drm

win!
partway, not epic. because " what we're going to end up with is a new form of DRM. The more you pay, the less DRM you get bolted onto your music."
but my balls " the record industry has been trying to level the playing field," record companies do no such thing. (plz see napster)

word vomit

Found Magazine is the illusion of intimacy combined with the thought that another person could find a glimpse into our lives as interesting as we do theirs, or even better, that millions of people could find us as interesting as we find ourselves.
(same as reality tv)
Ze Frank made an episode of The Show about it, but he is more for individualism (to be fair, so am I to an extent.) He also made an episode (and interactive project) about experimentation with aesthetics revolving around making your Myspace ugly.
According to this book I'm reading, Hello I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki, it's all a symptom of our society pushing further toward "radical" individualism.
God, I made a bit of web-art about this last year...
thougts?
additions?

i wish this blog was more of a conversation...

technology

I just checked out my aunt and uncle's blogs and now I feel vastly inferior. They both write about technology and education, so not exactly what I'm trying to get up here, but along the same lines.

I'll try to use them as inspiration and quality standard.

the darker side to shoe-throwing

from bbc
from al jazeera english

intellectual crush

b-cuz brains is sexxxy

-Shirin Ebadi
-Douglas Rushkoff
-George Lakoff
-Kenji Yoshino
-Reza Aslan
-Thomas Frank
-Ze Frank (no relation)
-Slavoj Zizek is climbing the ladder...
-Edward Said
-Judith Butler
-Michel Foucault
-Germaine Greer

mini profiles, highlights, and gushing may come in the future (so many promises you make courtney...)

branding

The Beeb has a very interesting article about terrorism and celebrity. It reminded me of an episode of Ze Frank's The Show about branding and celebrity in today's world.
There's a weird attitude that any publicity is good publicity. The desire to be in the spotlight, regardless of why, seems to permeate our culture. Reality TV is a prime example of this. The advent of the internet and social networking has made it easier for individuals to produce and distribute amazing works of art and information, but it has also made celebrity into a strange creature that can be anywhere for anything, positive or negative.
This will be expanded when I am less hung over.

internets

the psychology of the internet

One of these days, you're going to see a fatty essay about the internet here. Right now it's still in the planning stages.