February 2012
3 posts
“Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult...”
– Marie Colvin (Sunday Times reporter) was killed in Syria yesterday because President Bashar al-Assad’s army was so determined to silence reporters who were telling the world about the relentless killing of civilians in the besieged city of Homs that they pledged to “kill any journalist...
““Northland College (NZ) principal John Tapene has offered the following...”
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had...”
– A Statement From Louis CK on the success of distributing his latest comedy special online for $5.
Good job, internet.
(via ryeisenberg)
Excellent, another nail in the coffin of old school distribution lock ins and DRM :)
My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick Meighan
darcibastiaan:
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” ...
November 2011
3 posts
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 2011
5 posts
2 tags
September 2011
3 posts
4 tags
“Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?”
“aut vincere aut mori
( either to conquer or to die )”
August 2011
3 posts
7 tags
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
Statement regarding 234 Queensberry St
Statement regarding 234 Queensberry St
On Sunday 29 May, the university was notified about the possible presence of asbestos containing material (ACM) in a ground floor area of 234 Queensberry St that had been partially demolished. The presence of ACM had not been identified previously through multiple hazardous material audits.
The source of the possible ACM was sealed and the area was...
May 2011
13 posts
“…The IT department needs to adopt a consultative approach. It can no...”
– Is the IT Dept failing users? • The Register (2011-May-25)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/25/it_department_user_needs/
“Floote entered with the tea tray. At a loss for what proper etiquette required,...”
– Parasol Protectorate #1, Soulless. Chapter 7: Revelations over chopped liver
“The short answer is No.
The long answer is Fuck No.”
– Stephen Fry QI Series E. Episode 03 - Eating
“Twice we descended deeper into the earth, and I began getting antsy about...”
– Harry Dresden
HEOROT, from My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
“There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into...”
– Sanya, Knight of the Cross.
Dresden Files #12: Changes
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
“To keep up, universities must provide the latest technology or they will not...”
– Sarah-Jane Collins
The high-tech halls (2011-Mar-17) The Age : Technology
“… Current debates about the university, in China and the West, have...”
– Simon Marginson,
The modern university must reinvent itself to survive
(2011-Mar-30) theconversation.edu.au
“Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on,...”
– Jon Bon Jovi
OK, let me point-by-point this:
“A magical, magical time.” It was a magical time because you were a teenager discovering music, one of the two most amazing things in life. There are still teenagers; there’s still music.
“Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music...
'If' by Rudyard Kipling
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can...
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
4 posts
“… In a letter to university authorities, UKCA chair Melanie Johnson – a...”
– Bankers fail to censor thesis exposing loophole in bank card security
The Guardian (2010-Dec-30)
December 2010
2 posts
