Its interesting that more people don’t use skype when makeing long distance calls. Skype is a free voice over ip utility that lets you talk to anyone, anywhere in the world for free. it will be interesting to see if this uility affects long distance rates in the near future. why anyone would bother to make a long distance call and pay exporbadent fees with free utilites like this out there still baffels me.
its interesting to note that with this generation of game consoles how much more they are using the internet. with the previous generations of game consoles gamers were mostly limited to single player play, and if you wanted to do multiplayer you needed to have someone sitting next to you to be able to play. now consoles are virtually as connected as PC’s allowing gamers to use the internet to connect to virtually anyone. they even let you browse the internet.
kinda thought this was a funny picture. i guess it plays on the idea that the news stations we rely on for our news don’t always give you the whole story. If something is controversial its often presented to us from a certaine veiw point, or not presented to us at all. anyway, it made me smile.
i was home this weekend and was watching the news when the weather came on. as you know, we recently had a big noreaster this weekend. i found it almost comical what a huge deal the news stations were making over a winter storm. then i realized that i had seen this before. every time there is a storm, if you watch the news, they almost try to make you believe its the end of the world. that we’re going to be buried under feet of snow for months on end. they ALWAYS show stores selling out of food and shovles and things like that. then the storm comes, we take a day to clean up, and things are back to normal till the next 4 inches of snow come and the process starts all over again.
Comm Self
So after watching the ad for “Dew Mocracy,” it kind of made me think about the following things. Obviously, its a Mountain Dew ad, and as such is way over the top, just like every other Mountain Dew ad It depicts unbelievable situations and people performing super human acts… all with a bottle of mountain dew in their grasp. How creating a new flavor of soda somehow relates to saving humanity, well… I’m not really sure. In spite of all this, I kind of think it’s a neat idea. The soft drink business has always been an extremely lucrative one. Companies are constantly struggling to find that new flavor, or use “magic” to create a diet soda with no calories that tastes great. It’s interesting to see how they are now embracing then internet as a way of using their customers input to develop a new soda.
What I find interesting is how they expect people to come up with a distinct flavor over the internet. It looks to me like a lot of emphasis is being placed on the overall look and feel of the product, rather then what it actually tastes like. Still, it’s kind of cool being able to “create” your own soda and submit it to mountain dew to see what they think about it. I’ve always been a regular Coke kind of guy, never really cared for the cherry or vanilla flavors that seem to be a hit these days so being able to submit my input on what major soda companies should come out with next is defiantly appealing. Whether any one will really read it or not though is obviously uncertain.
Objective Gaze
One example of a forensics scene from the movie rear window is the scene where Jefforys is watching his neighbor the morning after the rainy night. He notices that his wife is no longer in the apartment, but what really gets his attention is when his neighbor takes out a very long saw, and a very long knife out from the sink, wraps them in news paper, and packs them in a suit case. When he does finally get a glimpse of the bed room where his neighbors wife used to reside, the mattress is all rolled up, as if something extremely messy had happened on it, and their is a large crate in the room. This sends Jefforys, who has been locked in his room for 7 weeks with nothing to do, into a fervor. He becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to his neighbors wife because he has convinced him self that she was murdered.
