Postcards

Wrong on so many levels

March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 No Comments

GOP considered dangerous: Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore of Nevada recently told The New York Times: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”

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Cycling

Five Better Ways to Ride a Bike in Winter

March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 No Comments

Momentum Mag has a neat list of five ways you can better enjoy your winter cycling. Embrace the cold, put on a jumper, and off you go. (Image ‘Cinema Visit – Cycling in Winter in Copenhagen’ by Mikael Colville-Andersen)

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Cycling

Flexibility – Or why cars can’t get away with things bikes can

March 4, 2015 No Comments

Mark Treasure has written up an excellent post (complete with some illustrative photos) on why it is that cyclists have a bad reputation for cycling up one way streets, jumping red lights and so on: Often this is explained in terms of ‘cyclists’ being able to ‘get away with it’, because they’re apparently not identifiable, […]

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Arts Equality Photography Privilege Society

Boundaries

March 3, 2015March 6, 2015 No Comments

“Boundaries” is a project by photographer Allaire Bartel that aims to capture what it feels like to be a woman in an atmosphere of male entitlement. The Pittsburgh-based photographer tells us that the project started last year during a mentoring program that had “boundaries” as the theme. At the time, there was a lot of […]

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Economy Politics Regulation Society

What’s a house for?

March 2, 2015 No Comments

There needs to be a public debate about how the crisis should be resolved. It requires a clear decision about what role we want to give housing in the Irish economy. Should policy allow an unregulated private property market where housing is primarily a private commodity and an investment for speculation and accumulation of private […]

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Government Privacy Security

US Govt wants to have its cake and eat it

March 2, 2015 No Comments

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-united-states-is-angry-that-china-wants-crypto-backdoors-too “You can’t have it both ways,” Trevor Timm, the co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, told Motherboard. “If the US forces tech companies to install backdoors in encryption, then tech companies will have no choice but to go along with China when they demand the same power.”

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People

Leonard Nimoy, Dead at 83

March 1, 2015March 1, 2015 No Comments

Leonard Nimoy — husband, father, photographer, poet, director, musician, and, of course, abundantly talented actor best known as the original Mr. Spock — died this morning at his home in Bel Air from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. – via HelloGiggles “I loved him like a brother. We will all […]

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Arts Life Mood People

Old Friends – The Sound of Music’s 50th Anniversary

February 25, 2015 No Comments

There’s a lovely interview in Vanity Fair with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer for The Sound of Music's 50th Anniversary. It would surprise no one, perhaps, to learn that Julie Andrews travels with her own teakettle. On a late afternoon last winter she and Christopher Plummer met me at the Loews Regency Hotel, in Manhattan, […]

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Humour

Normal Supper

February 22, 2015 No Comments

Judas: still on for Friday? Jesus: Friday? Judas: yeah, the last supper Jesus: the what? Judas: supper. Normal supper with the fellas — David Hughes (@david8hughes) January 5, 2015 *teehee*

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Big Brother

GCHQ does whatever the fuck it wants

February 20, 2015 No Comments

According to the latest Snowden documents, it seems that GCHQ have stolen the master encryption keys for a large chunk of the world’s SIM cards. This essentially means that they can decrypt more or less any phone call content, text message etc. Your phone is not private. AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal […]

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Postcards

Who?

Murf

Wrong on so many levels

Five Better Ways to Ride a Bike in Winter

Flexibility – Or why cars can’t get away with things bikes can

Boundaries

What’s a house for?

US Govt wants to have its cake and eat it

Leonard Nimoy, Dead at 83

Old Friends – The Sound of Music’s 50th Anniversary

Normal Supper

GCHQ does whatever the fuck it wants