Linus Morales shoots some couture plebeian food.
TurnTubeList is a simple YouTube-based cross-fader. It’s a good idea and fairly well-executed. I went through crates and crates of music and mixed my set with nothing more than fade-ins and fade-outs but sadly, exporting my ‘setlist’ without registering didn’t quite work. And so while I present you my track selection, I must leave the segueing bits to your imagination.
Aphex Twin – Alberto Balsalm
Burial & Four Tet – Moth
Mos Def – Auditorium
Plaid – Shackbu
Apparat – Circles (Federico Epis Booty)
Minilogue – Jamaica (Dubfire Dreadmill remix)
Joris Voorn – Early Bird
Metronomy – Heartbreaker (Diskjokke Remix)
Timebox – Beggin’
Parov Stelar – On My Way Now (Love, Pt. 2)
Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
Ciccone Youth – Into the Groovey
Described by its creator as being “as much of an art form as it is a toy”, the Paper Punk is actually a paper toy kit. I straightaway could see myself my daughter having a ball of a time with it and I’ve pledged a bit of money to it. Read more about it at the Paper Punk Kickstarter page and chip in if you can.
Things must be really bad for Nokia when even their run-of-the-mill promotional work seems superior in quality to the phones they come out with now.
Launching a modern-day incarnation [of the VW Beetle] that has sporty credentials is like launching a modern-day incarnation of the Mona Lisa who’s crapping herself laughing.
›› Jeremy Clarkson is at his best when he’s unhappy
Jarvis Cocker can make almost anything tragic and compelling with his singing. French duo Discodeine probably knew that all too well and even did a moody and disturbing video to accompany the stand out track Synchronize from their fairly impressive self-titled album.
GE has a site dedicated to data visualization and it’s filled with interesting information and pretty things. Don’t let the hilarious made-up bullshit buzzwords like ‘healthymagination’ and ‘ecomagination’ to distract you from what is a great visual reference resource on solid information design by brilliant minds like David McCandless and Ben Fry and many others.
What would we all do without Facebook’s proactive and user-centered approach to security? They’re so thoughtful, they created a new password for me, put it into a zip file and sent it to me in a private one-to-one email. They go out of the way to help their users and yet, there are some people who speak poorly of Facebook and their boss dude. And these Facebook guys must work incredibly hard. If you look carefully, this email was sent out in 2009 and I just got it yesterday. When you have tens of millions of users, emails are going to take some time to send out.
The only weird thing about the email I got was when I replied to thank Facebook for their help and to ask why my new password slowed down my computer, the reply address was not a Facebook email but some strange swordingnq825@talksecurity.com.
Their password and security team must be some standalone entity or something.
The Damned United is probably the best football movie I’ve seen. (Actually, I don’t think I’ve seen too many football movies, but I digress…)
It is a 2009 adaptation of a controversial book by David Peace which is an imagined account of the eccentric Brian Clough’s short-lived but controversial reign as manager of Leeds United back in 1974. With all the real player names, beautiful 70s sets & locations and some clever use of archived footage, you may be lulled into thinking this is some semi-autobiographical story – which is what it really felt like, though this is a fictional movie, not a documentary (which might not have been terribly entertaining).
For the real story of Clough’s 44 days, you’d probably be better off picking up the non-fiction book, We Are the Damned United: The Real Story of Brian Clough at Leeds United.
- Superficial charm and good “intelligence”
- Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
- Absence of nervousness or psychoneurotic manifestations
- Unreliability
- Untruthfulness and insincerity
- Lack of remorse and shame
- Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
- Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
- Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
- General poverty in major affective reactions
- Specific loss of insight
- Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
- Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
- Suicide threats rarely carried out
- Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
- Failure to follow any life plan
From The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So Called Psychopathic Personality by Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley.
Harvard University has digitised and catalogued hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps and other published texts and has made it all freely available at the Islamic Heritage Project.