In what has to be the coolest thing I have seen online today, my LDSA Frank shared Personas
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
Naturally, the program couldn’t get much on me using “James Elliott”. “Jhames”, however, was a whole other persona.
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If you read Flickr Censors Political Image Critical of President Obama by Thomas Hawk, you’ll see an interesting discussion centered around a Photoshop’d photograph of President Obama and Flickr’s decision to remove the image. Firas Alkhateeb, a 20-year-old college student in Illinois, is responsible for the image: he started with a cover photograph of Obama from Time magazine and used Photoshop to render Obama’s face as the Joker from Batman: The Dark Knight.
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My friend Phiam was good enough to promote The Goode Family on his Facebook profile (yay social media!), otherwise I would have missed what is the best animated series ever delivered by Mike Judge. I was never a fan of Beavis and Butt-head and I rarely watched King of the Hill, but I couldn’t get enough of The Goode Family which showed on ABC Family. If you never heard about this show, allow me to quickly bring you up to speed.
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For over a month now I’ve been combing through my iTunes music library that nears 160GB. I haven’t loaded my entire music library into iTunes but my goal is to listen to every song I own so I can begin reducing what I own. Musical tastes change in time and a lot of what I found enjoyable a few years ago doesn’t ring true. Also, friends have shared with me some of their favorite artists and, truth be told, I never listened farther than the first tracks.
I’ve averaged about 200 songs a day but that is barely scratching the surface. At this rate, I won’t be ready for new music until winter.
In the past five years since living in Seattle I’ve been hit on my bicycle several times by drivers who pay more attention to their mobile calls than traffic. Fortunately for me, many of these drivers own luxury cars which means their insurance plans will cover my hospital bills and any necessary repairs to my bicycle. This, unfortunately, is my health insurance plan.
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