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Fining tourists for the Nepali government's own failure is typical shameless profiteering from one of the most corrupt regimes in the world, 126 out of 175 in decending order on Transparency International's corruption perception index. Don't be fooled into imagining that money actually goes to remedying the problem. In the 60 years since development programs began in Nepal precisely nothing has been achieved except to enrich the corrupt and venal elite and devestate the cultural and natural environment. | Fining tourists for the Nepali government's own failure is typical shameless profiteering from one of the most corrupt regimes in the world, 126 out of 175 in decending order on Transparency International's corruption perception index. Don't be fooled into imagining that money actually goes to remedying the problem. In the 60 years since development programs began in Nepal precisely nothing has been achieved except to enrich the corrupt and venal elite and devestate the cultural and natural environment. | ||
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| + | The next story is about a PR called Justine Sacco who, in December 2013, at Heathrow airport, tweeted to her 170 followers this ill-advised joke: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids, Just kidding. I’m white!” By the time she got off the plane at Cape Town she was at the centre of a Twitter storm, reviled as racist, Googled 1,220,000 times in the next 11 days. She lost her job and fell into despair, unable to see how she could ever reclaim her good name. Ronson begins worrying more seriously about such shaming: “I’d piled in on plenty of people like Justine. I’d been beguiled by the new technology — a toddler crawling towards a gun.” | ||
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| + | Next he follows up the case of Lindsey Stone, a caregiver, who liked to take stupidly provocative photos of herself, smoking in front of a no-smoking sign and so forth. In October 2012 one such picture, posted on Facebook, showed her yelling and giving the finger in front of a sign in Arlington Cemetery calling for “Silence and Respect”. She too was viciously hounded and lost her job. Ronson fixes her up with a reputation-management company that massages her online profile, putting out a plethora of good news about her (liking cats and ice cream) that pushes the bad news off the first search page — 89 per cent of people never looking beyond that — as well as helpfully confusing her identity with other Lindsey Stones. | ||
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| + | '''DD: when i read this i thought that maybe the whole article was a clever pr stunt to confuse lindsey stone news with metanews about lindsey stone | ||
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http://dirtyartdepartment.com | http://dirtyartdepartment.com | ||
Revision as of 11:18, 6 March 2015
"I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day." "I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice in Wonderland
"My name is Alice, but — " "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "my name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
From that day onwards, the silver fox would live in a world of past memories, unaware that he had a problem forming new ones. By way of compensation, like many Korsakoff's sufferers, he would fill in gaps by confabulating plausible but nonetheless crazy stories. "I think i saw you at the ball park, " he might say to someone he had just met. "That hot dog was great, wasn't it?" The urge to fabricate experieneces probably grows out of a need to save face. Many alcoholics do it in the early stages of the sundrome, and while it is an intersting component of memory loss, it is not a necessary one. - 76, Reaching down the rabbit hole, allan ropper
Ooo blob detect + kinect flow? Open frameworks or processing? touchdesigner no blob detection
Dead water A person in a boat going over the ocean shouldn't notice a difference between stratified fresh and saltwater and the regular sea — at first. Then, after a traveling normally for a little while through the layered water, their boat will slow, or even stop, seemingly without cause. As the sailor tries to maneuver the craft around, it will either fail to respond to their steering at all, or exaggerate their turns wildly. It will seem as though the boat is being held back, or pushed around, by powerful forces, but the surface of the ocean will remain calm and unchanging. Sailors who strayed into stretches of water like this call it "dead water."
Professor Henry of Princeton.
Joseph Henry, an independent discoverer of electromagnetic induction under
the form of self-induction-a varying current inducing back electricity on itselfconstructed
a shock machine by interrupting the current from a voltaic cell through a
long ribbon of copper rolled up into a spiral. An assistant-you may call him victim,
patient or accomplice according to your mood:'--held two metal handles in his hands,
the handles being in contact with the ends of the copper tape. When Henry broke the
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Dear Mr. “Ask the Pilot”: I am a Private Pilot in the USA with about 500 hours. This is not the reason for my letter. In the early 1990’s when I was discharged from the US Navy, I went to work for an Airline Catering Company out of Boston, MA / Logan International call “Marriott in-flite Services. My job position was to cater commercial airlines. Later I was promoted to Airline Coordinator and my duties were to check and inspect that all catering items were aboard the Aircraft before departure. My focus was the 5 Trans-Atlantic Flight from BOS-LGA; 747-200, BOS-GLA, BOS-AMS, BOS-CDG, BOS-AMS and BOS-FRA: all DC-10-40 Aircraft. I also catered 767’s, The SST Concorde, Airbus 340, 747-400’s et al. the DC-10 in comparison to B-777 is a pretty good comparison. NWA Flew 38 First and 256 Y Class PAX with a Crew of 12-15. Now I am thinking of all the equipment, Lermer carts and trays, Plastic cups, foam cups, stir sticks, napkins, ovens, plastic food ware, cardboard boxes, duty free items, half filled liquor bottles will float along with all the other aircraft equipment. Now with all that equipment and galley nomenclature; investigators and searches haven’t even found a G-Damn Bloody STYROFOAM CUP! Not one cup, cart, napkin, tray liner, plastic flatware has washed up anywhere. NOT ONE has washed up on an Aussie or Kiwi Beach, or countries in the Northern IO. I mean WTF? There are literally thousands of cups on these planes.
