A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
“ The French government has followed through on its vow to dismantle unauthorized Roma community squats and deport illegal immigrants […] the European Commission has cautioned that France cannot keep EU citizens from circulating freely. It is monitoring the deportations ”
France starts expelling its Roma, GlobalPost.
“ UMP Senator Jean-René Lecerf wants new French ID cards to be embedded with a chip so that connecting to the Internet would be - according to his plan - impossible without proper identification ”
“ I was 12 when I started drinking and smoking pot, at 14 I was smoking crack, by 18 I was injecting heroin, cocaine, and meth […] this is not the action of “a weak mind”. I won’t argue for or against a genetic predisposition, but there is a social aspect your statement ignores. Some of us don’t have an upbringing that is cohesive to learning appropriate social behavior ”
“m.z.” commenting on ‘Do I Drink Too Much’ (BBC Horizon) at Top Documentary Films; via @karinastenquist.
«Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods». «Contains some upsetting scenes.» Since ‘…and T-Shirts’, and what with ‘…and Takeaways’ (which I’ve just discovered and haven’t seen) the producer of this series seem to be on a roll. And the guys in this series are actually putting their back into it, which is more than can be said for some of the wimps on ‘…and T-Shirts’.
“ We would rather suffer the visible costs of a few bad decisions than incur the many invisible costs that come from decisions made too slowly – or not at all – because of a stifling bureaucracy. ”
Warren Buffett; via 37signals.
Subcomandante Marcos unmasks himself.
«A commuter who travels one hour, one way, would have to make 40% more than his current salary to be as fully satisfied with his life as a noncommuter […] Commuting is a stress that doesn’t pay off»
“ «There are only 4 fundamental positions available on (human influenced) climate change. Choose honestly and choose wisely […]» ”
«It’s not enough these days to simply question authority, you got to speak with it too.» —Taylor Mali; typomation by Ronnie Bruce.
Want to hear some South Korean kids sing about netiquette? Well here’s a distraction! Oh but you heard the news that multitasking is turning human-kind into imbeciles didn’t you? So close that Facebook window before hitting play, and for the love of all that is good concentrate. This PBS report looks behind the research and asks us, «is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?»
