noted. 04/13/2012

• How to Force Quit an Unresponsive iOS App

  • If an app is hanging and not letting you return to the home screen, try these steps:

     
     
    1. Press and hold the power button at the top of your device. Wait for the "Slide to Power Off" notification to appear.
    2. When the red slider appears, release the power button, then press and hold the home button. After a few seconds, the app should close and return you to the home screen.
     
     

• Done with Instagram? Here Are Six Great Alternatives for the iPhone

  • PicPlz is probably the most popular alternatives to Instagram because it was on of the only and best alternatives on Android. PicPlz has an iPhone app, too, so Instagram expats on the platform can switch over, too. Like Instagram, PicPlz offers photo filters and frames that you can easily apply with a couple of taps. You can also turn your image into a meme, draw on it, crop, rotate, and perform a few other actions you won't find in Instagram's app. You won't have some of the neat filters like Tilt Shift, but you do have pretty much the same sharing options. If you want an alternative that offers much of the same functionality, PicPlz is a good way to go

• A Reflection on F29 | Portland Occupier

  • We are not calling for small, adventurist actions. We shouldn’t fetishize breaking windows. Rather, we are calling for a reevaluation of the tactics and strategy of the broad social movement we are working to develop. We think we need to be both more creative and more militant in our thinking. We need to see “Some of Those Responsible” and Occupy Portland as being the spectrum of the movement. We need to bridge the militancy of those engaging in night actions and organizing militant, extralegal marches, and black blocs with those working actively to create a broad social movement, involving thousands and eventually millions of people in the ongoing work of fundamentally remaking society. We need to broaden the scope of participation in militancy.

• Hilary Rosen Thinks Moms Don't Have Real Jobs, But She's The Corporate Mouthpiece Who Killed Napster

  • Last night, Hilary Rosen shockingly claimed that Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, “actually never worked a day in her life,” referring to Romney’s role as a stay-at-home mom.

  • Rosen is indeed a Democratic Party stalwart.  But her real job — the way she has made money for a long time — has been advocating for the positions of wealthy corporations, sometimes to the detriment of consumers, including those hard-working stay-at-home parents.

     

    As head of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Rosen engaged in hyper-aggressive lawsuits and other tactics to force the closure of the popular file-sharing service Napster. She also pushed for draconian laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that helped stifle free expression and fair use of files.

  • In 2010, the Huffington Post severed all ties with Rosen after it was revealed that she was working as a consultant for BP — the oil giant that had just been responsible for a massive and devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Fort Lewis, WA training military riot squads for prison inmates and crowds demanding food | GREY COAST ANARCHIST NEWS

  • he photos are similar to a collection from May 2010 that depict several National Guard units from different parts of the

     

    

     

    U.S. quelling protesters in mock communities holding signs that say “Food Now”.

• Becausewemust» Blog Archive » George Zimmerman, Slave Patrols, and Black Victimization

  • In the 18th century, slave patterollers were empowered to demand documentation from any black person they came across as proof that they were actually “free.” W. Marvin Dulaney writes about slave patrols in his book Black Police in America (1996):

     

     

    “By the middle of the eighteenth century, every southern colony had a slave patrol. Although in some communities all white males were required to serve some time as patterollers, their ranks were usually filled with poor whites. The patrols were authorized to stop, search, whip, maim, and even kill any African slave caught off the plantation without a pass, engaged in illegal activities, or running away. The patterollers policed specific geographic areas in southern communities called “beats.” Paramilitary in nature, the slave patrol often cooperated with the militia in the southern colonies to prevent and suppress slave insurrections. To facilitate the rapid mobilization of the patrol and to ensure that every white man supported its activities in emergencies, colonial governments granted all whites the authority to detain, whip, and even kill slaves suspected of illegal activities or conspiracies. The colonial slave patrol exercised awesome powers which were often abused [emphasis mine] (p.2).”

  • Political scientist Robert Gooding-Williams, writing in the New York Times, makes an explicit connection between Zimmerman and slave patterollers:

     

    “If it seems a stretch, finally, to paint Zimmerman in the image of the slave catchers of yesteryear, recall that he himself invited the comparison when, while stalking the African-American teenager against the advice of a 911 dispatcher, he complained, using an expletive to refer to Trayvon, that they “always get away.”

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