anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism.
Analog Sunday is an informal idea to encourage people to take a day off away from all things digital. Any or every Sunday can be an opportunity to unplug, get off the computer, relax, recharge the batteries and take a break from usual computer based routines by engaging with the world in a different way.
Leave me a voicemail and I’ll write music behind your narrative. Call it a soundtrack to your thoughts.
… yesterday a race between 10 pigeons and a 300 Mb video file dispatched on a rural broadband connection highlighted the not-spot misery of as many as a third of the UK’s homes.
The pigeons each carrying a USB key made their journey from a Yorkshire farm to Skegness around 120 miles away in an hour and fifteen minutes. In the same time, the broadband had only uploaded 24 per cent of the 5 minute video clip.
For christ’s sake people, just let me tune your god damn piano, do the both of us a favor. I’m the best in the whole god damn city, I swear to christ.
Q. And is there any significance to “new fags”?
A. That is the term used to describe new users to the site.
Q. What about “b tard”?
LOOK AT THIS BLOCK OF TEXT UNTIL YOU BECOME BORED WITH IT. WHEN YOU BECOME BORED WITH IT, INSTEAD OF INSTINCTIVELY REDIRECTING YOUR ATTENTION TO SOMETHING MORE STIMULATING, NOTICE THE SLIGHT AGITATION THAT HAS COME AND TRY TO RESIST IT. THIS IS NOT TO MAKE YOU TOLERABLE OF THINGS THAT ARE MUNDANE, BUT TO HELP BUILD BACK UP YOUR ATTENTION SPAN THAT THE INTERNET HAS TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU.