How to slow down time

I'm not sure why times goes by so fast year to year or who the expert is but 2007 is gone. In this time I've joined every body's community site in an effort to slow time down or at least document all sorts useless information. In doing so I've seem to have lost precious time doing other more "productive" stuff but then again the amount of time i would need far exceeds the dismal amount of time for a blog post like this one lets say. Quality time comes in 4 hour chunks which is quite the commodity. Mr. Hand also had a theory as did Enstein with the theory of relativity. Does time really slow down when we are bored and move fast when we moving fast? This guy figured how to move things backwards. I started podcasting over 1 year ago to document time as it relates to music and have always had bands like the eastern anchors in an attempt to have a place in music history; which is one way I have found to slow time down, for whatever reason when you are playing music time seems to pause but for moment, so when you play back music you've actually created it has the physical ability to take you back in time. Taking photos is another way to this but not as strong as the music thing. So if you figure out how to stop time please let me know. I know cardio exercise is one way to slow down your metabalism for the pysical manifestation of one's own-self in body form. In any case have a happy new year and enjoy!

The Bush Legacy: Waging War for Political Gain

Help to stop the making of another war we can't afford and get this ad paid for in the NY Times and give peace a chance. Brought to by the kind folks at moveon.org. Give peace a chance this holiday. For some Holiday mp3 blog post and joy check out my review stalker post from this year and from 2006.

Today on Facebook I am still ignoring the following requests

2 friend requests - don't know you

1 group invitation - to Eat Murry Hill. I have no clue what this is

2 zombie invitations - Why do i want to live have my head chopped off

1 ninja invitation - Does this make a better person

1 cause invitation - damn lefties except this one is to support local music

3 werewolves invitations - teenage werewolves are wasting away on the interweb

1 hi five friend invitation -

1 superpoke invitation -

2 vampires invitations - why do we want to outlive our loved ones?

1 acounter invitation - sounds sexy

1 what's hot request - mary louise parker is on the list

1 live it up! request - I am a stick in the mud

1 name analyzer invitation - enemy. Goliath

1 likeness unrated invitation - there is a rated version?

1 my music invitation -

What is a social network graph?

The six degrees of separation are beginning to converge rather quickly. The current format of Social networks and advertising networks are trying to glean your click through and figure out what the CPA(cost per acquisition) comes out to, which is currently semi-silo'd. Meaning we live in distinct valleys of information that is ripe for the rooting of advertising stream billions. These silos are beginning to change how we connect with the advent of widgets and aps. Web 2.0 is already old news for most of us living in 2007 realtime intraweb. The next level, as discussed by Tim Berners Lee is this third level after (1) the internet phase and (2) the storage of web documents what is being called a social graph for web users to take back control. This current phenomenon, what is loosely being defined as what links relationships between people and/or documents -- "the things documents are about" and how they relate to people who give it meaning. It is easy to agree that nothing is free. E.G. Ads make the world go around. You accepted it on TV and we will accept in our future consumption of video content and any means of social entertainment (err, except for nasty interruptions of our 1-1 phone connections). The hypothesis is that users will demand DVR for web where YOU as the user gets to sort best of social connections and who pays to connect to you. I don't like Nike but will let Puma talk to send me stuff if i had to choose. Although, Wikinomics book says that "relationships are the one thing you cannot commoditize", and yes people harrumphed when gmail scanned your email for things you might like but we were quick to forget and then blindly import our email without flinching to suck their friends into facebook or linkedin, etc and invite them to join the fun. Who the hell reads the fine-print anyway when you sign-up Anyway? Most recently Plaxo Pulse allows you to suck in your favorite social network stuff (flickr, blogger feeds, facebook) and expanding their ap library everyday. The discussion now on the table in the blogosphere is to a create social network media API, as was done with the adopted J2EE standards, to get everybody in tune with the governance rules for usage of these social connections (remember all the info we put in our web docs? remember?). Read Write Web's post does a great job of explaining the concepts around the social graph and their implications with a lot of quality feedback and concerns around who controls the information pipe and goes in deeper with issues surrounding life online. There are some really cool visual looks into these vertical social connections. Graphs can be churned out of almost any kind of one to many mathematical relationship, like data from 9/11 terrorist networks to the Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Networks and everything in between, to have that A-HA moment visit Visual Complexity project dissections set for various social network queries. So the next time you fill out yet another profile be aware that your info is not your own.

How to revamp your lame T-Shirt collection

Ah, one thing that cracks me up is the futility of dump people (can't help them), people who send out spam email jokes(although sometimes funny), and well stupid T-shirts. EL Chingaderohas got some good stuff if your closet can stand one more dumbasaurus t-shirt or smart ass saying. But just in case you were looking for gift ideas this might cover your budget for those hard to find stocking stuffers. I'm partial to a few(including the drummer and the enabler T on their site) in case you were wondering what to get me for xmas.

