Wally West is my fav comic character… I am rather psyched that Flash is returning to the Flash proper (even with the v.3 numbering!)
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
It seems far-fetched to imagine that the “saving” of a person in the building would not lead to death for the saver and savee…
Controversy over Dracula’s castle – Yahoo! News
The 14th-century fortress is associated with Prince “Vlad the Impaler,” whose cruelty inspired Stoker’s vampire Count Dracula. Legend has it that Vlad, who earned his nickname because of the way he tortured his enemies, spent one night there.
All I have to say is that the “real-life” castle is far less interesting-looking than what I would be expecting as Dracula’s Castle…
It makes me sad that the dominant web-based social portal is the laughable Myspace.com. Not only is it just an online place for booty calls, pedophilia and stories of inebriation, it is just plain ugly. Sure, you can adapt it as you see fit (as long as it is just marginally less ugly), but the results are always obnoxious and aesthetically displeasing.
Just look at the logo, it tries to pretend that it is cozy and friendly, but it is owned by Rupert Murdoch trying to sell your focused-demographic advertising (that you have willingly given to the man).
Myspace succeeds where others fail in that it is the ultimate narcissistic outlet for individuals to communicate. Your messaging is done to you on your page. You can edit what you don’t like to make it look like you are popular, intelligent and loved across the world. The messages you make on others pages are self-referential, serving only to have a person post on your page.
Sure, I dislike Myspace because it is aesthetically displeasing, caters to the lowest-common denominator and is just an overt platform for advertisement, but my real dissatisfaction with the site is that it has amazing reach and influence (even I have a damned Space, but I don’t consider it mine), yet it is devoid of meaning and is basically an ugly marketing tool.
Throw in some information like an e-mail address, organization or a school (but it will be marketed and held in a database), and you will find that everyone you know has a page (even my 60-year-old, Librarian mother). So, everyone is on it, what do they say to each other? Shit like “man that was an awesome party” or “thanks for the add!”
I could say that I “just don’t get it,” but I realize this is not the case; I understand far too well and hope that the next social platform has some substance (or at least some style).
(0)I find it intriguing that the default categorization for WordPress posts is “uncategorized.” It seems as if they should be just not categorized, so that they would not even be seen if you searched by category. “Uncategorized” is a categorization in and of itself; it seems like the ultimate paradox. That is, if it was not just a decision made by a coder without regards to semantics.
Another thing. If you search for images on Google using the keyword “uncategorized” you get many results, that seem to defy categorization. For example (all of these will be hotlinked from the sources – they can be damned – hopefully someone will exchange the picture with something cool like “don’t hotlink pictures” or a picture of genitalia, but I will not be so lucky):
This picture certainly fits into no category, except for perhaps “sucky murals.” I could go to the blog site and find out that it is some famous piece of art, but I do not care (perhaps if it were categorized I would…).
Here is an uncategorized picture of a person in from of an elephant mural… it seems not to fit into a category, but is it uncategorized? I would say it is actually in the category of “random bad murals with people walking in front of them.” You may not think this a good category or tag, but I bet the blogger would use it more than once.
This uncategorized picture is “closer than we think,” but I do not know what we are thinking about, nor do I care. I still think that whatever “it” is in the sentence should probably be the category.
Here is an other image that came-up as uncategorized. At first I thought it was a middle-aged man staring at a half-naked woman, but, upon my hotlinking it, I realize it is the dreadfully unfunny Amy Sedaris.
Middle-aged man staring at an ass = funny and sad, Amy Sedaris doing the same thing = uncategorized (obviously).
I will go with this one as being uncategorized; when is a picture like this ever appropriate?
These pictures clearly show that being uncategorized is an apt fate for elephant-related pictures…
and whatever godforsaken animal this creature may be.
I could scour the web for posts and pages categorized as uncategorized, but, obviously, there are likely millions of unconnected, lazy posts that are growing exponentially as spam bloggers and the disenfranchised start blogs that go nowhere faster than towards coherent or relevant tags.
Obviously there is only one category for this posting, and it may be the first time that it is, in fact, relevant.
