Applied Culture: Archive

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“I’m off to the mountains for the weekend. Staying at an 18th Century farm...”

Jan 30th

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Allen Ginsgberg - Howl I, II, III. Reading at the...

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Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository →

Al Jazeera have made available their exclusive Arabic and English video footage from the Gaza Strip produced by their correspondents and crews. The ongoing war and crisis in Gaza, together with the scarcity of news footage available, make this repository a key resource for anyone producing content on the current situation. Everything has been released under the Creative Commons License.

Jan 29th

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Wikipedia: List of forms of word play →

(via tristanjay7)

Jan 29th

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Deva Premal - Ide Were Were. This is a beautiful...

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bebelestrange: bring on the dancing horses -...

Jan 28th

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From the opera Lakme (Léo Delibes)- Sous le dome...

Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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Catrina sighting

The other day I reblogged a post about the Catrinas, the humorous Mexican depiction of death used during Dia de los Muertos. Lo and behold, I am walking down a random street yesterday and I came across this art gallery that is selling the most gorgeous Catrinas I’ve seen so far. From the gallery’s description of the sculptures: Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posadas is the father...

Jan 27th

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“‘Taste’ is a term which first acquired prominence in England in the later 17th...”

– History Today.

Jan 27th

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“Off to Barcelona for the next couple of weeks. Posting will be scarce during the...”

Jan 23rd

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Twitter is not public infrastructure

marco: In Twitter Limits Potential App Growth, the author argues against Twitter’s new gloal limit (20,000 requests per hour) for previously whitelisted (and unlimited) API-consuming IPs: I’m arguing that 20,000, or any request-rate limit for that matter, limits any app out there from being able to develop on the Twitter platform, and I don’t see why any able-minded entrepreneur would want to...

Jan 23rd

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Self esteem goes a long way

dementes: i understand that. i remember irc. i still have irc people in my life still too.. and they are awesome. i remember being awake until some ridiculous time of the day talking talking talking. i miss that. i miss people. i try to poke that out of people, but onlien we seem to have lost that. in real life (as if online is less real) we’ve lost that too. or maybe it’s me. maybe i’ve...

Jan 23rd

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Social Media and conversations

dementes: i really don’t understand. i mean, i see these awesome women who are strong and with big personalities and images to match and they seem to fantastic and i envy them.. but that’s not me. i’m such a loser. i’m totally flighty and i speak with exclaimation points (!!) and i have super messy hair and i’m big, but not over powering and my voice is loud but it’s quietened with the right...

Jan 23rd

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gregoryjohn: dementes: hm. i am an interesting (okay notsoyoungshutthefuckup) lady. so tell me. why do people not talk to me. i mean, face to face AND online. it’s odd. how do i fix it? become less of a freak? oh no! not doable. whatever. just wondering. suggestions? gregoryjohn: I was wandering the same thing about myself. All in good time I say. :-) Interesting people are unattainable,...

Jan 23rd

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Lhasa de Sela - Con toda palabra. This song...

Jan 23rd

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Asshat spammer subject of the day

Some Search Engine Optimization scam email with the subject “Can you afford to lose 300,000 potential customers per year ?”. 300k customers? uh-hu. For a three person business like ours? Sounds impressive! I think I am going to buy whatever virus/spyware infected crap they wanna sell us. Seems so realistic.

Jan 23rd

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ABC (Australia Radio National) hosts one of the...

Jan 23rd

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mabelmoments: Did you know… … that Mabel can play the didge (didgeridoo). Bet you didn’t. Ha! I so want to learn that! In my defense, I have to add I possess mad skills with the Ecuatorian Rainforest Shuar mouth harp (it’s a string instrument made with a very long bamboo cane and a metal chord, played like all mouth harps, but a lot more unconfortable to hold, pretty much the length of...

Jan 23rd

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