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The first frost of the year has hit and mornings are the perfect time to capture some macro images of ice crystals!

This morning is quite foggy and the excel centre looks all mysterious and menacing..

Dear Microsoft, If you’re selling a product to, presumably, existing windows users (windows 8 is hoped to gain widespread use in the enterprise), marketing it as ‘easy to get the hang of’ is an admission of just how alien the UI is to most windows users.

I returned from a trip to Canada not too long ago. Now, in the past, every time I’ve hung out with Katelyn, I’ve had a hundred and one poi ideas to share with her. And, invariably, both of us would forget what I did. So this time, when I started showing her things, she stopped me and made me get my phone out so she could video what I did. ...

Fuck yeah.

If I ever become a parent, I will do my damndest to do this. Other humans’ lives are not mine to control. I can provide advice, describe what worked for me in the past and offer a stable, safe space to return to when shit hits the fan. However, dictating what other people, especially any potential kids of mine, do to the extent of “you will have sex when I say it’s OK for you to have sex” is abhorrent. ...

Amanda Palmer has been making beautiful music. Having signed on to a record label with her band, they recorded an album and it sold around 20,000 copies. The record label called that a “failure” and walked away. Here’s the story of how it happened and what happened next. There’s an NSFW moment at around the ten-minute mark. 

Cross-posted from here: https://tinyurl.com/ya2fd8v and well worth a read. Gentlemen. Thank you for reading. Let me start out by assuring you that I understand you are a good sort of person. You are kind to children and animals. You respect the elderly. You donate to charity. You tell jokes without laughing at your own punchlines. You respect women. You like women. In fact, you would really like to have a mutually respectful and loving sexual relationship with a woman. ...

This is grand. It’s recorded by way of a series of snapshots of Google Street View

This has been doing the rounds online, but it’s nonetheless rather amusing I present for your amusement: The Gentleman’s Guide to Amputation

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. ...

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. ...

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 . ...

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)!

Thought I’d try out my phone’s camera and what do you know! It’s pretty good!  Cherry blossoms are awesome!

Citymapper is a relatively new app that’s been brought to my attention recently and it’s what Android has been craving for a long time. Compared to most other ‘travel planners’ that are out there on the Play Store, this outshines them all by miles. It’s been argued for a long time that app developers really ought to be paying more attention to the UX design of their products, instead of being function-driven. ...