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Vertically Striped Radio.
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Things I
liked this week:
-Having two
days off
-The end of
political commercials
-Prop 64
passed
-New Orleans
Bananas
Break-up with
Scar-Jo
Ellie – I
hate black!
Luke – Going
to the bathroom
Today on VSR –
The internet has changed the world…we’ll look at how it might not be entirely a
good thing and my upcoming personal challenge.
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(Bring on
Face) –
Let’s get to
the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Let’s get to
the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Walton, KENTUCKY - Bobby McDonald would be preparing to
take his hard-earned seat on Walton City Council had Tuesday's ballot not ended
in a tie.
All he needed to defeat his nearest opponent Olivia Ballou
for the sixth available place was one more vote…His wife Katie's vote, to be
precise.
She called him election night with ten minutes to go
before the polls closed to say she had not managed to get to the polls, and he
told her not to worry.
“What harm could it do?” he reasoned.
"She works extra hours at night, goes to school and
we have three kids, so I don't blame her," Mr. McDonald told the Kentucky
Enquirer.
"She woke up about ten minutes before the polls
closed and asked if she should run up, but I told her I didn't think one vote
would matter."
His fate is now likely to be decided by the toss of a
coin.
"You never think it will come down to one vote, but
I'm here to tell you that it does," lamented Bobby, after ending up with
669 votes.
A man who took his ex-girlfriend's pregnancy test for a
joke discovered he had testicular cancer after his positive result was flagged
up online.
The man's friend had posted a comic drawing on the Reddit
website showing how surprised he was at finding he was an expectant male.
But an alert reader suggested there might be another,
serious reason for the reading.
"You may have testicular cancer. Get to an
oncologist, tell them you took a pregnancy test and it came out positive,"
the person wrote.
The joker took the advice and went to his doctor, who
found a small tumour on his right testicle.
His friend has since posted an update on what happened.
He said: "To be honest with everyone, I assumed it
was nothing, considering a pregnancy test finding cancer seemed a bit odd.
"But I guess there is a hormone the test picks up
that the tumour produces, and that is why the test said he was pregnant."
The friend added: "So both of us want to say, 'Thank
you.' And, in all seriousness, if you are male, check yourself for testicular
cancer regularly. If you're a girl, test yourself for breast cancer
regularly."
The connection with the pregnancy test and the finding of
testicular cancer is that some testicular cancers produce the same hormone -
beta hCG - that is tested for in pregnancy kits.
CLEVELAND, OHIO - A woman in Ohio has been ordered to
wear an 'idiot' sign after driving on a footpath to avoid a school bus picking
up children.
Shena Hardin, 32, will have to stand at a junction as a
warning to others, after she was repeatedly caught on camera driving
dangerously.
The bus driver captured her in the act on his mobile
phone and then contacted police, who lay in wait on September 11.
A judge at Cleveland Municipal Court told Hardin she
would have to wear a sign saying: "Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to
avoid a school bus."
Hardin will have to complete the humiliating punishment
between 7.45am and 8.45am on two days next week.
She was also ordered to pay $250 in court costs and her
driver’s license was suspended for 30 days.
I’m Craig,
and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
How the
Internet Changed the World:
January 1st,
1994 – It is estimated that there were 623 Websites
“There’s a
broad feeling among technologists that technology itself is going to improve,
come what may. That computing power, bandwidth, storage capacity, even our
ability to pack pixels into screens, is going to keep improving.
At the same
time, there is worry that humans and their institutions will not adapt as well
as they might under these circumstances. We’re slow to adjust, and the
technologies themselves are introducing so many new elements to life that
people will potentially have a hard time adjusting to that. There’s a sense
that people are marching not necessarily blindly, but certainly without full
knowledge, into a future that they don’t fully know. They’re thrilled with
their gadgets but they don’t know what their gadgets are doing to them.”
-Socially –
make us all social morons
-Killed the
distribution industry: Postal Service, Music Industry, Radio, Movies, Shopping,
Encyclopedias (Google Brown)
Created jobs
and new industries: eBay, Amazon, IT Industry
-Eliminated
“Wondering”
-Created an
even more instant society
-Made it
harder and harder to erase an embarrassing past
-Memory has
become less valuable, and perhaps we are forgetting how to remember things as
we let our gadgets and the internet remember for us.
-Created a
false sense of experiencing the world. (There is something to be said for
“being there”)
-Actual
analog letters arriving in the mail are now confusing.
-Made us
fatter
-Content used
to matter and give one power, now EVERYONE has content, so what gives one power
is not owning content you have created, but rather having the ability to draw
an audience to your particular content.
-Lowered the
public discourse: So many people are sick of the election that is about to
happen because of how uncivilized the discussion is getting…surely at least
part of that is due to Americans becoming used to sharing their opinion online
while having the negative reinforcement of displeasing others be severely
lessened by not interacting in person. In short, the internet is making us
social retards.
-Created new
ways to waste money: If you had told someone ten years ago that spending twenty
dollars for “Facebook Credits” was a thing that would happen…how would you even
go about explaining what you were talking about?
-Killed
privacy and anonymity
-Made the
word Spam go from having 1 annoying meaning to 2 annoying meanings
-Made the
world smaller. Before, I would never have known Australians, now I am amused or
annoyed by one on a near daily basis.
-Changed how
people cheat – Up to a quarter of divorces in the US are now at least partially
blamed on Facebook
Simmons is
out on Football – Clip 82
Vertically Striped Music
Recommendation:
Miniature
Tigers – Tell it to the Volcano
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
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