Getting Online in "The Future"

A great story: a dystopian tale truly worth of Big Brother Inc.

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-06-24-n15.html

Guide to Stumbling Quickly

This guide is for any Stumbleupon user who wishes to stumble faster and more efficiently, or anyone who just enjoying Stumbleupon and wants to mess around with the toolbar. For most Stumblers, this isn't necessary: it's only useful for things like webcomics, quotes, etc, where speed is helpful while you trawl through the pages that are suggested to you. Over time, Stumbleupon's accuracy will increase, but until then you will want to move quickly as you teach it what you like.

If you are new to Stumbleupon, or have never heard of it, then a good place to begin is here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/aboutus/

To begin, you will need to: 

• Have downloaded and installed Firefox.
• Have a Stumbleupon account.
• Installed the Stumbleupon toolbar.

Feel free to familiarize yourself with it, and then when you want to stumble quickly, on to this:

 Go to the shortcuts tab. My favorite configuration is to use Ctrl + the arrow keys to stumble and rate pages, so that hand only does minimal movement, although the same thing can be done with other keys. 

Hit "OK", and you should be good to go.

Pathetic.

http://www.nationalpost.com/computers+used+delete+criticism+trace/3334621/story.html

This is a crime committed by a government official, and they should be reprimanded appropriately. It is a deliberate attempt to mislead the Canadian public. I may personally consider the stealth fighter a mistake (the only ones that we need to worry about invading are the Americans, and chances are they won't openly, and a handful -or even hundreds- of aircraft would be unlikely to deter them). But people have a right to be informed, and this is not a child making fun of someone famous, it is someone altering the information to stand in line with their personal opinion or to secure their own professional gain

Blog update.

I've broken one of my rules of design and am currently using a white font on a black background.

This is a crime, and in the words of Shepard Book: 

"you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

Corporations in early Dystopian novels.

The most famous Dystopian novel of all time, 1984 , contains not a single reference to corporations, or any form of privatized industry that I can recall. Come to mention it, neither did Brave New World. Obviously, when these novels were written and published, no one could have predicted the rise of corporations: sure, there was big business, but the government was seen as much more of a threat to privacy, as it probably was. 

Now, however, the government is held in check by the interests of industry - little change is conducted without the blessing of the monoliths that we have chosen to lift above our heads. Without the recording industry and it's associated groups and lobbyists, how much interest would the government have in cracking down on piracy? Sure, creators would complain, and then developed new ways to make money. Big Brother doesn't watch us: that outsources to security firms. Big Brother doesn't educate us: that's left to television and advertising. 

When you examine the roles that corporations now play, buisness seems to resemble Big Brother more than the government.

In honour of this, I will be referring to it as Big Brother Inc.