If you haven't listened to "Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love" then your life is just a little incomplete
- http://amzn.to/15M86fe
Friday, June 28, 2013
Neat use of QR codes
ok neat use of QR codes......
As firework stands open for business, one Utah vendor has created a way for buyers to preview what they're getting before they check out.
- http://www.ksl.com/
As firework stands open for business, one Utah vendor has created a way for buyers to preview what they're getting before they check out.
- http://www.ksl.com/
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Vision
I love science - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mTsrRZEMwA
You have to wonder what Galileo would think if someone was able to show him this video :)
I'm continually in awe of what makes someone able to see "something" no one else had even though hammers and feathers had been around for thousands of years.
What can you "see" if not for the distractions around you.
You have to wonder what Galileo would think if someone was able to show him this video :)
I'm continually in awe of what makes someone able to see "something" no one else had even though hammers and feathers had been around for thousands of years.
What can you "see" if not for the distractions around you.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Country of Convenience
I applied for a replacement passport today at the Australian consulate....$230 for a 32 page 10 year passport and thought.....hmmm I wonder if there are any other countries that offer it for cheaper.
I mean lets face it there is nothing saying that I as an Australian citizen overseas HAS to have an AUSTRALIAN passport.
Its interesting after you have travelled/changed country residency/married and divorced and remarried again that its all just bits of paper and what we "think is real" is pretty much irrelevant.
So any countries out there wanting to bid on my next passport....get in line with your bids in 2023 :)
Cheers,
Dean
I mean lets face it there is nothing saying that I as an Australian citizen overseas HAS to have an AUSTRALIAN passport.
Its interesting after you have travelled/changed country residency/married and divorced and remarried again that its all just bits of paper and what we "think is real" is pretty much irrelevant.
So any countries out there wanting to bid on my next passport....get in line with your bids in 2023 :)
Cheers,
Dean
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Tropfest 2013
Photo from Tropfest last weekend. Was great to see them in a bigger location (Bryant park last year was packed), interestingly way less aussies than you would think, mainly locals (and a huge south African contingent for some reason :)
$1b Thats not cool...you know whats cool
Building your own city.....now that's cool
- http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/25/part-2-how-vegas-entrepreneurs-are-disrupting-education-and-health-care/
- http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/25/part-2-how-vegas-entrepreneurs-are-disrupting-education-and-health-care/
Friday, June 21, 2013
Outlook rules
Drats....just found out Outlook Rules dont export when you create a .pst file to move to a new hard drive.......
:(
:(
Monday, June 17, 2013
Edward Snowden is doing a live AMA
Edward Snowden is doing a live AMA on the Guardian website right now!!
This was the question that rang truest for me
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
AhBrightWings
17 June 2013 2:12pm
Question:
Given the enormity of what you are facing now in terms of repercussions, can you describe the exact moment when you knew you absolutely were going to do this, no matter the fallout, and what it now feels like to be living in a post-revelation world? Or was it a series of moments that culminated in action? I think it might help other people contemplating becoming whistleblowers if they knew what the ah-ha moment was like. Again, thanks for your courage and heroism.
Answer:
I imagine everyone's experience is different, but for me, there was no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress - and therefore the American people - and the realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
This was the question that rang truest for me
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
AhBrightWings
17 June 2013 2:12pm
Question:
Given the enormity of what you are facing now in terms of repercussions, can you describe the exact moment when you knew you absolutely were going to do this, no matter the fallout, and what it now feels like to be living in a post-revelation world? Or was it a series of moments that culminated in action? I think it might help other people contemplating becoming whistleblowers if they knew what the ah-ha moment was like. Again, thanks for your courage and heroism.
Answer:
I imagine everyone's experience is different, but for me, there was no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress - and therefore the American people - and the realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
China whats it all about
China.....whats it all about - check out these two photos
- http://www.panoramio.com/
- http://www.panoramio.com/
Those photos are taken in exactly the same spot.....just a couple of years apart and now there is a world class man made marina with concrete breakwater and "luxury" high end resort holiday houses where there was nothing before.
BTW each of these catamarans are worth several million a piece - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?sunreef
- http://www.panoramio.com/
- http://www.panoramio.com/
Those photos are taken in exactly the same spot.....just a couple of years apart and now there is a world class man made marina with concrete breakwater and "luxury" high end resort holiday houses where there was nothing before.
BTW each of these catamarans are worth several million a piece - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?sunreef
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Let This Be
#NowWatching the Julie Kathryn - video clip for "Let This Be"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub88RkzJU7M&feature=player_embedded
Stunning visuals to match and equally emotive song. Very "Twin Peaks'ish" (though kind of reminds me of music from the "Until The End Of The World" movie).
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub88RkzJU7M&feature=player_embedded
Stunning visuals to match and equally emotive song. Very "Twin Peaks'ish" (though kind of reminds me of music from the "Until The End Of The World" movie).
Saturday, June 08, 2013
I hear you....but now you hear me.
I think its time for ordinary people to show their disapproval to politicians that whenever and wherever they speak we turn our backs to them. Be prepared to listen - but always only with our backs turned.
Until the politicians change they will only ever see our backs. They need to learn, but we are not them.
They work for us, not the other way around.
Some how we forgot this along the way.
Until the politicians change they will only ever see our backs. They need to learn, but we are not them.
They work for us, not the other way around.
Some how we forgot this along the way.
Friday, June 07, 2013
The Sessions
Just watched The Sessions - wow Helen Hunt got ripped off by not getting The Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2012
An amazing film - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249
(BTW havent seen the Artist but cant believe John Hawkes wasn't even nominated for Best Actor though i'm having trouble in my head reconciling that this is the same guy who was in Martha Marcy May Marlene -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441326 as looks/acts like two totally different people).
An amazing film - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249
(BTW havent seen the Artist but cant believe John Hawkes wasn't even nominated for Best Actor though i'm having trouble in my head reconciling that this is the same guy who was in Martha Marcy May Marlene -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441326 as looks/acts like two totally different people).
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Losing the hacking war
Watching this video is depressing.... Wait until you get to 1.15min where they demonstrate the firewire and pcie bypass.......
http://channel9.msdn.com/
http://channel9.msdn.com/
Irrelevant Commercials Suck
Hey YouTube...I have zero interest in seeing Square Stand advertisement videos.....if I didn't click on it the 256th time you showed me the commercial.....I'm unlikely to click on it the 257th.....
You want to know why people don't click on ads.....its because you show shit ads.
You want to know why people don't click on ads.....its because you show shit ads.
Monday, June 03, 2013
Dog Day Afternoon
A very Dog Day Afternoon weekend here in NY.
Brooklyn this weekend had 12 shootings (because of the heat?) no that's not all of NY....just Brooklyn.....I know wtf??
8 in the Bronx, 4 in Queens, 1 in Manhattan....and zero in Staten island....that's because they are sane out there.
Aussie go to the beach.....homies get all up in your face and shoot it out.....? what am I doing here??
Brooklyn this weekend had 12 shootings (because of the heat?) no that's not all of NY....just Brooklyn.....I know wtf??
8 in the Bronx, 4 in Queens, 1 in Manhattan....and zero in Staten island....that's because they are sane out there.
Aussie go to the beach.....homies get all up in your face and shoot it out.....? what am I doing here??
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Alone in the wilderness
Just watched "Alone in the wilderness" spoiler alert....you're wasting your life away :)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437806
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437806
Saturday, June 01, 2013
Manhunt on HBO
Just watched "Manhunt" on HBO documentaries this afternoon (way better than zero dark thirty) - http://on.fb.me/15qhYOg
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