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Interesting article on the roots and beginnings of Facebook.  We are their guinea pigs.

“…does Facebook really connect people? Doesn’t it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations….It also encourages a disturbing competitivness around friendship: it seems that with friends today, quality counts for nothing and quantity is king. The more friends you have, the better you are. You are “popular”, in the sense much loved in American high schools…if I want to connect with the people around me, I will revert to an old piece of technology. It’s free, it’s easy and it delivers a uniquely individual experience in sharing information: it’s called talking…All of the above would have been enough to make me reject Facebook for ever. But there are more reasons to hate it. Many more….”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

A rare example of when tax dollars WORK!  Click any picture for MORE pictures! Weeee…..

One of America’s THE WORLD’S greatest writers, Mr Bret Easton Ellis has written such “modern classics” as ‘American Psycho’, ‘The Rules of Attraction’, ‘The Informers’, ‘Lunar Park’, ‘Glamorama’, and his first novel ‘Less Than Zero’ which was called a modern day ‘Cather in the Rye’ when it was released in 1985 (the movie based on the book – IN NAME ONLY – is a pile of shit). His follow up to the latter, entitled ‘Imperial Bedrooms’ is out in June. What happened to Clay, Blair, Julian, and Rip?!?!? We shall see. In the meantime, click on the quote for the transcript of a recent, fantastic (and long) interview from Vice Magazine …

“There’s a sentimental view of Less Than Zero. It’s something that has taken shape around that book. It’s kind of “beloved.” And I think it’s also heavily misread by about half of its readers. I’ve met many people in the last three or four years since I’ve moved back to LA who tell me, “Oh man, I moved to LA after reading Less Than Zero.”

It’s those people that I never want to meet. Ever.

First the robots attacking the Scandinavians a few years ago, and now THIS! :

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93656?fp=1

VENKMAN: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
MAYOR: What do you mean, “biblical”?
STANTZ: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
VENKMAN: Exactly.
STANTZ: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
SPENGLER: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
ZEDDMORE: The dead rising from the grave!
VENKMAN: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!