UFO sightings are hip again or are they fake saucer videos

I love it when a political pundit shows their weird side. Rumour has it that Presidential hopeful Kucinich digs UFO's(confirmed by HP) and that there is a new AirForce Flying Saucer study on the way. Check out reports of thestrange undentified shapes via the National UFO reporting center. I must confess I've read every Bud Hopkins book and I'm still a believer, secretly looking up in the Sky for the fateful moment where i too can have a close encounter of some kind.
Is this a Photo captured by google maps?

You have to love the fakes UFO videos which are so creepy | Low latitude shot from France | Florida sighting | UFO nasa sighting from space | Top secret Nasa video | Shape shift video

Ultimate Top 10 Stoner Drug movie list of all time

I would be remiss on this list of lists to not qualifty some of the requirements to put a movie on this list. First rule. It has to be quotable. Second. the sound track needs to rock. third rule. see first rule. Ok so cliche as this might be this really is a subjective list and really the only way to check it's validity is too see some of the flims for yourself. There are probably some obvious things not included here and for all intent and purposes this could be my top 10 list all times. Go figure.

10)Spinal Tap - Got to love Rob Reiner's Rockmentary classic. This one goes to 11. Released 1984

9)The Trip - The distorted and non-lsd word are explained here in a movie by Peter Fonda. Good place to start and stop the drug thing. Bizare stuff. If you ever wanted to do some hard stuff. Check this out first and turn up the volume and pretend you can't stop it. that is what LSD is like. Released 1967

8) Easy Rider - Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson have this great pot smoking scene where where Jack goes off on Minutians before contemplating that smoking the reffers will lead to other things. Also starring Dennis Hopper. Get your motor riding. Released in 1969.

7)Suburbia - There is poker posse movie which is not this one. The one you need to check out really goes into the depths of the punk subculture with a dramatic big wheel scene directed Penelope Spheeris. Released in 1983

6)Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Sean Penns break-out movie wether he likes it or not he will always be Jeff Spicoli. He made checkered vans famous and you gotta love Mr. Hands conversation about time and Phoebe Cates assets. Released 1982

5)The Jerk - Either you love Steve Martin or you hate him. This is one of the funniest 70's movies ever where the mother of invention lets us all live in the big house. The music are alll little tunes written by Steve and extreme on the stupid scale. Released 1979

4)Trainspotting - If it is not for the rave music (or whatever it is) the toilet scene alone defines what it means to be small(That is slang for being high).

3)Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams Sort of an obvious choice. These guys are the pothead gurus.

2)Apocalypse Now it's dark, it has the Rolling Stones and The doors intro sequence with "The End" are just the set-up of some of the best dialog ever in a film; Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando's diatribe about the morality of war is briliant and very relevant considering the wrongness of IRAQ. Very heavy, heavy film. Release 1979.

1)Repo man - It has it all. Amazing punk sound track complete with the circle jerks, suicidal tendancies and others. If this movie trailer, clocking in at 2 minutes, does anything for the un-iniciatd. You will check it out in full. In highschool we used to play this flick over and over during parties. Released 1984

EPIC 2015 movie about the past and future of your internet

What does it all mean? How did we get here? This is not my beautiful house. Ok the big four (GOOOOGLE, MICROSOFT, APPLE AND .GOV) are all in on the dissecting of your social network and purchasing habits. We really shound't be affraid until they start to pre-judge you on these habits. However, the wheels are already in motion for social comformity but what can you do? Get off the grid? When the grid is so much fun. Coming soon: Social network survival kit beta by Ronko

Mountain bike video for 6 mile run in NJ

It's been awhile since i've been on the mountain since little kido Zgirl made it into my world six months ago. Although i've been riding my hybrid for an hour every weekend, it's just not enougth. So just to make me miss the mountain; rider Ryan sent the NJ weekend warrior mountain bikers this video of Six mile run in NJ. Now i can pretend to ride at work from this pov video. soon enough I'll get there and not just gab smartly about riding every once in awhile.

Everbody loves to hate social networking: the anti-trend

I've been giggling all morning at my find on a Buzz feed search on all the anti-social networking sites out there. Natural Search Blog has a good review on hatebook.org points out a Antisocial Media and optmiziation phenomenom where bad press is a good thing and if you are into SEO(search engine optimization) all the haters will flock and give you web traffic [join I love to hate Britney Spears Clan]. Ironic Yes, proof is in the pudin' here. People love a good car crash. Hatebook is extremely transparent to the level where there is no privacy policy, people can see who is stalking who and all "junkmail” is open to members. Hilarious. isolatr.com is another good one, where you can't even login and claims to help 'you be where people aren't', third on the list nosoproject.com, which is similar to happening, except you aren't allowed to engage although you are converging with other like minded folks and disconnect from the world. So literally tune-out you freaking network hippies and get off my space.

