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makes a cool poster (if you’re a dork)

I think I had a sense of this reality from the visual language disparity between Facebook and MySpace, but it’s interesting to see a little research about it. Class stereotypes present themselves pretty clearly in social networked sites in general - normally starting out with the basic dork elite and spreading out in various directions based on the form and function of the site. This is the fun thing about web 2.0 - that it’s controlled by users. And users suprise you.
MySpace took me by suprise when it eclipsed Friendster, but nobody even mentions Friendster anymore. Damn teenagers and their confounded rock and roll.

Facebook is good, MySpace is bad

There’s no denying it. 

Lucas simultaneously created the coolest and the lamest space epic ever imagined, and we can’t forgive him for getting his own vision so horribly wrong.

first shot from the set

I’m sorry about the headline Harrison. You look great.

Recently Israel has discovered that young American men have little or no opinion of Israel one way or the other. They see this as a bad thing. Their answer?

Hot Israeli soldier ladies in Maxim.

The way to get young American men invested in the plight of Israel is to show them some boobies. The sad thing is, it might work.

And it’s unlikely the Palestinians will be able to counter. I mean, I guess they could, as long as they honor kill the models afterwards. We could call it suicide porn, they’d be martyrs.

The war rages on.

Hey,

This is a big deal for the whole crew. It’s instrumental, and so far, I dig it. it’s not easy for grey bearded guys to rap anymore, so instrumental might behoove them. I’ve seen MCA pushing a stroller in Brooklyn a few times, glad to see he can still kick out the jams.

I expect cbt3 to have more to say about it. He’s the one with the most vested interest in new beastie boys albums.

PEACE:

Stream the new Beastie Boys via brooklyn vegan

photo from Zane Lowe’s BBQ.

DARPA working on predator style armor.

Start with giving the soldiers plain old visible armor first I think.

A teenager in intensive care unplugged his neighbour’s life support machine because the noise was keeping him awake.

This is an interesting concept. The idea that profiles can be independant of sites like Myspace and Facebook, an open standards based platform that lets you take your entire social network with you off of those sites and wherever you like. It suggests a kind of revolutionary restructuring of information on the web.

From Dave Winer:

Eventually, soon I think, we’ll see an explosive unbundling of the services that make up social networks. What was centralized in the form of Facebook, Linked-in, even YouTube, is going to blow up and reconstitute itself. How exactly it will happen is something the historians can argue about 25 years from now. It hasn’t happened yet, but it will, unless the rules of technology evolution have been repealed (and they haven’t, trust me).

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