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Zerofee tweets for the week ending 2009-09-13

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  • A bit unwise to let a hijacker have a bit of cam­era time, no? http://is.gd/36lIG #
  • .@Civil­Brand­ing We swell up with pride when see­ing a French energy com­pany and an arms dealer fly­ing the flag. http://bit.ly/1j4ilG #
  • Shell’s Cana­dian equa­tion for unhap­pi­ness: 1 bar­rel of oil con­t­a­m­i­nates 4 bar­rels of water, dumped right back – http://is.gd/36kGh #
  • Nokia los­ing their grip on real­ity, unadorned and aug­mented? http://bit.ly/22kIQB via @coun­ter­notions #
  • Wish I’d read this before fork­ing over for Spo­tify pre­mium: http://tinyurl.com/n9dqc4 – no mul­ti­task­ing. #
  • Some wise words from @good­de­sign­book’s Christo­pher Sim­mons on the virtues of design­ers help­ing good causes, for free: http://is.gd/34YvV #
  • The last thing the roads need is more wob­bling, floral-dressed, high-heelers on expen­sive, poorly-fitted retro bikes http://is.gd/34TEd #
  • Flash-free, javascript tweet visu­aliser. Pretty, if point­less – http://is.gd/34S86 #
  • Col­lap­so­nom­ics. Happy Wednes­day every­one! http://is.gd/34DfF via @BetaR­ish @broad­stuff #
  • NES con­sole hard­ware hacked to cre­ate synth visu­aliser http://is.gd/34uKK #
  • Look­ing for­ward to @joe­ber­linger’s Crude – http://is.gd/34tp5 – what­ever legal out­come, the film looks set to clar­ify the moral sit­u­a­tion #
  • Glenn Beck, art critic, help­ing Fox view­ers appre­ci­ate ‘fas­cist’ and ‘com­mu­nist’ works http://is.gd/34oXn #
  • Colin Firth is both for and against plas­tic surgery, whereas I am of the opin­ion it’s just waste­ful & decep­tive http://tinyurl.com/lo9854 #
  • Trac­ing the evo­lu­tion of ‘On the Ori­gin of Species’ with Pro­cess­ing – visu­ally rem­i­nis­cent of DNA analy­sis. http://is.gd/32wW9 #
  • Obama’s school speech: con­ser­v­a­tive objec­tions make sense. The young need to be kept dull-minded to become sup­port­ers http://is.gd/32oFZ #
  • Read all about it. We’ve designed a tabloid ‘news­pa­per’ for the won­der­ful @TRAID­char­ity – http://is.gd/32irj – pho­tos and full PDF #
  • Brand for Lon­don pro­pos­als rejected 4 days after the dead­line, inc week­end? GLA have really care­fully con­sid­ered those… http://is.gd/3284o #
  • Is it just me, or is this Farmer’s Mar­kets logo sport­ing an unfor­tu­nate arrange­ment of shapes? http://is.gd/322ZA #
  • Simul­ta­ne­ously con­de­scend­ing and com­pelling – Peo­ple of Wal­mart – http://ow.ly/os7G – via @bareknuckleyell and oth­ers. #
  • Asi­nine fash­ion pic­to­r­ial that thinks it’s ok and/or chal­leng­ing to mix Dior with imagery of home­less­ness http://is.gd/31Q2X #
  • Com­ment on @adbusters blog “I once met a Soto zen monk at a bowl­ing com­pe­ti­tion, who was dressed head-to-toe in ster­ling fresh hip-hop gear” #
  • Flash Gor­don comic fea­tures ear­li­est lap­top depic­tion http://is.gd/31O10 Ming’s forces non­cha­lantly tweet­ing hints about how cool they are #
  • São Paulo, pre and post out­door ad ban. Makes sense of the phrase ‘visual pol­lu­tion’ http://bit.ly/poD8Y via @darceyrakestraw @AlexSt­ef­fen #
  • Oh no! Ikea jumped the gun! Revi­sions to Ver­dana and Geor­gia – http://bit.ly/v7StA via @lither­land #
  • RT @adbusters: “In a time of uni­ver­sal deceit, telling the truth is a rev­o­lu­tion­ary act.” George Orwell #
  • After watch­ing the first hr of the 9/11 phonecalls doc last night, this gets harder to swal­low http://is.gd/2ZZK2 via @bareknuckleyell #
  • .@daniel_howells kulör – nice. Good luck with it! http://is.gd/2ZT1h #
  • Like it: “Oppor­tu­ni­ties are usu­ally dis­guised as hard work, so most peo­ple don’t rec­og­nize them.” – Ann Lan­ders via @abduzeedo @trine­falbe #
  • Some chal­leng­ing thoughts on the sub­ject of child labour – http://is.gd/2ZJTT via @Ethical_Corp #
  • Face­book ‘enhances’ but Twit­ter ‘dimin­ishes intel­li­gence’? Junk sci­ence in ‘news’ papers insults it. http://is.gd/2ZGXk via @tweet­meme #
  • For­get today’s news about Spo­tify for iPhone. There’s an approved C64 emu­la­tor! http://is.gd/2ZFOZ (dodgy ‘offi­cial’ game packs though) #
  • Gor­don Brown likes the Colonel so much, he’s had his own wax­work made – http://is.gd/2ZEyP #
  • If archi­tects had to work like web design­ers – http://is.gd/2ZtY0 – Unfor­tu­nately, you can often broaden this to print/id work too. Via @iA #
  • Explor­ers find ‘super rat’ in jun­gle of Papua New Guinea, turns out to be friendly, happy to meet them. http://is.gd/2Zsa4 #
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