- exploding toilet story - http://www.askthepilot.com/essaysandstories/the-exploding-toilet/
A 13-year-old boy killed in Yemen last month by a CIA drone strike had told the Guardian just months earlier that he lived in constant fear of the “death machines” in the sky that had already killed his father and brother.
“I see them every day and we are scared of them,” said Mohammed Tuaiman, speaking from al-Zur village in Marib province, where he died two weeks ago.
“A lot of the kids in this area wake up from sleeping because of nightmares from them and some now have mental problems. They turned our area into hell and continuous horror, day and night, we even dream of them in our sleep.”
Much of Mohammed’s life was spent living in fear of drone strikes. In 2011 an unmanned combat drone killed his father and teenage brother as they were out herding the family’s camels.
The drone that would kill Mohammed struck on 26 January in Hareeb, about an hour from his home. The drone hit the car carrying the teenager, his brother-in-law Abdullah Khalid al-Zindani and a third man.
“I saw all the bodies completely burned, like charcoal,” Mohammed’s older brother Maqded said. “When we arrived we couldn’t do anything. We couldn’t move the bodies so we just buried them there, near the car.”
The crows would clear the feeder of peanuts, and leave shiny trinkets on the empty tray; an earring, a hinge, a polished rock. There wasn't a pattern. Gifts showed up sporadically - anything shiny and small enough to fit in a crow's mouth.
One time it was a tiny piece of metal with the word "best" printed on it. "I don't know if they still have the part that says 'friend'," Gabi laughs, amused by the thought of a crow wearing a matching necklace.
When you see Gabi's collection, it's hard not to wish for gift-giving crows of your own.
Leo Schilts 20h ago
Guardian Pick
22 23 Anyone who has been to Nepal will know that the piles of filth and excrement everywhere are not caused by tourists. They should adopt this jingle as the city's motto; ' Welcome to Kathmandu, please do not step in the poo.'
The Kalophul bridge over the Dhobi kola in Kathmandu during the dry season is an olfactory experience which has the power to recalibrate your glomerulus. Contemplating the source of its indescribable foulness induces such deep revoltion for the human body it can lead to a lifelong commitment to celibacy, explaining the prevalence of monasteries in the area. I describe it as a stench which is so intense it goes beyond awful and becomes spiritual.
Anyone contemplating a visit to the subcontinent should consider that 700 million people defecate in the open every day. As dawn blushes the golden mountains with its rosey rays, millions of anuses release to deposit fresh mountains of excrement on every road side, behind every tree, in vegetable patches, on footpaths. Every breath inhales dried and powdered human feces and black soot.
Pollution in Kathmandu is beyond imagination, many times in excess of WHO safe levels for particulate matter, organic and inorganic. A few months there can induce the early stages of COPD. The authorities' solution to a lack of garbage collection services is to allow piles of plastic rubbish to be burned in the streets each morning. To clean up plastic rubbish in the (once) beautiful mountain viewing resort of Nagakot, the only place where once you could escape to breath fresh air, it is now collected and burnt resulting in a perpetual cloud of acrid, poisonous smoke. Even where garbage collection takes place, corrupt officials sell the contract to gangsters who simply dump the waste directly into the sacred Bhagmati river.
Food and drinking water are contaminated with everything from banned pesticides and heavy metals to hepatitis, typhoid and cholera. Nepal is the kingdom of cholera, their UN peacekeepers even gave it to the Hatians when they went there to prevent the post-earthquake violence. The cholera they brought killed more people than the violence. But this is never reported in the Nepali media, the word cholera is replaced with 'viral fever' when reporting on outbreaks. They have varieties of cholera for which there is no vaccine.
One nauseating image sticks with me. The little children playing in the river at Guhyeshwari near Pashupati a few meters downstream from the sewage treatment plant outlet. Guhyeshwari (secret godess) ought now be renamed Gooishwari (poo godess).
Fining tourists for the Nepali government's own failure is typical shameless profiteering from one of the most corrupt regimes in the world, 126 out of 175 in decending order on Transparency International's corruption perception index. Don't be fooled into imagining that money actually goes to remedying the problem. In the 60 years since development programs began in Nepal precisely nothing has been achieved except to enrich the corrupt and venal elite and devestate the cultural and natural environment.
