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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Futakuchi (二口 宮城)

Photos from Futakuchi, Miyagi.

Futakuchi

NeoOffice 2.1

Microsoft promised to release its Office Suite for Max OSX in the late 2007 but if you are looking for a professional looking, all in one office application you must look no further! NeoOffice is out with its new release and it already has support for MS Office 2007 files (.docx).
For those who don’t [...]

Shiisaa

“When a certain emissary to China returned from one of his voyages to the court at Shuri Castle, he brought with him as a gift for the king a necklace decorated with a small figurine of a shisa dog. The king found it charming and wore it underneath his clothes. Now it happened that at [...]

Brutally Honest

You Are 60% Brutally Honest

Honesty is important to you, but generally, you try not to be brutal about it.
You’ll sugar coat the truth when you need to… and tell a white lie when necessary.

How Brutally Honest Are You?

Encoding/Decoding

The techniques of message encoding, transmission and decoding that are enclosed within a certain medium also create and determine the power relations between the owners and manipulators of the medium, on the one hand, and the general public or audience, on the other (Lévy 1999). This makes the options in communication more than a [...]

Updating the Upgrade

It took a while to find the right theme and modify it to the way I wanted but after upgrading the Wordpress base installation finally the new improved look is online.

Waiting for Godot

Fun With The Drum Machine

A small track I created a while ago in one of my (various) moments of procrastination
[audio:http://blog.aristides.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Rabbit%20in%20my%20Pants.mp3]

Dichotomy and Methods

Is Social Science an exact science? Most part of the positivists out there are going to prove (and affirm) that it is.
As much as I know, trying to quantify everything and anything, including social acts, actors and factors is pretty much trying to simplify and generalize the whole human universe. Of course I am not [...]

Medi@sia: Global Media/tion in and Out of Context

This book has my artwork on its cover.