The London Tube (subway) map simplified. Quite accurate really.
Much easier, sorry Mr Beck!
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave a rousing speech today countering opposition leader Abbott and his sexism. It’s in full above, but here’s some choice moments from the speech:
“I will not be lectured on sexism and misogyny by this man. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever.
The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well I hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and that he is writing out his resignation, because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn’t need a motion in the House of Representatives, he needs a mirror. That’s what he needs.”
Video from here, and some context for the Australian politics at play.
I’m unfamiliar with Australian politics generally, and with Julia Gillard, but well then. I’m a big fan of this speech and these sentiments. Talking back to sexism in this public, vocal, unflinching way is important and wonderful to watch.
If there is no God, said Fyodor Dostoyevsky, life is meaningless. And without meaning, men and women will “go stark, raving mad.” For the deeply skeptical and agnostic Albert Camus, Dostoyevsky’s books were a revelation. While he couldn’t agree with the Russian novelist’s prescription of faith in an unseen deity, Camus felt Dostoyevsky had convincingly described the tragedy of man’s existence in an indifferent universe.
Camus first read Dostoyevsky when he was 20 years old, and later called it a “soul-shaking experience.” He was moved by the moral weight of Dostoyevsky’s words. When the horrors of Stalin’s purges came to light, Camus refused to look away. As he later said, “The real 19th century prophet was Dostoyevsky, not Karl Marx.”
One of Dostoyevsky’s works that affected Camus the most was the apocalyptic 1872 novel The Possessed, which in recent years has been translated as Demons or The Devils. It’s a complex story of a conflicted Russian society as it descends into anarchy and chaos with the spread of nihilism. The themes explored in The Possessed were so absorbing to Camus that in 1959 he published a three-act stage adaptation, Les Possédés. The play premiered on January 28, 1959 at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris, and on that day he gave an interesting interview for French television, which you can watch in the video above. In the program handed out at the theater that night, Camus described the novel’s importance: “Les Possédés is one of the four or five works that I rank above all others. In more ways than one, I can say that it has enriched and shaped me.”
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Source: openculture.com
Are Mobile Phones to Blame for Our Boring Public Spaces? - Design - The Atlantic Cities
At The Aporetic, a provocative post raises a vital question: Are our undifferentiated and anonymous public spaces a response to the ubiquity of cell phones — or is it the other way around? Have
cell phonesmobiles become ubiquitous in part because of the featurelessness of our public spaces?
(Source: lettersfromhere)
What if Money Was No Object - What would you Do? - Narrated by Alan Watts
Great video, highly recommend you watch it.
“Sweden’s first clothing library, Lånegarderoben, is just like that of a regular library: the clothing library is stocked with current clothing and members simply borrow and return, eliminating the “need” to buy what’s hot right now while helping you to stay in style. The idea is to be able to renew your wardrobe without contributing to increased consumption.”
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
YES SWEDEN.
