Sunday, November 29, 2009

Digital frames? Digital books? will the technology take over classical approach to studying and living?




I am just 21 years old and I am a very open minded person, new technology is changing and it mostly changes for the best. What scares me is how ridiculous it can get. What will be next? What is going to happen to all the books if they already made electronic books? What will happen to all the photography if we have digital frames now? What kind of future is there going to be for my children?
I guess everybody is learning new things, but will we be able to keep up with the whole technology?


"Smack My Bitch Up" was the thirteenth single released by the British Big Beat band The Prodigy in 1997. The song was highly controversial because of its lyrics, title and music video. It seems to promote violence against women. The lyrics "Change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up" are repeated through the whole song. The song was banned by the BBC. The video, on the other hand was as controversial and popular as the song itself. The film depicts a night out in the city filmed from a first-person perspective, portraying drinking and driving, snorting cocaine, violence, vandalism, nudity and sex. The unedited version also includes a scene of heroin use and a hit and run incident. The protagonist takes a stripper home and has sex with her. As the stripper leaves with her stuff, the protagonist glances in the mirror, is revealed to be a woman, and passes out on the bed.

Though universally banned from television, massive demands on MTV eventually had them relent and show the video, but only after midnight and following an MTV News warning. In mid-2002, the full unedited version of this video was aired on MTV2 as part of a special countdown showing the most controversial videos ever to air on MTV. This countdown was only shown late at night because of the graphic imagery of "Smack My Bitch Up" and several other videos on the countdown. This video was at #1 on the countdown and therefore named the "Most Controversial Video" in MTV's history. Despite the controversy it eventually won Best Dance Video and Breakthrough Video.

In conclusion it just one of tones of different controversial music videos. Pretty much all the R&B song nowadays includes vulgarism, nudity, violence, money and power.

YouTube - FACEBOOK BREAK UP: Very Funny But True How Facebook Has Been Messing Up Relationships



Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.

Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.

Not only this but it has gone way to far. It destroys the relationships as well.We have to understand the difference between reality and internet. It is just a website and it become very powerful. Is it too powerful?so strong that it can be scary.

After her first appearance on national television Susan Boyle has raised quite a lot of media attention. She has given out interviews more than she could have expected and some of them have been pretty personal. It has come to the public attention that she at the age of 47 is still a virgin. And has not yet found the man of her dreams. At least before Britain's Got Talent show. Now she has developed a crush on one of the judges. No not Simon Cowell. But Piers Morgan.
Susan Boyle did rise to world fame just because of one song and that was the song from Les Miserable. Afterwords she has also admitted that she has never even kissed a man. That is pretty unbelievable but I don't doubt that. After all she is not probably the most pretty girl in the neighborhood. She admits that she has been following Piers since the first time he appeared on Americas Got talent.
On the night of her Britain's got talent debut, Susan was laughed at from the audience. Before she had sung. That is when everyone thought that this was going to be one of those reality show events where the judges humiliate a singer who has no skills what so ever. They were proved wrong. The judges admitted that everyone was expecting something else that she brought to the stage.
Susan Boyle's new album might be in the top charts of Britain got talent.

YouTube - The axe effect - Women - Billions


This is a commercial of a deodorant for man called "Axe".
Many different countries promote Axe and have its commercial in different languages.
This particular ad made a lot of controversy among Polish people and in America as well. In my own opinion it is a funny commercial, but it also makes me wonder how much it can influence some people. This is just another example from many commercials when they show how a particular product can make you a real man. A stereotype of good looking guy. Not necessarily too ideal, but when he uses the deodorant from Axe all the girls are his. When we watch commercials we do not really think how much effect they can make on some of us. The other trick the producers do is repeating it over and over again. When you go to a pharmacy and you are looking for some cosmetics, you see the Axe logo and automatically grabs it just, because you remember it from the commercial, and plus it reminds you of how well man was presented in it and just makes you want it. Finally you end up with buying a product even though maybe you could have got another deodorant that is cheaper and smells better.
I am just amazed how simple the commercial is and how well it works on us, people, and the society.

Friday, September 25, 2009