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Ironic. The FBI warns US student travellers their communications may be ‘intercepted and retained’
Haha. I’m researching a project and came across this section in an FBI pamphlet for US students travelling abroad: I love that the FBI warns US students travelling overseas that they should have ‘no expectation of privacy’ and that in the case of ‘all information … sen[t] electronically’ that ‘might be valuable to another government, […]
Question: Is compromise an inevitable part of ‘growing up’?
I promise I will spare you any New Year’s resolution navel-gazing. But this wry commentary on Google’s acquisition of Boston Dynamics which I screen clipped at the time, and came across again tonight, raised (in me, anyway) a question: Where am I rationalising such extreme, comical-if-it-weren’t-so-serious compromise in my own life? The whole Jungian ‘shadow‘ […]
Equating internet privacy with apartheid
The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has compared the uproar in the international community caused by revelations of mass surveillance with the collective response that helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa. Pillay, the first non-white woman to serve as a high-court judge in South Africa, made the comments in an interview […]
Edward Snowden Christmas message
BBC Channel Channel 4 Alternative Christmas message Praxis films. Audio here: https://m.soundcloud.com/producermatthew/edward-snowden-releases
Happy Christmas to readers of The Paepae
All the best to you and your loved ones for the Christmas break. As usual things will be a little quiet here while I’m at the beach etc. I post this Ronald Reagan/Chesterfield image as a reminder that perceptions, power balances and other things change, sometimes despite the active resistance of the self-interested forces of […]
‘Hello’ humour will never die
One of my daughter’s girlfriends gave her pals T-shirts with appropriate slogans at a Christmas get-together last night. This one (and the delightful girl to whom it was given) just made me chortle. A lot. Soooo appropriate. One of the pleasures of having a teenage daughter — like mine anyway, and I mean it wholesomely […]
If you’re thinking you need to speak up …
Check this out … My boy’s team had their last hockey game of the year today (and won, yay). The card is an example of the great encouragement they’ve had from coach Camille. Good on her. – P
Cher Lloyd’s sarcastic take on ‘wishing’ you were different …
In the context of Lily Allen’s sardonic and catchy message about how hard it is living with other people’s physical … ‘expectations’ … 5′ 2″ Cher Lloyd lets us in on her self-talk. Fabulous. I like this singer, and have for a while, as readers may recall. – P That ‘I wish I was tall’ […]
A brief moment of mirth at the doorstep
True: This is the old T-shirt I was wearing this morning as two Jehovah’s Witnesses dropped by with their latest ‘CAN YOU TRUST THE NEWS MEDIA?’ Awake! magazine. Hahaha. – P
Deceitful “PR blog” questions worth considering
At the risk of creating a terrible circularity that could collapse the interwebs, let me suggest you read Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup today (available here at The NZ Herald.) Bryce introduces his political topic du jour thus: New Zealand politics is ‘a dirty, disgusting, despicable game. And it involves dirty, disgusting despicable people at all […]
Be prepared to bleed
I spotted this line in an Esquire interview with Glenn Greenwald … If you’re gonna challenge people in power, you have to be ready to be attacked in effective ways. That’s the nature of power. If they couldn’t do that to you, they wouldn’t be powerful. Yeah, but I mean, of course it’s not easy. […]
Misleading scale on women in business ‘infographic’ {belch}
Good on JK Keller … who said, rather nicely … … which, coming a day or two after Rebecca Wright tweeted this consciousness-raising Pantene ad, made me think … hmmm – P
Stop motion and plasticine always remind me of Wallace and Gromit*
Apparently for this LeAnn Rimes music video, “All Footage and Stop Motion Filmed Exclusively on the iPhone” … wow. From Jim Dalrymple LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone – The Loop via TUAW.com – P * www.wallaceandgromit.com
OK, so the trip to Wellington for ‘The Hobbit’ movie premiere went well …
Not one to have her spirits dampened by the theft of her iPhone at the weekend, my daughter made a bit of a splash with a couple of friends at The Hobbit Wellington premiere … TV3 Nightline
The place of ‘character’ and ‘voice’ in business
While I generally get on well with most people I meet, I can sometimes be socially clumsy, or gauche, and fail miserably in my communications from time to time (as some people are wont to point out here now and then, bless them), but I try to (a) be consistent — the same person in all […]
