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13 Mar 2013    BMW pedelec with Bosch drive | »BMW will sell pedelec bicycles this year - announced elektrobike-online.com. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 4:21pm ] [ 13-Mar-13 9:46am ] Nice piece about the Amen Break
http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/the_amen_break_the_most_famous_6-second_drum_loop_how_it_spawned_a_sampling_revolution.html See Also http://www.economist.com/node/21541707 which has this wonderful quote:- "A lot of young people are nostalgic for things they weren't there for," And this. Best tracks containing the Amen Break http://www.economist.com/node/21540676   The "Amen Break": The Most Famous 6-Second Drum Loop & How It Spawned a Sampling Revolution »So much of what enters the popular lexicon depends upon small happy accidents: chance encounters, misreadings, gaffes, extemporaneous bursts of inspiration. Artists attuned to the strange in the mund... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 8:36am ] Seems there's one or two people around with Vanity URLs for their Google Plus profiles. So how did that happen, and how do I get one?
eg https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 7:55am ] 09 Mar 2013 I'm a sucker for a good aphorism:-
"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it." "We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think." "Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors." http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3984 Predators run to eat. Prey run to live. Wealth corrupts. And absolute wealth corrupts absolutely.  No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Culpa. »Say what you will about this Peter Watts guy, he sure has a way with punchy quotes. Just look at some of the one-liners he's come up with that various folks have pinched for their sigfiles, or stuck o... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 09-Mar-13 8:44am ] 07 Mar 2013 Here's a good one for Google Play specialists. How do I copy a Winamp playlist to Google Play? Can anyone point me at a simple recipe? A quick search turned up some youtube vids and some descriptions that sounded horrible and awkward involving going via Windows Media player.
Search both in Google and Google plus was effectively useless as it just wanted to promote Winamp for Android or it was full of spam for keycodes to Winamp Pro. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Mar-13 1:26pm ] #WeLoveTheNHS If you're in the UK, please help #SaveTheNHS by signing this petition. https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75-share1
And here's an example of why. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/02/nhs-commercialisation-bereaved-mother-fight   Stop the NHS privatisation plot »Jeremy Hunt is planning to force doctors to help him privatise more of our NHS. I've just signed a petition to stop him - click here to sign it too. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Mar-13 7:24am ] 06 Mar 2013 Shame there's no photo. The electric Bromptons have the added advantage that they deal with the theft problem in London. You just fold them up and wheel them inside with you.
 The Electric Transport Shop originally shared this post: Ben Irvine from CycleLifestyle.co.uk takes our electric Brompton around London for a day. see what he says thinks here - http://ow.ly/ir7Ul   Electric Dreams: Why e-bikes are the future of transport in London »Wow. I've just had the most fun I've had since the eighties. And, in the process, I've had a revelation about the future of urban transport. With thre... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 06-Mar-13 4:57pm ] 05 Mar 2013 This is a good one. Just read it, m'kay?
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/03/05/honesty-and-the-human-body/   Honesty and the Human Body »Kevin is a 2013 blogging resident visiting us from his home blog over at Melting Asphalt. In economics and biology, honesty is understood in terms of signals. Signals are anything used to communicate,... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 05-Mar-13 6:17pm ] 04 Mar 2013 Yet another story about London's Tech City, Silli Roundabout, Hoxditch startups, Techhub and Google Campus. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/ceo_of_tech_city_joanna_shields/ What's slightly weird is that it seems surprisingly hard to find a big list of startups and even moderate success stories. Doesn't anyone want the free publicity or is it all so stealth that it's invisible?
 Queen of Tech City says she will decide what Tech City does soon now o The Register »CEO of Tech City Joanna Shields says that the "woolly" objectives of London's (in)famous Tech City predated her, but she isn't giving much more clarity on what the government initiative should achieve... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 04-Mar-13 9:41am ] 28 Feb 2013 Every once in a while I stumble over this website that dates from 1993. http://deoxy.org/deoxyold.htm Keep Clicking.
