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Preventing Cable Company Fuckery a.k.a. Net-Neutrality
•September 7, 2014 • Leave a CommentWe do take this miraculous technology for granted. The open internet is what we make it, and is therefore as perfect as it can possibly be. A place of expression, communication and information for all to access freely that promotes human endeavour and ideas!
Apparently, cable companies in America are spending millions of dollars trying to control this access, which is incredibly villainous and debasing, not just for US citizens, but all humanity. This is a big deal. The scary thing is, these companies may just get away with it thanks to the way representative government in the United States is structured — lobbying. The Battle for the Net begins! Check yourself before you wreck yourself government, seriously, you’re concerned about wealth and overseas terror threats, try messing with people’s digital liberties and prepare for a national shitstorm of generational proportions. Trust me, people are not as apathetic as their online language or personalities may suggest. There are certain things in life that money has zero influence over, and that includes unjust (obviously) policies made by and purposely for fraudulent corporations. Excuse my term of phrase, but this the most fucking retarded thing I’ve heard about the internet since that incredibly half-baked SOPA bill. Utilitarianism seems to be a wasted concept among lobbyists it seems, but there is a way to fight them — for your awareness; John Oliver uncovers the controversial story no one else in the media business seems to be acknowledging:
Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they’re doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren’t covering it. John Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice their displeasure to the FCC (The Federal Communications Commission).
What is net neutrality?
Net Neutrality is the Internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online.
Net Neutrality means that the cable/telecom companies must provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company cannot decide who you could call and what you say on that call, your ISP should not be concerned with what content you view or post online.
Net Neutrality is what enables the Internet to be such a hotbed for innovation. If you bring a new service online, the cable/telecom companies should deliver it just like they’d deliver content from a corporate behemoth like Google or NBC.
Net Neutrality is what gives every startup the same chance to reach customers and users as any existing company. Simply, without Net Neutrality, startups and small business will be subject to discrimination based on a pay-to-play Internet, and the open Internet and the economic growth it has represented will be at risk.
K E E P T H E I N T E R N E T F R E E
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.” ~ Anne Lamott
•September 7, 2014 • Leave a CommentTHE GAP by Ira Glass
•September 6, 2014 • Leave a Comment
Photographer and visual storyteller Daniel Sax has adapted Glass’s timeless wisdom in this beautiful short film a year in the making, using living typography to illustrate Glass’s words:
Constructive words of wisdom accompanied by neat, illustrative typography; I like it.
Slippery Squirrel Prank — Vaseline Hilariously Prevents Squirrel from Raiding Bird Feeder
•September 5, 2014 • Leave a Comment“The Rock Squirrel has been raiding our bird feeder, carrying away pounds of seed. Nancy figured a quick solution. I don’t know which is funnier, the squirrel or Nancy’s narration.”
The Prodigy’s “Smack My B*tch Up” (unofficial Cat Version) [mashup]
•September 4, 2014 • Leave a CommentI KNEW IT! Cats are always up to no good, I tells yas!!!
Pure internet gold. That was a mashup of The Prodigy’s classic “Smack My B*tch Up” and Superchunk’s official music video for “Crossed Wires”; the originals of which are embedded below:
The fact I like this furthers my suspicion that this may be what we all suspected the internet was made for:
Well, if smartypants Jeopardy contestant, Babu Srinivasan confirms it, how can it be wrong?
Sloth Hugs Cat
•September 3, 2014 • Leave a CommentI have always had a hard time using the word, but would this be classified as, cute?
Because when I think of a sloth, this is the first thing that comes to mind:
I blame video games! Must have pumped that thing full of slugs dozens of times…
Who am I kidding, you’re all right, sloth. Here’s to you, gentle creature.
…Still unsure about that cuteness factor though.
Stacked Firewood — The Art of Log Piling
•September 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentMeet 82-year-old Montana artist, Gary Tallman. He gathers firewood each spring and stacks it into intricate mosaics based on size, shape and natural colours. Depending on the type of wood — pine, aspen, cedar, juniper — and how they’re cut, logs actually present quite the variety of hues and textures for someone with the patience and the eye to take advantage of them. Gradually, his artistic medium disappears as they are burned throughout the cold winter months.
8-Bit Philosophy: Albert Camus “Why Shouldn’t We Commit Suicide?”
•September 1, 2014 • Leave a Comment‘Donkey Kong‘ Game Style. Dedicated to Robin Williams, a man who loved video games.
Would you like to hear more on this subject? Listen to Alan Watts on Life, Death and Suicide:
Happy National Poetry Day, New Zealand!
•August 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentNot that knowing the day being somehow synonymous with poetry has any influence whatsoever on anyone’s happiness; just saying, happy…learning something new! I hereby decree today’s slogan; be extra perceptive, seize the day and be sure to capture yourself within it. Here’s a little somethin’ somethin’ I wrote just for the occasion:
~ S U N S E T N I G H T I N G A L E S ~
Sitting alone
Glimmer of light kissing warmth over me
Don’t take too long my Tomorrow
I have nowhere else to be.
Birds,
Temp Death on the roads
Singing all day
Of the only songs of sorrow they know.
Nightingales,
Deliver me Dreams of delight.
Nightingales,
Save my Soul tonight.
Before the sun meets the dew
We are the same
Awakening to learn the repeated lesson;
Songs of any sorrow pale to songs of a single flame.
Nightingales,
I burn alive.
Nightingales,
I burn.
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