July 2009
19 posts
APPLE BLOCKS GOOGLE VOICE →
“The thing that really bothers me about the move is that Apple is now actively stifling innovation.
Google Voice is the kind of service that can actually have a positive impact on your life, and not in a frivolous, entertainment-related sense. It makes it easier to connect with people, and to manage those connections. Apple can point to the App Store’s 50,000 applications all it wants, but...
WIFE POWER!!! →
“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.
“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat...
A HARLEM HOOVERVILLE →
Then, at about 10:30 a.m., about 20 people entered the lot — which they said was owned by JPMorgan Chase & Company — and began transforming it. They constructed simple tents out of bright blue tarps. They assembled a wooden gazebo with a roof and a sign that read “A place to call home!”
THE EVIL S.A.T. ESSAY →
In thoughtful and concise language, he developed over 20 minutes the most “monstrous argument” he could imagine. He praised the intellectual courage of the Nazis — some of the “brightest thinkers” of our time. Their genius, he noted, was in recognizing that not “everyone has the right to the same opportunities, or the right to exist at all.” He concluded that only by “safeguarding racial...
RUSHKOFF:
Sadly, we tend to miss the great opportunities offered us by major shifts in media.
The first great renaissance in media, the invention of the alphabet, offered a tremendous leap for participatory democracy. Only priests could read and write hieroglyphs. The invention of the alphabet opened the possibility for people to read or even possibly write, themselves. In Torah myth, Moses goes off with...
4CHAN VS. TWITTER →
The instructions for the attack, dubbed “Operation Shitter,” were as follows:
1. Create Twitter accounts
2. Post messaged including the #gorillapenis hashtag
3. Make #gorillapenis a Trending Topic on Twitter
4. ????
5. PROFIT
BEST. CAMP. EVER. →
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, has helped launch an atheist summer camp for children. Alongside the more traditional activities of tug-of-war, swimming and canoeing, children at the five-day camp in Somerset will learn about rational scepticism, moral philosophy, ethics and evolution.
Camp-goers aged eight to 17 will also be taught how to disprove...