Month: June 2007

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Facebook gadget on iGoogle page, originally uploaded by sangsara.

I love the open widget/gadget platforms that Google and Facebook have going. It makes everything interoperable and keeps me very happy. Now I can have stuff all over the place, and integrate them on a small handful of frequently visited sites. Like my iGoogle start page. It prevents me from forgetting to check in, and keeps everyone in view.

Adbusters : The Magazine – #71 Beginnings of Sorrow / Generation F*cked: How Britain is Eating Its Young

On the whole, British children were more disconnected from their families, with nearly half of 15-year-old boys spending most nights out with friends, compared to just 17 percent of their French counterparts. Forty percent of UK youth had sex before age 15, compared with 15 percent of Polish teens. They drank nearly four times as much as the Italians, and, perhaps most saliently, had the lowest sense of subjective well-being among all the youth surveyed.

Noting that many UK-born Muslim children feel culturally distinct from both the inward-looking attitudes of their immigrant parents, and from established religious communities that “fail to recognise and relate to the challenges facing the youth,” she argued that the turn toward extremism is all too easy when “issues such as lack of integration, identity crises and their roles in this society” are left to children to decipher by themselves.

Well worth reading today. Although we may not have the violence, we have here ourselves a burgeoning case of social stratification and consumerist despair. The article states most UK youth are statistically unable to afford a house of their own (and start their families) until the age of 34. Hey, that sounds familiar. [via pumpkineyes]

As if this weren’t funny enough, the English “lyrics” subtitled underneath send it over the edge!

Long pointless post ahead.

This is the text that comes with it, and since I refuse to sign up for facebook, this blog is where I’m gonna dump it.

SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

I’ve moved it (and myself) to Facebook!

This is Allison Stokke, high-school polevault champion, and new face of Sports Hotness. The story of her ‘unwelcome’ status as an “internet sex symbol” has now hit the mainstream media. And here.

Link to more high-res photos over at WithLeather.com.