Sunday, Tacky Sunday...

Apologies to U2 concerning the post title.

Via Blog-Buddy Becky (kinda-sorta, with absolutely unintended alliteration), here’s an older (2004) but still relevant video... Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine speaking on “Technology's Long Tail:”

What’s particularly interesting about this video is we have the luxury of hindsight with which to judge the value or accuracy of Mr. Anderson’s prognostications (interesting to me, that is, Gentle Reader. YMMV.). I think he was remarkably accurate.

Further… when I say “kinda-sorta” about this video and associated links, it’s because Becky posted a much different (and arguably much better) vid from TED.com. About which: a waaay-cool site. Lotsa good stuff here, and the site is an hour- or day-killer, if you let it be. Situations like this are where a wife would come in handy, as in “Are you STILL on that @!!$#&% computer?” Coz I spent much more than an hour here this morning. MUCH more.

Which goes a long ways towards explaining why it’s after 1400 hrs and I’m just now getting around to posting.

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So. Ready for the Snoozer-Bowl? I’m only half-jesting… “half” because the ads are usually always much more entertaining than the… uh… actual game. At the risk of offending 66.6% percent or more of America I think the NFL, in general, and Super Bowl Sunday…in particular… represents the absolute worst of 21^st century America. That goes for 20^th century America, too, if you want to get historical. Ya gots yer tacky, yer bling (oops. That was redundant.), yer crass commercialism, yer over-paid self-important athletes, yer over-priced every-frickin’-thing, yer fascination with the bottom of the triviality barrel, yer… I’ll stop now. The list is endless.

But there are cheerleaders, so all isn’t lost.