December 2010
67 posts
I'm coming home.
pensiveskies asked: I don't know who to ask out of you two would be better, but I assume you both would know. What's better, a Pentax or a Minolta? I'm thinking of getting one, around 130 pounds or something.
A bed to sleep in.
Tess and I (hopefully) fly out of Stansted at 9 am, which means getting up at about 5 am and trekking across London. We were staying in a hostel, which would have made catching the flight a real bother.
We met up with Sam and Eavan the other night, two friends we made back in Sarajevo. They were going home for christmas the next day (ie. leaving London) and offered their house for us to stay in...
Big freeze causes holiday travel havoc in Europe. →
So, this is what is happening at the moment.
Also.
My previously gave our chances of getting out of England at 80%.
The revised figure sits at about 60%.
Spend a year in Europe.
Get to England and look the wrong way when crossing the street.
Anonymous asked: Are you guys going to be able to get home okay?
Robot Heart
robot-heart-politics:
**trigger warning**
I’m kind of hoping someone takes me up on my offer to find one place where I’ve said, ABSOLUTELY, Assange was a rapist.
I’m hoping it will mean they’ll actually read what I wrote. Wouldn’t that be novel!
“…publishing the charge of Assange having sex with the woman while she was asleep, which most of us can agree qualifies as rape.”
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Q & A: The Assange Allegations. →
Helpful explanations for anyone confused by the poor reporting being done of late.
The Full Allegations Against Assange. →
So, the Guardian reckons it’s got the inside scoop.
A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange →
ghostofatotalstranger:
An interesting insight into the Julian Assange scandal. Much more level headed take on it, compared to my rantings.
This is a fair explanation of why caution is required when pursuing this case.
Squashed: "Innocent until proven guilty" →
squashed:
… is a legal maxim about the burden of proof in criminal cases. It’s also a caution about invoking formal penalties prior to a conviction.
It does not mean that we can’t discuss the credibility of accusations. It does not mean that people need to pretend they believe the accused is wholly…
Absolutely. But some people* aren’t discussing credibility. They have already made...
Re: Assange: Progressives accusing progressives of...
WatchJulian Assange with George Stephanopoulos.
Whatever you think about him, Assange is improving quickly as a speaker.
Other Australians in London hostels.
Posted without comment.
Wikileaks cleared of breaking Australian law. →
Nice try, Gillard.
simple-happy asked: Hiya, thank you so much for posting on feetthattakemeplaces.tumblr.com, they're all really good! I'll be putting them up over the next few days so feel free to come by and have a look, and to submit more any time! Thanks again :)
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Can we talk about the fact that getting from...
Can we talk about the fact that my 1998 Nokia 3310...
Got in to London at 1 am last night.
We were both exhausted, and cold, and looking forward to crashing the night at the house of some friends we made in Paris.
Only, they weren’t picking up their phone, and my phone was nearly out of battery. Long story short, we rocked up at a nearby hostel at about 2 looking for a room. Tess was nearly passing out, and my grumpy face had crept up on me, so the two drunk guys in the elevator...
THE ECONOMIST: DROP IN FOR A BITE WITH VLAD TEPES →
onebloceast:
From the Eastern Approaches blog over at The Economist:
NOT one person in a million outside Romania will have heard of Vlad Ţepes (pronounced Tsepes). They may have heard vaguely of him under the name of “Vlad the impaler” but are most likely to confuse that real-life figure, a scourge of the Turks in 15th-century Romania, with the entirely fictional Dracula created in Bram...
ariellemnop asked: Just wanted to say I love your work. How much do you charge per print?
thenewteenagersclub asked: No question. Just really fucking love when you like a post of mine, 'cause I generally enjoy all of yours. Don't go home x
simple-happy asked: Hiya, I've just started a new 2nd blog and was wondering if you would like to submit a photograph to it, or just have a look: http://feetthattakemeplaces.tumblr.com/
If not, no worries! thank you :)
If not, no worries! thank you :)
Berlin to Paris or: How I won't be flying Easyjet...
