With the energy of a Metallica song, I wish you all a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, 2016..
Thursday, March 17, 2016
With the energy of a Metallica song, I wish you all a Happy...
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Shake your shamrocks but be safe.It’s Green Beer time across the...
Shake your shamrocks but be safe.
It’s Green Beer time across the world..
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, world.
The year of overload
I just watched THE THREAD, a pretty good documentary on how the internet completely helped or ruined the Boston bombing investigation, depending on your point of view.. You should really give it a watch..
It forced me into a strange place.. contemplation over what this whole NET thing is doing to the world. To us. To news.. to everything.
I turned 21 a week before 9/11 happened. When that terror attack took place, I went online and immediately began updating –in HTML mind you–my website about the terror attack.. There is still a record of it somewhere on Archive.org. So in that regard, I was immersed in the NET world at 21 before REDDIT and Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Back then it was AOL Chat rooms and Drudge, along with very basic chats..
But now? Twitter? REDDIT.. The REAL error of citizen journalism is here. And it’s fast, sloppy, messy, and amazing.
But to what end?
The funny thing is after watching THE THREAD, I feel out of the loop. Even though I was a NET kid, it was new then.. it was all new. Now it’s ‘always been’ to the generation born since 2000. Think about that.. Kids of today have no idea what a boring Sunday afternoon watching NICK meant.. Now it’s constant life online. Nothing boring but yet everything is. Kids of today? You don’t KNOW boring..
And even though I was somewhat on the ‘cutting edge’ of media evolution with my VERY OWN DOT COM in the early part of the century, it’s rudimentary when compared to the fast paced information overload of today’s age.
Fast news.
Loose rules..
What you see isn’t what you get.
And the best chance of real factual information may come when the book is written years later.
But we are all experimenting with this old media murder. The journalists of yesterday who are still paying their school loans are watching the carpet pulled from them. YOU. Me. EVERYONE can be a reporter.
Is it too much/ Too much Trump? Too much of a good thing?
Live streaming until it gets dull?
Periscope…And all of the rest of the social networks popping up hourly.
Yes it is changing everything.
Everything.
Nigeria's Patron Saint Is St. Patrick, Thanks To The Influence Of Irish Bishops : Goats and Soda
Nigeria's Patron Saint Is St. Patrick, Thanks To The Influence Of Irish Bishops : Goats and Soda:
In the early 1920s, Irish priests of the Order of the Holy Ghost established their mission in southern Nigeria. Later St. Patrick’s Society for Foreign Missions, dedicated on March 17, 1932, became one of many Catholic groups in Nigeria providing education both religious and secular.
These days Catholics in the country number some 20 million, and Nigerian seminaries send their ordinates all over the world to serve as priests. In fact, since numbers of clergy in Ireland have long been in decline, Nigerian priests have recently been assigned to churches there.
Though St. Patrick’s Day is not an official public holiday in Nigeria, plenty of Guinness stout will be consumed anyway. It’s the second most popular beer in the country, brewed with sorghum or maize instead of the European recipe’s barley, and packs a 7.5 percent alcohol content.
Snakes, nuns, Satan worshippers, no one does St. Paddy like San Francisco
Snakes, nuns, Satan worshippers, no one does St. Paddy like San Francisco:
Go green.
Avoid those leprechauns.
It’s said that St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made them invisible to leprechauns, who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch those not sporting the color.
Go green.
Avoid those leprechauns.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Beating 'heart on a chip' developed by Canadian scientists
Beating 'heart on a chip' developed by Canadian scientists:
A miracle.
Future’s coming right at us now..
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Robert Kirkman's exorcism drama 'Outcast' shocks SXSW audience
Robert Kirkman's exorcism drama 'Outcast' shocks SXSW audience :
From the report:
The Walking Dead creator debuted his new series Outcast at the South by Southwest film festival on Monday. The upcoming Cinemax series is adapted from Kirkman’s comic about demonic possession and exorcism.
The first episode’s climactic exorcism scene involves – spoiler alert for those who have not read the comic – the show’s troubled hero Kyle Barnes (Gone Girl’s Patrick Fugit) violently and repeatedly punching a possessed 10-year-old child in the face. Previously the character revealed such a method for driving out a demon worked for him in the past.
“He was a monster and he deserved it,” joked Fugit when asked about the scene, then added of the young actor: “He was such a little trouper.”
Monday, March 14, 2016
Chart Shows the Three Main Ways People Meet Each Other
Chart Shows the Three Main Ways People Meet Each Other:
The only two ways to meet people that have had increased chances of success lately: Bars and online.
The new reality of dating.
Lots of lovely people now alone on couches with Netflix..
💋💄
The Beach Boys and Charles Manson: How the 60s band invited in a serial killer
The Beach Boys and Charles Manson: How the 60s band invited in a serial killer:
A good tale about why not to pick up hitchhikers. And a lot more.
I am fascinated by a growing number of younger people of didn’t know a thing (understood) and didn’t learn a thing in school (not understood) about Charles Manson..
Media mogul Dmitry Itskov plans to live forever by uploading his personality to a robot
Media mogul Dmitry Itskov plans to live forever by uploading his personality to a robot:
Web entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov is behind the “2045 Initiative”, an ambitious experiment to bring about immortality within the next 30 years by creating a robot capable of storing human personalities.
The group of neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers say they can create an android that is capable of uploading someone’s personality.
We know they want to try it and do it.. But will it work?
Los Angeles used 'cloud seeding' to boost rain from El Niño storms
Los Angeles used 'cloud seeding' to boost rain from El Niño storms:
Please please please.. Never again lecture me that I’m a kook who deserves a tin foil hat for believing hat weather modification and chemtrails are real things..
BY now you may have seen this ‘Donald Trump or raw chicken...
BY now you may have seen this ‘Donald Trump or raw chicken meme.’
Sorry if you didn’t, But now you’re in the know.
In a world of struggling big box stores and dying malls, calls small business bring back shopping centers?
We will soon see at the once great Schuylkill Mall. Small stores are attempting to as described here by WNEP..
My latest trip there yielded sad results.. the mall is just about mostly vacant now. The newest stores appear to be struggling with the lack of foot traffic as well..
The once great shopping center on the hill in Frackville PA ..
And the home of a ….future…prison? To join the rest.
I have been into this story ever since a few years back when Ian...
I have been into this story ever since a few years back when Ian Punnett hosted a show about the potential ‘Smiley face killer’ nationwide on Coast to Coast AM.. Now this new book just released looks promising. I may consider a purchase..
The true mysterious unexplained story of the Drowning Young Men. Hundreds of young men; vanishing without a trace, only for many of them to be found dead; weeks or months later, in remote rivers or creeks, shallow ponds or canals, in areas that search parties have searched multiple times before; their bodies later discovered there, as though placed to be found.
Also if you’re as fascinated and equally creeped out by the entire thing, give the Smiley Face Facebook page a looksee.. http://ift.tt/1pioKUI
And just when you want to dismiss the entire idea–or at least dismiss the possibility of some weird connection between all of the vanished youthful men of the same age group who are subsequently found face down in bodies of water already searched in the aftermath of their disappearances, dive deep into the topic before rendering a verdict.. See where the information takes you.
Explosion hit Turkish capital Sunday evening, eyewitnesses say...
Explosion hit Turkish capital Sunday evening, eyewitnesses say on state-run TV. http://cnn.it/1WiYPXU
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