This caught my eye in Cory Doctorow's acceptance for an award for Pirate Cinema.
Every single problem everyone has from now on will involve the Internet, because the Internet will be woven into every facet of our lives.
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/04/science-fiction-award-season.html

Which resonated with something else I read today. Poe's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law (On the internet) without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.

I have a variation of that. Everything I've seen or heard on the internet in the past few years looks like, and is indistinguishable from, ironic sarcasm. But that's just me!
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The object.content field (activities.list and .get) is documented as "The HTML-formatted content, suitable for display." However it only covers the content added at the time of sharing and does not include attachments.

There's an ongoing problem that new attachment types (eg Soundcloud) don't necessarily appear in the API output. For attachments that do, the object.attachments[].content only shows the plain text, not the full html as seen in the desktop Web UI.

So if you were using the API to get the G+ posts for onwards transfer into another system, the API coder needs to recreate each attachment html and gets no hints from Google on how to do this.

I've created a feature request in the issues database to deal with this. I feel that object.content really ought to be a full html rep of the whole item as seen in the desktop UI. But I guess this might break existing code (like my own!)
https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=641

Thoughts?

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BT Sport on Virgin Media. It's no extra charge if you have the XL TV package, otherwise £15 per month.

So at least some of us will get the full MotoGP package.

http://mediacentre.virginmedia.com/Stories/Virgin-Media-scores-the-winner-with-BT-Sport-248e.aspx

I wonder what, if anything, will happen to Eurosport's WSB and BSB coverage and what will happen to the Eurosport and BBC MotoGP teams.

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DHARMA CLEANER. WARNING! COMBUSTIBLE. HARMFUL IF INHALED OR SWALLOWED. MAY CAUSE SKIN AND EYE IRRITATION. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.

Anyone who's had to read one of my emails will understand why I find this site appealing.

A random product label every time you hit refresh. http://www.backlabel.gr/label.html

ps. "Keep out of reach of children" is an important life message and one many of us wish we'd followed. Along with the important advice, "Keep dry and away from children".

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Hopefully the widget below will play. Great track btw.
https://soundcloud.com/houndstoothlbl/09-and-the-world-was-gone
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The new Soundcloud widget is very welcome where the user inserts a Soundcloud URL and a playable widget is automatically added to the post.

However it's not appearing in activities.list or activities.get in the Google+ API. Neither in the object.content nor as an object.attachment.
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Anyone up at Oulton Park tonight? Just curious if the nearest pub (The Egerton Arms), has re-opened. 
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Crying out for an E-Assist conversion. Rear Bafang motor, Lyen controller, bottle battery.
http://www.cycleexif.com/vanguard-ryo 

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That's another tributary of the Lee or Lea checked off. Today's little jaunt was Ware -> Potters Bar -> Source of the Turkey Brook -> Enfield Lock -> Ware. So that's both the Turkey Brook and Cuffley Brook from source to where they join the Lee or Lea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Brook says it's named after Turkey Street or TokeStreet which is a street owned by a family called Toke(y) and nothing to do with Turkeys at all, at all.

Pond Wood just SE of Potters Bar is worth a visit. https://www.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.688997,-0.152129&spn=0.018224,0.045447&t=m&dg=opt&z=15
There's a large pond and marshy area fitted out with white topped poles and duckboards to walk around it. Today it was full of wild life like Dragonflies.

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Q: How are you doing?
A: Not so bad. Still trapped at the bottom of a gravity well, though.

I am one of the crew of this spaceship, but I'm a bit worried the captain is going to make me wear a red shirt.

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When racism was finally exposed as being detrimental to society, it was blamed on foreigners

http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/08/go-home-racism-living-toys-mid-1970s.html



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If you're fascinated by this year's mythical narratives like the NSA, Manning, Snowden, Assange, Wikileaks, and you like verbal pyrotechnics then you really must read this piece from Bruce Sterling. https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5

"Then there’s Julian Assange. Yeah, him, the silver-haired devil, the Mycroft Holmes of the Ecuadorian Embassy."

