where pop!talk is in the hot seat
March 13th, 2010 — America, American Life, Blogs, Debate 2008, Economic Downturn, Education, Error 404, Finance, Food, Healthcare, NY Times, News, People, Society, business, computers, gastronomy, pop!talkers, technology, trends
If you’re like me and visit Yahoo, you seen the 101 “news articles” that pop up like clock work about industries that are still hiring and how going back to school is a viable solution for laid-off folk.
Yikes!
Some of these jobs pay even less than Unemployment.
Even the iconic computer geek is finding himself caught between a rack and a hard drive.
And how depressing is it that the NY Times has a section called “The New Poor”?
I prefer the term “Nouveau Pauvre”, thank you very much!
March 9th, 2010 — America, American Life, Art, Barack Obama, Blogs, Celebrities, Censorship, Drugs, Entertainment, Error 404, Film, Finance, Florida, Gay, Harassment, Hollywood, Homosexuality, Icon, Modern Sins, Naked, News, People, Politics, Religion, Sex, Society, TV, Transexual, pop!talkers, trends
Anita Bryant lives on as Florida vows to officially replace Colorado as “The Hate State”.
You know, anything having to do with druggies, prossies, drunks or fags.
Current exclusions include depictions of smoking, sex, nudity and/or profanity, fuck you very very much.
Yet another grassroots attempt by conservative hate-mongers to use laws to solidify their prejudices.
I think I’ll go expose myself to my orange juice now, just to get even!
March 8th, 2010 — Blogs, Digital Life, Education, Finance, People, Politics, Social Media, Society, Thoughts, business, technology, trends, yellow peril media
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee changed the way we communicate and see the world when he invented the World Wide Web. His next project involves building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
At TED2009, Tim challenged governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web for “raw data now.”
One year later at TED University in 2010, Tim shared a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.
Tim’s “Semantic Web” vision — an evolved version of the same system that recognizes the meaning of the information it carries — will no doubt add more wattage to the adage: “Information is Power.”
March 4th, 2010 — America, American Life, Architecture, Blogs, Economic Downturn, Error 404, Finance, Global Warming, Lifestyle, NY Times, Nature, News, Ranch, Society, Thoughts, Victim, business, pop!talkers, trends
Sure, it’s easy to ignore when it’s all happening to some far off iceberg somewhere, but what about when it reaches your own backyard?
New extremes in weather are causing increasing failures of suburban home foundations across the US.
Still think it’s a myth?
You won’t when you go downstairs tomorrow to make some coffee and find the coffee maker has moved 20 feet to the west, along with the kitchen and half your house.
Typical.
Like most crises caused by the government and big business, the middle class is left to sop up the mess!
March 2nd, 2010 — Animal Kingdom, Blogs, Cars, Crime, Death, Debate 2008, Economic Downturn, Error 404, Finance, Modern Sins, News, People, Politics, Rape, Society, business, pop!talkers, technology
Yes, now that they’ve got the little people all sufficiently worried about doomsday, the evil forces of world domination are back to their mission statement: Greed.
Lightbulb: Oh, oh, I know! Now that we’ve ruined the environment, let’s take advantage of the warmer weather by raping and plundering the land.
You know that one was Europe’s idea.
China’s bright idea: let’s send people there! Yeah, right, cause we all know the best way to preserve nature is to inhabit it.
What a hot transcontinental mess!
