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November 19, 2012
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"Glamour originally was a magical-occult spell cast on somebody to make them believe that something or somebody was attractive. In the late 19th century terminology a non magical item used to help create a more attractive appearance gradually became ‘a glamour’. […] For glamour to be successful nearly always requires sprezzatura - an appearance of effortlessness, and to appear distant - transcending the everyday, to be slightly mysterious and somewhat idealised, but not to the extent it is no longer possible to identify with the person. Glamorous things are neither opaque, hiding all, nor transparent showing everything, but translucent, favourably showing things."

— Glamour (via blaaargh)

In other words “Glamour” is intrinsically sociopathic.

(Source: blaaargh, via effusionofbiopower)

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April 22, 2012
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As I was typing to someone recently:Here’s a prediction… In the long run Apple and everyone else will abandon personal computers for consumer type devices such as ‘pads’ etc. It makes it easy for them to sell you, in the form of allowing exotic flash cookies and other codings, to advertisers. It will also make it much easier for them to control the information you find on the internet.As seen here… SOMEONE is spending money on graphic developments for Mobile devices.8bitfuture: Mobile graphics beginning to outperform consoles. With no new Xbox or Playstation consoles having been released fur such a long time, it’s could be next year before smartphones are able to match their graphics capabilities, according to NVIDIA’s Mike Rayfield. Several years ago, a PC meant a display that measured 11 inches or more diagonally, a physical keyboard and possibly a network connection. With the advent of mobile devices and smartphones, the idea of a PC has largely been redefined. It is now considered to be anything with a display of at least four inches, with a touchscreen that supplements (or replaces) a physical keyboard and is always connected and “on.”
As I was typing to someone recently:
Here’s a prediction… In the long run Apple and everyone else will abandon personal computers for consumer type devices such as ‘pads’ etc. It makes it easy for them to sell you, in the form of allowing exotic flash cookies and other codings, to advertisers.

It will also make it much easier for them to control the information you find on the internet.
As seen here… SOMEONE is spending money on graphic developments for Mobile devices.

8bitfuture:

Mobile graphics beginning to outperform consoles.

With no new Xbox or Playstation consoles having been released fur such a long time, it’s could be next year before smartphones are able to match their graphics capabilities, according to NVIDIA’s Mike Rayfield.

Several years ago, a PC meant a display that measured 11 inches or more diagonally, a physical keyboard and possibly a network connection. With the advent of mobile devices and smartphones, the idea of a PC has largely been redefined. It is now considered to be anything with a display of at least four inches, with a touchscreen that supplements (or replaces) a physical keyboard and is always connected and “on.”


(Source: blogs.nvidia.com, via proletarianinstinct)

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