I LOLed.

Seriously. Go read it now.

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Just opt into Oversight Clearway and earn Tesco Clubcard rewards.

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Get Dad a drink with a cherry in it. Dad's like cherries.
http://cannabinomad.tumblr.com/post/57137275398

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Tom Faber's round up of June/July 2013
http://whitenoisereview.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/june-july-roundup-2013.html

BTW. You're never to old to be into Deep House
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2013/07/hi-doctor-nick-tips-tougher-drum
Shrug off those weird looks you get from the kids as you have as much right to be there as they do.

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Sample Eno, Mall Muzak and 70s-90s disco. Mix it up, and glitch it out using 2nd decade, 21st century music tools. Give it a faintly ridiculous genre tag of Vaporwave and before it's even barely a thing, spin out Broporwave, Post-Vaporwave, Proto-Vaporwave and of course triangle symbols and made up Japanese words. Rip unmercifully into any journalist who attempts to document all this, especially if they try to take a post-modern stance and viewpoint on it.

Then play it back loud on (fake) "Beats by Dr Dre" headphones while walking through Westfield in Stratford and looking over the wasteland that is the Olympic Park, Crossrail tunnel development and (artfully graffitti-ed) Hackney Wick light-industrial business parks; on your way to a canal side, craft brewery/pizzeria; while wearing silly trousers.

No change... Is sexy!

http://www.dummymag.com/features/essay-invest-in-vaporwave-futures
dʳᶤᵖ⁻₁₃₃ - and then so clear
INTERNET CLUB - REDEFINING THE WORKPLACE
http://www.last.fm/tag/vaporwave

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Take that Jeremy Hunt! (rhymes with). For #WeLoveTheNHS  .

It's not often a crowdsourced petition and fund raising campaign take the government to court and win. The court found that Jeremy acted illegally when trying to unilaterally close Lewisham's A&E and Maternity without going through the proper motions and against the wishes of the NHS Trust's GP commissioners. So much for the coalition promises not to apply top down management control to the NHS.

http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2013/07/18/update-jeremy-hunt-and-the-lewisham-court-case/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23518732

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This isn't the UK I voted for. TFL ticket inspectors passing coloured people to UK Border Agency staff, all watched over by UK Police at Stratford and Kensal Rise.

http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/newsflash-uk-border-agency-id-checking-people-of-colour-at-train-stations/
http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/immigration_officers_accused_of_intimidating_train_passengers_at_kensal_green_station_1_2307162
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/who-ordered-that.html

But then I'm white, middle aged, and live in a market town in SE England and I tend to carry ID with me at all times, so it obviously doesn't apply to me.

Who said "Pre-emptive counter-revolution", yes, you at the back, you want to spend the night falling down stairs?

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Profile About Page Links in the API
I just went looking in the people section of the G+ API for access to and a JSON representation of the entries in the Links section of a person's profile and couldn't find anything. Am I looking in the wrong place or is it missing and this is a feature request?

I'd expect something like this.

"Links": [
  "Other Profiles": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }
  ]
  "Contributor to": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }  
  ]
  "Links": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }  
  ]  
]

This was prompted by yet another proposal for encoding a list of people's profile pages on other social networks, this time from Dave Winer. His use case is information about the author in RSS feeds.
http://reboot.reallysimplesyndication.com/2013/07/28/implementingSomeNewRssIdeasInFargo

ISTM the Google way of doing this would be to include a line
<atom:link href="Google_Profile_URL" rel="[author,publisher]" /> in the feed but I couldn't then easily walk the list of associated profiles from code.

BTW. I can't count the number of times we've been round this loop in the last 10 years. FOAF, Microformats, Facebook graphs, etc, etc, etc. Shame we have to keep re-inventing the wheel because none of them can get traction, adoption and interop..

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