history lessons

Kyle - “We thought we could make money off the internet, but while the internet is new and exciting for creative people, it hasn’t matured as a distribution mechanism to the extent that once you trade real and immediate opportunities for income for the promise of future online revenue. It will be a few years before digital distribution of media on the internet can be monetized to an extent that necessitates content producers to forgo their fair value in more traditional media”. Southpark - Episode 1204 Randy - “And so what have we learned from this ordeal, the internet went away, it came back, but for how long? We cannot take the internet for granted any longer. We as a country must stop over logging…on. We must use the internet only when we need it. It’s easy for us to think we can just use up all the internet we want. But if we don’t treat the internet with the respect…that it deserves it may one day be gone forever. So let us learn to live with the internet not for it. No more brows...

Just read about a person in Indonesia who suffers from a rare disease. A skin condition where root like structures grow out of your body, branches that can grow up to 5cp a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering the whole body (qtd). Then they say tree-people from the Lord of the Rings were fictional. Prove me wrong, I dare you. At the time where people are dying of hunger and war, babies born with four eyes, become trees and some suffer from the insanity of over-consumption and endless market growth, some people are trying to emulate the big bang. Thus the scientists will discover the 'god particle'. Quote : "This technological netherworld is one very big scientific instrument, specifically, a particle accelerator-an atomic peashooter more powerful than any ever built. It's called the Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose is simple but ambitious: to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is made of; in othe...

A very insightful talk by Micheál today on Baudrillards 'Simulacra and Simulation'. Baudrillard's thoughts seem appealing to me in some peculiar way. Apart from the whole bestiality in having a pet thought, which I'm struggling with since I have a cat. Even though making connections between 'Simulacra and Simulation' and other works, especially after the whole 'Matrix' situation is not advised, I couldn't help but do so. The first connection I made while reading the text was with one of the new episodes of South Park titles 'Britney's new look'. I suggest people see it before reading onwards, wouldn't want to spoil the fun. The episode is based around the media hype and Britney Spears. After a frantic chase of reporters to capture Britney, and the boys attempt to save her from publicity before it drives her to suicide, we find out that people actually need her to die. The reason being that throughout history people have engaged in hum...