Apophenia thinks that syndication and youth culture aren’t so compatible, and that RSS is more for the infogeeks while youth culture seems to flock more to things like LiveJournal. What gets me about syndication is not my personal neuroses around it (although i fear that others will be pushed over the edge with the continuous increase in feeds). What gets me about syndication is that i can’t resolve the proposed models with the usage patterns i see in youth culture. I don’t know, there may be something to this, but I also think some hybrid might evolve. When I was …
Month: February 2005
Oil Peasants of the World, Unite?
From BBC World News: Protesters hold Nigeria oil plant. Hundreds of men and women have invaded an oil installation operated by Chevron Texaco in Nigeria’s Delta region. The protesters from Ugborodo village said the company had failed to deliver promises for community development. Several people were injured during the brief occupation of the Escravos plant, the regional army commander said – but could not confirm reports of deaths. Village elders, company officials and state representatives have been meeting in Warri town to resolve the dispute. … ChevronTexaco say they do not know why the villagers were demonstrating. But there has …
BBC News on Science
Over at CERN they’re still looking for the Higgs Boson, but if we’re not careful the climate might render any such finds less than immediately relevant.
The Ayatollah’s Grandson
Christopher Hitchens passes on some interesting news from a talk with Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson, who apparently called for a U.S. invasion of Iran. I was thinking, wow, this is what happens if you live long enough. You’ll hear the ayatollah’s grandson saying, not even “Send in the Marines” but “Bring in the 82nd Airborne.” I think it was the matter-of-factness of the reply that impressed me the most: He spoke as if talking of the obvious and the uncontroversial. I wonder what Kim Jong Il’s grandson will say.
At Least It’s Funny Now
A mite late, this week’s Friday Five comes from Mojave Sixty-Six, who asked: …what are five things that have happened in your life that you can now say “well, it’s certainly funny in retrospect….” Here are five moments I can look back on and laugh at, now, though they seemed almost unbearable at the time… Two words: bowl cut. I’m 14. It’s my birthday. I’ve decided we ought to rent The Exorcist and watch it at my birthday party sleepover. It scared the hell out of me, and the other boys at my party decided I ought to sleep on …