I have to admit, I didn’t use Facebook much before, but I like the new user interface. It makes stuff like notes and photos more prominent. And yeah, it’s becoming more like twitter, but so what? It makes it more interactive, somehow; although I don’t want people to update their Fb status as much as they tweet… Oh, and I love the youtube updates (and other feeds).
Archive for Online
This Meme thing…
These are almost more fun to do with an uncommon name!
Q: Type in “[your name] needs” in the Google search.
A: “Arka needs to turn 7 more or gain 170 more Vampire points to reach the next level”
“Arka needs the rest” (I do need the rest)
Q: Type in “[your name] looks like” in Google search.
A: “Arka, looks like the front axle change has been done” (No, it doesn’t)
Q: Type in “[your name] says” in Google search.
A: “Nov 30, 2008 … Arka Says: November 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm. Great episode, I love it when there’ s such deep insightful talk about Harry Potter” (This is actually me!)
Q: Type in “[your name] wants” in Google search.
A: “Arka wants to outdo the leader” (Why would I?)
“Maybe Arka wants to try something different?” (Like not outdo the leader)
Q:Type in “[your name] does” in Google search.
A: “Arka does say that its possible and I believe him. But it wont be easy. Worst case scenario, be prepared to get an engine swap just for a …” (At least peole believe me)
Q: Type in “[your name] hates” in Google search.
A: “Arka hates to hear anything negative about a British player …” (Depends on the circumstances)
Q: Type in “[your name] asks” in Google search.
A: “Arka asks: Do a lot of people use the table? • Steve answers: All the time!” (Oh the table…)
“He closes my Arka, and Arka asks politely: “I see you have modified some shortcut keys. Do you want to save this combination?” (Little scared about this one. I thinkArka is a notebook computer)
Q: Type in “[your name] likes ” in Google search.
A: “arka likes rafa’s formula… dont you arka?” (I tend to usually not have strong like towards formulae)
Q: Type in “[your name] eats ” in Google search.
A: “Arka eats njoj svraka” (No. I don’t know what that means. but no)
Q: Type in “[your name] wears ” in Google search.
A: “KEEP OTHERS AWAY FRM CLEANUP ARKA.WEAR” (Sure)
Q: Type in “[your name] was arrested for” in Google Search.
A: (Woohoo none of the Arkas in the world were publicly arrested!)
Q: Type in “[your name] loves” in Google Search.
A. “Arka loves the energy of university town Madison and Milwaukee” (Who doesnt?)
Check out Episode #1 of Hogwarts Universe Talk
At http://hogwartsuniverse.wordpress.com/
http://www.archive.org/download/Arka_1HogwartsUniverse/001HogwartsUniverse.mp3″Enjoy! Though it’s not the best pilot episode, it’s a start, and everything has a start. I hope to improve quite a bit before doing episode #2, hopefully with co-hosts. Check it out while I set up feeds on iTunes and all.
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7:28 am, March 21, 2009 · Filed under Life, Online, philosophy, religion, Society, youtube · Tagged africa, complex thinking, darfur, genocide, global problems, Hank Green, HP Alliance, imagining the other complexly, john green, killing, nerdfighters, rwanda, vlogbrothers, world, youtube comments
Today I was having a blast on Spring Break (ha! Not really…) and browsing through Youtube, because that’s what I do. Still featured on there was John Green‘s video on the Rwandan Genocide and the HP Alliance‘s idea from Rwanda to have real people light candles and show that they care for their problems, which are all of our problems. It was a funny, yet serious video about how to help stop a problem.
Then I scrolled down to see the comments, and to my horror, people had posted comments not only against HPA’s initiative, but against stopping, preventing, or helping deal with genocide in Africa. There were mainly three categories of diversion from John and most people’s philosophy on this:
Ok maybe they weren’t that articulate or intentionally harsh, but that’s pretty much their idea. And I’ll elaborate with example 3.
And this is certainly a valid argument, and I like that people are thinking compexly about this. I for one apparently love to be proven wrong (even indirectly like this), and I’m glad I can broaden my view on the matter. But it’s an act to show people that we care and are going to help – that they have support, and that it’s not their problem, it’s the world’s problem.
There’s a great value in a small thing – especially when a community collectively responds – that has a great effect on people. It may not be objective or scientifically provable, but it’s there. People in Rwanda will actually see us showing our support. Of course we have to take political action, but it starts somewhere small, and if we want the Big Guys to notice, we gotta make noise!I definitely think that we should really be taking action in donations and awareness would help a lot.
What can I say? It’s hard to believe people can be so selfish and animalistic, caring only for themselves ans seeing the world with such warped values. I’m all for diversity of opinions, which is essential to social (and any) progress, but people have to think complexly about these problems…
I mean that’s just not right. I really don’t have a problem with religion, as long as it’s well thought out, criticized, and thought about deeper than stuff like the Bible and God. And that’s not even the problem here; it’s that people can be so stupid and barbaric in simple thinking, that they completely isolete themselves emotionally from the world, and refuse to care about the world.It’s people like this that really scare me, and make me fear for the future….
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