The youth of today

How did we allow such a small amount of people ruin the image of today's youth?

I am often offended and ashamed to see people around my age being brandished as “anti-social” and “delinquents”, often being the cause of most of the country’s crime and just basically a big nuisance.

There is only a small minority that fit this profile. I mean, surely anyone reading this must know that if there is trouble around their area, they can almost pinpoint it on individuals. It’s not every teenager/young adult in the town or city!

I’m also upset that there isn’t more coverage on those that are good. Sometimes there is a story about an exceptionally good young person doing something for charity or their community, but those are hard to come by. The stories, I mean. The actual deeds are more common than anyone dares to consider, and it’s such a pity that our society has become like this.

Today I was shocked and appalled at one of my own relatives. She was offered a seat on a bus by a young man. She didn’t say around what age, but from her story I assume late teens or early twenties. She almost refused the seat, finding it suspicious that he offered. Now what in the entire world is suspicious about that? He had manners and was courteous enough to let an elderly woman take his seat on a busy bus. Is that not something we should be proud of and embrace, and not cower from?

I just hope that those that say “things get worse before they get better” are right, and this is as bad as it will get.

Author Q&A

Just a few random questions for the authors of this blog :)
Neither of us could be bothered to do a proper post, so this is just some random fun for ourselves. Most of the questions are from various survays on Facebook!

The Authors
Jade	Yasmin
What's your D.O.B?
19th April 1992	19th September 1991
Whats your fav colour?
A tie between pink and dark red	Purple :D
What are you doing at college?
Second year A-level in Biology, Chemistry and Psychology	A Levels - A2 Maths and Sociology, and AS Physics
What are your future plans?
I want to travel the world after going to university, even if I have no money I want to do that before planting myself in one place.	I wanna get a maths degree woot :) And move down near/with my boyfriend.
If you could relive any age, what age would it be?
13 to 14 (year 9) there was no exams to worry about, and I was surrounded by people who made me laugh so much. Was the best year at school.	eerrrmmm 2 or 3 :P I cant remember them but i assume it was all good!
What is your favorite day of the year?
The Christmas eve. Christmas day is always a letdown but the anticipation for Christmas is always better.	November 25th :) Mine and Jed's anniversary :)
Neat or messy?
I like my room messy but when I start tidying everything must be spotless or I won’t be happy.	I'm very messy :( lol
Heathly food or junk food?
Depends what type of junk food. I like food that is bad for you but not fast food	junk ftw :D especially chocolate. mmmmmm chocolate!
Winter or summer?
When I’m on holiday it has to be summer, but for here it would be winter when I don’t have to go to college so I can just stay in bed with the heating on.	Winter. I hate the heat.. It's so much easier to warm yourself up than to cool yourself down!
If you only got to listen to one music artist the rest of your life, who would it be?
Kelly Clarkson, because her ballads are amazing and the words are so meaningful. I could sing to her forever.	Muuuuuusee
what is your favourite movie?
Again a tie between The lion king because I have loved it since I can remember and the new star trek movie because I have seen it far too many times and I haven’t got sick of it.	Cool runnings! :D
Who is your favourite actor/actress?
Favourite actor is Chris Pine but it use to be Nickolas Cage. Favourite actress is Anne Hathaway because she awesome	Errrmmmmm I have no idea.. I don't know who anyone is lol.. Soo I'll just say Will Smith??
What is your favourite tv show?
I couldn’t have one! Either NCIS, How I met your mother, Gossip Girl, Supernatural or The big bang theory. Top 5, there are more!	The Big Bang Theory hehe
Have you ever met anyone famous?
That guy who runs over hurdles fast. He went to our school to open the new gym and I was doing my sports leadership award so I wasn’t to bothered.	Yup the guy who plays professor flitwick in Harry Potter
What is on your desktop wallpaper?
A picture of a woods I found in my pictures folder	http://flic.kr/p/6WPihq
What is your favorite zoo animal?
Lemmas! They were on my favourite Childs TV show	Any type of monkeyy :D
Who would you like to stab with a spoon?
John Macurick, he is very sexiest all the time.	haha eerrmm my brother?
Do you sing in the shower?
Yes, loudly and badly.	Nope!

Nouveller - Questions with designer folk

Benjamin Reid is a 'multimedia designer, specialising in web design.' He lives in the same city as Jade and myself, and is part of a band with a schoolmate of ours.

He has another site, apart from his personal one (linked on his name above) called Nouveller. Ben says that this site is his 'web outlet, a resource, an inspiration ... and a testing ground for my mad experiments.'

Recently, Ben created five quick fire questions for creative people to answer, which I wasn't aware of until he requested one last person - which was me (woot)!


Not to show off or anything, but here's the link to his post "Five quick fire questions with designer folk."

The other artists are amazing - I honestly feel a little lame being among them! Ben too is a brilliant designer and photographer, which you will see from browsing around his sites.

Thanks again! - Yasmin

UK I.D. Cards

Not impressed!

As most people should know, there will soon be I.D. cards in the UK and some sorta registry and whatnot.

The final design for the cards have been released -


The bit I'm not pleased about is that is this:
The aesthetic layout of the card is not dissimilar to a UK driving license but holds two fingerprints and a photograph encoded on a chip. the unique number on the card links it to the national identity register which under recent legislation may hold even more data about the cardholder.

Joy. I'm not pleased, but apparently the government are saying they won't be compulsory.. Yeah, lets see how long that lasts!

Whatever.. for more info click here

- Yasmin

iPhone v Cookie

One of the SocialVibe Street Team orders is to make a video about your favourite brand on socialvibe. Sooo, me and Jade did Apple! We have done a "review" of her iPhone, and compared it to an ordinary touch-screen phone - my LG Cookie!

Enjoy



- Yasmin

IQ Font

I was meant to post this the other day but I totally forgot.

There's a new font called "IQ Font" which has been created by a car!



Graphic designers Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta, known collectively as pleaseletmedesign, teamed up with professional race car driver Stef van Campenhoudt to...create a font.


As you can see Campenhoudt did the "writing". The 4 dots on the roof of the car was tracked in real time using a camera and a custom software designed by fellow artist Zachary Lieberman of openFrameworks.

You can download it free and see a video of it's creation here.

I downloaded it and it's awesome :D

- Yasmin

Dark energy and a wonky world

Here's one for the geeks - Dark energy may be disguising the real shape of the universe!

I have to confess I did not read the full article, because although I find it interesting, most of it was going over my head and I got bored of not understanding!



Basically, scientists said that they understood the universe to be pretty much flat and they knew the history all the way to just after the big bang, and that they could even predict the future. However, new discoveries have caused the picture of the universe to be "blown wide open again."

It's all down to "dark energy." I have no idea what that is, but the article explains that the shape (geometry) of the universe and dark energy are intertwined.

However, they say without a more precise measurement on the geometry "it is impossible to determine the nature and evolution of dark energy."

For more imformation, please click here - it will be a lot more useful than I am. Plus, if you know this stuff, I'm sure it's a very good read! Enjoy!

- Yasmin