August 2011
15 posts
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is...”
– Jack Layton’s last letter to Canadians (source), leader of the New Democrat Party, 2003-2011
Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them. So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality. I have...
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Why the Rich Fear Violence on the Streets →
thenoobyorker:
This was posted roughly one month ago over at The Wall Street Journal,
Last year, I was at a billionaire’s home in California and I asked him to describe his biggest worry. He pointed to a 19th century painting on the wall, which depicted a female beggar receiving alms from a wealthy gentleman and giving her patron a flower in return.
“That’s what I worry about,” he said. “But...
Vancouver "Most Livable", yet least affordable:
Survey after poll after review lauds Vancouver as North America’s most ‘livable’ — home to some of the most desirable addresses on Earth. Yet for up to half of Vancouver city residents and thousands of other householders across Metro who rent rather than own their accommodation, finding a place to come home to in the continent’s most-envied urban region can seem like...
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a...
The Top 10 Errors in Fungal Photography
Blurred images
Bad composition
Poor choice of collections
Too shallow depth of field
Photographing mushrooms in direct sunlight or sharp shadows
Over/under exposure
Over reliance on flash
Poor usage of the natural light
Shooting under incandescent light
Poor choice of background
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