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Turkish Protests Documented through Instagram
On May 31, three days after demonstrators set up camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park to protest the development of a new shopping mall, police dispersed the crowd with water cannons and tear gas, setting off the most significant wave of protests in Turkey’s recent history.
Tapping into deeper cultural divisions and discontent, demonstrations have spread throughout Turkey, where protestors and bystanders alike have been documenting the skirmishes through Instagram.
View more photos from Istanbul by visiting locations pages for Gezi Park, İstiklal Caddesi and Kazancı Yokuşu. See photos from Ankara by visiting the Tunalı Hilmi Caddesi and Kuğulu Park location pages.
Imagine they want to demolish Central Park or Hyde Park or Tiergarten and build a shopping mall instead.
No thanks!
jhn brssndn: This Thing of Theirs
Of course outrage at the acquisition is misplaced. Of course it misses the point. Even many of the teens whom the investing classes now believe power Tumblr are getting used to the playbook of internet monetization. Most of us knew as soon as we signed up (7 May 2007, in my case) that This Day would come. The pronouncements from David Karp and other Tumblr bigwigs disdaining advertising, pooh-poohing the idea that they were just biding their time until the call came from the Valley, were always so much nonsense.
Personally, I’d been parting ways with Tumblr for some time anyway. Its mobile platforms seem rooted in 2007-8, and have never matched the desktop browser for ease of putting material up. I really have difficulty with a blogging platform that shoves a giant ad for The Hangover III in my face every time I fire it up.
While it sticks in my throat to see an already wealthy young man get a whole new fortune on the back of the content that you and I have been dutifully uploading these past six or seven years, at least now Tumblr can stop being a rich kid’s pet project. As I said years ago:
Either they are owners/operators of a proper blogging platform with legal, transparent and enforceable terms of service; or they are kids who are running a cool club: they come in, they hang out with the punters, and they bar people based upon whether they like the cut of a person’s jib.And maybe, following the Facebook IPO, the Instagram deal, and now this, we can think more clearly and creatively about the economics of the social web. Is the ability to post photos, quotes, music and video, original articles, important to you? How and why is it important? Is the entertainment that it provides valuable to you? Is it so valuable that you are happy for a succession of billionaires to be born on the back of it?
Or would you, as others have suggested, prefer to pay a few bucks a month to retain ownership of your content? Or - here’s a thing - how about a model where a David Karp rewards users with a share of the business, so that you get a sliver of that $1.1 billion?
Yumblr!
In memory of good old days
20 ways to survive in a horror movie
20 ways to survive in a horror movie.
A quick run-down should you ever find yourself trapped in a horror movie and would prefer to live to tell the tale.
1. Don’t have sex.
- Seriously
- Abstinence is key.
2. Don’t go out with people you’ve just met that day.
- I don’t care how good he says his weed is
- he is cuckoo bananas
- and he wants you dead.
3. Don’t go to camp. Especially one where someone was murdered.
- There are six words you should YouTube, should you get the chance
- “Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th”
4. Find a good hiding place and… STAY. THERE.
- If the killer can’t see you or hear you WHY WOULD YOU MOVE?
- Possibly the easiest rule to follow and, ironically enough, the easiest to break.
5. Always wear sensible shoes, ‘cause you never know when you’ll need to run through the woods.
- Someone will always be barefoot
- Or in heels
- Or just plain clumsy
- And will sprain their ankles
- And die.
6. If the town looks deserted, it’s probably because everyone is dead.
- Don’t walk around looking for people
- House of Wax, anyone?
7. Don’t be a hero.
- Unless you’re name is Harry Fucking Potter, you will die.
- Hell, maybe even then.
- I mean.
8. If you hear something creepy in the distance, like a dog’s yelp cut off mid-bark, don’t investigate.
- The killer is there.
- Also your dog is dead.
9. Always check the backseat before entering your vehicle.
- The last thing you need is to be killed while trying to merge on the expressway.
10. If your car breaks down in front of a dilapidated gas station, don’t ask a sketchy-looking townie for help.
- Some part of your body will wind up in his pick-up truck
11. Don’t go into the basement.
- They are creepy enough without you dying in one.
12. If you’re trying to buy a house and the real estate agent won’t answer any direct questions about either the history of the home or the previous tenants, DO NOT MOVE IN.
- At some point, someone in the house heard voices and cracked.
13. Turn off the television (and run away) if a girl crawls out of it.
- It is obviously your wisest choice.
- SEE ALSO: poltergeist, daughter trapped in tv because of.
14. If the walls of your house bleed, do not attempt an exorcism.
- Move very very far away
- Because there’s blood on your walls.
- Blood.
- Your
- Walls
- Are
- Bleeding.
15. Don’t act like a detective.
- Some crazy Japanese kid who meows like a cat will attack you in a closet.
- If you live, awesome story to tell your friend, right?
- But if you die, it is like the opposite of awesome.
16. Google the location you’ll be vacationing at.
- If more than five reports for “Missing Persons” pops up, you know not to go there.
- Issue. Solved.
17. Don’t get drunk. Or come under the influence of any mind-altering drug.
- Running away from a killer is that much harder when you’re tipsy and giggling.
18. If you see someone in a mask, don’t assume it’s one of your friends playing a trick on you to scare you.
- It is the killer.
- ALSO: laughing while saying, “Tommy, is that you in that stupid mask? Oh, I’m so-o-o-o-o scared!” is not conducive to your surviving.
- Killers are very sensitive about their disguises.
19. Don’t take a shower.
- ONLY APPLIES IF:
- It’s past midnight at the campground you and your sorority sisters are staying at or
- The lock to the door doesn’t work and you hear creepy piano music
AND THE LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT:
20. If the call is coming from inside the house, get out.
- Clearly the killer is not outside, now is he
that was good opening from Merlin I truly liked
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