IN DOG WE TRUST

 

Photo: Montjiro via Instagram.

Hello dog lover!

Hope you’re having a good day! Here are a few fun links from around the web:

An interview with the Pug who vandalized a Banksy

10 Recipes for Homemade Dog Treats

Pets & Kids... Not so different!

DIY: Water dispenser

Ace Tales: A game for homeless dogs

Plus, two Japanese dogs you seriously need to follow on Instagram:

Montjiro, the best-dressed dog on Instagram

The adorable Iriko

TO DO (OR NOT TO DO) LIST

Image via The Typographic Circle.

The Typographic Circle presents: The Work of Dave in the Age of Digital Revolution. David Pearson studied at Central St Martins in London (1999–2002) before taking a job at Penguin Books as text designer and later, cover designer. He played a key role in the recent re-emergence of Penguin Books through projects such as the multi-million selling Great Ideas series, Penguin by Design and the Popular Classics series. You can book tickets for this Typographic Circle event here.

Image via The Book Club FB event.

Welcome to the funhouse! Play the fearsome twists on traditional fairground games, or get involved by putting on your own circus performance. Watch your self-perception twist in the Hall of Mirrors, or feel the fear of knowing somewhere behind you a clown giggles his way along through the horrible maze of The Book Club. To see the Facebook event, click here, to buy Tickets here.

Piccadilly Circus. Photo Fran Healy.

We are regulars now of this lovely salons at the Westminster Arts Reference LIbrary and we can fully recommend them. SALON No 10: A NIGHT IN OLD LONDON travels back to the city of a century ago for a very special evening. With extraordinary unseen images and in conversation, story and song will be the Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life, London ballad singer Henrietta Keeper and pianist and boxer David Power. More info here.

PROCRASTINATION PIN OF THE WEEK

 

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Procrastinator (some) Times Sunday 20th of October Edition

EDITORIAL

This week we are very proud of Our Weekly Procrastination, because it was a day-long activity, outdoors, and absolutely free, have a look. In the News section we looked for an article that explained very simply the consequences of the US Government Shutdown. We share the last words of 35 very famous books in our Culture section. In Dog We Trust introduce us to two adorable senior dogs. We discover the Darknet and Small Data in the Business section. And in Science we discovered that there might be another end of the world coming soon!


Happy Sunday and have a nice read!


NEWS

Photo: John Boehner via Rolling Stone.

Robin Martin of Rolling Stone magazine writes about the winners and the losers of the US Government Shutdown: "After two weeks of madness, with only hours to go before the U.S. government potentially defaulted on its loans, Congress finally passed a new budget and raised the debt ceiling last night. Thanks to the last-minute deal, we have at least three months before we have to worry about another impasse and impending global economic catastrophe – and sadly, these days, that's what we call progress." Read full article here. E.T.P.: 3'.

Image via TIME.

Is this how the world feel about women? Jessica Roy writes in TIME about the new UN Women ad campaign about global gender inequality: "UN Women–an arm of the U.N. that focuses on women’s issues–has created a powerful advertising campaign that uses data collected from Google on the most popular search terms. As it turns out, the most popular Google queries are indicative of entrenched sexist attitudes that still persist today". Read full article in TIME. E.T.P.: 50''

SCIENCE

Photo via The Independent.

A new end of the world? Ucranian astronomers discover a 1,300 ft asteroid that might impact with Earth in 2032 with a force 50 times greater than the biggest ever nuclear bomb. With a chance of collision of 1 in 63,000, asteroid TV135 is going to be added to NASA's Torino scale for risky near Earth objects. Read full article in The Independent. E.T.P.: 1'12''.

Photo: Lwp Kommunikáció/Flickr via Futurity.

As humans live longer, number of endangered animals grow. Human life expectancy is a determining factor for the life expectancy of endangered birds and mammals and “it’s not a random pattern,” says lead author Aaron Lotz, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology at the University of California. Read this article in Futurity. E.T.P.: 3'40''

DESIGN, BUSINESS & INNOVATION

 Illustration by Edel Rodriguez via Wired.

