Only One iPhone?

The Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal is always a good source of photographic inspiration ... and humour.

The commentary to the below photo is as follows:
Environmental Protection Agency employees used their cellphone cameras to photograph first lady Michelle Obama as she addressed them in Washington Thursday


Just as long as they remember to recycle those cell phones

How many of those photos ended up on twitpic?

iGeneration Speak

It's amazing how quickly you can lose touch with current trends. Perhaps the better view is that I'm just getting older and not necessarily wiser.
Keeping up now requires real effort and hard work; I feel like my parents struggling with the concept of Windows XP.

During my daily 'I'm so stressed I need to net surf on bloglines' session, I came across the term "rickroll" on xkcd, and in particular, this comic stip:



Wanting desperately to be in on the joke (it's no fun being on the outer), I googled the word.

Rickroll

Wiki says "In a rickroll a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the Rick Astley video."

Urban Dictionary says "To disguise a link to a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up." Popularized from excessive use on 4chan and certain Internet gaming forums."; and also "A variant on the duckroll"

4chan? duckroll? Rick Astley? Have I been hiding in a cave for the past couple of years? Nobody is speaking my language anymore. Blerg ...

Virtual World

All these virtual worlds are getting out of control.

Starting with Second Life where the following real-life cases have taken place:

someone suing the game developer for wrongfully seizing his virtual land. The case is actually going to the Fed Courts and the guy is expecting $8,000 in restitution. Only in America ...

virtual rape case whereby Brussels police were called upon to enter Second Life and conduct an investigation. Wonder if they had to create policeman avatars?

FBI investigation of virtual casinos

Virtual child abuse case where two avatars (one adult male and one child) were engaging in depicted sexual conduct. Turned out that the child avatar was actually an adult recasting him/herself as a child. Did someone say Michael Jackson?

Not to mention virtual adultery, virtual riot etc ... it's all virtually ridiculous.

As if all this isn't bizarre enough, it seems that someone has been trading my blog on a fantasy blog-stock market?!? There is one majority shareholder monopolising 80% of the shares (4000) and the price is currently at $127.37. My opinion - highly undervalued!

Hmmm ... perhaps I should create a virtual miss-universe pageant.