Lolcats, the Internets day dream

Why do we make them? These funny pictures of cats with captions who's mane feature is bad grammar and poor spelling.

Do they serve a purpose other then our amusement? Nope.

 If we think of the internet as the sum total of human knowledge and experience, then that makes the lolcat, and other nonsensical internet memes the daydream of the internet, of the human mind as a whole. Makes you think, doesn't it dear reader, that maybe those cats should get a cheeseburger, and a cooky.

Vampires, they just won't die!

Twilight, Dracula, Nosferatu! What is the enduring obsession with immortal bloodsucking albinos with big teeth? What part of the human psyche does this twisted nightmarish image of a human/bat hybrid appeal to? And where does the pitiful excuse for film and writing, known as Twilight fit into all of this? Humans baffle me, but this is in a league all it's own...

Facebook, the village of billions.

A recent study found that the average number of Facbook friends, is around 150, which is interesting because the most people that a person can maintain meaningful relationships with, is around 150. This is because the average size of villages and tribes through most of human history, was 150. Another interesting thing, is that people (my self included) complain that Facebook is destroying peoples privacy, which it is, but for most of human history, privacy was a non existent thing, villages were so small that every one new every one else's business. Privacy is a modern invention, that Facebook is uninventing. The key difference though, is that once it's out there, it's out there, note like a real village, where once some new piece of gossip comes about people forget about the last thing. Now some comment you made years ago, can prevent you from getting a job. Some unremembered comment made while more then a little drunk can haunt you for years. So, dear reader, while you commenting on a friends comment about a comment, think twice, and remember, the village is watching, the village sees all, knows all, and it never forgets.

 

Thoughts on Piracy, the Internet Variety.

Internet piracy is a pervasive crime these days. Probably one of the more common. But, unlike just about any other, it actually helps the victims.

the Swiss government finds that people who download things online without paying for them actually end up spending more money than people who don’t. This applies to consumers of music, television, and video games. Piracy pays, apparently.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/swiss-government-study-finds-internet-downloads-increase-sales/


So why, exactly, are the penalty's so steep? My thoughts are this, it is an old way, fighting against a new way. Change pushing against stagnation. The old fighting against the new. If I were so inclined, dear reader, I would be willing to bet that within 20 years (probably a lot less), it will be a crime the equivalent of a parking ticket, or possibly not even a crime.

Zombies, they just wont stay dead

Zombies... Where to start? I suppose where it start's, the grave. How is it that the idea of a reanimated mindless corps who's only motive is to eat people has become so very, very popular? Does it have to do with our fear of death? Fear of the dead? Fear of getting eaten? Fear of that which has no fear? I think that it is probably all of the above, combined with just a bit of morbid curiosity. Though that does raid yet another question, why is the Resident Evil series so popular? I wonder what Freud would make of a video series featuring sex and walking corpses. 'Tis strange when you think about it, is it not? Zombies, mutants, viruses, evil robots, who could imagine the crazy things that Hollywood regularly dreams up? Think about that, dear reader, and hope you never mete a rather decayed individual with a craving for your deliciously delectable grey matter.