May 2010
52 posts
Tumblr Staff: It's Tumblr Tuesday! →
staff.tumblr.com
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
Still not happy. Still no activism category. Tumblr is still just for apolitical nonsense.
“At the beginning, people thought I had political motivations, like I was doing an antiadvertising crusade. I’d get hit up from magazines like Adbusters. But that’s not really my thing. I actually liked the visual nature of these ads. I really liked some of the photographers I was painting over.”
—KAWS
“When you attack black people, they call it racism. When you attack Jewish people, they call it anti-Semitism. When you attack women, they call it sexism. When you attack homosexuality, they call it intolerance. When you attack your country, they call it treason. When you attack a religious sect, they call it hate speech. But when you attack the Prophet (PBUH), they want to call it freedom of speech!”
—Mufti Kamani, Imam of Islamic Center of Chicago (via amnasaeed) (via vforvelleity)
Happy Everyone Draw Mohammad Day! →
goingonabearhunt.com
Why not piss on Jesus day instead? Muslims aren’t allowed to depict Mohammed either you racist idiots.
Yup, you read that right. If you didn’t know, today has been designated Everyone Draw Mohammad Day. It’s an act of rebellion standing up for free speech in the face of terrorism.
What's behind a Logo? Redesign BP's Logo →
greenpeace.org.uk
Redesign a new logo for BP aka Burning Platform. I mean, not only their image is ruined but the Gulf of Mexico and its coast as well. We can’t redesign them so at least we need a new logo.
Competition to create a new brand image for BP.
Dying For Your iPad: Chinese Factory Workers Making Apple Products Killing Themselves →
micgadget.com
Apple kills. Death by work like in Nazi Germany.
M.I.C Gadget reports on an investigative piece from China’s Southern Weekly on Foxconn, a tech factory in Shenzhen, China, that manufactures iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple, and has experienced a nine suicide attempts within six months. And what’s behind the suicides? According to Liu Zhi Yi, the amateur reporter who got himself hired to uncover the working conditions, it is the job stress. This factory reportedly produces the “iProducts” for Apple non-stop, 24/7. Read more about the investigative piece here and here, as well as follow up reports here and here.
How your iSausage gets made.
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Alright, so when you first got all up in my shit about the eye pictures I complety understood why, but then you just HAD to keep going on about it and call me a thief. I did not claim them as my own, I simply did not know where they came from. But wait! You're not finshed yet! You just had to be a 'proper' asshole and 'only posted one so you're not stealing all of them.' FUCK YOU, ass hole, don't get all high and mighty. So, suck it, it's Tumblr, go take a shit mother fucker. And I really hope you post this looking for sympathy from all your proper awesome friends. You make me laugh.
Do you know what smartass? I’ll write the guy you stole the images from and we’ll see. You didn’t know where the images came from? Like you downloaded them from under your bed or what you dirty liar? Also, ever heard of Google? It took me one search for “eyes” to find the source. You’re just a lazy bastard who fucks people over.
Last but not least there is a huge difference between citing a work and stealing it. Taking ten or more full size images and displaying them as yours is image theft. Even on Tumblr people don’t do that, they just take one or two.
Poisoning the Poor →
uspoverty.change.org
Poisoning the Poor
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A new study from Drexel University researchers published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that when stores in poor neighborhoods do get fresh produce, it is more likely to be close to spoiling or have the potential to make people sick. After buying salad, strawberries, cucumbers and watermelon repeatedly over 15 months in the Philadelphia area, the scientists found that mold, microorganisms and bacteria were all more likely to be present on produce purchased from stores in poor neighborhoods than in wealthier ones. In other words, if you are a poor Philadelphian buying fruits and vegetables in your own neighborhood, chances are your produce will spoil faster and may give you food poisoning.
You have stolen these eye images. At least provide proper credits for the artist/photographer you content thief.
'Department of Advertising Correction' hijacks UK political billboards →
eyeteeth.blogspot.com
A white utility van emblazoned with the logo of the “Shoreditch Department of Advertising Correction” has been taking over political billboards in East London, changing Conservative Party ads to poetic or sometimes political ends. The group sends a press release and a series of photos of the billboard modifications, which started appearing around Old Street and Shoreditch High Street on April 19.
How To Create Less Selfish Societies? Let People Behave As They Wish, Say Researchers →
scientificblogging.com
The work, by scientists in Portugal and Belgium, reveals that an increasing range of behaviours among the individuals of a population leads to cooperation, supporting the idea that democracy - where individuals are free to act as they wish - is in fact the path for better societies.
Richard Dawkins never gets tired of reminding us that evolution is based on the survival of the fittest and on selfishness. Every cell, every living thing is designed to promote its own survival, if necessary at the expense of everything else. Still, cooperation is very much alive, and more, is widespread, being found in a multitude of living beings from the cells of a multicellular organism to insects and of course humans - the “big cooperators”.
“Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe”
—The Guardian
