Tags: I had almost forgot about these. I was going through old LiveJournal posts and found them again.
Epic 2014 is the original flash online movie made by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History. Set in 2014 it charts the history of the Internet, the evolving mediascape and the way news and newspapers were affected by the growth in online news. It coined the word “Googlezon” from a future merger of Google and Amazon to form the Google grid, and speaks of news wars with the Times becoming a print only paper for the elite culminating in EPIC Evolving Personalised Information Construct As a flash animation, this film is extraordinary, not just for it’s use of technology but for it’s fantastic perception looking forward.
Epic 2015 is a new updated vision of the future set in 2015.
…make his own peanut butter sandwich.
I was flipping through my Newsweek and came across this article. The full read is astonishing.
Some ships have started putting armed guards on their vessels. Others have used weapons such as sonic guns, which use beams of loud noise to deter pirates. Does any of that worry you?
It will not protect them. We also have rocket-propelled grenades and we can destroy them. For those with the sonic guns, we hijacked some of them even after they fired the sonic guns. Truly speaking, when we go to sea we are drunk, and we are like hungry wolves running after meat. We don’t even know what we are doing until we have boarded.
via Q&A: Somali Pirate Explains How To Steal Ships | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
With the impending doom of LiveJournal predicted I have decided to export all of my LJ entries. There are some oldies but goodies in there. Doing so has also enabled me to import those entries as posts in my wordpress blog. You’ll be able to find all these posts in LJ Import.
This might also prompt me to make sure I have copies of all of the photos I have on flickr as well.
