An invitation? If they're actually serious, I LOVE IT.
Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
Apply now if you're interested. Strange that they would announce this on April fools day...
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All you geeks out there who think you know SEO, better come correct. This is Chuck "The SEO Rapper" from Houston and he's about to feed your clients a Snickers bar.
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Source: The Atlantic (full article)
Are you really considering voting? Like going down to an electronic voting machine that is set up in an official building owned by the government (the people?) - How boring.
No one person is going to be able to save this country from it's internal chaos and toxic havoc abroad, sorry... If you vote by using a pencil or a touch screen or whatever machine, you are wasting your time and energy. It does not matter and in fact voting stopped mattering the day that corporations began to ravage and plunder the world, sorry... We are contributing to our own demise with each election.
The words of the weary will be heard and serve as alchemy for a rising generation of revolutionaries/anarchists. Think of them as invaders of our every comfort and security. Sure they may appear misled and full of youth. LEAVE THEM ALONE. You were once just like them, but chose the pen over the paint brush, and a steady paycheck over lending a helping hand. HA! those days ended the day allowances were given to kids. In America, GREED is the over-ruling motivational factor. And we will scare the shit out of you until you hand over what we want, sorry...
If you're a kid (i don't care what age you are) and you're reading this, keep tearing the flags of nations up and sewing them all together into the rainbow that we really are. It's the spirit inside that every system is seeking to steal. No original thought allowed, only patents and trademarks here. No democracy, it's just a fancy name for the religion called capitalism. I think what you're after is something that only aliens and the internet will ever be able to offer. A reminder of our pure connectivity. Our skinless soul that we all dangle from, like a sphere in space, spreading out into a timefree expansion.
Never stop drawing or throwing paint on the walls. And if you are one of them that have been tricked into quitting yourself, let this post serve as validation for what you are constantly thinking about. That gradual decision to be one of them and dissolve yourself away. It's true you've wasted many years and have only left an impression of wealth upon your subscribers who soon will abandon you for what reminds them of who they believed you once were.
Past the point of no return? Well I don't know, knowing that requires an individual personal analysis. I suspect millions feel doomed by the choices that they have made and the time that they have wasted. Any allegiance to any party, religion, policy, or fashion is a red flag and a sure sign that maybe you should pay a little more attention. Try thinking for yourself some more. Try voting for you.
"The corporation is an externalizing machine (moving its operating costs to external organizations and people), in the same way that a shark is a killing machine." - Joel Balkan
"Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like." - Lord Thurlow
"Corporations, which previously had been considered artificial entities with no rights, were accorded all the rights of persons, and far more, since they are "immortal persons", and "persons" of extraordinary wealth and power. Furthermore, they were no longer bound to the specific purposes designated by State charter, but could act as they choose, with few constraints." - Noam Chomsky
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Not quite a Pleo but still pretty neato! I WANT ONE!
South African lizard - Cordylus cataphractus or the armadillo
girdled lizard is endemic to the SW cape and live in colonies of up to 40 individuals. They are live bearing and the babies are perfect replicas of the adults. They bite on their tail and roll themselves into a ball when threatened. They also hide amongst rock crevices and inflate their bodies so they cant be removed. These animals are CITES protected as is most of South Africas reptile species.
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Wow... this is just unbelievable... A while back I noticed that the custom myspace.com URL that I selected a few years ago (3/26/05 - before News Corp bought them) was no longer associated with my myspace profile. I tried to contact myspace to see what was going on and to let them know that my custom URL was no longer associated with my account. I don't know if anyone else has ever tried to get a real human to talk to over at myspace but it's virtually (no pun intended) impossible. So like every other commoner out in the streets of the real world I tried to get a hold of them through their website messaging system only to be brushed off with what appeared to be computer generated responses to my concern.
So today I typed in my custom url again myspace.com/tickets and lo and behold looks like myspace has been trying to get into the ticket business since Jan. 2007 and they needed a good domain name to promote their new business endeavor. 
