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16 Sep 2013 I told you reality has an ironic bias.
I went looking for the latest reports on this year's Arctic Sea Ice extent at http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ and found this on the home page. NSIDC's Web site is currently unavailable because of severe weather and flooding. We expect to be online again this Monday, 16 September, around noon (USA Mountain Time). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Sep-13 8:52am ] 09 Sep 2013 In the long term, current problems fade away.
This is a superb piece describing a series of snapshots of life on Earth from 10 to 10 billion years in factors of 10. I particularly liked this description of the banality of human nature from the 10 and 100 year views. Among those who recognize that something's wrong, one widely accepted viewpoint holds that fusion power, artificial intelligence, and interstellar migration will shortly solve all our problems, and therefore we don't have to change the way we live. Another, equally popular, insists that total human extinction is scarcely a decade away, and therefore we don’t have to change the way we live. Most people who worry about the future accept one or the other claim, while the last chance for meaningful systemic change slips silently away. The first reminds me of a thought I'd already had that they are like 2nd year students in student digs. There's no need to worry about cleaning or the state of the house as they'll be leaving soon anyway, never to return. The second are like 2nd year students in digs that are only cheap because they're scheduled for demolition. Who cares if there's no shower or hot water, we'll be out soon and anyway they're pulling down the building next year.  Edward Morbius originally shared this post: Archdruid Report: Taking the Long View Meanwhile, in the tropical forests of what is now southern Siberia, the descendants of raccoons who crossed the Bering land bridge during the last great ice age are proliferating rapidly, expanding into empty ecological niches once filled by the larger primates. In another thirty million years or so, their descendants will come down from the trees. Concerned about what the NASDAQ will do next week, the Fed next month, who the GOP will position for 2016? Climate change and peak oil? How about taking a long view. John Michael Greer writes some serious deep-think stuff, and I'll thank +Terry Dyke again for turning me on to him (say, Terry, awful quiet over there, everything OK?). http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-next-ten-billion-years.html #thelongview [from: Google+ Posts] The answer is 42. Now what's the question?
One of the more entertaining comments about all the NSA, GCHQ, Snowden, Greenwald, Schneier revelations. So all the information in the entire electronic communications system of the world is now being bugged and searched. We have what is by orders of magnitude the largest data bank ever conceived, giving us Laplacian knowledge about our society at every point in time. I've occasionally speculated on the kind of data cornucopia we could have if we weren't obsessed with privacy - and now we've got it. And what are we doing with it? If you believe the government, they're looking for terrorists; if you listen to just-proven-correct paranoiacs, they're looking for opposition; in any case, how terribly trivial. We have a corpus that contains the answers to almost any question about human beings. We have the oracle in front of us. And all we can ask it is "Who is going to plant a bomb where?" ... why isn't there an industry for thinking up questions? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/09/the-latest-news.html#comment-1665702   The latest news - Charlie's Diary »This is my surprised face. Nope? Okay: This is my ironic face. (Same face. I don't gamble, otherwise it would be my poker face, too.) I am having enourmous trouble resisting the urge to say "v gbyq lbh fb", so, er, v gbyq lbh fb, only you mistook it for pulp/genre fiction. [from: Google+ Posts] 05 Sep 2013 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! [from: Google+ Posts] 16 Aug 2013 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?  [from: Google+ Posts] 15 Aug 2013 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.   Virgin Media Media Centre - Virgin Media scores the winner with BT Sport »Virgin TV, the only place for every major UK sports channel in one subscription BT Sport at no extra cost for millions more sports fans thanks to Virgin Media [from: Google+ Posts] [ 15-Aug-13 1:22pm ] 13 Aug 2013 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".  backlabel »backlabel. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee: All our products have an unconditional 60 day money back guarantee! So if for any reason you are not 100% satisified, simply return the product for a full refund, no questions asked. That is the backlabel 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, so you have nothing to ... [from: Google+ Posts] Hopefully the widget below will play. Great track btw.
https://soundcloud.com/houndstoothlbl/09-and-the-world-was-gone [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Aug-13 8:12am ] 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. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Aug-13 8:10am ] [from: Google+ Posts] 10 Aug 2013 Anyone up at Oulton Park tonight? Just curious if the nearest pub (The Egerton Arms), has re-opened.
[from: Google+ Posts] [ 10-Aug-13 8:40pm ] 07 Aug 2013 Crying out for an E-Assist conversion. Rear Bafang motor, Lyen controller, bottle battery.
http://www.cycleexif.com/vanguard-ryo  [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Aug-13 7:02pm ] 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.   Turkey Brook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia »Etymology[edit source | edit]. The brook named from the street which is recorded as Tokestreete 1441, Tuckhey strete 1610, Tuckey street 1615, Turkey street 1805, probably 'street of houses (i.e. hamlet) associated with a family called Toke(y) from Middle English strete. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Aug-13 6:56pm ] 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.   xkcd: Sphere »< Prev · Random; Next >; >|. Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/1248/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sphere.png. Selected Comics. Search comic titles and transcripts: RSS Feed - Atom Feed. Comics I enjoy: Three Word Phrase, Oglaf (nsfw), SMBC, ... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Aug-13 7:31am ] 05 Aug 2013 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  [from: Google+ Posts] [ 05-Aug-13 3:17pm ] 04 Aug 2013 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.   The Ecuadorian Library »Back in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal. So, I wrote a rather melancholy ess… [from: Google+ Posts] [ 04-Aug-13 7:49am ] 03 Aug 2013 Get Dad a drink with a cherry in it. Dad's like cherries.
http://cannabinomad.tumblr.com/post/57137275398  [from: Google+ Posts] 01 Aug 2013 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. [from: Google+ Posts] 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 [from: Google+ Posts] [ 01-Aug-13 9:16am ] 
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