Demian’s Blog

I found this still life I did in 2001, I was playing around with mixing 3d graphics and traditional still life elements.

We all know this to be true; researchers at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University have done an interesting study.

“According to our research, power and influence can cause a severe disconnect between public judgment and private behavior, and as a result, the powerful are stricter in their judgment of others while being more lenient toward their own actions.”

The Buddhists have a belief that I find intriguing: Before you are born, you get to see what your life will be. You are then asked if the life will be acceptable. If you give your OK, your memory is wiped clean and you get to live that life. Otherwise, you get to look at another life. So, the life you lead, with all its suffering and challenges, is the life you chose on that day.

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Originally uploaded by demianturner

Looks like an interesting painter, would like to check out more of his work.

Not all news sites allow readers to leave comments on the articles, thank goodness the FT does.  A recent article published attacking Google is a case in point of the comments, in particular the comment made by Barry Kelly, being more considered, informed and sensible than the original article itself.

I’m quite surprised the FT is giving a platform to this kind of spiteful, inflammatory propaganda.

Made an important discovery this afternoon – I guess I already knew this but it became really obvious again.  I think it’s better to run without music or, in my case, spoken podcasts, because it stops you from concentrating on decent running technique.

My footfalls were getting quite heavy and my knees let me know they weren’t happy.  Just today I managed to run twice the normal circuit and very little fatigue or pain afterwards.  Ipod and fancy armband will stay at home now.

Going to try shifting to 10km runs 3 times a week.

Van spam

Originally uploaded by demianturner

This van struck me as a spammy web page jumped straight out of the browser, onto my street!

Here are a couple of videos that give insight into how one culture’s values can be immensely different from another’s, even if separated by only a few kilometres.

and this one, Islamic religious experts on female circumcision, they don’t allow embedding so go see it on Youtube before they take it down

UPDATE: Here’s a very interesting commentary on women’s place in Islam, thanks to my dad for the video: