The Pleasures of Imagination
Why do humans prefer to be a part of unreal worlds?
One solution to this puzzle is that the pleasures of the imagination exist because they hijack mental systems that have evolved for real-world pleasure. We enjoy imaginative experiences because at some level we don’t distinguish them from real ones. This is a powerful idea, one that I think is basicallyathough not entirelyaright. (Certain phenomena, including horror movies and masochistic daydreams, require a different type of explanation.)
Posted: June 3rd, 2010
at 4:36pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,youtube,life,celebrity,art,too good to be true,film,mnp is for the children,real life news,science,"ninja",tele,philosophy
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Are Cameras the New Guns?
The move to stop recording of police misconduct:
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states (Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland), it is now illegal to record an on-duty police officer even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.
Posted: June 2nd, 2010
at 1:38pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,youtube,crime,web,not ninja-worthy,cell phones,film,politricks,weaponry,photo,fo' real?,real life news,tele,law,ethics,security
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Primary Sources: No Secrets
WikiLeaks front man Julian Paul Assange and his Icelandic transformation- how did his wish to under-serve those who hold "power without accountability" lead to the disintegration of his own orchestrated press club release? This New Yorker article by Raffi Khatchadourian due out next week explores his undoings in and out of the Bunker.
"If it feels a little bit like we're amateurs, it is because we are. Everyone is an amateur in this business."
Posted: May 31st, 2010
at 3:45pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: hood status,myninjaplease,youtube,life,crime,too good to be true,web,mnp is for the children,politricks,weaponry,fo' real?,real life news,science,primary sources,et cetera,tele,internets,ninjas are everyehere,law,ethics,ir
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Democratizing TV
Al Gore on his new "Crowdsourced TV" venture at MediaPost
Current was one of the first networks to utilize consumer-generated advertising campaigns on behalf of marketers, and showed campaigns that were recently developed by its users to help introduce a new, biodegradable package design for Frito-Lay’s Sun Chips.
Posted: May 6th, 2010
at 4:15pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,et cetera,development,tele,internets
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Robotech: Seeding the Protoculture
Carl Macek and his creation, the fusion that was Robotech at sfgate.com
Posted: May 6th, 2010
at 3:38pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: art,robots,9th dan,development,tele
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Time to Rethink Design
David Carlson of the David Report has released a new trend look at the state of a full design world. Design contamination has taken over an expertise that is barely 100 years old; new products are simply the variations of old themes- (conceptual design, new articulations of the same, design signatures and design as art).
However if we are able to get back to using aging products and making design matter in a lifecycle, there is a cleaner horizon.
Designer Naoto Fukasawa: "I understand that myArole is about enhancing our living…. I've become moreAattached to the current life, and have started considering the betterment of our lives in a reality where we allAbelong, rather than predicting what could happen".
We need new storytellers:
Fred Alan Wolf - The Dreaming Universe (1994):A"Aboriginals believe in two forms of time: two parallelAstreams of activity. One is the daily objective activity,Athe other is an infinite spiritual cycle, called dreamtime,Amore real than reality itself…".
Carlson poses a great question, how do we A"change old habits and not to perpetuate the sales argument that the main role of designAis added value."
Read the full report in one of three forms: PDF, Flip Through Version or Text
Posted: March 25th, 2010
at 2:44pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: hood status,myninjaplease,bling,computers,music,life,art,too good to be true,green,web,not ninja-worthy,cell phones,home,clothes,business,whips,robots,film,mnp is for the children,politricks,weaponry,gear,architecture,photo,design,real life news,science,"ninja",et cetera,diy,development,philanthropy,tele,health,bikes,philosophy,ethics
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Thank God for Maury

Or else what would we post…? Thanks to El Pres for posting this originally.
Posted: July 13th, 2009
at 10:33am by Black Ock
Tagged with chicken, fear, maury, phobia, tv, television
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Real McCoy - Dog a Wine

Posted: May 4th, 2009
at 2:24pm by Black Ock
Categories: too good to be true,tele
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