1. Werk magazine and Guerillazine
Theseus Chan and team.
2. Kelly Poon
Superstar runner-up. Three albums to date.
3. Volta (fashion)
Cutting doesn't fit me. Design is not bad.
4. Hooked Clothings
Designed by Singaporeans, made in China. But I loved the shirt I got from them.
5. The Resident Tourist by Troy Chin
Comics. Good stuff. As close to "A Drifting Life" as we can get.
6. Invisible City
By Tan Pin Pin. Her two other documentaries are good as well, but this is her best.
7. Singapore Dreaming
By Colin Goh.
8. Films by Eric Khoo
'Mee Pok Man', 'Be with Me'. Generally okay.
9. Dharni
Beatboxer
***
Wolfnotes exhibition is not bad.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Only stretch your foot to the length of your blanket.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091013/ttc-digital-exclusion-hitting-savings-e1d36ba.html
what i tried to do, one could probably called it stalled. it was about collecting written off computing hardware and (refurbishing it if needed) giving it away. what i figured was that most people do not need much more than a p3-800 to do 80-90% of what they do on computers. kids needing a pc to learn about computers and the internet could use such a machine. better yet, such a machine precludes them from playing quite a few pc games, which their teachers and parents wouldn't want them to spend time on anyway. but such machines , along with internet access, would enable these kids to get google, wikipedia, various forums and blogs, facebook, webmail, youtube, maps and street directories..etcetc. Access to these services would level the schema playing alot among kids, be they well to do or not.
anyway, what happened was that there was a government run project to give away computers to the poorest families. my problem with it was that i didn't think they needed to buy anything to give away and by having a higher cost than necessary, they could have set the means bar too low, excluding too many families from getting that free pc. i thought, many organisations and even private individuals are throwing away working or salvageable computers away all the time - they just needed to be re-directed from the landfill to those who didn't mind slower computers.
anyway, in any case, what i was trying to do is practically stalled. a student help group has the understanding that they can approach me if they needed help of the i.t. kind, but i think they may have forgotten about it.
anyway, the linked article lends some research to back up what i thought was the problem.
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on another note, at the other end of the spectrum..theres this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html?_r=1
the article talks of the need to teach students how to think on a larger scale..not just think. but keeps using 'data' and 'information' as if the two were synonymous. ha.
and..
this is a tit,
while these are a pair of boobies.
what i tried to do, one could probably called it stalled. it was about collecting written off computing hardware and (refurbishing it if needed) giving it away. what i figured was that most people do not need much more than a p3-800 to do 80-90% of what they do on computers. kids needing a pc to learn about computers and the internet could use such a machine. better yet, such a machine precludes them from playing quite a few pc games, which their teachers and parents wouldn't want them to spend time on anyway. but such machines , along with internet access, would enable these kids to get google, wikipedia, various forums and blogs, facebook, webmail, youtube, maps and street directories..etcetc. Access to these services would level the schema playing alot among kids, be they well to do or not.
anyway, what happened was that there was a government run project to give away computers to the poorest families. my problem with it was that i didn't think they needed to buy anything to give away and by having a higher cost than necessary, they could have set the means bar too low, excluding too many families from getting that free pc. i thought, many organisations and even private individuals are throwing away working or salvageable computers away all the time - they just needed to be re-directed from the landfill to those who didn't mind slower computers.
anyway, in any case, what i was trying to do is practically stalled. a student help group has the understanding that they can approach me if they needed help of the i.t. kind, but i think they may have forgotten about it.
anyway, the linked article lends some research to back up what i thought was the problem.
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on another note, at the other end of the spectrum..theres this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html?_r=1
the article talks of the need to teach students how to think on a larger scale..not just think. but keeps using 'data' and 'information' as if the two were synonymous. ha.
and..
this is a tit,
while these are a pair of boobies.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
satirizing yourself
from http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2009/10/08/french-presidency-makes-400-unauthorized-copies-of-dvd
The real point is not 'one more of those antics', its 'one more time it is alleged that you have commited these antics'. Hadopi in its original format is supposed to automatically suspend your internet access if you've had content owners complain about you 3 times - no judicial review or oversight - guilt upon accusation.The French satirical investigative journalism weekly “Le Canard Enchaîné“ reveals that our holier-than-thou presidency is in fact a pirate’s lair. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the presidential audiovisual services produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52 minutes documentary “A visage découvert : Nicolas Sarkozy“.
The editor, Galaxie Press had only shipped 50 copies, but the propaganda plan required more so the Elysee went to work, going as far as modifying the cover and replacing the Galaxie Presse name and logos with “Service audiovisuel de la présidence de la République”.
Isn’t is deliciously ironic that the same executive power is the main force behind the latest disgusting bungled piece of French legislation regulating and controlling the usage of the Internet in order to enforce the compliance to the copyright law ?
It is even more appalling that we are dealing with repeat offenders : last spring, while the Hadopi law was discussed, U.S. music duo MGMT received €30,000 as a settlement for a copyright infringement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party who used one of its songs at a political rally without permission. Those who led the charge against Internet users are not the most respectful of copyright.
Hadopi is also known as the “three strikes” law because it after a certain number of warnings a copyright infringer’s Internet access would be cut off. Hadopi has just been adopted. Nicolas – one more of those antics and your Internet access is toast !
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