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Re: Why You Like Music More When You Know the Artist Is Eccentric

DeanWhitbread — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:47:13 -0000

"—as long as weirdness doesn't feel like a gimmick."

What is 'weirdness' and what is a 'gimmick'? I think you will find no correlation from culture to culture. Extraordinarily narrow definitions in your article.

Re: Never without Starsky ! - Post Modem Art ! - blip.tv

DeanWhitbread — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:40:25 -0000

great

Re: Tesla Sues Top Gear For Libel Over Alleged Rigged Race

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:09:42 -0000

Clarkson is a climate-change-denying recidivist who uses his popular platforms to undermine the science with constant lies, and I hope Tesla expose him in court.

Re: John Martin: Heaven and Hell, Laing Art Gallery, review

DeanWhitbread — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:40:45 -0000

When I worked at the Tate in the early 80s I had the opportunity to spend many hours in front of John Martin's fabulous works. Martin, treading a fine line between drama and melodrama made the Victorian equivalent of Hollywood blockbuster disaster movies, huge canvases which drag you in using every trick in the book and overwhelm you.

Back then the cold war was threatening, Reagan was upping the ante and there was real fear in the air. I'll not forget the moment I saw the mushroom cloud in 'The Great Day of His Wrath' ... I knew Martin wasn't magically prescient, but it chilled me to the core.

Re: Death Rate From Nuclear Power Vs Coal? This May Surprise You

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:28:58 -0000

Yes, nice dystopic warning in a chirpy guise. Byrne is more optimistic now than he was then..

Re: Death Rate From Nuclear Power Vs Coal? This May Surprise You

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:46:53 -0000

"We know just enough to light these fires, but we don’t yet know how to put them out. " David Byrne on Nuclear Power - Alternatives http://journal.davidbyrne.c...

Re: Death Rate From Nuclear Power Vs Coal? This May Surprise You

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:27:59 -0000

the difference being that unlike coal, nuclear waste remains deadly for 250,000 years..

Re: AAAS: Out-of-body experiences are just the product of a confused mind

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:23:45 -0000

True. Generally the Americans make words longer - "obligated" for "obliged" being my personal annoyance. It's a matter of taste.

Re: AAAS: Out-of-body experiences are just the product of a confused mind

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:48:22 -0000

That's a matter of taste. Whatever happened to "construction"? I find "construct" (also "disconnect") ugly.

Re: AAAS: Out-of-body experiences are just the product of a confused mind

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:07:22 -0000

It's "Labour" (proper noun - although you might not like that... )

Re: AAAS: Out-of-body experiences are just the product of a confused mind

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:00:19 -0000

Your grammar is confused. Front page schoolboy error - it's "you're" not "your" ...

Re: Ed Miliband: The Big Society: a cloak for the small state

DeanWhitbread — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:18:32 -0000

"sacrificies" - typo

Re: How Important Are Honey Bees? Was (Fake) Einstein Right?

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:08:23 -0000

Here's a positive article on bees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/e...

Re: Social Network Content Creation Has Plateaued [STUDY]

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:16:59 -0000

I wish the UK stats were separate from Europe, for two reasons - 1. UK is a massive user of Social Media networks and 2. habits here are quite different from our European neighbours. Including the UK in the EU results actually masks and distorts somewhat.

Re: Our Top Ten things for us (and Nokia) to take away from Nokia World 2010

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:51:39 -0000

Thanks, Gareth. After watching Battlestar Galactica, my memory banks were (thankfully!) wiped. May I just offer http://realswearing.org as an alternative point of reference.

Re: Our Top Ten things for us (and Nokia) to take away from Nokia World 2010

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:29:52 -0000

A neat and readable summary - but "crufty" - meaning... ? and "What The Frak" - please! If you're going to swear, swear. If not, "Heck" is a time-honoured replacement, or use the Irish "Feck" which at least makes no pretense at being polite. I'm being a pedant, but why turn an otherwise good article into an average blog post with bad euphemisms?

Re: Pope Visit UK 2010: Live

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:39:29 -0000

Correct! Although this could be an opportunity for a witty rejoinder about it being appropriate, the Pope being all at sea with Kasper, the huge protests, and the many empty seats... but I won't mention that, because it would be pointless.

Re: Pope Visit UK 2010: Live

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:31:02 -0000

"English flag" - it's the Union Jack, not the Cross of St George. Wouldn't want to offend the Scots now.

Re: How Google Reader and RSS beat Twitter in some cases

DeanWhitbread — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:08:12 -0000

I agree that blog posts should weigh more heavily and be considered more carefully because it's a bigger effort. Blog posts also have staying power and so they continue to affect reputation. However everyone tends to assume that the only Twitter way is to constantly add more followers and only use one account. This is a wrong assumption. For e.g. I have various accounts, some with many thousands, but my main one is really pared down, with around about 100 followed and following. In that stream I generally read everything. That's how I learned about this blog post...

Re: Airport security is a travelling videographers nightmare

DeanWhitbread — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:20:35 -0000

They spotted you as a creative with a scumbag..

Re: Airport security is a travelling videographers nightmare

DeanWhitbread — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:23:57 -0000

I always dress semi-formally to pass through airports. A clean shirt and a jacket saves a lot of hassle.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Loic Le Meur

DeanWhitbread — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:06:13 -0000

not bad at all

Re: Dreams of Dreams and Future Apps

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:00:42 -0000

I put it on "airplane" mode, and it lives by my feet. There's only me in my bed, so it can be as sensitive as it likes - that's what the first two nights guage, I think, how sensitive to movement the app needs to be.

Re: Loic Le Meur Blog: Of course were hole fillers and why no-one should depend on only one platform

DeanWhitbread — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:59:29 -0000

You're smart to have adapted so quickly and to have positioned Seesmic so well - so far. There's no mention of the macro economic situation that has affected the last two years of incredible growth, but that surely also had a bearing on what Twitter were able to do and when. In fact, the recession maybe even created opportunities as it thinned out competition. The recovery, if it continues, will add more competition and not just from the big boys, but between them. So, Apple sues HTC, Nokia sues Apple who sue Nokia, etc etc. It's a war for territory.

Re: Meta is Murder. Writing and lesser things by Mills Baker. L’esprit de l’escalier.

DeanWhitbread — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:35:20 -0000

thanks