The next story is about a PR called Justine Sacco who, in December 2013, at Heathrow airport, tweeted to her 170 followers this ill-advised joke: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids, Just kidding. I’m white!” By the time she got off the plane at Cape Town she was at the centre of a Twitter storm, reviled as racist, Googled 1,220,000 times in the next 11 days. She lost her job and fell into despair, unable to see how she could ever reclaim her good name. Ronson begins worrying more seriously about such shaming: “I’d piled in on plenty of people like Justine. I’d been beguiled by the new technology — a toddler crawling towards a gun.”
Next he follows up the case of Lindsey Stone, a caregiver, who liked to take stupidly provocative photos of herself, smoking in front of a no-smoking sign and so forth. In October 2012 one such picture, posted on Facebook, showed her yelling and giving the finger in front of a sign in Arlington Cemetery calling for “Silence and Respect”. She too was viciously hounded and lost her job. Ronson fixes her up with a reputation-management company that massages her online profile, putting out a plethora of good news about her (liking cats and ice cream) that pushes the bad news off the first search page — 89 per cent of people never looking beyond that — as well as helpfully confusing her identity with other Lindsey Stones.
DD: when i read this i thought that maybe the whole article was a clever pr stunt to confuse lindsey stone news with metanews about lindsey stone
Sites with nice design
http://dirtyartdepartment.com http://itsourplayground.com/ www.lust.nl http://ransmeier.com/ http://mfa.dma.ucla.edu/ http://www.strelka.com/ http://www.offprintprojects.com/ http://www.clarabahlsen.com/ http://www.milieugrotesque.com/ http://ep-residency.org/hoyerswerda/program/ http://id-a.ch/ http://v-o-i-d.de/ http://www.babel-type.eu/ http://www.bizzarri-rodriguez.com/ http://www.basedinberlin.com/ http://www.babakradboy.com/ http://www.isdat.eu/ebat http://www.futurneue.cc/ http://www.addmeasafriend.de/ http://yalegraphicdesign.info/ http://naasner.com/ http://www.maximage.biz/ http://www.2xgoldstein.de/index.php?m=3 http://charlesnegre.com/ http://www.manuelbuerger.com/bwpwap http://www.hit-studio.co.uk/ http://daniellorch.de/ http://alepheternity.com/ http://123buero.com/projects/ http://berlinartprize.com/ http://www.isabelle-gehrmann.de/ http://www.tobiaswenig.com/ http://juerglehni.com/ http://www.ecal.ch/fr/2249/formations/propedeutique/projets-workshops/atelier-image http://www.kw-berlin.de/de/ http://www.afrika.to/#Neue Menschen http://www.janenrandoald.be/ http://www.klassehickmann.com/ http://www.ordinarinessandlight.eu/ http://roelwouters.com/ http://www.reliablecommunications.net/ http://lukasschneeberger.com/ http://o-o-o-o.co.uk/ http://www.mplusmatters.hk/artworkdocumentation/#/en/intro http://www.aplusa.it/en http://www.translations-symposium.de/translations04/ http://www.callfortype.de/ http://2013.integratedconf.org/ http://www.interactiefarnhem.nl/ http://www.ourpolitesociety.net/ http://www.esad-gv.fr/fr/recherche/ http://isamelsheimer.com/ http://www.sense-objects.com/ http://physicsroom.org.nz/ http://www.binderij.rietveldacademie.nl/ http://www.bienalebrno.org/en/Index http://www.danielsannwald.com/ http://art.yale.edu/GraphicDesign http://www.cox-grusenmeyer.com/ http://www.ynkim.com/ http://www.susanbuckmorss.info/ http://www.otolithgroup.org/index.php?m=catalogue&sc=curatorial http://www.turbo-turbo.com/pages/studio/ http://berlin.rietveldacademie.nl/it_aint_over_till_its_over/ http://www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl/nl/ http://futuregallery.org/ http://mainstudio.com/ http://go-wander.org/ http://www.brusatto.be/#/show/pages/about http://www.akatre.com/ http://catalogtree.net/ http://www.bivgrafik.ch/ http://www.defabriekeindhoven.nl/year/2009/ http://www.researchanddevelopment.se/ http://worldrehearsalcourt.com/exhibition/floorplan http://www.studiovonbirken.com/ http://www.flowfestival.com/ http://www.futurneue.cc/ http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
resources
OpenSCAD
- https://williamaadams.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/mr-bezier-goes-to-openscad/
- https://www.3dhubs.com/talk/thread/best-printing-practices-ultimaker
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Conditional_and_Iterator_Functions
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/2D_to_3D_Extrusion
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/STL_Import_and_Export
