I’m off to Ukraine for the next two weeks. I’ll try to report from there, Internet gods willing…
My name is Slava. I live in Toronto and work at PlanetEye. I'll be sharing good things here, because I care for you....
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If you want you can email me at "slavas [at] gmail.com". I also have a website blog at http://aonb.blogspot.com
Apr 29
Apr 28
A nice little primer on the past weekend’s strike. What’s really shitty is that the drivers didn’t wait until the end of their shift on Friday night to shut down. Instead they just all stopped at mid-night, stranding people where ever they happened to be, which doesn’t seem very safe or nice of them.
via vasta:
“Stranding thousands of ginos in downtown Toronto.”
“ Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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All of these statements are wrong. In fact, much of the information in the popular press about the effects of violent video games is wrong.
The real puzzle is that anyone looking at the research evidence in this field could draw any conclusions about the pattern, let alone argue with such confidence and even passion that it demonstrates the harm of violence on television, in film and in video games. The allegation that “perpetrators go unpunished in 73 per cent of all violent scenes” is based on research from the mid-1990s that looked at selected television programs, not video games.
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TheStar.com | Violence and video games
Hmmm… I guess another GTA game is coming out or something.
Apr 26
“ Like the guido, the guidette’s beauty is defined in upper-body terms, but instead of muscle, her currency is breasts. Implants are popular. Cleavage is all. Her nails are pink or French manicured, her earrings are hoop, her top is tube, her tank is mesh, and she teeters on sandals with three-inch heels. Her lips are wet with lip gloss. She has the look of a varnished-sushi refrigerator magnet, perfect under the Temptations strobe lights.
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Strutting Season (washingtonpost.com)
This article made me a little queasy…
Apr 25
A comparison of scenes from GTA IV and real-life New York…
Hoover Dam, Nevada 2007 ( via peterbaker) P.S. I’m actually a huge fan of Peter’s photography work. If only he was a tad more selective with what goes into the Portfolio, it would be amazing!
PlanetEye: La Hacienda from Eugen
Apr 24
“ A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
» Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building | The Onion
“Taking into account my past successful experiments with chimpanzees, it is my final analysis that we are dealing with one smart little fucker,” said team member Dr. Russell Sutton, who has already applied for an additional grant to study cognitive learning in the same mouse. “I wonder if he’ll be so smart without a functioning hippocampus.”