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Hope for the world....please!!!

Obama wants an 80% cut in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He wants the US to lead the global effort to combat climate change. He says he would invest $150bn over 10 years in clean energy.

Let us pray he manages to persuade the American people to vote for him.

Whatever else may be unsavoury about him, about US politics, about liberal America in general, at least this man sounds like a decent step in the right direction! If the election goes in the other direction, the world will truly go to the dogs..... (more)

07 09 08 - 23:02 - da5idk - default| No comments - § ¶

15 minutes

Warhol coined the phrase "15 minutes of fame", which refers to the fleeting condition of celebrity that attaches to an object of media attention, then passes to some new object as soon as the public's attention span is exhausted. In this age of Web 2.0, in a networked society comprising constant internet exposure to one's net-friends on the various social networking sites and chat networks to which so many of us belong and upon which we spend our evenings (and increasingly our lunchtimes and afternoons... breakfast, elevenses, etc) one wonders if we are entering a time whereby we will look to the anonymity of the past, and even dream of a time, in the future, when everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes...

05 09 08 - 20:20 - da5idk - default| No comments - § ¶

Boys

---------------- Boys------------------------
-----------are like apples------------------
-------on trees. The best ones-----------
-----are at the top of the tree-----------
-----Other boys dont want to reach----
----for the good ones because they----
-are afraid of falling & getting hurt-----
-Instead, they get the rotten apples---
-from the ground that arent as nice----
-but easy. So the apples up top think--
--there is something wrong with them--
---when in reality they're amazing------
---They just have to wait for the-------
-------right boy to come along-----------
--------the one who is brave-------------
----------enough to climb-----------------
----------------all the----------------------
---------------way to----------------------
---------------the top----------------------
-------------of the tree---------

05 09 08 - 11:50 - da5idk - default| one comment - § ¶

Reflections on the Olympics

Population of China :
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1,330,869,743

The West?
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Population of EU:491,018,677
US-304,089,248
Canada-31,612,897
Austrasia-20,325,926+4,116,900
South Africa-46,586,607
Japan-127,756,815

TOTAL: 978,920,463

in short-hand:
China : 1.3bn
The West: 0.9bn

Stats from http://www.geohive.com/

So, China outnumbers us.

So... why should we expect them to do anything but live up to the style of personal one-to-one interaction that they understand? All they ask is that we respect their cultural 'thang' about FACE. We (especially Bush, have been blowing off in their FACE) and they are begging us, 'don't give us any more trouble - we are in China'.

But, on the other hand, the Last Great Police State, already economically conquered, is finally beginning to waver politically in the swirl of the information society. This is a phenomenon that knows no geographical limits - and perhaps needs only to complete its global ubiquitous-ness before it begins to expand its cloak of satellites beyond the orbit of the earth and out into the inky blackness, perhaps with a more culturally integrated voice... ..albeit that that cultural integration may hide many unique flavours behind its standard salt & vinegar...

It seems the choice for all of us has been made. Globally, we live in a transnational capitalist economy, and pray that the survival of the planet will be profitable. Global integrity sufficient to create a globally interoperable ubiquitous computing environment will require that we continue along cultural lines already in play for decades, centuries, even millenia of tradition, as the legs upon which new heads stand. On the other hand, large scale systems, after all, set parameters for cultural expression and identity. So the truly ubiquitous computing environment in which transnational capitalism can maximise eCommerce will be both globally immersive, leaving no virtual pioneering territory without flag or brand, and inclusive, ensuring soy and ginger flavoured crisps, too.....

The Olympics brought the eye of global infotainment to China, and 1.1billion people will never be the same.

01 09 08 - 18:28 - da5idk - default| No comments - § ¶