Protos

@ http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

Someone is making a wonderful humorous point about white people being generic – and he is spot on.

For instance:

Music is very important to white people. It truly is the soundtrack to their lives, meaning that white people are constantly thinking about what songs would be on the soundtrack for the biopic. The problem is that most of the music that white people like isn’t really dance-friendly. More often the songs are about pain, or love, or breaking up with someone, or not being able to date someone, or death.

So when white people go to concerts at smaller venues, what to do they do? They stand still! This is an important part of white concert going as it enables you to focus on the music, and it will prevent drawing excess attention to you. Remember, at a concert everyone is watching you just waiting for you to try to start dancing. Then they will make fun of you.

The result is Belle and Sebastian concerts that essentially looks more like a disorganized line of people than a music event.

If you find yourself invited to a concert with a white person, do NOT expect to dance. Prepare yourself for three hours of standing reasonably still. It is also advised to get a beer or (if legal) a cigarette so you have something to do with your hands. Although it is acceptable to occasionally raise one hand and point just above the stage.

Note: the addition of the drug ecstasy changes everything.

He has many more and they are really nice.

rant/

Well, I don’t mean to sound ungrateful but… but why does Wordpress needs to be updated all the time? What’s up with that?

I am considering removing the version number that resides in the reader you know the one that reads:

– leave this for stats –

I don’t want to be the obvious victim of some script-kiddie,…

I am not a software developing genius, but could it not be made easier to update this thing?

I have several sites running Wordpress and I don’t like supporting this whole “copy folders” thing. It must be possible to make some sort of updater via the XMLRPC thing that is already running…

/rant

@dipdive.com they have Obama propaganda. They certainly made it look nice. Low budget black and white with a catchy tune. The cool thing is that it is pure pathos. Shear emotion, which might be natural since its a song.

It seems Obamas selling proposition is “Yes we can”. There are many reasons why such a message would be popular. When I hear it I think:

“Yes” –> This always sounds better than “No”
“We” –> Takes away accountability (“Well erhm,… I didn’t really do anything, but since *we* are a whole bunch of *people* things will work out”).
“can” –> Much better than cannot!

That is a perfect zietgeist formula. It is positive. It does not address problems. It just states “Yes we can!”. I am sure it was expensive to have consultants come up with this, but I keep seeing Homer Simpson saying “YES WE CAN!” at Springfield town hall. However it might just prove to communicative mastery.

No matter what happens that Hillary Clinton person seems very scary. Whenever I see her speak on CNN, I am thinking she just looks and sounds evil… or well, at least the opposite of friendly, amicable and likable? That fake crying was really scary.

Anyway, since US economy is down the drain (btw: thanks for making internet shopping much more fun), I think that if I were indeed a US Citizen I would vote for Ron Paul. Seems like its the only human you have :-)

Well, the Barrack Obama ft. Will.I.Am (blackeyedpeas) (and: will-i-am.blackeyedpeas.com).
Ohh and then it looks nice!

Low res here:

Whole video (larger size) @ dipdive.com/

Often when making a purchase or an order (be it a pizza, a camera, furniture or books) tracking is essential. Its like waiting on the bus. Although the bus will not arrive faster just because you know when it will arrive, it still feels nice to know.

For instance amazon offers book tracking but its very high level: Was the order shipped or not?

Leave it to the Americans (in the fast food industry) to figure out what kind of tracking you really want, when say ordering a pizza. Behold the Domino’s Pizza tracker:

Basically it takes you through five steps:

1. Order placed
2. Prep
3. Bake
4. Box
5. Delivery

The tracker is @ http://www.dominos.com/home/tracker/pizzatracker.jsp but you cant take it for a spin without an order.

They need to combine the “delivery” with location like this (below another domino app):

That way I can even see how close they are.

This is an intense value add. It doesen’t really have too much to do with the pizza itself. The same could be applied to say sushi :-)

Google has a new collective intelligence approach to image tagging. @ images.google.com/imagelabeler/ they offer a sort of a game.

The idea is that they pair you with another person online. Then you and another person try to type different associations in regards to a certain photo shown.

Its a game and points are awarded. After a two minute period you are told whether or not you had any matches with the other person.

Overall this might be a very very clever way to improve google image search. Actually its fun to do a few pictures. When you get a hit points are awarded and you see a green notification.

Come on Give it a try: images.google.com/imagelabeler/

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