Note that it is not a series of tubes …
“slouch in front of it, slack-jawed, glassy-eyed, fluorescent-lit, all day long.”
Especially if you’re in Finland.
Miscellaneous
Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster
via boston.com
Hmmmm, anonymous?
So long and thanks for all the billions
http://www.youtube.com/v/aDtYwqo6g84&hl=en_US&fs=1&
via thestory.ie
You’d almost forget that Anglo is owned by the State, wouldn’t you?
Hello there Facebook!
http://www.youtube.com/v/I6IQ_FOCE6I&hl=en&fs=1
via youtube.com
Just remembered this video. Two and a half years and this is still going on. Crazy.
In your face Google!
Oh. Dear. God.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop_local.swf?ver=36529
via vimeo.com
I have high hopes for this. No, not really.
As regards “unique”, what a short institutional memory the IDA has …
$865 billion, go Ireland!
http://www.youtube.com/v/5D0VhS8qXT0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&
Helpful related graphic from the New York Times.
‘The victims of Ireland’s economic collapse’ from the Guardian.
So, now that the LibDems are in government …
hopefully they’ll get started on repealing that ridiculous Digital Economy Bill.
Facebook perspective
Here are a few sensible pieces on the whole Facebook privacy brouhaha.
- Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) [Danah Boyd]
- Zuckerberg, we have a problem [Lisa Barone]
- If Mark Zuckerberg invented the Web [David Weinberger]
The thing is, Facebook needs to generate some revenue from its user’s data soon. It seems that advertisers may be reconsidering their spend on Facebook, since by all accounts the conversion rates are quite poor. Walled gardens don’t last indefinitely.
Nobody saw this coming
http://www.youtube.com/v/vc8ykHoBXmQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&
via thestory.ie
Why do I not believe him?
He already postures as if he has Plausible Ignorance on his side. “very well capitalised”. He says that the Irish banking system doesn’t have exposure to subprime “US sector”. Da fundamentals are strong, no explanation of what these fundamentals might be. “Irish economy is greatly diversified”, yet again, say wha?
The “banking system has been a big beneficiary of that growth”. Repugnant and revealing.