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- Mar 28, 11
In February I visited TEDxPrishtina with two colleagues; the intention to collect some ideas worth spreading, and drink some Peja beers. Instead I grew to a state of inspiration by an ongoing change that I plan to keep and use for my own purposes.
After crossing the unwelcoming Serbian-Kosovar border we jumped into the celebrating Kosovo. We arrived on *THE* Kosovars Independence Day. Events usually just mark the beginning or the end of a complex process; nevertheless an event is when one understands “at once” the purpose/meaning/value of the process. That’s why I am happy I’ve been there on this exact day, when one can see the people celebrating.
There were flags being sold and worn everywhere. Kosovar, Albanian, US’s, here and there British. At first I got a little scared of the nationalistic fetishism ruling the day, but calmed down shortly after we arrived.
New Born
When we arrived in Prishtina my friend Shpatar Morina directed us: “You will see a big “New Born” sign…”. I was looking for the “New Born” on the roofs of the buildings, at the billboards, my eye stopped on regular signs, neon lights, I didn’t see it anywhere. Later my colleagues have shown me the huge yellow metal blocks, stably standing on the ground saying “New born”, the sign was not merely a sign, it was absorbed by the landscape, covered with graffitty and posters, hidden for the naïve eye of the tourist. Simply brilliant and provoking piece of art.
Optimism
What fascinated me in Prishtina were the intelligence; talent; inspiration and optimistic state of mind of the people I’ve met. I guess I’m that impressed because I imagine that’s how the democracy started, here in Bulgaria 22 years ago.
The tagline of the event was “Design optimism”. Wise slogan for a “New Born”. The lecturers were all carrying the post-war burden, beautifully transforming the grief into belief and ideas of a better future. The focus of every single lecture was not the “what was wrong” or “the look & feel of the bright future”, but on “what I am doing” which sounds pretty much like the right path. I’ve heard constructive and down to earth lectures, a gymnastic performance and a song, that made me believe, dream and feel inspired. Great job done by the starter of the TEDxPrishtina – Ardit Bejko and the organizers.
I had the chance to speak to a few people, living now in Kosovo. I love learning from people. Being under the strong influence of Graham Green right now, I think one can only judge a certain political situation or society, when mixing the historical facts and statistics with personal stories, the moral values and experience of the “one” into this society. Life can rarely be defined by facts, although never without them. Shkamb Qavdarbasha, a young, erudite journalist told me the story of Kosovo, I knew almost nothing about and therefore I took it with no prejudice. He described the problems that the Kosovars experienced in the last decades of the past century, how that lead to a conflict, about the reaction and support of the west. He left me think without trying to opinionate me. The only emotion he expressed was against Milosevic. Fair enough. I’m not knowledgeable enough to express opinions on the war itself; except for I’m sure I don’t like it. What impressed me is that I saw a person, dramatically affected by the situation, who managed to stay on the safe side of objectivity, while telling the story of his country.
I do…
The purpose of what I have written is to express my admiration of the situation where the “what I do” meets the new gained freedom. I am sure that in the crowds of the “Youngest country” there are the bad seeds, we read about in the news and that problems of not meeting some expectations are still to come but I believe, that having so many believers can only lead to a happy end.
I thank the multi talanted Shpatar Morina who inspired me to go to Kosovo, and took very very good care of me and my colleagues.
- Sep 20, 10
Пиша този пост, по повод на огромната вина, която изпитвам заради факта че дължа скромна сума пари, изразходвана за бира на Фестивала на Рекламните Агленции (ФАРА), на младия български аниматор и режисьор Иван Попов, също известен като “Заека” или “Zaio”.
Това е една от неговите творби, които можете да видите в нета…
- Sep 07, 10
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I feel like I’mma lose my life for this
I feel like I’mma have to fight for this
I feel motherfuckers they goin’ say I’m wrong
I feel you’re goin’ get buck when you hear my song
I feel you don’t even know how I feel
I feel if you hate me you got to get real
I feel like go to Texas and for me some brick
I feel the policeman making me sick
I feel like I could be the president
I feel like burning up their bodies to leave no evidence
I feel you don’t even know how I feel
Respect my mind I’m just telling you how I feelDo you feel like you could lose your life for this
Do you feel like you could fight for this
Do you feel like go to Texas and for me some brick
Do you feel the policeman I’m making you sick
Do you feel like you could be the president
feel like burning up their bodies to leave no evidence
Do you feel like they don’t even know how we feel
I feel that they hate us, we got to get real
Got to get real, real
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Submitted by: nayidflores
Posted at: 2011-10-29 10:14:27
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/437909 - Oct 20, 11
Submitted by: gorsmaster
Posted at: 2011-10-19 06:01:09
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/378638 - Oct 22, 11Jason Brennan is my favorite philosopher under the age of 40. Now he's published a marvelous book, The Ethics of Voting, with Princeton University Press. In 210 short pages, he raises and resolves a series of ethical dilemmas every potential voter faces: Is there a duty to vote? What is the connection between voting and civic virtue? How should you vote if you do vote? When is buying and selling votes wrong? He concludes by doing something very unusual for a philosopher: He combines his moral theory with social science to pass moral judgment on the citizens of the world's democracies.
