Lonely Brains Club - A Rambling, Incoherent Thought

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The lonely right-wingers book club

The lonely right-wingers book club 08/30/2004 07:23 PM
The excessively clean-cut, suit-and-tied young men who greeted me at the door had me worried that I was in the wrong place -- was this the "Books Done Right" forum, or had I wandered into auditions for the Mike Curb Congregation?

Red Brains vs. Blue Brains?

Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? 08/23/2004 10:13 AM

"this admittedly rambling post"

"this admittedly rambling post" 05/15/2004 02:37 AM

Rambling Alongside a Wi-Fi Cowboy

Rambling Alongside a Wi-Fi Cowboy 11/10/2003 10:55 PM
This big rambling article makes a lot of interesting observations scattered among slight misunderstandings: Technically, it's not 100 percent right on, but it's an interesting ramble among the minds, antenna sites, and interests of Tim Pozar and other wireless community builders....

Vodkapundit - Late Night Rambling

Vodkapundit - Late Night Rambling 08/17/2004 08:43 PM
Vodkapundit has further comments: .. [LINK] .. here

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bought thought -- free thought has a
price

bought thought -- free thought has a
price 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Bought Thought .. john

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dvorak rambling about circus horses and
bill gates

dvorak rambling about circus horses and
bill gates 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
i like when john sounds like a guy mumbling to himself in the corner. nobody bullshits better.

World wide bl0g count 60+ million and
rambling on a tangent

World wide bl0g count 60+ million and
rambling on a tangent 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
...so says this unscientific, but probably not-completely-inaccurate analysis.

MSN Spaces is growing at 100,000 blogs/day. Wow.

Whatever you think of the blogosphere, it probably is not true three months from now. Loïc mentioned yesterday that roughly 20% of French teenagers have blogs. Twenty percent. Think about it.

Well, maybe those teenagers get bored with it. Maybe nobody speaks of blogs in five years, and blogging has become a passé, done only by old farts still clinging to their ancient Wordpress installations. But blogs are significant because they are the first real global way for these young people to express themselves in an easy way. I still hail Mitvit< /a>'s wisdom on this: "One of the prime functions of blogs is to steal the internet back from the geeks." No matter what the platform is, these people will change the world simply by being themselves and creating. Now they write blogs - in six months everybody may be podcasting. Next year you might start to see vidcasting and personal TV stations.

Most of the created stuff will, of course, be crap. At least when viewed by a member of the general public. But that crap will be good and meaningful to a few people, and those people will gravitate to this stuff. It's one-to-few -publishing; not one-to-many.

Whatever happens, I just can't see that people would suddenly stop innovating and creating new stuff. The channels may change, but what is really behind the "blog revolution" has nothing to do with blogs as such, but the need of people to write, and draw, and compose, and sing, and to create, and also to get feedback for it. To find the few souls in this world that like what you are and what you do, no matter how odd it may seem to others.

To complement my previous post: The problem with 3G is that it assumes that corporations do the innovation. The internet allows people to do the innovation. It has nothing to do with how many bits per second a geek can get traveling on a bus from Helsinki to Ypäjä!

How many successfull cellular services have you seen which have been run by a single person? Conversely, on the Internet, how many discussion boards or fan sites which are the product of a single person in their spare time? There are more cell phone users in the world than there are Internet users (1.6 Billion vs 900 million)! Where are the great fan-run mobile sites? Where are the wonderful SMS services that everybody uses?

There are none. Or if there are, they are very local: specific to a single country, or perhaps an operator. No matter how good an Italian SMS service might be, you can't use it from Finland. That's because there's a walled garden out there: mobile phone services are about value chains and money and corporations making deals with each other about offering value-added services to customers. And operators want control over what happens in their network. And writing software for mobile phones is difficult, and users don't know how to use the services, and optimizing for a small platform is difficult, and... there are many reasons, but the end result is the same: the mobile phone area is really a very hard place to innovate and create new stuff, unless you have the training, the means, and an insane amount of patience. (Look at Russell Beattie's story on how difficult it was to squeeze a movie to a phone - and that guy is an übergeek!)

Anyway... I'm rambling. My point is that the Internet is a place where you can, on your own, create something like Blogger.com, get ten million users in a couple of years, from all over the globe, and get bought by Google for an insane amount of money. In the walled garden of mobile networks - well, you need to be a really serious geek.

Fine. So the internet has been stolen back from us geeks. Now, please steal our cell phones, too!

Update: By sheer coincidence, I listened to the podcast of Clay Shirky's speech at ETech. He speaks of the same thing, but he's far more eloquent than I am.

"Teachers At California High School
Refuse To Act When Founder Of A
Conservative Club Is Threatened And
Harassed By Other Students -- One
Teacher Called Tim A Nazi, While Another
Described The Club As "A Bunch Of
Bigots.""

