January 14ths (The Word Love)

1/14/2005

Observation: If you want to remember something, visualize the place you thought of it. 

1/14/2007

RFID tags predicted to be stealthily ubiquitous in just a few years. It will give Orwellian a whole new meaning.

1/14/2010

Day 3 Haiti. Once you’ve watched the History channel, you realize that the total collapse of a civilization is so close to home.

I suspect that there are many more ‘Balloon Boy’ shenanigans out there, especially in blogs, e.g. fake ‘interviews’, reportage. With the bastions of journalism crumbling, you have to be extremely vigilant of bogus news. The bad thing is that people believe this stuff even when they’re told it’s not true, or it is a ‘fake belief’ (like ‘fake outrage’ in the Right-wing Fundamentalist Republicanism Disorder: ‘I know it’s false, but I’m doing it only out of spite).

P.S. 2/2022: “Nonetheless, Savoye is pretty sure that Poe would greatly enjoy the forgery and subsequent fuss. After all, the poet wasn’t above pulling a prank himself, as was demonstrated by a notorious balloon hoax of 1844. It seems that Poe wrote an article for the New York Sun newspaper about a trip across the Atlantic Ocean supposedly undertaken by a man named Monck Mason in just three days in a gas balloon.” 

Interesting: Even when you can’t understand all the words being sung in a song, you can make out the word ‘love’.