This makes me happy (click). I’ve been waiting for something of a facebook backlash for a while now. Here’s hoping for an early Christmas present this year.
This makes me sad …”We’ve been blessed with natural resources…“ It’s a comment I overheard by a member of my parliament while on Rutherford’s 630 CHED radio program. It seems he was upset with Obama’s recent decision to delay the XL pipeline. From what I can gather, the boundaries that define Canada have been bestowed by some deity with abundant materials that we Canadians can exploit as we see fit. Sweet, I love deities that play favorites …especially when they’re on my side.
This makes me relieved (click). I don’t like pirates. Water-logged or digital. What I hate worse than pirates though are ‘artistic thieves’ – ones who steal creativity by limiting its growth. Clay Shirky summed it up well in this recent Ted Talk: “The 20th Century was a great time to be a media company […] If you were making a TV show, it didn’t have to be better than the other TV shows of the day …it only had to be better than the two other shows that were on at the same time.“
This makes me laugh (click). It seems someone’s been playing the old iPad switch-a-roo, and a few consumers have gotten a bag of clay instead of the real McCoy. It’s not all that funny if you got one I suppose, but what I’m excited about is for those with time on their hands to throw together some videos/skits with Apple ‘fanboys‘ actually trying to use the product. Clay iPhones will be the next big seller if I know my trends.
Finally, this makes me wonder… “To admit that our ancestors are bacteria is humbling. It has disturbing implications. Besides impugning human sovereignty over the rest of nature, it challenges our assumptions of individuality, uniqueness, and independence. It even violates our view of ourselves as discrete physical beings separate from the rest of nature and – still more unsettling – questions the alleged uniqueness of human intelligent consciousness.” pg 32. Dazzle Gradually by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
...just one of our many blessings.
the TED talk has a hole in the logic and is also a red herring of an argument.
Companies can’t steal by limiting creativity. Creativity is a personal attribute and not something anyone can take from you. What can be stolen are creations, physical or intellectual.
Please bring on the SOPA laws!
“Companies can’t steal by limiting creativity.” You got me there. By that logic though, you can’t steal away the night, steal kisses or steal 2nd base either.
sopa! sopa! (soup in spanish, right?) Sopa for everyone! mmmmm. Cream of aspagaragus!
Brought to you by the criminals at Campbells’ soup.