Culture

The milieu through which we swim

Pink vs the paparazzi: photostalkers and children’s privacy

So when you see our middle fingers up in all of our pictures, now you know the motivation. It’s all we can do to stop images of a newborn baby from being printed without our consent. Can you imagine a world where they would blur out our middle finger to protect a “consumer” over blurring out an innocent child to protect their integrity and privacy?

Pottermore!

J K Rowling has announced on YouTube more details about her plans for the Pottermore website – “a unique online reading experience”

Meme of the Week: Fractal Wrongness

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person’s worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person’s worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.