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Dreadlocks: activated.

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:42:00 +0200

See you all in 2012. I simply haven’t had time this year to update this blog. Please consider...

South African bands are doing it right (via scrone-a-palooza)

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:31:33 +0200

South African bands are doing it right

(via scrone-a-palooza)

… Then I noticed it was from The Onion....

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:06:51 +0200

… Then I noticed it was from The Onion. :/

(via realcleverscience)

Great Bloc Party remix from an up-and-coming/underground Cape...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:01:21 +0200

Great Bloc Party remix from an up-and-coming/underground Cape Town Indie-Electro producer, The English.

Check out some other remixes on Soundcloud.

Mocked up some monochrome business cards. Shout if you want to...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:46:00 +0200

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Mocked up some monochrome business cards.

Shout if you want to use the designs for free.

Germany Germany - Take Me Home (official video) Absolutely...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:45:20 +0200

Germany Germany - Take Me Home (official video)

Absolutely amazing, mostly instrumental, song.

Clichéd as it may be, my only problem with it is that it’s too short.

heheheeheh i was with you till you said Cape Town ;) Cape town is a whole post on its own....I have such a prejudice about such a prejudiced place....but im trying to learn and get rid of my misconceptions....experience proves harder to override though....

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:54:00 +0200

Oh, very much so. Cape Town is a strangely schizophrenic city. There are some amazing people,...

gaywrites: Fantastic message. More info here. World AIDS Day...

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:00:06 +0200

gaywrites:

Fantastic message. More info here. World AIDS Day 2011.

Help give a Love Drop this season! Help out Diomi and her son...

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:12:05 +0200

Help give a Love Drop this season!

Help out Diomi and her son Nallee, who are going into the cold Milwaukee winter with very little food, clothes, and other necessities. Diomi has been through so much, including the loss of her father, the loss of her job, and clinical depression. But even through the pain you can see all the love she has for Nallee, who has one of the most beautiful personalities you’ll find. :)

We want to make this month special for them! We’re working with their pastor to help get things they really need, including school uniforms for Nallee, interview clothes for Diomi as she looks for a job, and food to help them through the winter months.

If you can find it in your hearts to give one extra gift this year, whether it be money or a helpful item they can use, please send it in - our goal is to reach $3,000 worth of necessities.

Want to join us in helping Diomi and Nallee? Here are 3 ways:

Give $1.00 - This money will be put towards basic necessities and care. Maybe even a Christmas present or two (They’re currently spending it alone, w/out anything at all).
Give a gift card - Gift cards are extremely helpful, especially to places that are national.
Donate personal products -These two need anything you can thing of in the personal product department: bathroom/kitchen/bedroom stuff, etc.

Thanks guys! You can reach the Love Drop team anytime over at: team (at) love drop (dot) us, or by checking them out at LoveDrop.us. Thanks everyone! We’ll let you know how it goes!

The Fringe Handmade: Cape Town’s New Creative Goods Market

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:52:12 +0200

The Fringe Handmade: Cape Town’s New Creative Goods Market: The Fringe: Cape Town’s Design...

I like what you have to say. Your NanoWrimo novel, available to be read?

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:33:45 +0200

Thanks. Really agree with what you have to say re: POIB, and enjoying your other posts. Having...

Confront Racism: Zeitgeist Movement and #Occupy

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:46:32 +0200

Confront Racism: Zeitgeist Movement and #Occupy: If you’re the kind of person who knows there’s a...

XKCD has won the internet for the week … and it’s only...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:24:13 +0200

XKCD has won the internet for the week … and it’s only Monday.

A chart of money, all of it, where it is and what it can do.

Check out Randall’s “Money” superpost (here’s the direct link to zoom and explore). Once you get over the shock and awe of putting this together, then we can all talk about what it means.

This is effing beautiful. Especially check out the trillions panel, and the total value of outstanding derivatives.

(via jakke, jtotheizzoe, xkcd: Money)

So many amazing little pieces to this. The velociraptors, the only-somewhat-progressive taxation levels, wasted money in terms of unmaintained infrastructure etc, the total costs of providing education to all, obligatory pop-culture references.

Fantastic.

An interweb well won.

My new short-term objective: be able do an Au Giratoria.

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:09:47 +0200

My new short-term objective: be able do an Au Giratoria.

hashcool: So either Juju has a great sense of humour, or he...

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:08:00 +0200

hashcool:

So either Juju has a great sense of humour, or he doesn’t care, but either way he’s taking his ejection from the ANC really well. Check out his twitter jokes.

Alternatively, that’s not his own twitter profile? (though it is amusing)

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema had to “vacate his...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:18:03 +0200

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema had to “vacate his position”, the party’s national disciplinary committee said on Thursday. “The respondent shall vacate his position as the president of the ANC Youth League,” said chairman Derek Hanekom in Johannesburg. Malema was suspended for an effective five years. “Malema damaged the standing of the ANC and South Africa’s international reputation,” said Hanekom. (via vivasouthafrica, via Malema kicked out for five years - Politics | IOL News)

Summary of the sanctions:

**note: italic text indicates immediate sanctions; (bracketed) text shows suspended sentences

Julius Malema, ANC Youth League President:

Suspended from the ANC and ANCYL for 5 years with immediate effect, is no longer ANCYL president.
Suspended from the ANCYL for two years (sentence suspended for three years, will only happen in 2014).
Can appeal ruling within 14 days, remains on full pay until the appeal process is complete.

Ronald Lamola, ANCYL Deputy President:

suspended from the ANCYL for two years (sentence suspended for three years, will only happen in 2014).

Pule Mabe, ANCYL treasurer-general:

suspended from the ANCYL for two years (sentence suspended for three years, will only happen in 2014).

Sindiso Magaqa, ANCYL secretary-general:

suspended from the ANCYL for two years (sentence suspended for three years, will only happen in 2014).
suspended from the ANCYL for 18 months (sentence suspended for three years).

Kenetswe Mosenogi, ANCYL deputy secretary-general:

suspended from the ANCYL for two years (sentence suspended for three years, will only happen in 2014).

Floyd Shivambu, ANCYL spokesperson:

suspended from the ANCYL and ANC for three years, with immediate effect; is no longer ANCYL spokesperson

More information available on the Mail & Guardian website. Please comment below if any of the above information is inaccurate.

Supply and Demand of University Education

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:03:21 +0200

Supply and Demand of University Education: I had an idea for contributing effectively to changing...

After The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade,...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:24:11 +0200

After The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, cultural myth-buster Annie Leonard goes after the brokenness of America’s “dinosaur economy” with The Story of Broke

(via curiositycounts)

Oh no! Be careful!

Idealism lurks around every corner. If we aren’t careful, we might just accidentally do something good for the future of our world.

Anyway, I don’t think the problem is “we don’t have the money”, the problem is usually more ideological: De-fund the military? Going to have problems there - we have to protect our freedoms. Remove agriculture subsidies? But we can’t get our food from the international market - Africa’s far too unstable. Tax the rich? But that’s a violation of their fundamental freedoms (or, in the case of closing corporate tax loopholes, it’ll destroy all incentives, ever, for any company to ever produce anything).

Etc etc.

5 Movies I strongly recommend

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:31:00 +0200

5 Movies I strongly recommend: 1. V for Vendetta (obviously)- It’s about a bold revolutionary who...

Rio's Leadership Shows What it Takes to Make a Smarter City

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:59:42 +0200

Rio's Leadership Shows What it Takes to Make a Smarter City: Brazil has so much good going for...