I read a lot. I write a lot.
Subsequently, I think a lot about what I read & write
Now these notes are going live on the world wide web.
I like to think of it as 'plunging' the cr** out of news media, gathering facts and making occassional predictions (that are correct 97.8% of the time)
Til death do us part just got a ‘get out of jail free’ card from the Mexican government, who seeks to create ‘temporary’ marriage of sorts just in case you want a bail out early into the union…. NICE.
According to Wikipedia: “Val Verde is a fictional country used by Hollywood filmmakers (mostly 20th Century Fox) when they require a South/Central American country without getting into legal or diplomatic disputes. In general it is a Spanish-speaking country resembling Cuba or Nicaragua.
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A comic-strip representation of the ‘dirty’ cosmetics industry and the ingredients within…. it’s well, GOOD! Thanks Good Magazine (www.good.is) for yet another marvelous visual (we love Good’s infographics by the way) that surprisingly isnt an infographic!
How to deal with life’s distractions from lifehacker, this image is how most of us feel right? I know I do…
via quotivation
“The internet’s completely over… all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.””—
Prince - world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star’s secret world - mirror.co.uk
Nerds everywhere wasted no time in taking to the comment sections of every blog that covered this Daily Mirror interview to defend the honor of their precious internet. Don’t get me wrong, I found the endless variations on the “Prince is the one that is completely over” zinger both thought-provoking and amusing, but I’m left wondering why everyone was so quick to rally behind, of all things, the internet.
Prince is not attacking the series of tubes that plugs computer boxes from around the globe into each other as much as he is questioning the manner in which artists get compensated in the age of digital music downloads. Regardless of one’s personal feelings towards Prince or his music, everyone should support a guy with decades of industry experience, an enormous fan base and nearly unlimited resources as he challenges the current music publishing and distribution paradigm - a paradigm that is still nebulous and flawed to say the least.
If his plan works, we all win. Any change to the crumbling, hostile music industry has to be seen as a change for the better. And if this scheme backfires, Prince can go back to throwing vegan orgies in Chanhassen and no one will be any worse for the wear.
But the next time you feel the urge to valiantly defend a global system of interconnected computer networks against one the honest critique of the most prolific musicians of all time, just remember this: Without Prince, there would be no internet. Well, maybe not. But I would still suggest that everyone quick being such dorks.
North Korean soccer players actually volunteers… from the article on these cats this image appears…
Way to bamboozle the big boss North Korea … via cache.gawkerassets.com
via Grant de Graf (http://grantdegraf.blogspot.com/2010/06/going-to-holiday-to-mozambique.html)
Nice io9! Love me some random onion-like humor in my tech news
Bring cookie monster back Google!
I had never seen this until I came across it amongst someone’s twitpics the other day and had to share it. For more cookie monster deliciousness check out our recent McSweeney’s post
COOKIE MONSTER SEARCHES DEEP WITHIN HIMSELF AND ASKS: IS ME REALLY MONSTER?
McSweeney’s Cookie Monster goes on a freudian analysis (could be misused psych reference but you get my drift) of himself and the monster cookie lover within. Sesame Street adult-style not only cracked me up (since I read it aloud in my best cookie monster/yoda like voice) and if you like McSweeney’s publications normally, then you’d be fool not read - that’s cookie monster’s grammar, not mine. WARNING: Unless prepared to read in Cookie Monster’s voice (in your head of course), do not proceed - just a recommendation to put it over the humor edge.
(via aaronbruh)
My commentary: Had to reblog this humorous picture from another tumblr user!
With a name like Twitter, it’s only a matter of time before it gets a spot in a rap song. Since the dawn of Diddy, the hip hop genre (rap in particular), has been quick to pick up on & exploit the cultural symbols of the present in their songs. Everything from Celebs to Products to Automobiles to Alcoholic Beverages have been name-dropped like its hot. So why not the offerings of web 2.0’s hotties (i.e. Twitter, google, facebook, iLike, etc)?Social media and its many networks have moved into the late adopter-phase of the product life cycle, and yet, the rappers don’t tap into their apparent popularity very often. For instance, take rapper Mike Jones (who? Mike Jones!) who’s one hit wonder ‘Google Me,’ advises you to do just that: google him.
Apart from the image-obsessed Jones, others in the public spotlight have ventured down similar paths. Take John Kerry’s admittance to googling himself during one of the presidential debates, or Al Gore’s use of the word in public appearances for his book An Inconvenient Truth, google is now an official word because of these & other published references in which the company became an action verb. Now google finds itself amongst newly published dictionaries, a tough feat for any word, an almost unprecedented accomplishment for a Company.
Twitter’s 140 characters’ worth of free speech, seems headed in a similar direction. Everyone from my mother (who can’t even send an email practically) to CNN’s anchors seems familiar & intrigued by the word, often misusing it (i’ve heard non-users call it everything from tweeter to twit), but nevertheless a household name, it’s only a matter of time before ‘tweet’ & twitter become words in the dictionary.
So rappers & musicians out there, its time to get twitter in the cultural arts, and tweet tweet from the window to the wall.
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Commentary by Melissa R. Bennett. Published 3 May 2009.
WDSU reporter Heath Allen caught the mayor on his way into the office this morning and asked him if his computers were seized. Nagin’s comments were short, staccato, and pregnant with delight.
HEATH: Have the federal authorities taken your laptops, computers, anything from your office? Has anything like that happened along those lines?
NAGIN: NOPE! Nothing…(grins)
HEATH: Are you willing to cooperate with the federal authorities if it comes to that?
NAGIN: I’ve always cooperated but I’m not part of any investigation…(smug raised eyebrows smiling) that I know of.
Nagin says at this point he’ll concentrate on running the city (oh, don’t bother getting up for me now) and let the other process run its course. Then he adds for good measure,
“These emails seem to have generated a LOT OF attention. And we’ll just get em out there and let the public decide what’s best.”
Watching yet another episode of Nagin jiving and profiling in the face of self-inflicted scandal, I’m reminded of the meeting in the city council chambers last month when he decided to suspend the professional services panel and choose all the city contractors himself and that woman from the Lower Nine Vanessa Gueringer went to the mic and called him “a psychopath” to his face. READ MORE….
