Posted by on under samuel morse, iry, best thing since sliced bread, panics, phe, hysteria, thoreau, typewriters, backlash, aces, pencil, brains, critique, telegraph, waves, peoe, attitude, memory | 
Salon has a refreshing take on the effect of the net on wider culture, courtesy of Dennis Baron, author of the new book A Better Pencil. Baron places hysteria about the net's supposed dumbing-down in context with other panics of years gone by. Historically, when the new communication device comes out, the reaction tends to be divided. Some people think it's the best thing since sliced bread; other people fear it as the end of civilization as we know it. And most people take a wait and see attitude. And if it does something that they're interested in, they pick up on it, if it doesn't, they don't buy into it. I start with Plato's critique of writing where he says that if we depend on writing, we will lose the ability to remember things. Our memory will become weak. And he also criticizes writing because the written text is not interactive in the way spoken communication is. He also says that written words are essentially shadows of the things they represent. They're not the thing itself. Of course we remember all this because Plato wrote it down -- the ultimate irony. We hear a thousand objections of this sort throughout history: Thoreau objecting to the telegraph, because even though it speeds things up, people won't have anything to say to one another. Then we have Samuel Morse, who invents the telegraph, objecting to the telephone because nothing important is ever going to be done over the telephone because there's no way to preserve or record a phone conversation. There were complaints about typewriters making writing too mechanical, too distant -- it disconnects the author from the words. That a pen and pencil connects you more directly with the page. And then with the computer, you have the whole range of "this is going to revolutionize everything" versus "this is going to destroy everything." Is the Internet melting our brains?...
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Posted by on under dna helix, meter cables, wireworld, 1080p, cheap ass, walmart, patent pending, power cable, starlight, tv 1, blu ray, hdmi cable, waves, platinum, nbsp, bargain, hell |
You idiot. Where did you buy those cables? Walmart? You probably think you're getting the whole 1080p, don't you! Boy, you couldn't be more wrong. What the big box doesn't want you to know, with their cheap-ass $150 cables is that there are, um,
waves and some, uh... electromagnetic spectrats. And they eat your pixels! Yeah, that's right! Pixel-eating EM spectrats! Not even making this stuff up. How much did you spend on that TV? $1,000? You did buy that
$1,800 power cable from Furutech, right? Well, don't you think you should spend
at least that much on the all-important cables that are going to funnel the dynamic 1080p transmissions from your Blu-ray player to your TV? Here, try this Platinum Starlight HDMI cable from Wireworld. It has a patent-pending DNA Helix conductor design formed by the gods themselves out of 24 solid silver conductors. Hell, $1,000 is probably a bargain for one of these one meter cables. Your eyes are worth it, after all. You're welcome.
Wireworld's Platinum Starlight HDMI cable is only $1,000, better than your HDMI cable originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tagi: dna helix, meter cables, wireworld, 1080p, cheap ass, walmart, patent pending, power cable, starlight, tv 1, blu ray, hdmi cable, waves, platinum, nbsp, bargain, hell
Posted by on under cheap ass, 1080p, digg, walmart, starlight, cables, waves, platinum, money |
You idiot. Where did you buy those cables? Walmart? You probably think you're getting the whole 1080p, don't you! Boy, you couldn't be more wrong. What the big box doesn't want you to know, with their cheap-ass $150 cables is that there are, um, waves and some, uh... electromagnetic spectrats. And they eat your pixels! Yeah, that's right!
Tagi: cheap ass, 1080p, digg, walmart, starlight, cables, waves, platinum, money
Posted by on under jafco, social networking, making strides, regis, waves, middle east, asia |
Mozat, the mobile social networking platform formerly known as
Morange, is making strides in Asia and the Middle East. The eponymous company behind the app has just announced that it has surpassed 10 million registered users, predominantly based in those regions. The startup has also disclosed that it raised a Series A funding round led by
JAFCO Asia earlier this year, although it didn't disclose the size of the investment.
Tagi: jafco, social networking, making strides, regis, waves, middle east, asia
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Sun soaked waves and drug inspired editing makes this short vid mind-melting magic.
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