#musings

dasgutdesign: Yahoo! reportedly wants to buy Tumblr for $1.1...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:15:14 +0300

Yahoo! reportedly wants to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion.

Unfortunately, Yahoo’s track record of keeping web sites and online services alive isn’t very good.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:09:02 +0300

Developers From Nearly Every Continent Will Be Attending WWDC...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:44 +0300

Developers From Nearly Every Continent Will Be Attending WWDC 2013
Alex Heath, cultofmac.com

Every year Apple holds its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California. It’s the only time out of the year that third-party App Store developers can meet with Apple engineers face-to-face. For the indie dev making ap…

None from Mzansi, that’s a shame. I’ll have to go one day!

"Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s so very middle class"

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:45:03 +0300

“Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s so very middle class”

- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham

Dobby loved this blanket, and then suddenly decided it had to be...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:41:12 +0300

Dobby loved this blanket, and then suddenly decided it had to be removed from the bed immediately! Lol!

onlylolgifs: Glass door that changes opacity as it’s being...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:30:29 +0300

onlylolgifs:

Glass door that changes opacity as it’s being locked/unlocked

Very cool and CIA-like!

deathtiel: Gollum: prettier than Legolas What’s so...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:45:30 +0300

deathtiel:

Gollum: prettier than Legolas

What’s so funny, i don’t get it.

Ah, this is so good! Found by my amazing wife Auds! THIS IS...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:45:13 +0300

Ah, this is so good! Found by my amazing wife Auds!

THIS IS WATER (by SeeTheGlossary)

shortformblog: afternoonsnoozebutton: NEW ORLEANS — NOPD...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:30:28 +0300

shortformblog:

afternoonsnoozebutton:

NEW ORLEANS — NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas says that at least 12 people were shot a Mother’s Day second-line parade in the 7th Ward. The youngest victim in the shooting was 10 years old. Another, thirteenth victim wasn’t actually shot, but was injured in a fall. Police believe three suspects were involved. They were seen fleeing toward Claiborne Avenue. Police say there were 200 people at the corner where shots rang out, and 300 to 400 people at the second line in all. There were about 10 cops on the scene trying to control the second line when the shooting happened. There were reportedly two different guns involved.

(WWTV)

No immediate fatalities were reported in the shooting, according to the New Orleans Time-Picayune. A fluid situation however; we’re keeping an eye on.

America, what is up???

Just gonna keep this here.

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:45:29 +0300

Just gonna keep this here.

carolinafrica: “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:30:17 +0300

carolinafrica:

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” - Robert H. Schuller

Truth.

Tutu 'will no longer vote for ANC'

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:45:15 +0300

Tutu 'will no longer vote for ANC':

I think that this is a major win for South Africa.

A big name with “struggle credentials” not voting ANC any more gives the average Joe at least the thought that it’s possible to think of other options. You don’t have to vote for the ANC because you voted for the ANC before.

This is really just giving people permission to think for themselves, rather than blindly voting for a party that does nothing for them or the country.

Let’s hope these encouraging signs persist.

With a bit of luck, the message of the DA’s latest “Know your DA” campaign will also imprint on people’s minds that the DA was opposed to Apartheid all along.

I think these are all hopeful signs.

I’ve not enjoyed this new Green Day stuff, but this song...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:45:42 +0300

I’ve not enjoyed this new Green Day stuff, but this song is really nice.

Enjoying it today.

Green Day - Amy (via Youtube)

dashperiod: Everyone has something good. Become a donar...

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:15:08 +0300

dashperiod:

Everyone has something good. Become a donar campaign. Awesome idea and great design. Private project by my talented colleague Felipe Franco.

Interesting idea for an organ donar campaign; even the most rotten person can still offer a decent organ.

weirdspartan: Tumblr was on Veep So cool! They had the main...

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:30:29 +0300

weirdspartan:

Tumblr was on Veep

So cool! They had the main character become a meme on tumblr, and then HBo uploaded the photo to Tumblr, and the Tumblr People did the rest - there’s loads of these memes already for Veep. Awesome!

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Tue, 07 May 2013 10:45:28 +0300

rob bell: A bit from What We Talk About When We Talk About God

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:45:16 +0300

rob bell: A bit from What We Talk About When We Talk About God:

robbellcom:

Gospel is the shocking, provocative, revolutionary, subversive, counterintuitive good news that in your moments of greatest

despair,

failure,

sin,

weakness,

losing,

failing,

frustration,

inability,

helplessness,

wandering,

and falling short,

God meets you there-

right there-

right…

Thanks To Intel, Your Next MacBook Air Could Run ‘BioShock...

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:43:00 +0300

Thanks To Intel, Your Next MacBook Air Could Run ‘BioShock Infinite’ On A 4K UltraHD Display
Jason Evangelho, forbes.com

Can you imagine the next version of Microsoft Microsoft‘s Surface Pro running the latest first-person shooter on the highest quality settings? What about Apple Apple‘s MacBook Air playing BioShock Infinite while powering a 4K…

Cool that new very thin MacBooks of the future will be so capable!

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Sat, 04 May 2013 14:15:18 +0300

Self-Loathing Narcissism: If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:30:16 +0300

Self-Loathing Narcissism: If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures:

jahanzebjz:

Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.

Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.

Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men – and each other – for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Sterling have come to America.

As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders – can peace ever come to this land?

Lol, news stories written about America in the way they report on the rest of the world. Lol!