I’ve had my belief in human decency reinforced today. I was contacted through this website by someone who had bought a media player on craigslist. The seller had stated it was from a lost and found bin. When it arrived the buyer found it full of family and business photos – including some hotel...
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Tags: decent, ethic, golden rule, goodness, human, humanist, moral
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I love these guys. I’ve only recently heard of them, and every time I listen to them I find myself breaking into a grin from ear to ear. It’s just so fun and cool.
The Baseballs are a German band who have the greaser look down pat and the 50s rockabilly...
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Tags: 50 cent, 50s, ayo technology, baseballs, chasing cars, katy perry, lady gaga, Music, pokercae, retro, rihanna, rockabilly, umbrella, video, youtube
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Users of the iPhone 3G who’ve updated to iOS4 haven’t been well impressed overall. In fact, it seems many would would likely take issue with my use of the word “updated”, as everywhere you look online there are complaints of slow-downs and crashes (check especially the comments on that link, for some major unhappiness),...
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Tags: 3g, apple, auto-correct, autocorrect, crash, iOS4, iphone, laggy, phone, slow, tech, text entry
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… or to this blog at least. Bizarrely, the interwebs has put up with me for a year now on this blog, and except for a rather emptyish month a little while back, my readers and views have grown every month.
I had a look at the Wikipedia entry for August 21 and a few...
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Tags: anniversary, birthday, blog, carrie-anne moss, count basie, fritz freling, guadalcanal, history, james cook, joe strummer, mars observer, matrix, milne, minamoto no yoritomo, mona lisa, NASA, trotsky, winnie the pooh
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More wonderful Stephen Fry. This half hour video is well worth watching – repeatedly.
STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.
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Tags: development, interview, learning, life, philosophy, stephen fry, thinking, thought, video
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