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Category: Migrations

  • Of Nerds and Geeks

    NERD
    An ‘individual’, i.e. a person who does not conform to society’s beliefs that all people should follow trends and do what their peers do. Often highly intelligent but socially rejected because of their obesssion with a given subject, usually computers. Unfortunately, nerds seem to have problems breeding, to the detriment of mankind as a whole.

    GEEK
    The term “geek” originally referred to the carnival performers whose act consisted of biting the heads off chickens and eating glass. Over time it came to be applied to anyone who got paid to do work considered odd or bizarre by mainstream society.

    The term now enjoys a special status within the technical community, particularly among particularly knowledgable computer programmers. To identify oneself as a “geek” indicates a recognition that most people still consider programming computers to be a bizarre act, along with a certain fierce satisfaction in being very good at their inglorious profession.

    That most software geeks now easily earn twice as much as the average laborer just sweetens their defiant embrace of the term.

    Note: Unlike the word “nerd,” which is always pejorative, “geek” often carries a positive connotation when used by one of the group. The use of the term by outsiders is considered insulting.

    courtesy of the Urban Dictionary

  • Children should be SEEN, and NOT HURT

    The outrage should have caught fire with the first child victim in our country – but only small segments of our society seemed to take each case to heart.

    Child after child has suffered – and suffers still – under the cruelty of their tormentors and the indifference of their nation.

    I remember the e-mail of Sheldean. I remember thinking it was another hoax/joke/ someone crying “Wolf”. I remember deleting the e-mail.

    I am also guilty of indifference!

    Let this be the last time.

    As a community of bloggers, we have the tools and resources to varify these e-mails – and to spread the word of ligitimate cases. By just posting – we can help. By keeping our eyes open, we can help. By noticing people around children, we can help. By focusing our minds on this problem – we can come up with solutions.

    In shame, and in memory of those we lost along the way.

    “DEAR FRIEND / COLLEAGUE / CARING PARENT


    We recently forwarded numerous communiqués regarding the dissapearance of Sheldean Human, throughout South Africa. Newspapers, radio and television channels carried updates on a daily basis for more than two weeks. South Africa hoped and prayed…Sadly, we were advised tonight that she had been found…her abductor confessed and led police to where he hid her badly decomposed body.

    South Africa is mourning tonight…As a community, it was devastating for us to have had one of our kids go missing. We supported the police in their search and cried out against this horrible thing that was happening. But for little Sheldean Human…it was too late…

    To demonstrate our outrage at the slaughtering of an innocent child, a decision was taken tonight by members of eBlockWatch (http://www.eblockwatch.co.za/) that all its members and fellow South Africans will wear Pink shirts and jeans on Friday 9 March 2007 (this is what Sheldean wore the day she went missing). We will also gather at the court where the culprit will be appearing on this day, to shout out our frustration, calling upon our Government and communities to stand up against crime.

    THUS, we invite everybody to take part in the second Pink Day on Friday, 9 March 2007. Wear a pink top and jeans, in support of and sympathy with Sheldean Human’s family and to show you oppose violence against children.Forward this request to all people you can reach via e-mail, cellphone and mouth-to-mouth.”

    (from: Pink for Sheldean)

  • my "other" family

    http://www.myheritagefiles.com/acollage/H/7_3/lyf034_4743211ba30f54v0tmrw34
    http://www.myheritage.com

    My(Dad’S)Heritage

    http://www.myheritagefiles.com/acollage/H/7_3/vohm03_63652338e30f54whij8l03
    http://www.myheritage.com

  • Cancer can be beaten

    In solidarity with my mother 🙂

  • mastercard

    http://youtube.com/v/CEtzjsicwbA

    I nearly died laughing!

  • Why I love graphic designers

    From Idea Attic

  • Urbex Inspirations

    Rejected Memories.com

    How beautiful is this? I’ve decided to braden the scope of my blog to include images, words and experiences that move me. (I could probably go on about the urban vernacular, but will spare you, for now at least.)

    Desolate Metropolis.com

    Crib

    Kirkbride Buildings

    “Once state-of-the-art mental healthcare facilities, Kirkbride buildings have long been relics of an obsolete therapeutic method known as Moral Treatment. These massive structures were conceived as ideal sanctuaries for the mentally ill in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Careful attention was given to every detail of their design in order to promote a healthy environment and to convey a sense of respectable decorum. Placed in secluded areas within expansive grounds, many seemed almost palace-like from the outside. But growing populations and insufficient funding led to unfortunate conditions that spoiled their idealistic promise.

    Within decades of their first conception, new treatment methods and hospital design concepts emerged and the Kirkbride design was eventually discarded. Many existing Kirkbride buildings maintained a central place in the institutions which began within their walls, but by the end of the twentieth century many had been abandoned; several had been destroyed. Although a few have managed to survive into the twenty-first century intact and still in use, many that survive sit abandoned and decaying—their mysterious grandeur intensified by their derelict condition.”

  • Yellowcard: "How I Go"

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    YouTube

    If you still haven’t seen Big Fish – now would be a good time to do it. Even if you’re not particularly interested in the intricacies and science of knowledge transferrance through the application of magical realism to narratives – you’ll be enriched by the experience.

    (It is a bloody good movie.)

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  • Difference is; the other wing is yellow too.

    Information design
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Information design is the design of visual displays of data. See Information graphics. It is defined as the art and science of preparing information so that it can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness (Jacobson 2000).
    In computer science and information technology, information design is sometimes a rough synonym for (but is not necessarily the same discipline as) information architecture, the design of information systems, databases, or data structures. This sense includes data modelling and process analysis.

    References
    Jacobson, R. editor (2000) “Information Design: The Emergence of a New Profession”, Information Design, MIT Press, p. 15.

  • Shame on Egypt

    BO18

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