Clintons campaign adviser - Indianans are “worthless white niggers”
Posted by phillyharper - 02/05/08 at 03:05:39 pm
Meet Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign advisor Mickey Kantor. Here he tells George Stephanapoulos and James Carville: “Look at Indiana…it doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er?”
Looks like the internets just discovered yet another damaging piece of footage, Obama got a pretty bad rap over his pastors remarks, will the media grill Hillary over her advisers racist and offensive statement in this video? I doubt it, but we’ll see how it all pans out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Kantor
If you don’t know who this guy is, check out his wiki page, could it be that there is a conflict in interest since he is married to broadcast journalist Heidi Schulman? Just how deep does the rabbit hole go dag nab it….
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Korg DS-10 Synthesizer
Posted by phillyharper - 02/05/08 at 12:05:15 pm
This really does make me excited about digital music production, the new ds-10 synthesizer by Korg turns your DS into a portable wireless music device. It boasts two patchable virtual synths with two oscillators each, a drum machine, a sequencer, and a full range of effects, but its coolest feature is that it can hook up wirelessly with other DS’s to share drumbeats and sounds.
There’s no word on the European release date yet, but you can expect to see these flying off the shelves and onto ebay in Japan in July. Until then you’ll just have to wait and consider buying the DS in preparation for the musical boom that will happen when these are released…
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Posted by phillyharper - 13/04/08 at 06:04:47 pm
Everything is going open source, it’s a revolution stemming from the most unlikely of places - computer software. But how do you solve a problem like the news with a solution like open source? Current TV have done just that, they’ve recently switched from a traditionally edited website to a socially driven one and they’ve got one trick up their sleeves that no other social news site has - a TV channel.
Suprisingly, the fact that you could now vote a story not only to the front page of a high traffic website for all to see, but that you could now vote it onto television as well, didn’t seem to create much of an explosion in the blogosphere. Current now do bi-hourly “newspods” that are put together using the top story on the website when the deadline hits. They go out nationally, with a separate newspod for both the UK and the US. This surely should have the social news crews hot under the collar with excitement, but as of yet the message doesn’t seem to have hit home.
Being an active member of current.com, my stories have now hit your television screens three times, and I get a mighty kick every time I win the game. Don’t believe me? Well here are the newspods to prove it…
If you’re new to my blog, then maybe you should check out my articles on what exactly the manufacture of consent is, why you shouldn’t be surprised that you don’t know what it is, and how this very notion is being tackled by social news sites. Not only that, but Current TV’s daring move to put stories that the public want made public on television is really going to throw a spanner in the works for traditional news services. It paves the way for the possible disclosure of many topics, things which the media has steared clear of for all the reasons Chomsky highlights, if we want a debate to open up, then we can just raise that issue on television.
Emailing weetabix - or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the webcam
Posted by phillyharper - 08/04/08 at 09:04:50 am
Some friends and I decided we’d contact weetabix with a brilliant idea we’d had. It got a little out of hand and we’re still waiting on a response. The only thing I’ve edited are my the email contact details…
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To: ConsumerService@Weetabix.Com
Subject: Media/Press enquiry
The following enquiry has been received from the Weetabix Website…
- From:
- Mr #### Harper
- Address:
- Manchester
- UK
SOMEWHERE IN
- Telephone:
- 0########5
- Email:
- ########@gmail.com
- Query Text:
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Hello, This morning I ate 6 weetabix, quite a feat in this house of three young chaps. The event caused a debate, how many weetabix can you eat in one go? We were interested to find out and began our research, only we were disappointed to find out that there isn’t currently a world record. We don’t have a target to aspire to, and thats a shame, but then we realised that it was actually an opportunity. In one go, we reckon we can get through 12, but we’ve not tried it yet. We want to set the record, and we want your help to do it. We want the world to see our world record attempt, and we want to document our training. How about we put the whole thing online and make it go viral? The more we thought about it, the more excited we got about it and thought up many amazing things we could do surrounding the record attempt. If you’ll endorse us, we want to throw down the gauntlet on weetabix, we want to set the record for others to never break. What do ya say? The internet will love it, you’ll get great viral advertising, we get the record, and the adoration of the weetabix community. Help us to help you! Phil (The reining weetabix champion)
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Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Subject: RE: Media/Press enquiry ref 419356
To: ########@gmail.comDear Mr Harper,
Many thanks for your enquiry.
We do not maintain records for Weetabix consumption, either in ‘one go’ or over a period of time. We feel eating any food in excessive amounts, short or long term, is unwise and should be avoided.
As part of a healthful, balanced diet Weetabix are great but we take no part in attempts to eat them, or indeed any of our products, in large quantities. We advise against any such activity.
