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The smile that stays with you - by Durex

Of course, women nevergo to work with a smile on their face after incredible sex made awesome by Durex lubricants. Women stay home and are grateful to be fucked. If you’re working in the marketing industry, please take a moment to think about what you’re creating and the image you’re putting forward. Consider acknowledging female sexuality as being a Thing and admitting that women, too, love sex on their own terms. ...

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Why Society Still Needs Feminism

Reposted from Joe Gordon-Levitt – a poignant and stirring read. Cover photo by Moyan Brenn – CC Why Society Still Needs Feminism Because to men, a key is a device to open something. For women, it’s a weapon we hold between our fingers when we’re walking alone at night. Because the biggest insult for a guy is to be called a “pussy,” a “little bitch” or a “girl.” From here on out, being called a “pussy” is an effing badge of honor. ...

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C2C - Happy

C2C are a collective of four French DJs/turntablists who make e Paul, of electromusic.com and Edison’s Ephemera fame was playing these in his studio and I was immediately intrigued. They appeal to some far corner of the brain that enjoys a combination of ambient sounds and clicky tones and tiny quirky detail. It’s a collection of four tracks, collectively titled Seascaping Monthly in 4 or 5 Movements by a guy I’ve never heard of, called . ...

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C2C - Happy

C2C are a collective of four French DJs/turntablists who make exceptionally energetic and exciting mixes like this one. Recently I re-discovered another track they did called Happy. The music and mixing are, naturally, top-notch but even more amazing is the choreography and the dancing. I’m pretty certain that the lead guy is the same dude that did this video. Anyway: judge for yourselves. C2C – Happy (featuring D. Martin)!

#Android #fullwidth #Tech #Tutorials

How to fix your Nexus 7 bootloop

The Nexus 7 is a great piece of kit, but some units suffer from a crippling bug that is very simple to fix but can lead you to bash your face against a hard thing in frustration. If you let the device’s battery run down to absolute zero, it’ll power off like a good little piece of electronics to prevent the lithium polymer battery from exploding. Unfortunately, in some units, this leads to the battery dipping below baseline voltage and results in the device trying to power on when connected to mains power, running “out of battery” and hard shutting down with a terrifying sound of white noise from the speaker and static on the screen. ...

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On vulnerability, attraction and frankness

Preamble: this is going to be relatively short and a lot of things here won’t get necessarily their fair share of exposure and the detail level is somewhat lacking in places. I hope to write more on specific topics covered here later. tl;dr: “This is a work in progress” Essentially, I have two questions: Why are women deemed attractive by the majority of society/the media/you name it when they are seen as limited or vulnerable in some way? ...

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Smart Storage Optimus SSDs

A shipment of these bad boys has just shown up. Enterprise-grade MLC SSDs. Yes, it sounds like a bit of a misnomer, but if Smart Storage are to be believed, their take on ensuring SSD durability means a whole new era in enterprise SSD storage. Up until now, you had essentially two choices when purchasing SSD storage for your storage solution: Buy SLC disks at a considerable premium from the likes of Toshiba or STEC or, god forbid, OCZ. ...

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Photography adventures with Skins & Katelyn

A month ago, a lovely friend from Canada came a-visiting! So Skins Elliott, photographer and all-round Pretty Cool Guy, Katelyn and I went to the South Bank to amble around and catch up. Some photos got taken! I’m especially happy about how my little manual 50mm f/1.4 lens produces this really nice soft-focus effect in some situations. I need to work out what I did to achieve this!

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HitRecord is making a TV show!

A while ago, I joined this awesome collaborative production company called HitRecord. It’s a little bit different. It’s a collaborative production company. Think open source, Creative Commons and a whole bunch of delightful humans rolled into one package. Anyone can join. Anyone can contribute. As long as it’s your own work. It leads to some incredible collaborations like this: …that arise from someone writing a short story, then someone else drawing a couple of character illustrations, then someone else recording a reading of the story, then someone else recording a live green-screened rendition ...

#fullwidth #Internet #Tech #Writing

Dizzying but invisible depth

An utterly fascinating essay by Jean-Baptiste Quéru just caught my attention and as a technology nerd, I find it incredibly awesome. It’s called Dizzying but invisible depth. It appeals to me on a number of different levels, encapsulating a concentric series of black boxes, each more fascinating in its complexity than the last. Dizzying but invisible depth You just went to the Google home page. Simple, isn’t it? What just actually happened? ...