Have you ever heard about the Darknet? A network of secretive websites that can’t be viewed on the “regular” Internet. Mostly used for illicit purposes from drugs, arms sales or pedophilia. Darknet sites are hosted on regular servers, but to access them you need special software, usually something that encrypts all users’ traffic and allows them relative anonymity. Read all about it in this article by Clive Thompson in Wired. E.T.P.: 3'45''

Photo: The Procrastinator (some) Times.

Earlier this week Leo Miriani wrote in Quartz: Forget Big Data: the future is Small Data, and Facebook just bought it. Onavo, an Israeli start-up, whose flagship product is a data compressor. When you browse a web page or use an app on your phone, Onavo routes the traffic through its servers, where it compresses and optimizes the data before sending it on to the phone. Call it “small data.” The result is you see exactly the same web page but less data comes out of your plan. Sounds good, right? Well, Facebook thought so too. Read full article here. E.T.P.: 1'20''

Photo: Reuters via The Atlantic.


Interesting article in The Atlantic: Netflix was supposed to kill cable, so why is it beggining to join cable? "Netflix is in serious talks with Comcast and other pay-TV providers to hop onto the cable bundle as a stand-alone channel. Add it to the list of tech companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel—who have internally debated trying to "disrupt" the cable TV business, but have wound up working with the cable companies (e.g.: Apple, Xbox) or simply built their own cable equivalent (Google Fiber TV)." Read full article here.
 

CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT

"In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. And as your mind and body grow accustomed to a certain amount of sleep each night — six hours, seven, maybe the recommended eight — so can you train your waking mind to sleep creatively and work out the vividly imagined waking dreams which are successful works of fiction."

This is a quote of Stephen King that Maria Popova shared in Brain Pickings when talking about King's book: On Writing. In the summer of 1999, King was nearly killed while taking his daily walk. A driver struck King as he strode along the gravel shoulder of Route 5 in Maine. While recovering from his injuries, King wrote On Writing.

Read the whole story, including some insightful excerpts and a 25' recording of the whole story in NPR. E.T.P. 32'.

Image: Screenshot of Shortlist website.

Massive spoiler alert! Shortlist pusblished some of the most famous last words in literature. Here's what they say about it: "If you knew you were about to meet your maker you’d try and make your last words before you shifted off this mortal coil pretty darn special, eh? Literary characters are no different – some succeed in reaching some higher state of gravitas; others, well, their last recorded utterances reflect the banality of much of the human condition. Have a look in Shortlist website. E.T.P.: 4'.

IN DOG WE TRUST

Photo Mabel the pug: "I'm 13 yrs old. I love sleeping, eating and driving my humans crazy! Do you have any treats for me?!?! 🐶🐾" via her Instagram.


Hello dog lover!

Hope you’re up to something fun! Here are a few interesting links from around the web:

99 fun facts about dogs

French design for pets

Useful dog tricks performed by Jesse

5 Apps for dog lovers

Dogs eat anything!

Plus, two senior dogs you seriously need to follow on Instagram:

Mabel, the Pug

Candy, the Shih-Tzu


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In Dog We Trust is curated by: Carola Melguizo from La Guía del Perro.

OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

Photos The Procrastinator (some) Times

Do you live in London? Have you ever walked around the Capital Ring? Yesterday we walked Section number three starting in Grove Park and finishing in Crystal Palace Station... or to be more precise, pub. This is section was not particularly green but it's always interesting walk around streets and neighborhoods you've never been before. Totally recommended activity for the photogenic autumn. E.T.P.: From the house door until the last beer, 9 hours.

Photo: Peter Bastian via ZooBorns.

Victoria shares one of her favourite ways of procrastinating: the Zoo Borns website. One of their latest aditions are these meerkats; one adorable panda cub; Shiva, a rare Persian leopard; and Joey the koala. Have a look here. E.T.P.: Infinite.

Finally, on a very random note Marie share with us this 13 Pictures of Crazy Goats on Cliffs. Have a look. E.T.P.: 25''.