There are some quite grown-up lessons to be drawn from the rather juvenile affair of The Spear. First, if South Africa’s President can’t tolerate some poor art at the back of a humdrum Johannesburg exhibition, South Africa’s media should be in no doubt that he aims to curtail their liberties too. Second, South Africa’s racial divide is still so extant, much of the population – and many of its leaders – still see almost everything, even technicolor paintings, in terms of black and white. Third, if the weekly scandals over ANC corruption and ineptitude weren’t reminder enough, South Africa’s rulers have apparently become so used to power after 18 years in government that they have forgotten they are living in a democracy. In a democracy, creating doubt about a politician, pricking his dignity, disrespecting him — even painting bad pictures of him with exposed genitalia — is not just every citizen’s right. As Zuma’s reaction underlines, it’s sometimes their participatory duty.
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Skype - jokes on Flickr.
This is what happens when my assistant tries to cheer me up with jokes …
This was really tempting this morning but it would just make me crazy so I settled for tea and this little video.
Shooting photos with an iPhone - //GERBEN VAN ERKELENS
It’s definitely not the gear that determines how good your photos (at least not the only factor), it is the person behind the camera. A good quality camera helps but if you can’t get a decent shot, you just have a good quality but lousy photo.
‘The Bride’s First Dinner Party’, artwork by Ray Prohaska. 1952.
Source: rogerwilkerson
Please will someone help the Seattle Coffee Company?
I love the coffee and the stores I frequent but their online strategy is pretty anemic. Where is the outreach to the crazed fans and potential converts from other brands? How about a decent site with some Foursquare integration (or some sort of location-based interface).
Holy cow, there is so much this company can do to get more coffee fixes to more customers using some smart social and location-based tools and the website is an image linking to a Facebook page.
There are 2 constants on the Web: Memeburn’s repetitive “once-off messages” inviting you to subscribe and thumb-suck iPhone/iPad rumours that everyone seems to take way too seriously.
