flakes of nuisance » the state we’re in http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 it’s all about accepted normshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/12/its-all-about-accepted-norms/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/12/its-all-about-accepted-norms/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:37:40 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6671

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An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTube.

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/16/an-intense-moment-of-truth-with-mainstream-media-youtube/feed/ 0 Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms”http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/google-engineer-%e2%80%9cgoogle-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms%e2%80%9d/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/google-engineer-%e2%80%9cgoogle-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms%e2%80%9d/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:51:15 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6647 Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google’s own issues with creating platforms on Google+. Apparently, he only wanted to share it internally with everybody at Google, but mistaken shared it publicly. For the most part, Yegge’s post focusses on the horrors of working at Amazon, a company that is notorious for its political infighting. The most interesting part to me, though, is Yegge’s blunt assessment of what he perceives to be Google’s inability to understand platforms and how this could endanger the company in the long run.

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/change-is-already-here/feed/ 0 The Leisure Review: March 2011 – WTF!http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/22/the-leisure-review-march-2011-%e2%80%93-wtf/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/22/the-leisure-review-march-2011-%e2%80%93-wtf/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:55:40 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6557 What rattled his cage?

Surprise, surprise, at the end of the day it’s the clubs’ fault. Funny how clubs are dismissed so easily in statistics thrown out before coffee and biscuits. It’s only ‘one club’ after all, and it wouldn’t do to call it, ” a minimum of three or four hundred young swimmers, a hundred masters swimmers, and forty or fifty water-polo players – per year!”, would it?

A positive note for the assembled with the ASA ‘dissing’ its membership and then, “mine’s a custard cream”.

In parts of London facilities have been made difficult to use with [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/22/the-leisure-review-march-2011-%e2%80%93-wtf/feed/ 0 Why Fukushima made George Monbiot stop worrying and love nuclear powerhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/21/why-fukushima-made-george-monbiot-stop-worrying-and-love-nuclear-power/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/21/why-fukushima-made-george-monbiot-stop-worrying-and-love-nuclear-power/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:13:39 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6555 Yes, I still loathe the liars who run the nuclear industry. Yes, I would prefer to see the entire sector shut down, if there were harmless alternatives. But there are no ideal solutions. Every energy technology carries a cost; so does the absence of energy technologies. Atomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has been small. The crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power.

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The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo.

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The United Kingdom Explained from C. G. P. Grey on Vimeo.

Have some problems with this – not least being Northern Ireland coloured orange

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/05/forgotten-bird-of-paradise-undercover-west-papua-documentary-full-version/feed/ 0 Surprise: 2012 Olympics Are Not Making the Brits Exercisehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/16/surprise-2012-olympics-are-not-making-the-brits-exercise/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/16/surprise-2012-olympics-are-not-making-the-brits-exercise/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:07:50 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6531

As part of its Olympic push, the city of London pledge to get 2 million more people in England playing sports and exercising.

The New York Times reports today that:

Figures issued in December by Sport England, the governing body for community sports, indicated that participation at the 3×30 level had increased by 123,000 since 2007-8, when the one million baseline was established. But that number increased by only 8,000 in the last year. At the current rate, the goal of one million new participants would not be reached in 2012-13 as hoped but more than [

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