Ok so, I’m still on hiatus, but I couldn’t help but share this since it fit so well with my other political rant.

It started in 1995 when my third grade class was taught to access windows via DOS by typing WIN. There were simple computer games and eventually Yahoo Pool. About five years ago I discovered AIM, then myspace. After Myspace there was digg, then mixx, twitter, livejournal, boudica, pownce, plurk, skype, ustream, mixxingbowl, blogging and co-blogging.

I think I was probably fooling myself when, a few months ago, I took the internet addiction test and scored normally. The truth is that there’s nothing normal about my internet usage. No one I talk to in the real world ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention aspects of my online life. Most people have heard of Myspace. But Mixx? Twitter? FAIL? OMGWTFBBQ? My lucky FAIL shirt takes at least thirty minutes to explain to a non-internet user.

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This is going to be a very short rant because, after much thinking, I decided anything long and drawn out would be a little too painful for me and my three readers.

Is it just me, or is politics being treated more and more like some kind of reality TV game show? It seems like some kind of performance that gets consumed rather than a method for distinguishing the values of a leader.

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My good friend Greg Davies has written a great post for The Mixxingbowl about a challenge for users of mixx. It’s a really great post. Therefore, with his permission, I’m re-posting it here word-for-word.

My fellow Mixxers and SuperMixxers, I come before you with a new challenge – this time directed at Mixx itself!

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September 07, 2007:

Last night I had this crazy nightmare. I dreamt (yes, dreamt is a word, I looked it up) that I had the power to change reality with my dreams, much like George Orr in The Lathe of Heaven. With my new-found power I changed the flow of the time-space continuum and molecular structure of DNA in all beings. No longer helical, the new and improved DNA had more of a flux-capacitor shape. I could even draw it for you, it was so clear in my mind.

Anyway, supposedly in all my genius I misaligned the new flow of time-space with the flux capacitor DNA because shortly thereafter everyone died terrible deaths.

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