This is from Facebook. At the time of writing this blog post (May 5th), it has 33,275 likes and 953,307 shares. It originally was posted on January 8th, so it’s 117 days old. This is an interesting meme. Mixed letters being able to be processed remarkably easily by the brain is an old concept. Yet, … [Read more…]
This Portal falling video is how I think time works: only things that allow for themselves in the future are created in the past. When I got off the edge of the portal and stopped falling, it’s like if someone went back in time and tried to kill their grandfather: it just wouldn’t work. You … [Read more…]
What a great meme! Awesome memetic strategy, using contrasting pictures and sharing suggestions, and HILARIOUS concept! Interesting that “Pothead” is capitalized, too, perhaps to make it pop more, where the words “Which Pothead greater” are clustered, providing extremely fast emotional response, especially since Bob Marley is directly under that phrase. Also, “Bieber” is inherently more … [Read more…]
(Note: Popular business author, Seth Godin, just announced a new service, Hugdug, that is based around raising the bar of reviews.) Do you ever review books on Amazon? There I think the standard 5/5 is “thoroughly enjoyed, would recommend”. 4/5 has reservations. Ratings are deeply flawed in a bunch of ways though. For example, if … [Read more…]
“All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. This will enable the individual to extend himself anywhere without moving his body–even to distant regions of space. This will be a new kind of individual–an individual with a colossal external nervous system reaching … [Read more…]
Hover-rounds by Miles Kendall One of the things I have noticed about this town is that there are a lot of obese elderly citizens thundering down the street in hover-rounds. It seems they take their immobility carts and bully the sidewalks while also trying to race cars like some insane derby. The invalid four wheelers … [Read more…]
This comes from a Facebook discussion. (Friend) I’m impressed. He walked in on his phone, ordered food while on the phone, ate his sandwich on his phone, and walked out on it. It never left his ear… (Jesse) In some ways, this is how we always are, given the incessant chatter of the mind. It … [Read more…]
This stuff is pseudoscience. You aren’t either hemisphere. You are the interaction between both.
Any and all power corrupts, unfortunately. Fortunately, there are mathematical strategies that can distribute power in such a way that society is best served, and as we digitize more and more of our lives these strategies will be implemented.
I watched the Matrix sequels two years ago and thought they were decent. I watched them again about six months ago and felt like the special effects were over-the-top at the expense of a compelling story. Special effects for the sake of special effects. Jurassic Park 2 and 3 have the same problem. (Though I … [Read more…]