Yours sincerely#######
Consumer Services Manager
Weetabix Limited
tel. +44 (0) 1536 #####
fax +44 (0) 1536 ######—————————————————————————————————-
From 
### Harper <########@googlemail.com>to ConsumerService@weetabix.com,
date Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:11 PMsubject Re: Media/Press enquiry ref 419356mailed-by googlemail.comhide details 8:11 PM (14 hours ago)
Reply
Dear Mr Herrin,
In light of your stern and solemn response my friends and I have become somewhat discontented with the weetabix brand. Our excitement for your product was quickly diminished the moment your email graced my inbox and bored everything it touched. We thought that your working in an environment as stale as a weetabix factory would make your desire for nonchalant and jovial banter grow exponentially, evidently this is not the case and the factory has ground you down into a lifeless cog, and that’s a shame.
Our disappointment at Weetabix’s lack of interest in their fans has given us no option but to move on to another brand. They’re called Wheat Biscuits and they’re made by the good chaps at Somerfield, no doubt they stole the creation from you but non the less they’ve done a mighty fine job of it. There won’t be a world record for Weetabix eating, there will only be a world record for Wheat Biscuit eating, and guess who’s loss that is.
Have a nice day in your office
Hamas propaganda shows boy stabbing George Bush to death
Posted by phillyharper - 01/04/08 at 07:04:49 pm
It’s like Punch and Judy, only the violence is directed towards George Bush and there is a knife involved and not a cane.
As well as this the little boy turns The White House into a mosque for the great nation of Islam, clearly overt propaganda. Does it go to show that Hamas is barbaric or does it demonstrate that we have a much more efficient propaganda system that we don’t even notice? Are clips of our television watched with amazement in other countries where they too are discussed as overt propaganda?
A promising startup
Posted by phillyharper - 25/03/08 at 05:03:15 pm
An interesting startup just launched, GameJacket, and from what we can gather it’s good news for game developers, game players, bloggers and just about everyone. Like Revver did with video, the guys at GameJacket are about to do with games.
What if a developer has a great game and can’t get anyone to notice it, he wont put it on the net for obvious reasons, it will get exploited and replicated and he won’t see a penny of the massive amount of ad revenue it will help to generate. Cue GameJacket who are offering developers a safe platform to publish their games through. Simply sign up, add your game and then GameJacket will stream advertisements into it and spread it virally around the web. The more hits your game gets, the more money you get from the ads being shown; instead of fighting the terrifying viral nature of the internet, you can harness it.
Advantages are just about everywhere, it means that the developer doesn’t have to sell the rights to his game, he can develop his own unique brand, and he can raise his profile by publishing on a safe platform, all whilst earning fair money. The good news doesn’t stop there, GameJacket encourage bloggers to publish the games with the same ease as embedding a youtube video. If a blogger can make a game go viral then he can draw in some of the cake with the ads on his website. With games taking up a huge portion of online traffic AND attracting return visits, this is fantastic news for bloggers.
The final piece in the puzzle is their ‘version control’ technology, which should get developers all hot under the collar. Unlike their competitors, GameJacket offer a unique platform on which a developer can test a game, since the game is “streamed” into the developers very own custom “GameJacket”. The GameJacket can then be spread virally round the web all the while the developer can keep total control over what does and doesn’t remain in the game, even once the game has gone viral by streaming new content into the Jacket.
A developer could release an early beta version of his game and then seek feedback from users on how the game plays, how it feels, how it runs and then stream an update into all of the GameJackets embedded like YouTube videos all over the web. It’s an exciting concept which really puts the developer of the game in total control. For example, if a game went viral and the ad revenue began to flow in, the interest in the game might begin to diminish once people have played it ‘to death’ over and over again, but GameJacket allows developers to release new levels for a game without having to re-release the flash file itself, the new content is just streamed right into the custom GameJacket. Anyway, this is what the Jacket looks like when all is said and done,
The embed code is simply:
<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://www.gamejacket.com/developers/GJA/GJ00040.swf” height=”480″ width=”420″> </object>
It’s even been suggested that the GameJacket could be used by animators who want to develop their own brand of cartoons, they could release new episodes as and when they’re finished, all inside a neat Jacket that updates whenever the designers are happy with their finished product. Game developers could add new leves to a game, new vehicles, new weapons, new anything you like!It’s great news for the games themselves too, since indie developers will now have a real incentive to finish their creations and get them published - and that means better and better games will be created in the quest to make them go viral. GameJacket are the indie label of the gaming industry and they look set to nurse a new generation of designers to stardom. Add in the prospect of Google Android on a new generation of phones and this becomes a very exciting prospect indeed. Watch this space.
**Update**
There’s now news that GameJacket are offering developers $1000 on the condition that they release their game exclusively through GameJacket, even with this nice golden handshake, a developer holds on to all the rights to his game and recieves ad revenue from the impressions made on the games!
If you like what you read buy me a coffee to keep me going! Your money keeps the service going.MTV’s warning that a Police State is coming to the US?
