Or, more literally, Pastor Tim Keller at Google. I’m pretty impressed with both Dr. Keller and with Google.
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Hat tip: Kevin
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All I can say is that, if virtual reality is going to be used this way, then we need better brain machine interface, not only for control, but for virtual sensation.
Reminds me of Snow Crash. But I still on betting that most of it is a stupid waste of time.
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Remember Max Headroom?–a show I am not ashamed to call awesome, the first (only?) cyberpunk show we ever got on TV.
Well, I’m not thinking of AI comedy. I’m thinking of the news show. Remember? The protagonist was a journalist who lugged around his own camera and it gave immediate feed. He was also connected to an operator who was online giving him information (like maps, etc).
Right now, the model for mobile handhelds is to make a great phone and electronic organizer and attach it to a third rate camera? But why not make a video recorder that can connect to both mobile services and wi-fi (and WiMAX whenit is deployed) so that people can instantly stream video to the web? Then ad a phone capacity (which, if it could use wi-fi through skype. Put a small web cam at the other end so you could do head shot commentary without (like in the show) turning the whole thing around and pointing it at yourself.
I don’t know why I’m blogging about this. I just think that when you think about the tiny size of laptops and phones and the way video cameras have shrunk that it should be possible to make something really sleek and powerful-a video camera you could use for all sorts of purposes.
Neither is any other atheist, pagan, or infidel. No, intellectual, cultural, and artistic endeavors by North American Christians out-gun them all.
This will be the lasting legacy of the Religious Right.
I’m going to resist the Pogo cliche.
I don’t have much time to comment on this, but I’m posting video of Neil Diamond that shows him at his best: as a real musician. He had too much flash for his own good, devolved into lounge-lizard-audio, and wrote several songs that sound like they were primarily designed to get him laid (though it is hard to imagine he needed that edge by that point in his carreer).
But I originally listened to him over and over on eight-track when I was way too young to worry about that stuff (and later I was just naive) and I still think he counts as a great–nasal baritone notwithstanding.
Cherry Cherry
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Cracklin Rosie
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Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show
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Holly Holy
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Love on the Rocks
I liked this move from the eighties, though I’m not sure how much the song has to do with situation the movie shows as the background to the song.
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Why my missionary and devout parents introduced me to a bunch of drug music, I’ll never know 🙂 –except that the band was really good.
First, of course, Nights in White Satin. Yes there were other videos I could have posted, but this uh stood out.
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This next was probably my favorite (funny that no matter how much they say “I’m just a..” being a “rock and roll singer” comes across as messianically important).
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Another favorite (video done more recently but the song goes back):
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Older (I think):
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Here’s a salute to amateur production values and the award for “song least understandable apart from recreational drug use” (in the culture, not the listener).
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And here we have their mid-eighties comeback. The fact that the survivors stayed in such great shape leads me to suspect they were wiser than their musical culture may have been.
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Quite frankly, they fit rather well into the eighties vibe. And looking at the theme related video, the primary drug being pushed was melodrama.
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And then from earlier eighties while I was still in high school I think. If the speech by Justin was his idea and was included in the video, then he is more full of himself than I thought.
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