This is terrible.
Someone threw out a perfectly good transmogrifier.
Original pre-move comment from deb:
I do so miss Calvin and Hobbes.You should rescue it!
Dear Mother with Her Adolescent Son and His Friend at Meijer
I realize that it’s President’s Weekend and your twelve-year-old son and his friend have off from school, but do you really think it’s wise to take them to Meijer at 9:30 on a Sunday night and buy them crappy ice cream and Red Bull? I mean, really?
Sincerely,
Someone Who Sighs a Lot When She Sees Things Like This
Original pre-move comment from deb:
At least you don’t have to go home with them. And, I thought red koolaid kicked it. Man, if I were a kid I’d be red bulled up with pixie stix on the brain.
Happy Valentine's Day from a highly specific manufacturing company!
I was doing some linguistic analysis for a contract gig (you can read more about it on my work blog) and came across some advertising “ecards” for the medical and biotechnical field, as well as other manufacturing areas. I was inspired, and I’ve now decided that I’ll have to send some sentiments via ecards for the next holiday.
It’s a little late, but I’d just to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day (click the image for full size).
Things you are not supposed to do at the mall because they interfere with the spirit of capitalism
- Only go in one store
- Bring your own water
- Read a book
- Gawk in horror at the Lil Princess Boutique
- Take pictures of unsuspecting mall patrons*
*next time
It's us in the machine
This beautiful description of the Web as it is now is brought to us by an assistant professor in Kansas via a much-maligned, much-abused, and incredibly useful resource that combines video with social networking.
I’m not one for regurgitating, but I think this is the sort of rhetoric (the good kind) that speaks for itself. This is the sort of thing that is very difficult to explain, and which needs explaining, especially because people who do not understand it are trying to shape it with policies that are static. This is not static. It will never be static.What makes me most angry when people talk about digital culture as being simply “bad” or simply “good” (usually for children). It is not a binary. Nothing human ever is.
There is so much content created and shared today that would be impossible without the Web. It is a cycle. We feed in, we get out, and meet people along the way.
This is the sort of thing that Kurzweil is talking about, I think, when he talks about spiritual machines: not just machines that can “think,” but machines that carry something more intrinsically human in their wires than what we originally planned.
Original pre-move comment from SailRacer:
Holy crap that was cool.
