emergentfutures: The perils of Googles Images Pity whichever hapless BBC researcher was in a hurry to find a background image for a report on the UN Security Council today and instead managed to post this. As someone on Reddit notes, “I’m pretty sure that’s not the United Nations emblem, BBC”. Well, it sort of is: as a less cursory look on Google Images would have revealed, it isin fact the emblem of United Nations Space Command in the video game Zombie Pandemic. Hooray for rolling news, eh readers? Correction: as Peter rightly points out in the comments below, a look cursory look on Google Images would have revealed that the emblem in fact originates in the video game Halo, and was then adopted by a group of Halo fans playing on Zombie Pandemic. Full Story: Global Dashboard

emergentfutures:

The perils of Googles Images

Pity whichever hapless BBC researcher was in a hurry to find a background image for a report on the UN Security Council today and instead managed to post this. As someone on Reddit notes, “I’m pretty sure that’s not the United Nations emblem, BBC”.

Well, it sort of is: as a less cursory look on Google Images would have revealed, it isin fact the emblem of United Nations Space Command in the video game Zombie Pandemic.

Hooray for rolling news, eh readers?

Correction: as Peter rightly points out in the comments below, a look cursory look on Google Images would have revealed that the emblem in fact originates in the video game Halo, and was then adopted by a group of Halo fans playing on Zombie Pandemic.

Full Story: Global Dashboard

posted : Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

reblogged from : Emergent Futures Tumblelog

One of the most common biphobic narratives is that the penis is what counts. A woman who has sex with men is really straight, even if she also fucks women; a man who has sex with men is really gay, even if he also fucks women. If a man fucks a man, even once, he is forever corrupted from the heights of heterosexual masculinity.
Bisexual Men, Like, Exist And Stuff | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)

posted : Monday, September 5th, 2011

reblogged from : hearts unite

Detroit Publishing Co. Walk after the quake April 18, 1906 “Market Street toward ferry”, San Francisco after the earthquake and fire

Detroit Publishing Co. Walk after the quake April 18, 1906 
“Market Street toward ferry”, San Francisco after the earthquake and fire

posted : Friday, August 26th, 2011

Don’t ask me, I just share here..

I love social media, this is true. I could bore you to tears for paragraphs on the good it performs in modern society, but I am increasingly becoming frustrated and concerned by one particular aspect of it that the last  few week’s of news has intensified.

Let’s call it the ‘instant opinion’ problem.

Much has been said about the ‘quick fix’ aspect of the web but it cuts increasingly both ways. Speed is of the essence and when something significant happens we all feel we must Have Something To Say about it and preferably before anyone else.

This leads to several issues:

  1. The constant pressure to form an opinion on something within minutes of it happening (no matter how politically complex, personally distressing or just plain baffling) and project that opinion boldly to the world.
  2. The pressure, having done that, to stick to this opinion (even in light of new discoveries or change of heart) in case you seem a hypocrite.
  3. The fear that if you don’t offer an Instant Opinion you will appear shallow or foolish as you merrily tweet about your lunch or the new Ke$ha single instead.

What this leads to is everyone making a whole lot of noise about things they often don’t really understand. People have always had similar interactions - over dinner, across the water cooler - but in the past we had at least a little breathing space to gather ourselves. It concerns me that we are not only losing the desire (and ability) to consider, analize and chew over subjects but that doing so is in fact becoming almost stigmatised as a sign of a poor mind rather than an educated one.

I don’t have the answers to everything, so I plan not to pretend I do anymore!

posted : Thursday, August 11th, 2011

It’s times like this when Twitter really comes into its own. As a truly democratic forum, everyone can get involved and have their say, and it’s easy to share information and ideas. And because it’s all so public, it’s very hard for companies to ignore public pressure or hide behind rhetoric. For every 5,000 tweets with a funny cat photo there’s a moment like this, when Twitter remembers what it can really do.

It was truly astonishing to see how angry all sorts of people were with the behaviour of the News of the World, and how eager they were to do something about it. To the Republic of Twitter, now finding its voice on this subject, it clearly wasn’t an ethical minefield, or a thorny legal issue, but a simple case of right and wrong. Morals, as they used to be called. The depths Rupert Murdoch’s paper has sunk to – and questions are now being asked about other police investigations, including that into the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – is extraordinary.

Why I set about hitting the News of the World where it hurts – its advertising | Melissa Harrison | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

posted : Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Viceland Today / MINORITY REPORT: LONDON GAY PRIDE

I could just do a regular report on gay pride like all the rest of the LAMEstream media. But this is fucking VICE fucking MAGAZINE, the publication that brought you that story about the Botswanan cowboy metalhead scene. Not wanting to disappoint, I decided to try and hunt down the nichest niche members of the LTGBTBGBQI scene at this year’s London Pride.

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LGBT SCUBA DIVERS

“Sometimes regular scuba people won’t want to dive with you. So it’s nice to have a place you can feel safe, ya know?”

Minority rating: 7

- JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE

Oh I love VICE <3

posted : Monday, July 4th, 2011