I was enjoying my iced coffee today at a trendy little New York coffee shop and witnessed two atrocities against all things decent by the same person. Laptop plugs that are in the “wall wart” form instead of the “power brick” form and popped collars.
I will address both serious issues today.
I was going to write a long post about being environmentally conscious, about the devils of intricate government-corporation relationships, about the exponentially increasing rate of obesity on a global scale, about vast overpopulation and lack of resources, and about the sad state of public education. I was going to top it off with a long rave about how great the depth of field techniques, cinematography of animated films(1), the power of sound and music in movies without dialogue, and the new trend in children’s movies to steer away from a distinct villain or objective and leave the antagonist role to more abstract things.
Instead, I leave you with this: Continue reading…
Footnotes:[Sidenote: Before I start, I have a special announcement. My website has been banned by the Great Firewall of China. I'm getting censored by an entire government! I am illegal to 1/6th of the world! That's so awesome... soooo awesome. I feel so special...]
There’s this huge joke that the internet is just for porn. The problem is, it’s not really a joke.
This is a Google Trends diagram of “porn” vs “science”.
For the not-so-savvy, Google Trends is a branch of Google that allows you to view keywords and the frequency of their searches over the course of the years. Above is the blue line which represents the word “porn” and the red line which represents “science”. The graph top half of the graph represents the number of times “porn” was searched vs the number of times “science” was searched and the bottom of the graph represents the number of times “porn” was mentioned in the news vs the number of times “science” was mentioned in the news. So… despite science dominating porn in the news sector, porn has consistently whopped on science in terms of what people are most interested in finding on the internet.
Over the couse of the last couple of days, I’ve had a few strange things happen, I made a few mistakes, and I’ve learned a few things about New York. Oh, New York — the city I love, the city I hate, the city I love to hate.
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