Wednesday 14 January 2009

The blogosphere meets the interweb in a radical new age of connectedness

I am assuming in writing the following that I am speaking to my ideal self selecting target audience. The root of this assumption is that people that like to read blogs will always also be people that like to (or are compelled to by a destructive ADHD* spectrum psychological malfunction) squander away their lives on fascinating bits of the internet.
*Perhaps more accurately ADID when it is applied to the internet.

With that in mind, have 3 things that I have been doing lately (warning, I have found that doing these 3 things can lead to fits of despair, self loathing and tension headaches about the state of your thesis).

1. Play this game http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/n_ninja it is excellent in its online form, and there is an even better downloadable version available via google. A horribly compulsive eater of time, because it is really fun and because there are only save points every 5 or so levels, so once you've spent ages getting past a really hard level you feel compelled to carry on so as not to have 'wasted time.'

2. Do this: http://tinyurl.com/853ctf It is a greenpeace plot to stop the expansion of Heathrow, and it might well be very effective, and it is very easy to sign up for. Deets on their site, obv.
This is important to do because: We only have a finite world. While most human activities use of some of the world's resources (have an impact), some actions use up far more than others. If we want the whole planet to keep on working (which we do, as so far 'The World' has been the best source of all our non-misery in an otherwise pretty bleak patch of space) then it seems fair that we divvy up its resources so that we each have about the same amount. But flying is such an intensive a use of the world's [ie our] resources that each person can only fly a few times per lifetime and still have any hope of living within their means. At the moment people in the UK fly far more than that. It is our responsibility as a society to cap the amount of flying we do at a sustainable (very low) level, and then I suggest, invent some mechanism so that we all get to make use of this wonderful resource and public utility a few times in each lifetime.

3. Check out Chris Hoy's thighs:
PICTURE
(the interview's pretty interesting too: INTERVIEW (and pictures) )

By Tim

1 comment:

  1. I can't believe you texted me from 10 feet away to tell me you had blogged. Magical.

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