Tess and I woke at 5am to get to Berlin Schönefeld Airport, which is not really in Berlin and is closer to the middle of nowhere. We left our apartment, trudging through the snow along the deathly silent street that we had called home for some three months, and made our way to the tram. At Alexanderplatz, we jumped on the S-Bahn and headed out to the airport - a good 25 minute ride away.
Our...
towatchferryboats asked: I was wondering if you could tell me a bit about how this year away has changed you. I think most people who read this blog would love to make the leap like you did so perhaps the positives and negatives of your year away. (but please don't say "it made me more independent" or I may vomit in my hat) Thanks!
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Things that have happened lately that I've been to...
Tried to leave Berlin. Spent an entire day’s worth of delays in an airport before our flight to Paris was cancelled and we were sent home.
Crashed at a friends’.
Bought new tickets to Paris, did not go with Easyjet again.
Cancelled trip to Edinburgh.
Got to Paris.
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Anonymous asked: What is your actual view on Wikileaks? Good? Bad?
Support for Assange is not Rape Apologism
correlationstonone:
What people are really saying is that they’ll trade the rapes for Assange’s accomplishments.
I’m not sure why people aren’t being honest. It’s pretty clear Assange is a rapist who will be convicted. What’s unclear is if it’s maximum utility to provide satisfaction to the rape victims at the cost of WikiLeaks’ credibility and future operation.
Whoah, whoah, whoah.
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Kevin Rudd becomes a man. →
Haemorrhaging followers 'cause I'm posting about...
Purge the class-enemies!
Life: Retrospection →
sarahinsanfrancisco:
It’s become a habit of mine to set certain arbitrary dates as points of future reflection. In other words, when something happens to me (usually something either incredibly positive or incredibly negative) I, after reveling in the emotion of the moment, inevitably begin to wonder where I’ll be a year from then. So I make it a point to remember that on “November...
Squashed: Assange and Rape Apologism →
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Robot-Heart over AZSpot disagree on how we should discuss the rape charges against noted leaker Julian Assange.
Rape apologism usually stems from a gut feeling that not all rapes are equally abhorrent. Society reacts differently to cases where consent was impossible due to age or...
4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss... →
abbyjean:
The forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan’s hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance, and other sites that have hindered the whistleblowing site’s operations. A self-styled spokesman for the group calling himself “Coldblood” has said that any website that’s...
Squashed: Assange and Rape Apologism →
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Robot-Heart over AZSpot disagree on how we should discuss the rape charges against noted leaker Julian Assange.
Rape apologism usually stems from a gut feeling that not all rapes are equally abhorrent. Society reacts differently to cases where consent was impossible due to age or intoxication…
This is a good post from Squashed....
Squashed: Assange and Rape Apologism →
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Robot-Heart over AZSpot disagree on how we should discuss the rape charges against noted leaker Julian Assange.
Rape apologism usually stems from a gut feeling that not all rapes are equally abhorrent. Society reacts differently to cases where consent was impossible due to age or intoxication…
This is a good post from Squashed. Most of it’s fair, I just wanted to address...
There seem to be two main waves of opinion going...
Those who feel that the charges against Assange are suspicous on a number of levels.
Those who feel that not enough respect is being given to the alleged victims.
These schools of thought are not at all mutually exclusive, but a distinction between the two still seems to exist.
I have these thoughts:
Members of school #1 are fair to say that there are grounds for reasonable suspicion.
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Barretta: Julian Assange is under arrest in London... →
barretta:
Julian Assange is under arrest in London on an international arrest warrant issued by Swedish authorities. The good news? He deserves to be under arrest. The bad news? He deserves to be under arrest for what he’s done and not for having sex with some publicist without wearing a rubber. I now find…
What U.S law did he violate?
“I am an Australian citizen and I miss my country a great deal. However, during...”
– Julian Assange answers your questions (via indefensible)
“During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the...”
– Shibboleth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slavin)