This guy is somewhat skilled. Skip to the 1:00 - 1:10 mark for the ridiculous bit.
Musically, this is somewhat interesting as well. It's Gypsy Jazz. It has hints of jazz (obviously), hints of (insert name of Jewish music here) and hints of hillbilly bluegrass. Anyway.
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This man in a mirror suit seems to be saying 'Haters gonna hate,' as he struts around, blinding nearby drivers with reflected sunlight. I'm not a hater though; I think this is damn awesome.
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This man in a mirror suit seems to be saying 'Haters gonna hate,' as he struts around, blinding nearby drivers with reflected sunlight. I'm not a hater though; I think this is damn awesome.
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The US library of Congress announced that they are going to archive every tweet sent by every twitter account -- ever. I don't see why this is necessary, and could possibly be immoral.
After all, of the hundreds of millions - possibly billions - of tweets they're going to archive, more than 90% will be 'Had hard day at work. Boss friggin sucks.' I'm sure that you can aggregate hundreds of millions of these to tell us something unique and original about seasonal variation in worker morale, but that brings us to the larger dilemma: privacy.
What if someone doesn't WANT their tweets publicly archived? How many of their updates were drunken and embarrassing, poorly typed dedications of love to some stranger? How many are anti-government, or protective of their rights? Twitter is used all over the world, and all of these tweets will be collected by a branch of the US government; what if laws in other countries prohibit the information being used in this way?
I know that the Library's intentions are clear - to collect and collate a mass of New Media literature (and it IS literature) - but to do this, they're walking through a minefield. No, driving through a minefield. In a steamroller.
After all, of the hundreds of millions - possibly billions - of tweets they're going to archive, more than 90% will be 'Had hard day at work. Boss friggin sucks.' I'm sure that you can aggregate hundreds of millions of these to tell us something unique and original about seasonal variation in worker morale, but that brings us to the larger dilemma: privacy.
What if someone doesn't WANT their tweets publicly archived? How many of their updates were drunken and embarrassing, poorly typed dedications of love to some stranger? How many are anti-government, or protective of their rights? Twitter is used all over the world, and all of these tweets will be collected by a branch of the US government; what if laws in other countries prohibit the information being used in this way?
I know that the Library's intentions are clear - to collect and collate a mass of New Media literature (and it IS literature) - but to do this, they're walking through a minefield. No, driving through a minefield. In a steamroller.
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Who knew that the tankest person in existence - the most manly man who has ever lived - was Japanese?
I had an article on my wall all last year about this man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only man in the world to survive being in the blast zone of two nuclear bombs. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the first bomb went off, and he sustained injuries in the explosion.
But, being the balls-of-steel top gun that he was, he went straight back to his own home town the very next day. That's right - heavily burned from a nuclear explosion and he hops straight to his own town of Nagasaki. Yeah.
That's not where his mad-coolness ends. Still severely burned by a nuclear frigging explosion, he went to work on August 9. There, he was explaining his injuries to his boss - about to kick the boring fools head in - when he got caught in another nuclear blast. Which he survived.
Unfortunately, his body was resistant to superpowers after this. He managed to stave off radiation poisoning along with any long term affects. He died earlier this year. This may not sound all that manly, but he was going on ninety, so cut him some slack.
I had an article on my wall all last year about this man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only man in the world to survive being in the blast zone of two nuclear bombs. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the first bomb went off, and he sustained injuries in the explosion.
But, being the balls-of-steel top gun that he was, he went straight back to his own home town the very next day. That's right - heavily burned from a nuclear explosion and he hops straight to his own town of Nagasaki. Yeah.
That's not where his mad-coolness ends. Still severely burned by a nuclear frigging explosion, he went to work on August 9. There, he was explaining his injuries to his boss - about to kick the boring fools head in - when he got caught in another nuclear blast. Which he survived.
Unfortunately, his body was resistant to superpowers after this. He managed to stave off radiation poisoning along with any long term affects. He died earlier this year. This may not sound all that manly, but he was going on ninety, so cut him some slack.
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