Posts Tagged ‘media’
24
Nov
2008
6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh
Shortcuts to obesity, paid shamelessness, D.C.’s constitutional right to bitch-slapping, and a potent antidote to it all.
It’s been the year of tectonic shifts, good and bad. 
A very real recession is upon us, a presidential election just made history in more ways than we can count, and the climate crisis has reached catastrophic proportions. It seems like (almost) everything good and holy is falling apart.
But because the devil’s in the details, we’re seeing the signs of the apocalypse in all sorts of places — some serious, some not, but all a what-have-we-lived-to-see cultural forehead-slapper.
NO NEED TO GET OFF THE COUCH FOR PIZZA
You can now order it from your TiVo or right inside Facebook.
Because picking up the phone or typing a URL into your browser is too much work.
GUY KAWASAKI SWITCHES TO COMCAST
Yep, we don’t get it either.
POLITICIANS OUTDUMB THEIR ELECTORATE
Elected U.S. officials score 44% on a simple civic knowledge test.
The uninformed commonfolk who elected them score 49%.
PAYPERPOST INFESTS TWITTER
It’s not how we roll.
POLYGAMISTS BAN GAY MARRIAGE
CheckDon’t get us wrong, we have a couple of Mormon friends who are among the coolest people we’ve ever met. Which makes it all the harder to reconcile why their kind would try to deny others the basic human right to happiness they’ve been afforded themselves. Some, ahem, multiple times.
BEGGARS FLY PRIVATE JETS
Big Three auto execs fly private jets — 3 separate ones — from Detroit to D.C. for their hearings before the Senate and House to beg for an additional $25 billion of taxpayer money, get bitch-slapped for ridiculously timed display of corporate excess.
Oh snap.
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Yep, the world has gone mad. But we like to think that for every preposterous, shameless, or downright idiotic drop of apocalyptic poison, there’s an even more powerful antidote.
6 SIGNS THE APOCALYPSE GOETH AWAY
- Yes We Can.
- Yes We Can.
- Yes We Can.
- Yes We Can.
- Yes We Can.
- Yes We Can.
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19
Nov
2008
Life on Google
Why Google holds the key to modernity and what Madonna arms have to do with the moon landing.
We love Google. And now they’ve joined forces with another icon of our time, LIFE Magazine, to bring us something truly marvelous — LIFE’s photo archive, spanning millions of never-before-seen photos from 1750 to today.
The collection, in all its searchable glory, includes photographs of every cultural icon you can think of, be it person or place or event.
From striking Civil War images, to Times Square in its 1942 glamor, to Neil Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the moon, to Steve Jobs sporting the “Mac guy” look way back in 1981 — everything that shaped the course of history and the evolution of culture is there.
Unfortunately, something sorely missing from the archive is the ability to browse with Cooliris the way you can with normal Google Image Search. Still, this brilliant piece of cultural capital is a force to be reckoned with.
Go, reckon.
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