I wrote a thing…
… In this attack, the frenzy that has followed can be problematised less in terms of clarity but more in the conclusions many have reached, and the ramifications they hold. …
Let’s just hope they don’t do what they did to Flickr. Or delicious. Or anything else, for that matter.
Such an epic prank gone … right.
Imagine sitting in one of the most remote parts of the world, turning round, and seeing the Google StreetView car. Talk about ruining the moment.
… the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American “greatness”, to hierarchies of race, to the perils of “other” revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.
— Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993)
Just, why? This caught my attention solely because it’s so out of place on my Tumblr dash.
This is such a great ad from McDonalds! Surprising, charming, warm: fantastic!
Spent last week in Prague. The city seems to have a bit of a thing for giant faceless babies. They’ve been somewhat immortalised on to the side of the Zizkov TV tower. Prague can be a strange place. (at Žižkovská televizní věž)
Android users, on the other hand, seem to skew more rural (86% more likely than iPhone users to live in a rural area), are more likely to vote conservatively (20% more than iPhone users) and are 10% more likely to be male.
Things change.
