The fundamental building blocks of our childhood became digital. What does that say about our generation?
…I kinda wanna build a baby version of my car and glue it to the dash.
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People are inherently awkward creatures, especially when it comes to posting personal ads. Take, for instance, a photo exhibit featuring absolutely giant 40″ x 30″ high res polaroids of people who submitted personal ads to various find-me-a-date thingies. Jeffrey Aaronson tracked them down, photographed them, then recorded them reading their statements aloud to stick it all on a national gallery wall and the lovely internet. Two of my favorites: this guy and this guy.
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I wonder if people were more productive in college before the internet happened. Probably, but then again you’d have to weigh the inconvenience of typewriters over the temptation to type absolutely irrelevant blog posts. Who would have guessed that the time consuming task of typing would become our chosen task for time consumption.
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So, Jay, I was just having a conversation today about how feasible it actually is to snip off the internet somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Looks like its happening. I’d call that a major weak point in the entire setup, kind of like having the jugular vein in such a target zone. So who’s got the giant, underseas cable cutters? Million dollar question, I suppose.
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This is totally bizarre: looks like someone’s cutting undersea cables and basically shutting down Internet and other telecom services in the Middle East. Iran literally has no Internet right now.
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YouTube is Trickery, or, How I Momentarily Thought All Advertising Went to Shit.
So I’ve always watched the Super Bowl for the commercials, and though I’m not a marketing tweeter, I used to rank them with my brother in our living room over hot dogs. Well this year I skipped out on the whole thing, just wasn’t feeling it, but had to Google who won (don’t care) and what ads showed. Like an Idiot I thought it would be easiest to just use YouTube. If there’s one thing the internet should have taught me, it’s that you can’t trust anything on that site. (Dax Flame, anyone?) A search for “2008 Super Bowl commercial” spat out something for Carls Jr. and Folgers. Imagine me at 1:15am alone in my room going “what the fuck!?” and thinking I had just missed some freakish turning point in American advertising. It’s all the fault of this guy (props to him, I guess) and my gullible nature. It only lasted a minute, but that minute was weird as hell as I watched the fusion of modern tv ads and b0g.org play behind my eyes.
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Tom recaps a 2am portion of the evening, as transcribed by me: Jay and his Twitter friend Giannii make an audio post in Camden, New Jersey. And Tom and I listen to it together in two separate states, over Skype.
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Think about that.
