January 2010
85 posts
“Something happened a long time ago to Haiti, and the people may not want to talk about it: they were under the heel of the French… and (Haitians) got together and swore a pact to the Devil. They said ‘We will serve you if you can get us free from the French.’ True story. And so the Devil said ‘Okay, it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. (They’re) desperately poor. That island of Hispanola (sic) is one island, it’s cut down the middle: on the one side is Haiti, on the other side is the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera; Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island! They need to have - and we need to pray for them - a great turning to God.”
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Evangelist PAT ROBERTSON, explaining his theory behind Haiti’s woes on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Fuck you, Pat Robertson, and anyone else who believes this fucking shit.
(via inothernews)
“It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.”
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SARAH PALIN, on joining the Fox “News” Channel as a regular contributor.
Even her quote is a fucking manufactured talking point.
(via Time Magazine)
(via inothernews)
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This waking dream we call the Internet also blurs the difference between my serious thoughts and my playful thoughts, or to put it more simply: I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online. For some people the disintegration between these two realms marks all that is wrong with the Internet: It is the high-priced waster of time. It breeds trifles. On the contrary, I cherish a good wasting of time as a necessary precondition for creativity, but more importantly I believe the conflation of play and work, of thinking hard and thinking playfully, is one the greatest things the Internet has done.
We are developing an intense, sustained conversation with this large thing. The fact that it is made up of a million loosely connected pieces is distracting us. The producers of Websites, and the hordes of commenters online, and the movie moguls reluctantly letting us stream their movies, don’t believe they are mere pixels in a big global show, but they are. It is one thing now, an intermedia with 2 billion screens peering into it. The whole ball of connections—including all its books, all its pages, all its tweets, all its movies, all its games, all its posts, all its streams—is like one vast global book (or movie, etc.), and we are only beginning to learn how to read it.
“When a single TV spot or print ad used to be able to simultaneously drive awareness, consideration and preference, marketers got a lot of value out of this ad. But now the best ads can do is start the consideration process, which more often than not is happening online. And although a punchy line might trigger awareness, it plays almost no role during consideration. Here, the “rational” experience of brands trumps the “emotional” delivery of a clever tagline or visual. Yet ad agencies have almost no experience in the former and way too much comfort in the latter. Even when they develop online campaigns, traditional agencies tend to approach the Web as just another place to deliver a metaphor. So instead of creating useful tools, applications, demos, customer support communities or streamlined ways to complete a transaction, they fall back on familiar stunts and gags, such as viral videos.”
—R/GA founder & CEO Bob Greenberg, writing in Adweek (via alexjcampbell) (via kiel) (via somethingchanged)