[from: Google+ Posts] [ 28-Feb-13 5:21pm ] 27 Feb 2013 I told you before. #WeLoveTheNHS #SaveTheNHS
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75#petition Now it's time to tell Jeremy Hunt we don't want it privatised to the extent that he wants.  Stop the NHS privatisation plot »Jeremy Hunt is planning to force doctors to help him privatise more of our NHS. I've just signed a petition to stop him - click here to sign it too. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 27-Feb-13 6:42pm ] 26 Feb 2013 25 Feb 2013 What's the smallest device that can run a music player and act as a USB host to a self powered hard drive?
[from: Google+ Posts] [ 25-Feb-13 2:10pm ] 24 Feb 2013 This pretty much sums up how I feel about Smartphones, iOS, Android, Chromebooks, Tablets. http://xkcd.com/1174/
  xkcd: App »[[A really damn stupid website being viewed in a mobile browser. A popup covers absolutely everything and makes the entire page unusable. "Want to visit an incomplete version of our website where you ... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 24-Feb-13 5:24pm ] The Times paywall is annoying. Because I want to link to this article from Caitlin Moran in Saturday's Time Magazine.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3691593.ece The gist being that her daughter is just about to become a teenager, just as Caitlin did in 1988. For her 1988 was boring and dead but it was the lull before the storm of the 2nd summer of love, ecstacy, Madchester, Stone Roses, smiley faces, whistles, the dawn, YBAs, Britpop, trip-hop, neons, beats, cities staying awake all night. That was the last time she was bored for 15 years. Which brings us to 2003 at which point it had all been done. So then there's 10 years of just filling in the details. Travellers, Ravers, hippies, yuppies, punks, junglists, vintage upscalers, New Romantics, Marxists, Scifi nerds, hipsters, retromaniacs, Beyonce, Les Mis, Freeview, Facebook, Twitter, atrophied politics and on and on. It all just exists, but can you imagine a teenager walking down the street wearing something we would find genuinely jarring, or a new recreational drug creating an entire sub-culture, or a lifestyle springing up that's radically different to anything currently on offer? So now she's excited for her 12 year old and that we're just on the cusp of the new. Because all over Britain, in bedrooms and at bus stops and on websites people are talking and striking matches and now we're just waiting for something to catch fire. Except, except, here's another journalist of a certain age, waiting for the kids to start a revolution again. I'm just as guilty of this as her. Standing on the sidelines cheering, demanding that the kids change the rules. But not actually doing it myself. And it's a theme I keep coming back to. We're overdue for a social revolution now but where is it? It's not hard to see echoes of Retromania in all that!   Brace yourselves - a new era is coming | The Times »'In 2013, our day-to-day mood is slightly rattled - but never, ever surprised' [from: Google+ Posts] 23 Feb 2013 [ 23-Feb-13 7:41pm ] 21 Feb 2013 Some funs stuff on Bruce Sterling's tumblr. I especially liked these two.
http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/41864373580/mrs-dante-gabriel-rossetti-as-ophelia http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/42572563985/contemporary-italian-politics  [from: Google+ Posts] [ 21-Feb-13 7:32am ] 20 Feb 2013 So farewell then, Kevin Ayers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/20/kevin-ayers-dies-aged-68   Kevin Ayers dies aged 68 »Singer-songwriter and founding member of pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine has died [from: Google+ Posts] [ 20-Feb-13 5:47pm ] 18 Feb 2013 If 90% lurk, 9% comment/engage and 1% create, does that mean that only 1% of people need a full function PC with a full function keyboard and mouse, the 9% can get by with the cut down apps on tablets with an occasional keyboard or a chromebook, and the 90% only need a smart phone and an onscreen keyboard.
Except: http://gigaom.com/2012/05/06/bbc-1-percent-rule/ [from: Google+ Posts] [ 18-Feb-13 6:43pm ] 
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