I hate to spoil the suspense, but Brennan's main answers are:
1. There is no duty to vote. In fact, if you're going to vote the wrong way (see below), you have a duty not to vote. People might have duties of beneficence and reciprocity, but voting is only one way to discharge them.
2. There are many extrapolitical ways to exercise civic virtue and contribute to the common good:[M]any activities stereotypically considered private, such as being a conscientious employee, making art, running a for-profit business, or pursuing scientific discoveries, can also be exercises of civic virtue. For many people, in fact, these are better ways to exercise civic virtue.
While we're at it, let's add "having children" and "being a good parent" to the list.
3. There's no duty to vote, but if you do vote, you have a duty to vote "only for things [you] justifiably believe would promote the common good." He later elaborates:As a citizen, you do not owe it to others to provide them with the best possible governance. But if you take on the office of voter, you acquire additional moral responsibilities, just as you would were you to become the Federal Reserve chairperson, a physician, or a congressperson. The electorate decides who governs. Sometimes they decide policy directly. They owe it to the governed to provide what they justifiably believe or ought to believe is the best governance, just as others with political power owe it to the governed to do the same. [emphasis mine]
4. Paying people to vote for things you justifiably believe promote the common good is morally permissible. So is accepting money to vote for things you justifiably believe promote the common good. His evidence includes multiple examples involving the Godfather trilogy and Tetlock's work on sacred values. Read it for yourself.
5. After surveying the literature on voter ignorance and voter bias, Brennan concludes that violations of ethical voting are widespread. While voters usually focus on the common good, they are epistemically irresponsible and deeply in error on many questions of great policy relevance.
The book ends on a note both high and depressing:My goal has been to defend certain normative claims. If this book induces better behavior among voters, great, but I do not expect that. My purpose has been proof, not persuasion or behavior modification. If voters behave badly, we will need more than one philosophy book to fix that.
P.S. My favorite aside in the book:Philosophers often use state-of-nature thought experiments to help illustrate how politics contributes to the common good... [W]e can also imagine an "inverse state of nature" - a political society that lacks private, nonpolitical activity. In the inverse state of nature, people try to gather together for public deliberation, voting, and law creation, but no one engages in private actions. In the inverse state of nature, life would also be nasty, poor, brutish, and short, because there would be no food, music, science, shelter, or art.
- Oct 07, 11
Looking for Love, by the Book
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: October 6, 2011
No one’s more adept at channeling teenage angst than Jeffrey Eugenides. Not even J. D. Salinger.
THE MARRIAGE PLOT
By Jeffrey Eugenides
406 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.
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Excerpt: ‘The Marriage Plot’ (October 6, 2011)
Times Topic: Jeffrey Eugenides
His operatic debut, “The Virgin Suicides,” depicted the deaths of five pretty sisters and the fallout on the boys who worshipped them. His Pulitzer Prize-winning second novel, “Middlesex,” chronicled the bumpy coming of age of a narrator who happens to be a hermaphrodite. And his new novel, “The Marriage Plot,” charts the emotional peregrinations of three slightly older characters, as they navigate their way through college and the uncertainties of the real world after graduating in 1982.
This novel’s bright, spirited heroine, Madeleine, is an English major at Brown University who, in the heyday of semiotics and deconstruction, is writing her honors thesis on “the marriage plot” — that is, the traditional mating dance, as performed in the novels of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. Mr. Eugenides’s own moving but long-winded book turns out to be a sort of modern-day variation on those old-fashioned narratives, meant, it would seem, to demonstrate that sexual equality and divorce haven’t killed the novel, as one of Madeleine’s pompous professors contends.
“The Marriage Plot” revolves around a love triangle that develops among Madeleine and two men — the charismatic Leonard and the adoring Mitchell — and it turns out to be a lot less dramatic and a lot less daring than the author’s earlier novels. Unlike the manic-depressive Leonard, who veers between high-wire ups and brooding downs, this novel very much occupies the safe middle ground; there is nothing very bravura about it, though Mr. Eugenides’s ability to make us care about Madeleine’s romantic travails and at least one of her suitors results in a story that steadily gains in emotional intensity and amplitude as it rumbles along.
