Posts by Sam F
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I'm there. Within walking distance this time, no less...
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Diana's death: I was at a flower show near Western Springs with my sister, and the news was suddenly announced over the PA just after the presentation of prizes. A lot of very shocked, tearful old folk that day.
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Must dig out my copy of Great NZ Argument...
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"Maybe he couldn't find a tennis ball?"
And thus enters the news story which dare not speak its name...
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Awesome video. If only we knew where Ebaumsworld stole it from...
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I'm far too young to have cred in this Battle of Obsolete Computer Memories. My family didn't get a computer until 1997, and it was a P200 from Kingsland Computers - complete with handheld scanner, a chunky 4.3 gig of hard drive space, and Lotus SmartSuite 97 in place of MS Office. We hung on to it until 2004.
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Just in case people didn't spot it before: here's an essay by danah boyd which looks mainly at the Facebook Feed, but also lots of other interesting little issues around social networking sites. Worth a (re)read.
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Facebook's transformation has really kicked off because all of those third-party applications are being tossed around.
I signed up last year and became quite fond of its relative simplicity, but now I'm having to refuse endless requests from friends to sign up to new applications which will just clutter up my profile. As Damian points out, it's so much worse because all that the programs do is require more actions from your friends, who in turn require more actions from you... and the whole thing steams towards the point where people stop using the program because it's so annoying.
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I think the best strategy for pulling with books is to doll yourself up in the traditional way, then wrap a blank cover around whatever you're reading (in Japanese style, where people habitually buy these covers to conceal their literary choice on the subway). Fellow passengers' curiosity will take you a long way.
People may also have heard of the My Penguin series, which are classics with a blank front cover for artists to decorate. Possibilities:
1) Leave it blank and rely on curiosity
2) Show off your artistic style and actually decorate it while in public, then give it to your target as a gift - with your phone number inside the cover. ;) -
I lol'd.
And it's all so true, in that special satirical meaning of the word.