Windows 7 Whopper
For those of you who enjoy living vicariously through your computers, Burger King Japan has announced the limited release of the Windows 7 Whopper.
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If you’re going to San Francisco…
…watch for falling Tetris pieces. Got to be careful out there.
Baby Channels Sea Star Powers. (Mep Report #116)
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.
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OMG Facebook Party!!!
Here’s your newest Mep video, an admittedly crude social networking parody called “OMG Facebook Party!”
The Way of the IntraWebs
This is one of the most informative lectures about the internet that you will ever consume. Jonathan Zittrain not only de-mystifies the processes by which information travels from one site to another, but he lays out an ethos that the Internet operates by in violation of every Darwinian Rule of Human Interaction that you have ever learned.
Digg: Just Another Faux Democracy?
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?
Rise of the New Dawn
Here is the newest music video release from Electronica’s Han Solo, otherwise known as Zaptra.