Cults are bad, right?

May 11, 2008 at 9:06 am (blog, democracy, media, music, politics, popculture, video, war, world)

“And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk right down to
earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand.”
~Malcolm “X” El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

dETROITfunk has reeled out a kickin post: Cult of Personality. I think you should check it out.

Video extra: Cult of Personality from Living Colour. I can’t embed that one, so here’s another:

myspace.com/livingcolourmusic

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Dangerous amusements

May 4, 2008 at 7:08 am (blog, computers, economy, environment, fun, games, gaming, google, information architecture, internet, media, music, politics, popculture, science, self-destruct-mechanism-activated, technology, video, world)

I was emailing someone to tell them not to worry when a big site like Flickr or YouTube loses a bunch of media, that despite the fact that those sites are massive and complex systems, there’s a lot of smart people there who spend all their time figuring out how the systems work and how to improve and fix them.

Then it struck me that 200 years ago, those very same “best & brightest” were working to discover the undiscovered and better understand the immensity of Creation.

Suddenly the comforting thought wasn’t all that comforting.

Time to get busy folks.

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