Little Green Mango (The Blurb)

A mega bookmark of links/videos/info/anything else I find online and am allowed to post by Tumblr. My website and ego wall More pickled thoughts and blog Quips and tweets

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Indian cricketer Jaisimha

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Putting the artist to the background and his or her work to the foreground, now seems the most vital of reactions to our age—the true counterculture.

Interesting, I thought, in context of a similar argument about journalism as best expressed by Glenn Greenwald and Bill Keller.

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It doesn't have the humour of the rest of her Missed Connection series, but I love the celebration in this one by Sophie Blackall. 

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The first was: enough. Let there be an end to this epidemic of violence, this culture where if we can’t kill off our girls before they are born, we ensure that they live these lives of constant fear. Like many women in India, I rely on a layer of privilege, a network of friends, paranoid security measures and a huge dose of amnesia just to get around the city, just to travel in this country. So many more women have neither the privilege, nor the luxury of amnesia, and this week, perhaps we all stood up to say, “Enough”, no matter how incoherently or angrily we said it. The second was even simpler. I did not know the name of the girl in the bus, through these last few days. She had a name of her own–it was not Amanat, Damini or Nirbhaya, names the media gratuitously gave her, as though after the rape, she had been issued a new identity. I don’t need to know her name now, especially if her family doesn’t want to share their lives and their grief with us. I think of all the other anonymous women whose stories don’t make it to the front pages, when I think of this woman; I think of the courage that is forced on them, the way their lives are warped in a different direction from the one they had meant to take. Don’t tell me her name; I don’t need to know it, to cry for her.

Nilanjana Roy's For Anonymous

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Beauty wanted to bring the Beast to meet her friends but she was nervous because they all had these super-hot boyfriends who worked in finance. She loved the Beast for who he was, she really did, but her friends were shallow and judgmental.

“Maybe you should get some new friends,” Siri advised.

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The crazy thing is that eventually even Alice began to doubt whether what she’d seen down the rabbit hole had ever really existed. And it didn’t make her sad, there was nothing overly dramatic about it, it was just that now she understood how the world actually worked.

But then she was tagged in a photo by an old friend, by the White Rabbit. It was a faded picture of her and the Cheshire Cat, and, wow, it just brought her right back.

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The amazing thing about the Google doodles is how it reflects a work culture that encourages combining creativity and culture with technical know-how. That, more than free food and bean bags and dinosaurs makes it seem like the ideal place to work.

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I want a wall just so I can hang this beauty. (via Peter Madden - Ryan Renshaw Gallery and @boingboing)

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How awesome was Neil Gaiman’s UArts Commencement speech? It was this awesome.

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The Internets were right. @neilhimself gave a smart, charming, all round awesome speech.

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"The open web is full of spam, shady operators and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high-quality sites, most of the web is chock full of pop-up ads and other interruptive come-ons. "It's nearly impossible to find a signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. In the curated gardens of places like Apple and Facebook, the weeds are kept to a minimum, and the user experience is just … better."

Walled gardens looks rosy for Apple, Facebook - The Guardian

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Storing the cultural works of the 20th century in the (unlikely) event of a digital disaster. I think it's a great idea, have always admired what Brewster Kahle's done. I guess someone's got to do it. Be prepared!  

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Banksy on Advertising “People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” ~ Banksy

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Nadal, though? He plays like he's fighting giants. It's not just the sneer, or the muscles, or the hair, or that forehand — you know, the one where he swoops the racket all the way around his head like he's whipping the team pulling his chariot. It's also that frantic tenacity that used to drive me so nuts. Federer seems devastated when he loses but he also seems to sense losses coming and accept them before they arrive. When Nadal falls behind, he turns the match into life and death. He gets mad. He hesitates less. He hits the ball harder. He doesn't look sad or scared. He looks defiant, and he plays like he's possessed.

The epic warfare of the Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic Australian Open final - Grantland

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"They want the legal distinction between legal and illegal sharing to go away" (via Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea | Video on TED.com)

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Is a squirrel dying outside my house more "relevant" than people dying in Africa?

On The Filter Bubble

What Facebook and Google are Hiding from world. (by thoughtawakening)

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That's Freddie Mercury!

(Beautiful) art by Victor Molev 

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We want the internet to be a level playing field, which means no company or organisation should be able to dictate who can use it, how they can use it, who’s able to produce content, who can consume it, who’s able to create devices and software to consume it.

Mozilla's NZ boss works to keep the web wide open | Computerworld New Zealand