Year: 2006

Here’s just one example of how mass media craps in your brain – an article in The Inquirer about Dell laptop explosion. I picked this one as it is number one in Bloglines’ Top Links for June 21, 2006.

Read it. You’ll notice a whole bunch of crap that was intended for your brain. Need any hints? Here are a few:

• “Dell laptop” (why on earth the brand of the laptop is important in this single case?)
• “exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident” (I’m sorry… deadly?)
• “his advice is …stay away, away, away” (Stupid Silly… Unplug the damn thing! Or cut the power in the room. It’s all about electricity.)
• “For the record, this is a Dell machine” (for which record? And why are you so sure and concerned about it anyway?)
• “It is only a matter of time until such an incident breaks out on a plane” (Oh, p’lease! It’s just a laptop. Even if something like this will ever happen on the plane, a trained stuard will take of the fire with fire extinguisher. You don’t have to scary everyone just yet.)

There’s more.

Either it’s all is a joke, or I don’t get it. Damn! I don’t get it even if it’s a joke…

Most of my Flickr favourites come from just two groups – The 50 mm lense group and The Black and White group. I am following a bunch of other groups too, but these two have the best bad to good ratio.

Can you recommend any other good Flickr groups?

It is hard (and almost impossible) to be both smart and handsome. But it is very easy to be stupid and ugly.

The funniest college application essay ever. And it’s written nicely too. A must read!

Found by virtues of del.icio.us popular humor.

Whenever I use my LiveJournal account, I miss all the comfort and flexibility of my WordPress installation. But whenever I blog with WordPress, I miss the feedback from the LiveJournal community.

The only solutions seems to be to use WordPress for blogging and automatically broadcasts posts to LiveJournal. Some people are doing it already.