Whereas his earlier novels were laden with mythic overtones and metaphors, “The Marriage Plot” is methodically anchored in the recognizable concerns of bright, self-conscious Ivy League kids coping with worries about grades and grad school and their fledgling careers. Whereas “Middlesex” evoked the 1960s and ’70s through its idiosyncratic narrator’s memories, this novel carefully uses cultural references to conjure the 1980s, that era when hipsters wore Fiorucci cowboy boots and well-to-do parents outfitted their cosseted offspring with Trinitron TVs and Saab convertibles.
As depicted by Mr. Eugenides the ’80s were not so different from today: a recession greeted newly minted college graduates, jobs were hard to come by, and moving back home to live with parents was a popular fallback option. There were differences too, of course: Prince and Annie Lennox played on the soundtrack of students’ lives; people sent letters (written on typewriters, no less) not e-mails; and deconstruction was the trendy doctrine ascendant in university English departments.
Early portions of the novel that trace Madeleine’s perplexed reactions to the chilly, relativistic and self-congratulatory ethos of semiotics and radical feminism can be as funny as David Lodge’s famous sendups of academia, but Mr. Eugenides has a way of belaboring his points, and the reader soon begins to feel as claustrophobic as Madeleine is suffering through classes about Derrida and Barthes and Baudrillard. When the author turns from campus politics to the romantic geometry of the Madeleine-Leonard-Mitchell triangle, the narrative gears really engage.
Madeleine, we learn, is a pretty, privileged preppie, good at tennis and accustomed to plenty of male attention. She has a whole set of rules about what sort of men she will date: no nervous guys, no guys who have problems with their own parents, no guys who don’t ask her out first.
Leonard, needless to say, breaks all these rules, and Madeleine soon realizes she’s deeply, madly in love — or at least very smitten: “It was as if, before she’d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now it was all oxygenated and red.” For someone so used to being in control, it’s a thrilling, disorienting and frightening experience, heightened further when Madeleine realizes that Leonard’s depression is not a passing mood but a serious and chronic condition that could well sabotage their relationship.
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- Oct 01, 11"My course is so clear and obvious that it is delightful to think how straight it is. And yet what a mountain I have to climb! It is enough to frighten anyone who had not all that most insatiable and restless energy." - Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, in a letter to her mother ...
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Teeel’s Amulet debut album was released earlier this year featuring hints of synth pop and italo mixed together. Tomorrow remixes from Starfawn, Slow Hands, and many others get released into the digital world, I highly recommend grabbing this Datassette remix for FREE, here.Now more on a moodier tip, Tropics put together this dream beat emo anthem that stretches out and reminds us how pretty this lo-fi sound can get.
Games is back, synth funk jazz radio is oozing out of this one, tons of soul in this edit.
Don’t let the tape speed correction intro throw you off on this debut from Blouse, this lush new wave might be something you might want to keep digging for.
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A dog casts a long shadow early Wednesday, Sept. 28, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jonathan Woods writesThis is such a simple photo, but it made me laugh a little when I saw it.
- Sep 26, 11
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When asked by a priest to renounce Satan: "Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies." Voltaire3. Voltaire
When asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
- Aug 30, 11
The Computer History Museum has a great collection of vintage computer brochures from the 1950s to the early 1980s. I love the bold type, colors, and shapes working in these designs. You might recognize the IBM System/360 name from previous posts. - Sep 06, 11
Submitted by: butonu
Posted at: 2011-09-04 22:00:21
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/240616 - Aug 30, 11
The romantic notion is the unknown garage startup, the Apple of 1977, but garage startups only succeed in industries that are garage-sized when they start.
- Sep 05, 11
The day of the Like and Follow have created quite the ruckus, forcing brands to really evaluate the differences in quality versus quantity. What’s 1 million Facebook fans worth if none of them Retweet or Share or engage with your content? Wouldn’t it be better to have 100,000 really active and loud fans? And how annoying is it when brands will do anything just to get you to Like them? It normally creates quite the opposite reaction. Where’s the damn Unlike button?
The team at North Social has built a number of innovative and impactful social media applications, promotions, and marketing campaigns for some of the most forward thinking brands on the planet since 2006. The site is pretty awesome and even lets you connect with Facebook to personalize your experience and receive bite sized social media tips and tricks to your inbox.
For its latest series “Fan Page Fail” it’s released 6 video shorts featuring the socially-reckless “Jonny Like”, where throughout the 11-spot campaign, you will be treated to the adventures of the loveable but unlikable Jonny as he trolls for more fans on Facebook.
