Category Archives: pointy bits

one percent of everything

November 7, 2011 – 11:37 am

In response to this: Attention, Protestors: You’re Probably Part of the 1% (quoting) The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have aimed their message at the income disparity between the 1% richest Americans and the rest of the country. But what happens when you expand that and look at the 1% richest of the entire world? [...]

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Artifice Wrecks

October 16, 2011 – 1:23 pm

Some thoughts prompted by this post… Thought Gadgets: A brief history of how you stopped being human Tweaking a photo with Instagram does not make it artistic. Selective redefinition of terms like ‘creativity’ and ‘intelligence’ makes for category errors rather than creativity. So – come to think of it – maybe iPhones DO enable artificial [...]

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a tear-able situation

August 11, 2011 – 11:41 am

Sorry -  I can’t resist this. From an ABC news article: (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-10/society-role-in-london-riots/2833168) But Ms Batmanghelidjh says many British youths have lived with that feeling of fear for their entire lives. “This happened to the public for a few days. But many of these children are chronically frightened – they get attacked in their own homes, [...]

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