I Quit: What Really Goes on at Apple | Road Less Travelled.

The Magic – YouTube: Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: Harry Potter

The intolerant other: representations of the racist in The Sun Newspaper | AJE Journal.

MetaPhore “Winner MachinimUWA VII Transcending Borders” – YouTube. ”

And winner of the SciFi film festival «Screen my Short”
You and I are in a world without boundaries and our spirits flow in it like ink blots on damp paper…
Silent meetings , unlikely places, casual encounters. A woman is beguiled by a series of messages from a virtual stranger. Gradually this man sneaks into her clear defined virtual world, but also starts crossing borders of her real life . Therefore turning off the computer soon proofs to be not enough anymore for her peace of mind …”

RFC-1149 | BLUG.

“11 years ago, April 1st 1990, rfc 1149 was written. This rfc specifies a protocol for IP over avian carriers, CPIP (carrier pigeon internet protocol). In 11 years, noone has bothered to implement this important protocol stack. But happily, we don’t need to wait any longer! BLUG in cooperation with Vesta Brevdueforening has given you rfc 1149 support for Linux.”

Correlation between Hofstede and a brain parasite.

Abstract; “The latent prevalence of a long-lived and common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, explains a statistically significant portion of the variance in aggregate neuroticism among populations, as well as in the ‘neurotic’ cultural dimensions of sex roles and uncertainty avoidance. Spurious or non-causal correlations between aggregate personality and aspects of climate and culture that influence T. gondii transmission could also drive these patterns. A link between culture and T. gondii hypothetically results from a behavioural manipulation that the parasite uses to increase its transmission to the next host in the life cycle: a cat. While latent toxoplasmosis is usually benign, the parasite’s subtle effect on individual personality appears to alter the aggregate personality at the population level. Drivers of the geographical variation in the prevalence of this parasite include the effects of climate on the persistence of infectious stages in soil, the cultural practices of food preparation and cats as pets. Some variation in culture, therefore, may ultimately be related to how climate affects the distribution of T. gondii, though the results only explain a fraction of the variation in two of the four cultural dimensions, suggesting that if T. gondii does influence human culture, it is only one among many factors.Keywords: personality, nations, masculinity, neuroticism, uncertainty avoidance”

via Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture?.

From 7 February 2011 to 22 August 2011 a discussion on the tool ‘RedZone’ took place. This tool mapped IP numbers to Second Life avatars (exploiting a media stream feature). The discussion demonstrates a wide number of views and perspective on the perception and ethics on ‘Identity’ of avatars.

[#ARVD-38] RedZone Security violates TOS, exposes private information and is being misused – Second Life Bug Tracker.

Below is a word cloud of the user comments:

Private Eye | Official Site – the UK’s number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine, edited by Ian Hislop.

Eyeplayer…

Inglehart-Welzel Culture Map – Business Insider.

Extract:

On the y-axis, traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child relationships, and authority, according to WVS. People who embrace these tend to reject divorce, abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. These societies usually exhibit high levels of nationalism and national pride, too. In the U.S., these values would likely align more with conservative ideologies. Oppositely, secular-rational values represent the other extreme and tend to relate to liberal ways of thinking.

On the x-axis, survival values revere economic and physical security and safety and are linked to low levels of trust and tolerance. On the other side, self-expression values give high priority to protecting the environment, promoting gender equality, and tolerating foreigners and gays and lesbians.

Good example how broken the whole ‘peer review’ system has become.

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/11/20/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-laced-anti-spam-paper/

“The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology has accepted for publication a manuscript that was first written in 2005 to protest spam conference invitations. The paper contains the F-word throughout the manuscript.”

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