Posted by phillyharper - 11/03/08 at 03:03:44 pm
Someone put a large sum of money into the production of this short video and it seems to suggest that there is a police state or something similar coming to the United States. The idea has been on the fringes of society for years but in light of recent developments over Bush’s veto of the anti-waterboarding bill, the CIA tape debacle, and the endless list of power abuses by the lowest ranking administration in US history, the notion that a fascist take over of the US is possible is becoming less and less “crazy”.
Credibility came to the theory when the BBC ran a documentary about Prescott Bush, the Grandfather of George Dubya, and his plans to take over the United States with a private army and turn it into a fascist state. This was no outlandish tabloid paper making the claims, this was an award winning BBC radio four production. You can check out the documentary here.
With Blackwater now receiving more money than ever before and a plan for continuity of government after a homeland attack that no-one is allowed to see, is it crazy to think that this is on the cards?
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Posted by phillyharper - 09/03/08 at 01:03:23 pm
It’s always been a question when people hear about Chomskys theory of Manufacturing Consent, “How do people keep things silent then?” It’s not a question you can answer in a sentence but people want you to be able to answer it in a sentence or they don’t believe it’s possible. The news filtering system which is part of the process works in many different ways, and in this short clip we can see one way in which it operates. This would come under what Chomsky calls flak, where powerful people are able to discredit individuals who want to publish ideas they don’t agree with.
In this clip we see how money can buy powerful people anything they want, including the ability to have a book silenced and by default have the media silenced in fear of an expensive libel case. This is by no means the be all and end all to Manufacturing Consent but it is certainly a part of the process.
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Posted by phillyharper - 07/03/08 at 03:03:45 am
boingboing recently ran an article where they “remixed” the london posters designed to combat terrorism. I liked the post, don’t get me wrong, but they are so ludicrous that they seem like parodies in their own right.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/remixing-the-london.html
Get this straight everyone, you are afraid of your neighbor, yes that’s right, even that normal bloke with a camera. How close do the government want to get to realising Alfonso Cuarón’s imagining of the future in Children of Men? Maybe it is true that life does indeed imitate art.
So without further delay, here are the pictures for you all to muse over and wonder how on earth we’ve got to a position in which these posters are even close to being relative. Are we really going to let this mindset go on? That everyone is a potential suspect in some mythical witch hunt similar to McCarthyism. Are we going to allow the government to carry on trying to convince people to be frightened of digital cameras, mobile phones and front doors? This is mass madness. You people are the real thing, these posters are the illusion.
(click for full size)
Can too many voters on reddit and digg ruin content?
Posted by phillyharper - 06/03/08 at 05:03:22 pm
It’s the question that seems to be on the tips of everyones tongue, assuming you are a regular on sites such as reddit and digg. In an ideal world, the larger the number of voters the better the system is, since democracy comes into its own when everyone has a say and everyone gets a vote.
The problem comes when these extra votes translate into lowest common denominator material hitting the front page ensuring that interesting more niche content gets left behind. A story like “look at this hot piece of tail” is more likely to attract a large number of votes than the less exciting but more important stories such as “your country is slipping into fascism”. So we have a problem.
Or do we? Is it fair for the minority of redditors frustrated at the influx of “people” to their favorite sites to moan that their favorite articles are no longer as successful as they once were? Reddit is not a site about anything in particular, it just reflects whatever audience it has at the time in an almost perfectly scientific fashion. It used to be mainly about programming until more political users saw the merits of a democratic website.
Digg is a different kettle of fish all together since votes can only go one way, up. If a story about “hot geek babes” is doing well there’s not much I can do to express my distaste, aside from a negligible and whining comment. With diggs system there’s only one outcome, the lowest common denominator stuff is always going to succeed since in such a large audience since stuff of mild but wide interest will command the most votes. A conundrum indeed, but it’s probably a demonstration that even democracy has its pitfalls, namely that it’s mediocre by definition. Does this mass social system give room to less than ordinary or exciting ideas?
Well reddit is slightly different, and it has a feature that seems to be a double edged sword. On the one hand, the vote down button can help to keep lowest common denominator stories such as womens breasts or iPhone fodder at arms length. If you’re not interested and don’t want it on the homepage then vote it down. On the other hand it dilutes the sites ability to produce radical ideas and curtails creativity, since hardline conservative posters vote down anything they deem “strange” or too out there.
The advantage reddit really has is simple, if you don’t like a subreddit, or a topic, just unsubscribe to it and don’t look at it. If reddit forces people to place topics into a subreddit then this could solve the problem and everyone can see the stuff they enjoy and nothing more. The downside to this is that it will create a pocketed community of specialist areas, but maybe this is the natural course of progression, maybe we’ve learned something the Greeks never could that, democratic systems if left unchecked produce only mediocre content. Does this support that mankind, en masse, is one mediocre creature?
Mass communication of the same ideas is probably over, and we’re now jovially wandering into a period of micro communication, where everyone subscribes to a niche. Interesting people can unite in a subreddits and we can let the masses have cake on the HP. Whatever your thoughts are on the matter, subscribe to my RSS feed so that if nothing else, you can hear my thoughts on other such interesting topics.
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