Archive for July 23rd, 2012

Music Monday #112 – #TrollDJ (Week3)

#TrollDJ is the Twitter hash tag being used to comment on the music being played as the the SBS Tour de France coverage returns after an add break. There is a fair discussion regarding what the song is (thanks to Shazam this is not too difficult to confirm) and the relevance to the montage footage that the music has played over.

For this week’s MusicMonday we will look at some of the Troll’s work from the third week of the tour.

And now for some music …
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This weeks links (2012-07-23)

In brief:

* Walk on by: consultants learn to take healthy advice (2012-Jul-21) [The Age]
The scheme to switch ”workaholics” to ”successaholics” is credited with making the workplace more human and its 5600 staff worldwide happier and more productive. The Economist says the program, in Perlow’s book Sleeping with Your Smartphone – How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work, ”should be taken seriously”. Forbes lauds it as ”genius”.

Who Gets To Be a Geek?

It started with this;

* Booth babes need not apply (2012-Jul-24) [Geek Out/CNN]

And was answered by these;

* ‘Fake Geek Girls’: How Geek Gatekeeping Is Bad For Business (2012-Jul-26) [Forbes]

* Fake geeks prey on us poor lonely “true geeks” – 4 realz yo (2012-Jul-26) [pipka.org]

No one has a monopoly on geekiness, and there are many flavours of geeks out there. It is actually really awesome that being geeky is becoming popular because we need more people to get on the path of tech literacy, whatever their incentive. Otherwise when the machines come our army will be very small ;)

* Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be (2012-Jul-26) [Whatever/John Scalzi]

I outrank you as Speaker for the Geeks.
You are overruled.
Your entire piece is thrown out as condescending, entitled, oblivious, sexist and obnoxious

Anyone can be a geek. Any way they want to. That means you too. Whoever you are.
Anyone who tells you different, you send them to me.

Some reading/listening:

* Cuckoo (Stories of the Smoke) (2012-Jun-02) [Dark Fiction Magazine]
Scott “The Gov­er­nor” Mid­mer went down in six rounds. Min­gled dust and blood smeared in­to his cheek as he hit the floor, and even af­ter his thir­ty sec­onds of …

* Subaru Cycling Show 19 July

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