Today’s Media Consumer Links
How to Use Your Windows Mobile Phone as a Wireless Internet Modem
This post “How to Use Your Windows Mobile Phone as a Wireless Internet Modem” was in my del.icio.us links since last July. Since corresponding with AG about this matter, it is as clear as day that anything to do with a “Windows Mobile Phone” is not of my current concern.
Chris Farley—The Relapse Guy
This Chris Farley SNL skit on YouTube.com is to me his best.
Cringely on Profit
In “You Can’t Get There From Here,” Robert X. Cringely is very lucid about “the myth of bandwidth scarcity”: “Profit is to be found not just in pleasing dissatisfied customers, but in dissatisfying them in the first place so they will then pay to be pleased.” When the careful research verifies (yet again) that such statements are true, we can’t say this is by accident or isolated incident. Certainly the students and many teachers of sociology, psychology and marketing are sincere in their efforts to help people and better the lives of all. However, their research data is not immune to abuse.
YouTube—Brazilian Spicy
This YouTube.com resource is far superior to explicit smut to me… I think I’m maturing a little…
“Civilisation: a New History of the Western World”
Here in the rasx() context, “Civilisation: a New History of the Western World” is the spectacle of a writer writing about another writer, Aidan Campbell on Roger Osborne—and both of these writers are too deeply invested in imperial consciousness. Certainly when Aidan writes, “Osborne builds his case which accuses rationalism of being remote and out-of-touch, arrogantly impractical and know-it-all, while his charmingly symbolic fairy tales about history are endearingly complex, uncertain and contingent.”
To me “rationalism” is the ability to successfully utilize left-brain functions (which to an African of the Old Kingdom is literally half of a complete thought). Rational half thought is utterly practical for soldiers and the personnel supporting the soldiers. “Fairytales” have no place on the battlefield and that small squalid space just outside the battlefield. By design, the majority of American citizens—and all of the able-bodied lower classes—are designed from birth for military and military support service. A “meaningless entertainment” like, hmm, say, Saw, Saw II and Saw III, is an excellent, rational preparation for a worker/soldier at Guantanamo.
To a devout student of rationalism, my flippant summary of rationalism is not, well… rational.