascism - by Benito Mussolini

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:53:43 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: By Benito himself; dd 1932

Clip Source: www.worldfuturefund.org

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM (COMPLETE TEXT)

BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

(This article, co-written by Giovanni Gentile is considered the most complete articulation of Mussolini's political views. This is the only complete official translation we know of on the web, copied directly from an official Fascist government publication of 1935, Fascism Doctrine and Institutions, by Benito Mussolini, Ardita Publishers, Rome, pages 7-42. This translation includes all the footnotes from the original.)

Tags: fascism, politics, mussolini, benito, article, literature, paper, essay, doctrine, history, philosophy, religion

The Physics of Dance

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:42:24 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Notes from a presentation by physics professor George Gollin on the physical laws which every ballet dancer must eventually master, whether explicitly aware of them or not.

It must be noted that professor Kenneth Laws has written three books on the physics of dance and just had an interesting interview with Studio 360 on the subject.

Clip Source: web.hep.uiuc.edu

Forces sum to zero.

Both forces "point through" the dancer's center of gravity, so torque is zero.

Forces on each dancer sum to zero.

Though some forces are "off-center", the torques also sum to zero.

Smaller floor contact area (en pointe, for example) makes balance more difficult.

Not all positions which are statically balanced can be held in a turn.

Centrifugal forces exert a torque, throwing the dancer off balance. Shift center of gravity to maintain dynamic (but not static) balance

Because of "conservation of angular momentum," you can change the speed of a turn when en pointe by extending or retracting a leg.

You push on the floor one way, the floor pushes back the other way. (You can't do this on a slippery floor!)

Dancers can also perform zero-angular-momentum turns.

Gravity only influences the vertical component of motion, not the horizontal:

Height vs. time is a parabola, while horizontal distance vs. time is a straight line:

The dancer can create an illusion of floating:

Tags: dance, dancers, ballet, physics, gravity, time, torque, force, balance

Is the Creative Internet Just About Dead?

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:47:47 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Zittrain thinks we're seeing the end of the freewheeling Internet and PC era. He calls the technologies of today "tethered"

items like iPhones or many brands of DVR -- they're sterile to their owners, who aren't allowed to build software that runs on them. But they're generative to the companies that make them

worse than plain old sterile technologies. They allow for abuses undreamed of in the IBM mainframe era.

Zittrain's solution to the tethering problem is to encourage the existence of

people who work together to create open, untethered technologies and information repositories. They are the force that pushes back against companies that want to sterilize the Internet and turn it back into something that spits information at you

this is a good start, but there are a lot of problems with depending on communities

to fix a system created by corporate juggernauts

companies can create an incredibly oppressive tethering regime while still allowing users to think they have control.

Tags: internet, technology, community, freedom, web, people, sharing, media, open source, innovation

People Pleasing Disease

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:39:55 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Interesting third part of series on "people pleasing" as an emotional disease, with some advice to sufferers on how to change and begin to please themselves.

Clip Source: blogs.psychologytoday.com

costs of people-pleasers' "excess niceness,"

Loss of integrity, identity, self-respect and self-esteem; constant self-criticism and self-belittlement; nagging sense of guilt and shame about not really being "good enough" for others; chronic insecurities in personal interactions (for they're feeling okay is so conditional and dependent on others' approval); inability to sustain healthy relationships with healthy boundaries; inability to trust, accept or perceive as heartfelt others' kindness or positive feedback; difficulty or inability to manage, lead or supervise others (for fear of offending--or displeasing--them); inability to effectively control their time, whether at work or at home (mainly because of problems saying no to others' requests); inability to stay with or accomplish personal goals (because they're not a high-enough priority for themselves); inability to make decisions; and--ultimately--burnout,

Tags: people pleasing, niceness

Film-Philosophy

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:21:06 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.film-philosophy.com

Founded in November 1996, Film-Philosophy is an international academic journal dedicated to philosophically reviewing film studies, philosophical aesthetics, and world cinema. The email salon encourages discussion of related topics. The journal is published three times per year and is fully peer-reviewed.

Clip Source: www.film-philosophy.com

Volume 1, 1997

Volume 2, 1998

Volume 3, 1999

Volume 4, 2000

Volume 5, 2001

Volume 6, 2002

Volume 7, 2003

Volume 8, 2004

Volume 9, 2005

Volume 10, 2006

Volume 11, 2007

If you would like to submit an article or review for consideration, please go to our submissions page.

Tags: resource, film, papers, reviews, movies, entertainment, studies, journals, theory, ideas

Culture Machine: Generating Research in Culture & Theory

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:20:18 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks:

The aim of Culture Machine is to seek out and promote the most provocative of new work, and analyses of that work, in culture and theory from a diverse range of international authors. Culture Machine is particularly concerned to promote research which is engaged in the constitution of new areas of inquiry and the opening of new frontiers of cultural and theoretical activity. It is also committed to the generation of possibilities for new scholarship and research.

Clip Source: culturemachine.tees.ac.uk

Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory.

Clip Source: culturemachine.tees.ac.uk

The Journal

CULTURE MACHINE 9 (2007)
Recordings

Edited by
Paul Hegarty and Gary Genosko

Editorial Recordings

Eugene Thacker Pulse Demons

Greg Hainge Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl: The Work of Recording and Mourning in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Paul Hegarty The Hallucinatory Life of Tape

Jérôme Hansen Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance Matmos): Sonic Culture, Visual Arts and the Artist's Studio

Gary Genosko 8 Track Rhapsody