 | Online nowBarry is a 51 year old guy from Stateless, Wallis and Futuna Islands.
"... you are changed to me and I to you, the way that creases remain always in a sheet of paper that has once been folded." (from "Mary Brunton" by John Stammers)
∴ [My avatar is Maggie Taylor's "The Optimist's Suit" - an original of which hangs on my wall.] ∴
I help out at SU with Community Support.
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- Rosi Golan on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures &Music Downloads...
 Jul 4, 8:14am  (1 review) music http://www.myspace.com/rosigolan On heavy rotation, Rosi Golan. Nice, nice. Echoes of early Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Kate Walsh... well worth a listen.
- Spike Milligan - A Silly Poem
- Jul 4, 6:06am
 (1 review) poetry, milligan http://www.spikemilligan.co.uk/spike-mil... - Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?
Oh, Spike. How we miss thee.
- Google builds Street View trikes to map UK footpaths - Crave at CNET UK...
- Jul 4, 5:51am (3 reviews) cyberculture http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,390295...
- I have to be admit to being somewhat disappointed that Google haven't adapted a fleet of Segways to this role.
Or, better yet, some Daleks. Oh gods, what a vision: Google-branded Daleks, image-mapping the country to chants of: "you will be assimilated"
Yes. I know that was The Borg. Eat my shorts.
- BBC NEWS | Business | Cost of texting abroad comes down
- Jul 1, 1:11am (2 reviews) mobile-computing http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8127...
- Oh my goodness. One can only take so much common-sense in one week. Following the news that major mobile phone manufacturers are standardising their charger connectors (to micro-USB), now the news that the legalised piracy that we call roaming charges is being curtailed.
It's about time someone took a long, hard stick to this. Sure, the companies need to make a profit, so that we have the communications infrastructure, but if we can't afford to use said infrastructure, then we're being prevented from exploiting the communications technologies that will allow us to succeed in this rapidly changing economic (and social) world.
From the page: ""The roaming-rip off is now coming to an end," said EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding. "
- Flickr And Twitter are Now Officially Sucking Face
- Jul 1, 12:24am (2 reviews) internet-tools, twitter, flickr http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/fli...
- Yet more integration niceness.
The only thing you'll want to get straight now is which posts integrate to which other services, which friends are on which, and who are not, and who are deliberately not, and which of those friends you want to see which content, and which not, and which services auto-post to other services, in which case you'll be double-posting. Oh what a tangled web we weave.
Hmm. I may need a big piece of paper, a pencil and some coffee. Should I tweet this? Let me take some words out....
- Eric Fredine: Portfolios
- Jun 30, 2:33am (9 reviews) photography http://www.ericfredine.com/
- Beautiful sparse images.
- Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe| Technology| Reuters...
- Jun 29, 2:50pm (1 review) telecom http://www.reuters.com/article/technolog...
- "Top mobile telephone suppliers have agreed to back an EU-wide harmonization of phone chargers"
Score one for common sense.
- Buddha Lounge Renditions Of Hawkwind - Various Artists - Listen free and...
- Jun 27, 5:14am (1 review) lounge-music, buntyfm http://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists...
- Via Buntyfm. Lounge renditions of Hawkwind. You know you want to - give Silver Machine a spin. Not as painful as you think it might be...
- Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
- Jun 23, 6:47am (19 reviews) linguistics http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/borodits...
- A fascinating article.
I don't normally quote wholesale (in my reviews) from articles, but I can't resist it in this particular case:
"the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms "north, south, east, and west" to define space. This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit." One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly. The normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is "Where are you going?" and the answer should be something like " Southsoutheast, in the middle distance." If you don't know which way you're facing, you can't even get past "Hello."
A right rivetting read.
- Separation: Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine]
- Jun 23, 3:06am (10 reviews) poetry http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/...
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Separation by W. S. Merwin
...the art of losing isn't hard to master
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