Today, Britain’s Daily Mail Online gave us a glimpse of a possible future distopian solution to unemployment.
Internet Eyes is “a worldwide online instant event notification system utilizing video feed to notify the owner of the feed (customer) that an event is occurring.”
Setting aside my personal disbelief in global warming for the moment, let’s examine why any one given person can’t do a thing about global warming, even in America.
In promotion of Cusack’s new movie, 2012, Columbia pictures reportedly executed the “largest American media roadblock ever,” by showing 2 minutes of this trailer on over 450 stations.
And frankly, who are we to stop them? The full-clip involves a statewide Schwarzenegger reassurance immediately followed by the apocalypse. Good times.
Looking for a way to perk up your work week? Why not update yourself on the impending enviropocalypse?
According to an exhaustive study by the Global Footprint Network, September 25th was the day that the planet used all of the available planetary resources that it could replenish in a year (otherwise known as Earth Overshoot Day). For the rest of the year, we’ll be culling, reaping, and utilizing that which won’t grow back.
Hey, Hey, The Gang’s All Here, Krull and Kelp Kollide, Russ Goes Back to School, Immortality Is/Is Not Overrated, Baby Sea Cucumbers, Rack-O is Whack-O, Cash for Coal, and NAFTA Bartenders.
Digg.com is one of the largest websites on the planet. Like many of its competitors in the social media arena, it doesn’t purport to create or provide anything of substance. Digg’s value comes in the community that it organizes and speaks for. In Digg’s case, that community’s function is to vote for the most worthy news stories of the day for more casual visitors to consume.
With the announcement of some prospective changes to its voting rules, is Digg capitulating to big money interests? Or has its slow march to corruption already rendered its original mission moot?