How to watch tv all day and pretend to work

The tv fridge at work in the cubicle next to me has taken on a life of it's own. I honestly have a hard time working at home if there is anybody around. CNN on background is ok, blasting music is ok unless the phone rings, and then there is the damn dog barking and the mailman. So having the tv mini fridge lounge area at work is making me feel at home without actually being at home. The other problem is that the internet is the new tv. Check out the Eastern Anchors live at the Court Tavern, currently pumping up to record a studio album

I am tv not fridge

I don’t know this Maytag guy you speak about,
I should have been something else
Yet you fill my belly with things
Whos’ content should be waste
You gussied up my plastic sides
Without looking inside
It’s like calling me names
That you can’t spell, you’re a bad consumer,
The evil son with all that was the jar
Euro trumps uncle
Vacant and hungry

New fascination with Nascar

Might of had a lot to do with the fact I helped think some of the IA through for a recent community site development project for Nascar fans. Check out all NASCAR fan news skuttlebutt you can shake a stick at over at Rowdy.com Coming is deeper forum experience with categories and taging. Friend me on my rowdy profile and join in on the speed. These car driver are freakin so fast and I can't believe how close they are to the walls and each-other. It's addictive and now wonder it's the number one sport in America. You know the middle part between California and New Yawk.

Alternadad rocks thee Court Tavern w/ the Eastern Anchors

oh, me bones and ear-drums on Guitar stage left. Here are few snips from the Eastern Anchors show at the Court Tavern a few weeks ago. A local show and recordings coming your way soon. See hi-ya on the myspace page. thanks.

Eastern Anchors Maxwells Sat Aug 4th 2007

If you are looking for a good rock guide, the show to be at this weekend is the Eastern Anchors debut at Maxwells. It's been a long time coming for these veteran of new jersey rock history to meet their destiny where the likes of built to spill, archers of loaf, sonic youth, and a zillion other great indie bands have played. Also, on the bill are The Groucho Marxist with Chris from Doc Hopper and Austin from the Boss Jim Gettys. The opener is band from nyc called the Shondes. There is a full garauntee that there will be some loud axe playing. No wussy emo to be had.

cnn 2.0 redesign vs news delivery

Although, this blog is in agreement that g0000oogle will eventually own the world or at least we'll all be working for them in the very near future. One of the obvious kingships is in the physical act of inter site search. The new cnn is clearly monetized by googlesearch bar which will make some dough. What is very interesting to see, and no surprise, is that Blogs are now more obviously part of the news from their perspective. Does it give their outlet more credibility? A little more than foxnews.com for sure. However, Tthese are their blogs and not some wild wild web news slingers, so the delivery mechanism is hopefully open for public to comment on at least. Other cool features include, predominance of rss feeds up in header and bottom of page for delivery, more editorialized as articles are tagged by hot topics, and their most recent stories are tagged with just time. The Date is left-off. The Media elements have their own sections specifically targeted toward Entertainment consumption – see their TV module. Has local weather module like the one that is on netvibes.com default setting.


If it wasn’t obvious before… this is where the web is now.

Urban mt bikes for dads

While in my 5 fifth week of fatherhood while I watch my friend's emails go by about their latest mountain bike rides; I’ve been looking for some way to get around even for an hour, around town or in the park, I’m considering getting a "urban/hybrid" bike I can eventually put a baby seat on.

Cannondale Road warrior 500 series

Trek 7.3 FX Disc Cross Hyrbrid

Gary Fisher Chronus

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Zoe Yael and dad on the maple syrup

The algorythm that killed jeeves

The Goooooogle revolution is underway. The giant form field is on the attack and the potential competative advertising space with their purchase of Double Click they are eating the internet away for base user. Can Ask.com be our search engine saviours? They seem to be taunting the big one. At this rate we are all doomed and we will all probably end -up working for them in some for or another. Who can save us? Topix.net? What are our othersearch engine alternatives?

WFMU pranksters and 2007 drive by fund drivers

I love WFMU for their independence. Once a year they hold out their tin cups so they don't have to take any advertising from the MAN so they can play, prank, sing, scrape, blast and rock the airwaves with their no-format radio. Otherwise known as Free-form radio WFMU has takes great pride in allowing a bunch of wayward DJs do their thing. A recent glorious prank Ken Friedman and Andy Breckman played on the NYTs, is an example of their sense of all things around them. They are the cavemen of airwaves. They are not smut peddlers and really care about the state of things in these times of greed and corporate warfare and believe just about all ilk should get their chance to spin(except for the man) what they are passionate about. WFMU belongs to the people. So get your wallets out now. You have one week left to donate a little lunch money, blood money, beer money, or whatever you can afford.

About a week ago, here's what Boston actually thought.

Evidence that Boston is re-taded and that the Cartoon Network Chief Jim Samples might not have had to resign over a Marketing Blunder. NYC didn't even blink. We know advertising when we see it.

Steve Jobs is doing his best Howard Dean

Can music be 100% DRM-free?
I can personally attest to this stat and i knew they were tracking my GBs.

Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats. It’s hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music
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