As Jonny never quite figures out, it takes a lot more than a blind stunt to get someone to return a “Follow Us On Facebook” volley. Check out these 6 short videos below for a laugh:
Fan Page Fail #1: Street Preachin’: One megaphone + one creepy van + one big ass thumb = one amplified fan page fail for poor Jonny.
Fan Page Fail #2: Beach Baller: Bom chicka wah wah…watch as Jonny works his charm on the beach until his bad judgment and choice in body art forces a babe to “unlike” his game.
Fan Page Fail #3: Dirty Urinal: Jonny’s uninhibited enthusiasm quickly gets him more exposure than he wished for in this invasive encounter.
Fan Page Fail #4: “Off” Ramp: Instead of making a splash with new Facebook fans, overly eager Jonny takes a major bath in this disruptive freeway fail.
Fan Page Fail #5: The Procedure: Jonny goes to extreme measures to make a long-lasting impression on prospective fans. But will anyone other than himself be turned on?
Fan Page Fail #6: Dog Park: Desperate fan-recruitment efforts reek in more ways than one in Jonny’s latest social backfire.
And in case you haven’t seen this yet: Brilliant: If Facebook And Twitter Were Real Life.
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- Sep 05, 11
It’s difficult to express how annoying the misuse of hashtags on Twitter is. While there are definitely some upsides to using the popular conversation-tracking feature, there are many of us on Twitter who either simply don’t understand how to use them appropriately, or think it’s funny to overuse them.
Inspired by recent hashtag fatigue, we’ve decided to help out our readers with this helpful do-and-don’t guide on the proper use of hashtags via Twitter. Enjoy.
Do:
Use hashtags to keep track of communities.
Some communities online are utilizing hashtags on Twitter to keep track of conversations going on within their group. Matthew Doucette, game producer at award winning indie game studio Xona Games, says he follows #XNA (XNA Game Studio) to keep up with what’s going on in independent game development.
Use hashtags to join a cause.
In the case of rallying the Internet together to support both positive and controversial causes, hashtags can be used to organize the conversation. Hacktivist group Anonymous, for example, previously used the tag #OpBart to keep track of conversation revolving around a peaceful (yet disruptive) protest being conducted in San Francisco, CA.
Hashtag keywords to encourage topic participation.
In some cases, Twitter users are adding hashtags to keywords like #Twitter in order to keep track of helpful tips being shared that pertain to Twitter. This is a great way to add to an existing pool of information without soaking up your 140 character limit to discuss what your tweet actually pertains to.
Run contests with hashtags.
Some companies and Twitter users craft hashtags to keep track of contest participants. By monitoring search results for those entering, they can keep track of who is actively engaging with the brand and who is not. Actually, this is one of the only ways to keep track of conversations on Twitter period (as Twitter isn’t currently keeping track of conversations for you).
Don’t:
#Hashtag #every #word #in #your #tweet.
Laura Devencenzi replies via Facebook, “[I hate] when people break up their sentence and each word has a hashtag. I mean come on man, don’t you realize it’s pointless to hashtag the word #the??? #I #hate #that #so #much.” So do we, Laura. So do we.
#Useonelonghashtagtodescribeyourentiretweet.
Another annoying instance of hashtags used incorrectly is when someone uses an entire sentence to mark a tweet. We can see this being hilarious in some instances, of course, but not everyone will see the humor or find value in this sort of hashtag misuse.
#UOLHT
Do you know what that means? Of course you don’t. No one does. That’s because it’s nonsensical crap that no one understands, since some users tend to abbreviate long phrases with acronyms like the above. In this case, our acronym refers to using one long hashtag in a tweet.
#Twitter #OpBart #XNA
In one example, Twitter users will string together a series of popular hashtags in an attempt to be picked up by search and gather more followers. In most cases, the actual tweet has nothing to do with the hashtags being used, and the useless tweet only serves to dilute an otherwise helpful conversation.
That said …
Not everyone on the platform knows exactly how to use hashtags to properly track conversations or participate in discussion. In many cases, I’ve seen users completely leave out hashtags even when we specifically request that they use them. Whether this is because they don’t understand them, or because they’re lazy, it’s hard to say.
Until Twitter can keep track of conversations in a more intuitive way, this is one of the mediums Twitter users are being forced to use to tag topics we’d like to follow on the service. Hopefully, the above will serve as a helpful do-and-don’t guide on how to properly use hashtags.
Have you seen any other interesting ways hashtags are being used on Twitter? What about more annoying examples? Sound off in the comments.
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