So now what do I do? Well, I'm not sure yet. What would you do if myspace yanked your custom URL out from under you? Find the best IP attorney in America (Eben Moglen) to try and see if myspace has the legal right to take away, at will, anyone's custom URL linking to their profile whenever they see fit to do so? Or would you just let it go, forget about it and watch your internet asset become another revenue stream for Rupert Murdoch's empire?
First things first, I need to take a look at the TOS agreement that was in effect and the same one that I digitally signed back on 3/26/2005. It will probably require writing a letter to MySpace and hoping to have them voluntarily mail me a copy of this agreement.
By the way, just so you'll realize that there was value in the uniqueness of myspace.com/tickets I was actually approached by a ticket company owner in Austin, TX (via a myspace message) who wanted to purchase my myspace page on 5/02/07.
I responded to this person and let them know that I did not want to sell my myspace profile myspace.com/tickets (The URL is what he wanted) and that I had plans to keep using it as a promotional tool for local bands in Houston. I may post the emails of this correspondence to flickr in the future but have chosen to hold off until I seek legal counsel and explore my options.
When I chose the word "tickets" to be my custom URL I knew that it was a great name and could certainly help me to promote and get the word out about different local bands playing in the Houston area. I also knew that it inherently was a valuable domain/URL because I knew myspace was getting more popular and it was a new way to connect with people using the internet and that the concert and ticket industry was a multi-billion dollar per year industry as verified by Forbes.com in an 01/04/08 article titled "Another Record Year For The Concert Industry."
Anyway... this is just not cool and it needs to be contested but before I go to the extent to exert the time and energy and money into seeking legal counsel I'd like to hear back from the blogosphere and get your thoughts about what happened. I'm not trying to be a prick I just think it's unprofessional for a company to treat it's customers/users the way that myspace has decided to treat me so far in this matter. What's the point of selecting a custom URL with any social site, then building content around it, marketing the URL to drive visitors to it to just have them come and steal it away from you for no reason other than they want to have it. Not cool...
Anyway, any thoughts from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Oh and have you ever visited the domain: myspacesucks.com - pretty clever ducc.
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All I can say is that I hope year8 will be different.. hopefully we'll get the courage to be honest to ourselves and to the people we love.
Excellent! I didn't post to shareneedles during the whole month of October. Actually, it's been quite a while. I've mostly been over here, setting up shop to keep the bread on the table.
I've also (thanks to Lord Ronin) been able to assemble a mini recording studio for multi-tracking the sounds whenever I feel like I need to. Anyway, just thought I'd throw a line or two out since it's already almost ThanksGiving and the weather's starting to change.. and I'd hate to let the whole month of November fly by without making any effort to seem alive. Sometimes I really do get tired of the whole blogging, twittering, flickering, youtubing scene.. know what I mean?
But yeah, I'll come back every now and then.
I hope you know that were watching you, following your dreams and every move, nothing gets past the simple truth, can't hide behind make up or fast car 90proof, we're all of the God's bound together, Jesus, Mohamed, Krishna and Buddha. Someday the oceans are gunna part again, reveal to us the world's sandbar of sins, it's what makes us human.
Honesty is so difficult to find in this world because everyone (including myself) are usually afraid of the truth. The truth gets easier to see amidst a sea of lies. It's like a buoy bobbing in blood flickering with a neon sign. Truth does float even when people try to weigh it down with chains.. truth becomes Houdini and eventually slips free again.
People say and do things that hurt other people. It's like a struggle of power between domination and submission. Like a game to the dominator and like a punishment to the submitter. In my opinion and experience, allowing oneself to participate in such drama is no way to grow an extraordinarily symbiotic relationship. It always ends up in a battle between egos. Very fleshy and physically worldish. How boring and childish...
With the invisible, timeless, non-gender love for all that is both living and departed, every one of us can walk through any wall that presents itself, because we're no longer subject to the laws of the ego or 5 senses. In this moment we are ionic spiritual beings of light (if we choose to be.) Our greatest and only enemies are our reflections and our projections. It's the mirror that is this world's new gold.
When I look into your eyes I see a world that I want to be a part of. Understanding attraction and demand is approaching relationships as a commodity, but this is something beyond a union of market value. The mirror is aimed at our senses and its designed to advert and throw our collectivity asunder. Sticking together is our destiny, one common code minus religion, politics and skin color.
