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This is sweet, very creative. Reminds me a little bit of Michel Gondry’s video for Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar.[via Mashable]


“Because small payment systems are always discussed in conversations by and for publishers, readers are assigned no independent role. In every micropayments fantasy, there is a sentence or section asserting that what the publishers want will be just fine with us, and, critically, that we will be possessed of no desires of our own that [...]


[Thanks, Brian!]


Obamagery

05Nov08

So much to be awed by from last night’s election and I’m still unpacking it all. Some notables: The first African-American President of the Unites States of America. I hope this goes a long way toward starting to heal the rift still left behind by the history of slavery in this country and white society’s [...]


Wassup 2008 Uploaded by 60Frames Brilliant 8-years later political comedy and reenactment of a popular Budwieser commercial that ran in 2000. Here’s the story of how the show was produced in 9 days for about $6500 and became a viral hit. Here’s the original:


As the MC indicates, this clearly represents the decline of Western civilization as we know it. Which means it’s totally awesome on a stick. [Via BoingBoing, thx Galen!]


All of which makes total sense. I like to file this general trend under the heading “people like to do stuff.” Broadcast media had its day because it was technologically easier than providing a platform for interactivity — not because passive reception is something inherent in human nature. Human nature is inherently interactive, not passive. [...]


And lo unto them a meme was born: CyLOLns. All credit goes to Akela on this one.



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