Wisdom Quarterly: Internet

Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2011

How much does Facebook know about you?

WorldRadio.ch (Switzerland); Wisdom Quarterly

(Sweden The Local, Info-wars.org/Ireland)

This summer, Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all the data they had on him.

What he received was a massive 1,200-page file. But that wasn’t the biggest surprise. He discovered that the social networking site had kept data he had deleted from his account, like messages and photos, and for its own use, they imported contacts from his personal e-mail account, all of this without his knowledge.

LISTEN TO AUDIO

Now, Schrems has lodged 22 complaints against Facebook for data protection breaches. WRS’s Dave Goodman talks to social network specialist Olivier Glassey, a senior lecturer and sociologist at the University of Lausanne, who says that he is not at all surprised.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Internet Bible: "The Fall of Eve" (comic)

MysticPolitics (Flickr.com), Loldwell.com; text by Wisdom Quarterly

How did it all begin? Well according to the biblical teachings pushed on kids in America, it was all Eve's fault. Her fall was the fall of mankind.

(Of course, anyone who reads more deeply is surprised to find out there was more than one first couple and therefore probably more than one origin story and Earthly paradise. The name Lilith may be familiar). Nevertheless, Jewish and Christian histories -- borrowing heavily from distorted sources without attribution -- paint a dismal picture of human life.

This is probably why so many Americans are drawn to Buddhist and allied Eastern philosophies (Taoism, Yoga Sutras, Vedic Brahmanism, Hinduism, Sufism, Jainism, etc.) The potential of what it means to be human is much better.

From the human plane we are capable of attaining anything else, the wished for and the dreaded. It is possible to become a divinity (brahma), a light being (rupa loka deva), a celestial being (akasha deva), a fairy or nature spirit (bhummi deva), a better human, a ghost (preta), an animal, a monster, a hellion, a bodhisattva (striving to save others), a buddha (a rediscoverer and teacher of the timeless truth), a jerk, or a saint (arhat).

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Could "gaming" save the world?

A female "World of Warcraft" character in the making -- but is her player male or female? (©2004-2009 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. The Burning Crusade is a trademark, and World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries).

VIDEO GAMES (On the Media)

(NPR, July 1) Take a one-hour look at the history, culture, and future of video games like WoW. Whether you know it or not you are likely a gamer and games are creeping into nearly every aspect of life. How far have video games come, and where are they going?

WoW
howstuffworks.com

"World of Warcraft" has millions of active subscribers worldwide (Blizzard). While there's no publicly-available, comprehensive census of exactly who plays the game, there are several researchers who have studied WoW players extensively. More

Myth is the language of symbols. What does all the occult symbolism mean?

Saladin Al Kurdi sees an Illuminati conspiracy

Superstruct: Games predict our future
archive.superstructgame.net
Gamers’ scores will reflect personal role in humankind’s survival.

PALO ALTO, California — The Institute for the Future (IFTF) announced the [2008] launch of Superstruct, the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game (MMFG). Designed by renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., and IFTF lead forecaster Kathi Vian Ph.D., Superstruct invites players to imagine life in 2019 and to document and record how they, their families, local communities, or extended social networks might respond to a catastrophic population collapse. Global gameplay ran for six weeks.

Superstruct was played by more than 8,000 citizen "future-forecasters." Although the game is no longer in play, learn about it and explore some archived game content:

Find out how the game was played
Watch the scenario videos to preview the Superthreats
Learn about the 8000+ players
Read 1000+ stories they crafted
Discover the 500+ superstructures they created.

Did superstruct gamers predict this economic collapse, the Amero solution, or the next one?

Thursday, May 26, 2011

"Go the F*** to Sleep" (book)

(Akashic Books) A PDF of the book Go the F--- to Sleep was widely circulated on the Internet and has now become a best-seller on Amazon.

Last week, a friend forwarded Southern California Public Radio's Madeleine Brand a PDF of a funny little book with a catchy title: Go the F*ck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach.

She forwarded it on to her friends... and apparently she wasn't alone. The book has become a viral sensation. The PDF was leaked, and now every parent under the Sun has seen it. [First Everyone Poops, now this!] It's the number one best-selling title on Amazon. And it hasn't even been released yet.

The publisher bumped up the release date from October to June because it was in such high demand. Fox has already optioned the rights to turn it into a movie. Here's a taste of it:

"The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the f*** to sleep."

Here to talk about what this book's success could mean for publishing is Seth Godin. He's an author and founder of the Domino Project - an e-publishing venture: LISTEN