Shed this hate and release this rage before we all become junkies pacing the cage.
I'LL WRITE TILL THEY CHOP MY FINGERS OFF, THEN I'LL SCREAM TILL THEY CUT OUT MY TOUNGE, AFTER THAT THE STORY WILL TELL ITSELF, ECHOING FROM THE HEARTS OF EVERYONE.
Gotta keep writing.. but I guess this is more like typing. I should post more videos, like I used to... Yeah back in the day everything would just appear on the page.. and now the times are quickly changing here in the superpower nation.
People are saying fuck that world, fuck your job, and fuck eating animals and fuck the malls.. fuck the shareholders, fuck fake tits, and fuck your record deal.. fuck wal-mart and fuck religion, and above all fuck your political position, fuck the radio and fuck doing drugs, fuck fucking, and fuck your pathetic love, fuck going to the movies, and fuck all holidays, fuck what you know, and fuck what you're trying to say.. Welcome to America and the fuck everything age.
So now what, now that we're saying fuck everything? Well that's the new question that the kids are asking. I mean, if all is damned for them then what are we expecting? What are they gonna be left with? Melting icebergs? Endless wars? Mass suicide and a world filled with whores?
What are you still breathing or reading this for? I don't have the answer that you're looking for, no not anymore, not like I did when I was 24. Man I knew everything.. but yeah fuck everything, that was then, now none of that means anything...
Keep drawing, screaming, breaking, remaking... cuz there's definitely something happening, people are waking and communicating.. re-inventing everything. No point in living if its all for nothing.. but this is proof that there's more of it coming. Link, embed, document the dead.. Unveil the truth behind their iron fist religions.. we're coming from all corners to profess this... angels and demons in human protest. and can't ya feel the aliens watching.. loving eyes carefully calculating.. closer to the day that they drop down the keys, unlock this cage and say good tidings humans.. welcome to the end of all race.. love is infinite and war is abolished.. will this ever happen? or is all of it rubbish...
Anyway, maybe I just need sleep... - ...fuck that.
Now imagine this same interactive technology on a glass partition in your living room. One side for entertainment, the other side facing the kitchen for cooking information. And when the wall is off it's either a beautiful glass wall or you could just have an artimation playing, or your flickr slideshow...
Follow your heart and never surrender that light which burns like angels and demons dancing inside you. Nothing can ever stop your spirit from pouring itself into the atmosphere but you. We are our own worst enemy and our greatest teacher. Listen to yourself and stop ignoring the signs, this shit is real and it's trying to tell you something.
To become aware of the link between the consciousness and the physical reality is to know the law of karma in action. What we intend is what we become. So what do you want to be? Who are you becoming? I look at myself and much of the time what I see is all of you. Your dreams and passions give me a reason to believe. The way you put your whole heart into every move that you make is an inspiration for generations and civilizations to come.
Those of you who are willing to set all of the worldly desires on fire and walk through walls to change this shit, I have a deep respect for you. This world is a fucking joke without people like you.
This guy was one of the first internet video artists before the days of video bloggers or "vloggers". He wrote, produced, acted, edited, and uploaded his own kids show on the internet called "The Jared Whitham Show". Keep in mind this was way before there were lonelygirls or rocketbooms...
Anyone who is serious about seeing what real art is all about or just wants to meet a person who is capable of allowing their entire spirit to flow through their work, absoulutely must witness first hand the work of Jared Whitham.
As far as I can tell Jared has not been performing anywhere lately. He had a really bad accident last year (Head on collision on the freeway, a car hopped the barrier and the passenger who hit Jared was killed.) and this may be contributing to his lack of video interaction with the internet, I'm certain he is still painting though.
For more information about Jared Whitham, or to see the The Jared Whitham Show you can click over to his archives on MedicineFilms.com, which by the way was the first social video sharing site on the Internet. Anyway, Where are you Jared?? WE MISS YOU.
"Under a cloud of war it is humanity that is hanging on a cross of iron."
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