whenever i try to write something
...it ends up as a fragment.
The grand notion of the mid-1990's 'global village' perspective of the internet is revealed as a lie. As technologies have pressed more forcefully into the sphere of private association and anonymous communication, we have seen a tendency for participants to seek out not the wider, more vaguely internationalist pattern of associations (communicate instantly with your new friend in Kenya via IRC!) but to adhere still more closely to a like-minded set of peers. The 'social networks' of the time present themselves as nothing more than advertising platforms which provide strong-association data to farms of advertising servers which, in turn, present to 'social' network users advertisements which are neither coy nor cunning in placement. Post a reference to Obama on your profile, and be inundated with Democratic Party ads. Reference golf, and be bombarded by fly-by-night golf 'schools' and coupons for ten percent off a sand wedge. And into these networks flow groups of users who really don't want to meet interesting and diverse people, but are wont to associate and 'friend' (as the noun is apparently now also a verb, 'befriend' be damned...) the same people with whom they associate in the mundane reality ('IRL'), or people that have nearly the same interests as they themselves espouse. Nietzsche called it 'the eternal return of the self-same', but it's really just common sense. The general populace of the internet, to whom pop-up ads are still interesting, and emails from DR. NGOBO INDASHTIKENTE OF NIGERIA (mustn't forget the yelling) are worthy of consideration and a fleeting moment of self importance, are perhaps the most authentic users of the impossibly powerful and (really!) incredibly sophisticated machines that sit on their desks, quietly spamming their address-books and capturing their passwords.
haiku morning
I woke up this morning thinking in haiku-form.
My bathroom mirror
Kissed by dewy fog's embrace
Hard to shave like this.
Stereotypically,
Cherry blossoms fall like rain
Pass the sushi, please.
Fancy shiny phone...
Why can't I have one right now?
Eff this, Starbucks time.
Atom330 “Should have 2 cores, but only found1 for die 0″ – InsanelyMac Forum
Atom330 "Should have 2 cores, but only found1 for die 0" - InsanelyMac Forum.
solution, part 2.
Cannot install with 2 USB method – Kernel Panic
Cannot install with 2 USB method - Kernel Panic.
solution, part 1
Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required.
Time to upset the balance again. 2:2 linux:Mac isn't cutting it. Tonight it becomes 1:3 again. Sorry, Tux.
boot from USB inside of VMware
Great tip how-to boot from USB stick inside of VMware Workstation | ESX Virtualization.
Super-useful tip .. create a tiny VMWare image, install the bootloader (attach as floppy or something), and you can use it to boot an OS on a USB drive.
187 by a motorcycle cop
Is it so imperative to threaten drivers into going sixty-five that it's okay to nearly cause accidents? Going a bit faster than what the big sign says is pretty low on the list of violations of the social contract. Go do something useful, highway patrol man. Make it look like my tax dollars are doing something instead of paying you to stand on the freeway.
Eight ways the iPhone pwns the iPad
Eight ways the iPhone pwns the iPad.
Yeah, my phone makes calls and fits in my pocket. My car does not. Clearly the phone is better in every way possible.
Seriously, people, let's quit bashing on the iPad for not doing things that it's not designed to do. IPHONE SUCKS BECAUSE I CAN'T DRIVE IT TO WORK. Need I make a list detailing why my car is better than my iPhone? No, because it's a retarded comparison. Much like iPad - iPhone comparisons. Different things, different uses. Apples to oranges.
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