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Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009: Year of Communication



Remember this?

It seems a patent absurdity that Twitter could be used for anything productive, but there it was, being used to thwart a tyrannical regime and let the world know that the people of Iran were not free.  All around the world, others took note - and even as the citizens of democracies rallied to try to find some way to help, their governments looked uneasy.  Elliot Madison was arrested for twittering, not in some foreign land, but in New York, in the supposed heart of the American democracy.  On the flip side, James Roppo was arrested for refusing to twitter when a policeman ordered him to.  You can't win.

Taken together, these cases demonstrate the love-hate relationship that all governments have with mass communication - they both crave and fear its power.  And they realize that this power does not truly belong to them.  It belongs to the Elliot Madisons, to the James Roppos, to the Neda Agha-Soltans.  It belongs to the people.


Wednesday, December 30, 2009

What Women Want

moritheil Hey, maybe you should post about how to sweep you off your feet.
moritheil Get the info into general circulation so it percolates through the public. Payoff comes years later.
ifonearth  Awww, but where's the fun if he doesn't have to struggle to figure that out himself?
moritheil You're not helping your cause


Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Your Candy-fu is weak

From The Sacramento Bee and BoingBoing:

When a drunken neighbor came over and threatened his Thanksgiving guests with a kitchen knife, one Del Paso Heights man allegedly took matters - and a plastic candy cane - into his own hands.

In what police said was self-defense, the man used the two-foot plastic lawn decoration to beat 49-year-old Donald Kercell until police could take Kercell into custody, said Sacramento Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong.

I can see this as a movie: elves with nunchucks, Santa as an old master of the martial arts . . .


Monday, December 28, 2009

Terminally dumb

http://www.cracked.com/article/141_6-natural-disasters-that-were-caused-by-human-stupidity/


Sunday, December 27, 2009

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dj Aq - 'Dango Daikazoku (Clannad feat Busta Rhymes)'



Behold, the future.



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