Future events do not always unfold in the way some people think they will, as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could tell you:
“It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister.”

Your perception of time may say a lot about your disposition to anger. For example if an event, say a meeting scheduled for Wednesday is “moved forward” by two days, will the rescheduled event take place on the Monday or the Friday? If you answered Friday – I’m sorry – but you’re the grumpy sort…
David [...]

33 photos from this year’s Glastonbury music festival in the UK.

Queensland is considering a ruling that will ban music and cultural festivals from making full strength beer and wine available to patrons from next month.
The new guidelines would restrict alcohol consumption to designated bar areas only. Liquor Licensing officials would also have the power to ban festival operators from selling heavy beers, or [...]

Craig Berman of fueled by coffee has put together some clever observations, in field notes style, from this year’s NYC Design Week.

As I have no desire to turn disassociated.com into another of those garish online billboards masquerading as a website, and degrading your viewing experience in the process, I have decide to implement a new revenue generation strategy.
Accordingly as of today, Wednesday, 1 April 2009, I will now be charging an appearance fee for each event [...]

Setup for this Saturday’s Future Music Festival (FMF) at Randwick Racecourse is well underway.
Following resident’s complaints after last year’s event, Randwick City Council has imposed a number of stringent operating conditions on this year’s show, which explains the arrival of a notice in our letterbox the other day (we live nearby the racecourse) from FMF’s [...]

Recently Randwick City Council attempted to place a 6pm curfew on the 2009 Future Music Festival (FMF), which is taking place at Randwick Racecourse in March.
This in response to numerous complaints from local residents who reported unruly conduct, including instances of “public fornication and urination”, as revellers dispersed after the 2008 event.
That, together with [...]

The Cool Hunter launches Fashionation, aggregator of all things fashion and fabulous.
Each day we scan the globe’s top fashion magazines – from every international edition of influential glossy bibles Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, right through to obscure and cutting edge fashion and pop culture tomes such as Pop, Marmalade, ID and Dutch to unearth the [...]

In 1993, music producer Brian Eno and Wired editor Kevin Kelley, co-wrote a series of scenarios depicting the world in 2008. Some of their predictions are rather morbid, while others are humourous, and just a little telling…
Everybody becomes so completely cynical about the election process that voter turnout drops to 2 percent (families and relatives [...]