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Happy birthday to you Copyright
The melody of “Happy Birthday to You” comes from the song “Good Morning to All”, which was written and composed by American sisters Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893. They were both kindergarten school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky. The sisters created “Good Morning to All” as a song that would be easy to sing by young children. The combination of...
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every 6...
– Oscar Wilde
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December 2009
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Tokyo - Absent without leaving
The greater Tokyo area has just under 36 million people living in it; it’s still the world’s most populous metropolitan area. If this monster of cities runs remarkably smoothly most of the time, and even feels like a rather relaxing place, it’s because of the particular, even peculiar, habitus of presence which prevails here. Tokyo people are very good at being absent...
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SoundBase Festival 2009: Acoustic Band Competition...
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Of the excellent line-up for this year’s SoundBase festival, these ones are my favourites. All songs are originals written by the bands performing them.
David Shurr, one half of The Fruit Basket, was good for best individual performance, a prize he shared with Chris Martin of Pope George and the Cardinals. The latter let off the essential bravura landing them first...
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Michael Wolf: 100 rooms, each 100 square feet in... →
100 photographs of residents in their flats in hong kong’s oldest public housing estate.
Via | zhengr
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'Straight Man' by Richard Russo
Student: I like the clouds … They’re, like, a metaphor.
Professor: They /are/ a metaphor ... If they were /like/ a metaphor, they’d be, like, a simile
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I lived another world, 140 beats per minute
Today marks the 633th day since we met last - an unstriking figure by any numerology. But today, I lay rest a question which has pursued me for just as many days. The night we met, silly circumstances having taken away the day that came before it, we settled on bowling. Whether it was the streaks of strikes, our fluorescent pin-slayers, or perhaps the formidable footwear we wore, there was a...
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Facebook RSS-to-Notes misgivings. →
A reminder that the ‘social’ in social networking site does not necessarily pertain to the way facebook treats your data.
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Mixtape for 2009: in Twelve Songs
Following the idea of @scotthardy, each month of 2009 represented by a song.
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JAN.01 | Russian Bride - John B
FEB.02 | Hello Saferide - Overall
MAR.03 | Take Pills - Panda Bear
APR.04 | David Hamilton - Laila France
MAY.05 | Osaka Loop Line - Discovery
JUN.06 | Airport Surroundings - Loney, Dear
JUL.07 | A Thing for Me - Metronomy
AUG.08 | A Distorted Reality Is Now A Now A...
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French Cinepanorama : Hong Kong Film Festival
Like every year, Alliance Française de Hong Kong, organise a film festival featuring both new and old Francophone pictures. I’ve picked my four favourites from this year’s batch:
The Thorn in the Heart / L’Epine dans le cœur 10 • 12 / 8:10pm Broadway Cinematheque http://www.frenchcinepanorama.com/2009/eng/newfilm12.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424062/ Yuki & Nina 10 • 12 /...
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