"Teachers At California High School
Refuse To Act When Founder Of A
Conservative Club Is Threatened And
Harassed By Other Students -- One
Teacher Called Tim A Nazi, While Another
Described The Club As "A Bunch Of
Bigots."" 01/01/2004 03:19 AM

The Club For Growth - The Club for
Growth Blog: DNC 'Lawyers Up' Against
the Club for Growth

The Club For Growth - The Club for
Growth Blog: DNC 'Lawyers Up' Against
the Club for Growth 08/06/2004 02:31 AM
DNC Lawyers Also Try To Stop Anti-Kerry Ads By The 'Club For Growth' From Being Played .. independent ads from this other group .. making a habit .. life

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I am so lonely.

I am so lonely. 06/22/2005 02:58 AM
"I am so lonely." Search Google using that phrase and you may end up here. Some of the posts in this thread really resonate, "I feel so much better that I am not the only one that typed in "I am lonely" on google. How pathetic that I have nothing better to do. It is amazing that I can be so extremely successful at work and so lonely at home."

Big and lonely

Big and lonely 05/04/2004 07:51 AM
My sister, who is quite heavy, comes to me for romantic advice, but I don't know how to help her.

Only the lonely

Only the lonely 04/21/2004 07:26 AM
I am divorced and can get women to sleep with me, but why do I keep sabotaging real relationships?

Lonely Planets

Lonely Planets 01/05/2004 01:32 PM

Decorated and lonely

Decorated and lonely 05/24/2004 07:29 AM
I'm gay, in the military and looking for love. What should I do?

lonely hunter

lonely hunter 05/28/2004 03:38 PM
Timeship. Stephen Valentine goes insane and build s a cryopark.

Lonely Planet - Vietnam Map

Lonely Planet - Vietnam Map 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
Vietnamese .. map!!!! .. Vie

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It gets mighty lonely in the Ice Palace

It gets mighty lonely in the Ice Palace 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
From the New Yorker cartoon-caption competition: Sometimes I think everybody'd be better off if I was a bird or a plane. It's the cape: so eighties....

Britain is a lonely place to live

Britain is a lonely place to live 05/16/2004 08:39 PM
Many people living in Britain feel isolated from society, a mental health charity discovers.

Wanted: Family for Lonely Grandfather
(Reuters)

Wanted: Family for Lonely Grandfather
(Reuters) 08/30/2004 09:54 AM
Reuters - "Elderly retired school teacher seeks family willing to adopt grandfather. Will pay."

Yahoo ad campaign seeks lonely hearts

Yahoo ad campaign seeks lonely hearts 03/13/2003 11:27 AM
The Web portal will launch a promotional blitz for its online personals that will run on television, radio, billboards and the Net.

Lonely Italian pensioner gets adopted
(Reuters)

Lonely Italian pensioner gets adopted
(Reuters) 09/25/2004 11:09 AM
Reuters - A lonely pensioner who turned to Italy's classified pages to find someone willing to "adopt" him as a grandfather is finally heading to his new home and family in northern Italy this weekend.

Los Lonely Boys Drummer Arrested in
Texas (AP)

Los Lonely Boys Drummer Arrested in
Texas (AP) 01/07/2005 02:03 AM
AP - The drummer for the Los Lonely Boys was arrested Thursday along with his wife on a marijuana possession charge after police searched their home, authorities said.

Wanted: Family for lonely Italian
pensioner (Reuters)

Wanted: Family for lonely Italian
pensioner (Reuters) 08/30/2004 08:29 AM
Reuters - "Elderly retired school teacher seeks family willing to adopt grandfather. Will pay."

Lonely Island: wack-ass online shorts
and mp3s

Lonely Island: wack-ass online shorts
and mp3s 09/10/2004 02:08 AM
Xeni Jardin: Last week in LA, I went to a Channel 101 screening -- monthly events where a edgy creatives show short films before a live audience, who in turn vote the work on or off the proverbial viewing island. The project isn't a cable TV show yet, but it ought to be. I understand they recently shot a pilot for Fox, so perhaps it will.

One of the teams who participate regularly in the Channel 101 showdowns is The Lonely Island, and they've just posted a bunch of their work online. It's terrific stuff. One of their pieces, which screened at last week's event, is a dry, deadpan music video performed by two guys, called, uh, "Just 2 Guyz." (MPEG-4 Link, MPEG-1 Link, 2 min.). I loved their "Nintendo" animated short, too (MPEG / Quicktime, 3 min.)

Episodes of the Lonely Island short series The 'Bu are here (Link), with Sarah Chalke of Scrubs and Roseanne fame. Other celeb links -- Brooke Shields has a 5-minute bit in the begining of Episode 2: Regarding Ardy. (Link). Kal Penn (of Harold and Kumar and Gilmore Girls) plays Fred in Episode 2. A source close to the project says, "Kiefer Sutherland interrupted the filming of episode 1, then told all sorts of fanciful embellishments about it on Leno and Letterman. (Link)."

Link to The Lonely Island, and Link to the Channel 101 site where you'll find more online shorts.

Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy
of Alien Life

Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy
of Alien Life 02/10/2004 02:46 AM

Lonely Planet Helps Search for Intrepid
Readers

Lonely Planet Helps Search for Intrepid
Readers 01/04/2005 03:28 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2005 6:39PM GMT

Lonely Planet World Guide |
DestinationVietnam | Introduction

Lonely Planet World Guide |
DestinationVietnam | Introduction 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
Lonely Planet World Guide / Destination Vietnam .. nam

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"Lonely Island"-er Andy Samberg on
Comedy Central

"Lonely Island"-er Andy Samberg on
Comedy Central 01/05/2005 10:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: Andy Samberg (whom you may recall from such previously-Boinged hits as TheLonelyIsland.com and Channel101) will be doing stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend this Friday at 10pm. For those whose blog-term memory returns no results on a query for Mr. Samberg's work -- The 'BU, Just 2 Guyz, Nintendo, and The Heist are excellent places to start. (Thanks, Macki)

People google "I am lonely" form a
community on top result page

People google "I am lonely" form a
community on top result page 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: Randomly, the top Google result for "I am lonely" is a message board on a site for video codecs. People who typed "I am lonely" into Google have taken over the board and formed an ad-hoc community. Seven Sixty-seven pages of posts!

I too was a victum of google and got to this thread. I am not really lonely just wish I had better friends. one of my good friends told my x-girlfriend(we were still friends after we broke up) a lie that I cheated on her while we were together. the girl was pissed because I told my best friend (who she was dateing) about how she was bragging that they weren't dateing anymore. I turned out that my best friend thought they were still dateing and they argue. girl gets pissed. screws up my friendship with my x (who I had known and cared about for about 2 1/2 years) and now she never looks at me the same. Worst of all my best friend backed up her story (this is a week after I talked to my best friend abut his girl). so my best friend (who I was trying to help in the first place) betrayed me. Limp bizkit once said " it's all about the he said she said bullll sh1t." and now I beleive him.

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Mmm, brains.

Mmm, brains. 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Bleh. It's gray and cold outside, and not to mention the winds that are kicking up the mass quantities of...

Wall O' Hot Brains

Wall O' Hot Brains 06/17/2005 03:56 PM
On one of the walls of my office I have a growing collection (where growing means two) of pictures of guys that meet the criteria of "Hot Brain." So, I of course have received tons of grief about tonight's episode...

Rrrrr, brains.

Rrrrr, brains. 04/17/2004 08:53 AM
Facewound is an excellent homebrew side-scrolling action game that's currently still in preview. It features zombies, bullet time, and a full arsenal of weaponry. It's not web based, but it does feature some nice special effects for those of you with good graphics cards (not required). Also, it's very friendly to custom maps and skins. Here is the download page for those who want to get right into it. All and all, a good way to waste a Saturday.

A car with brains (no, not the driver)

A car with brains (no, not the driver) 05/03/2004 11:31 PM
Straits Times May 4 2004 4:12AM GMT

Brains and beauty, etc.

Brains and beauty, etc. 04/16/2004 06:27 PM
A brain study released today shows that the human ability to appreciate aesthetics is based in the prefontal cortex, part of the brain involved in decision making. The scientists at the Balearic Islands University in Spain came to this conclusion by imaging their subjects' brains while looking at art and photography. According to the study, quoted in Scientific American, "'a phylogenetic change in the prefontal cortex could give way to the decorative and artistic profusion' in humans."
Another study published today by Northwestern University suggests that "Eureka!" moments of insight activate "a distinct area in the right hemisphere of the brain's temporal cortex," a region where semantic connections occur.

"For thousands of years people have said that insight feels different from more straightforward problem solving," one of the researchers said. "We believe this is the first research showing that distinct computational and neural mechanisms lead to these breakthrough moments."

Link

Brains for Sale

Brains for Sale 01/26/2004 07:16 AM

Searching Brains Not Documents

Searching Brains Not Documents 03/11/2003 11:41 PM

Searching Brains Not Documents

Scoble made my week and truly inspired me with this comment::

Here's a homework project. Go to the RSS Search engine. Now go to Google. Search for these words: "InfoPath" and "OneNote." What do you notice? I like the quality of the RSS results a LOT better. [_Go_]

I was thinking about this a lot and the best analogy I can give you this the following:

1. We've all debated ad nauseum what blogs are.  But the one I like best is that "a blog is a conversation".  It might tbe with your friends, your employees, your customers or yourself (if no one's reading).
   
2. Conversation is a product of the brain.  What else can it be?
   
3. What this is shaping up to be is not a document centric search engine at all.  Its shaping up to being a conversation centric search engine or as I'm starting to think of it -- searching the brains of all the smart people out there that are talking about things.

Comments?

Check out the big brains on these guys!

Check out the big brains on these guys! 09/23/2004 04:48 AM
Human Intelligence is a good site from Indiana University that looks at historical influences and current controversies surrounding the study of intelligence. Find out more about topics such as "the Mozart Effect", the theory of multiple intelligences, and the influence of birth order on intelligence, and then browse the brains behind the history of inquiry into human intellect.

Don't Flush Brains Down the Drain

Don't Flush Brains Down the Drain 05/18/2004 04:44 AM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a plan for cattle brains and other remains that may carry deadly mad cow disease. It wants to turn them into a bio-based source of energy.
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