Posts tagged with "Stateoftheworldoftheday"
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Vice
Is this thing still on? I guess it is! I was going to bring my blog back from hiatus to add some living abroad/travel stuff, but for some reason I got intere...
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How time travel works
FYI: https://vimeo.com/50214643 The fancy gentlemen from the Congo Apparently some subcultures in Congo are just as obsessed with fashion as many of my Weste...
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Smoke and mirrors
I have seen this before, but it never ceases to amaze me how even trivial things get green screened and are fake these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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The city of London
The story of the City of London (pop. 11000) never ceases to amaze me. This small video explains how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZHZZUc
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Musical dilemmas (Lowlands edition)
I'm going to the Lowlands festival soon, and as I should, I'm looking forward to it immensely. I have been told by people that have been there before that yo...
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Underground New York Public Library
I know I have been neglecting my blog again. It seems like I'm never really able to keep up blogging, because there is always so much to do and so much to fo...
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Cool participation videos
Interacting with people is fun, and this guy manages to engage crowds of people to go dance walking with him. This really brings a smile to my face, especial...
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My kind of religious experience
The other day Neil deGrasse Tyson was tweeting to some nicely produced videos that pair his voice with beautiful footage. The first (which echoes sentiments ...
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On happiness
Recently I was asked what I wanted, and semi-jokingly I replied that I want to be happy, as I'm wont to. They then repeated the common wisdom to me that you ...
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Lego for girls
I love Lego. From age 6 to age 12 I probably spent at least an hour a day on average playing with Lego, and most of that time consisted of me building things...
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Chicken little
A couple of years back I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and while it was enjoyable, it didn't really do much for me. Today I got linked to a short by ...
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Fun with software development!
Software developers seem to have a bottomless capability to create new languages and/or do something unexpected with existing language. Of the first category...
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Post-scarcity paradox
We're not there yet, by no means (and question is if a post-scarcity society will ever really be feasible), but this Guardian piece that is a reaction to thi...
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The D is back
The D is back, and they are still not above making dick jokes. I guess that is a good thing :-). The whole CD is on Spotify too! https://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Chaos life
I discovered a new web comic today. I must say that I found the quality quite hit and mis, but two recent ones are pretty neat in my opinion I love the cliff...
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Bubbleicious
If companies like Instagram get picked up for a sweet $1B, there is no question that there must be some form of bubble going on. The most bizarre thing is th...
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Somebody that I used to know
I really love the Gotye song, but today I stumbled onto two versions that are also pretty neat. The first one is simply adorable; two children on a back seat...
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Is this thing still on?
I'm pretty sure I used this title a previous time that I tried to breathe new life into my blog, but what the heck? It's been a while, so it is time to press...
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Meritocracy!
Recently my friend Maryka tweeted that she finds it very odd that the English press still talks about the "ruling class". I guess that for outsiders this sim...