Texas Chainsaw Massacre T-shirt at Sjiprazje Club, Belgrade, Serbia
South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds).
One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started [...]
Freddy Hagen is an extraordinarily talented Danish photographer.
Recently he returned from a trip to the Middle East and has uploaded some slide shows.
One in particular is a must see, Cairo Megacity. It is a slide show with music and both the music and photographs are utterly beautiful.
His other slide shows are also superb. Don’t miss [...]
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Abelard.org has a lovely short introduction to the fascinating era of peace, prosperity and scientific now known as La Belle Époque:
La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Era, is an expression born after the First World War to evoke the period after in the Napoleonic campaigns and before the watershed in Europe of the Great [...]
How to Be a Social Media Provocateur - An analysis of how to engage your own customer base using Social Media by the authors of Groundswell, a recent book about how people are using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies.
12 Steps to Stop Scapegoating in Your Company [...]
Dr Mega (left) and Stephen Schwartz (right), paid shills or merely educated bigots?
Have agents of Serbia’s Radical Party or perhaps renegade elements of the Serbian Intelligence Service successfully penetrated the US right-wing media establishment to conduct False Flag Operations against legitimate critics of Serbia?
Sometimes it seems that way.
It appears that someone is successfully seeding [...]
Exceptional Performance: “Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.”
These are great tips.
Regular readers here will know that since switching to Wordpress over a year ago I have tried on quite a few themes.
My last daliance was with K2, which is in many was a lovely theme, but too slow and “fussy” for me.
This is my latest trialist, the Very Plain Text theme, and I love it. [...]
The guys at Blue Design Studio has a brand new list of their favourite Wordpress Content Management System (CMS) Plugins.
It is a great list for those interested in using Wordpress as a CMS.
Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio
BBC NEWS | UK | Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
A great man leaves us.
(tags: death fiction History news sci-fi books)
Barack Obama’s Speech on Race - New York Times
The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign.
(tags: race racism [...]