Binary Perspectives

Archive for May, 2010

And lays waste  to plans

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You could not have missed all the well meaning tips about your facebook privacy settings. With the like button and the open graph protocol, Facebook is betting on making the internet a facebook based ecosystem. Users are part of this ecosystem and their behaviour can now be shared with others, even beyond facebook. As an example, if you ‘like’ something on TED your facebook friends can know what you ‘liked’ when they visit TED. What does it mean for users privacy? Well, users are responsible for their privacy. Pretty tame concept if you ask me.
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So opined Bill Hicks, the legendary US comedian. A talented guy with humorously cynical views on consumerism/religion/materialism and anything in between. You can hear more of Bill’s schtick at the end of this post. For all of his anti-consumerism rants, he was often sucking on a product propelled by the intense marketing efforts of the tobacco giants. Speaking of suckers, Al Gore recently purchased a 9 million dollar home with 6 fireplaces, 9 wash rooms, huge swimming pool etc. Al probably did not factor in the ‘inconvenient truth’ of the carbon footprint of that 6500 sq ft home. We could probably run a village on the daily carbon offset budget for his 9-wash room flushes. Regardless, it does look like either Al or some of us got easily taken in. I digress. Read the rest of this entry »