…from the Glut-tang Clan « Virginia Hughes (via @vaughanbell)(via @mocost)
def fun but this is still my favorite.
Is it just me or does Gen M have age-ist issues? I’ve heard Dr. Jay play the age card on numerous occasions (don’t get me wrong, I <3 Dr. J) and some twenty-something say that so-and-so was quite a precocious tumblr for his age (33). There’s today thing with Umair. There are also other examples I’ve seen ‘round here.
I’m sure it’s common ‘mongst all generations to do this sort of thing but the vehemence and apparent virulence of Gen M’s proclivity for it is, as with the attitude thing, a bummer.
I turned forty last month and am incredibly young at heart. My internet self certainly belies my age - except when going on about those young people as recently seen =) - and I’m confident enough to not let the age snarks bother me. However, the trend is still disturbing.
We’re all grups here.
Which way to Sanctuary.
[edit: I don’t recall hearing much age-ist rhetoric from my agemates while we were in our twenties. This may be a bit silly and simplistic but I wonder if it was because as children we had Logan’s Run (film and series) and Star Trek to teach us some lessons about -isms and -ists and their unfortunate extremes (that grup episode freaked me out as a kid). (Our media feed was pretty limited. What one saw, most saw, it seems).]
i couldn’t stay away. *^_^*
there’s a trick to staring into the sun without getting blinded or burnt. i’m learning it as best i can.
(The Generation M Manifesto, via)
My response to Umair:
Unfortunately, M stands for “me” as well. If Gen X (mine) was a generation of slackers, Gen M might be called the generation of look-at-me’s.
I realize that each generation that comes along thinks it has the best ideas for making the world a better place. Unfortunately, it seems that your gen also comes with the need to belittle or harsh others that don’t share or understand your worldview. This leads to alienation and bad feelings (as the comments most likely bear out) not cooperation and change.
Please don’t conflate the bureaucracy and the “establishment” with the “disenfranchised” by playing the age game. It seems you tried to back away from this at the end of the article but it also seems that your need to be clever (look-at-me) let it sit near the headline.
Also, the ideas listed here are great, but they do not belong to you - they’ve been around for ages. Perhaps with the tech the X’ers + the M’ers ‘ve developed these ideas will finally have a chance to be put into motion.
I want to support you & your gen but unless the snarky attitude goes, you’re hurting more than helping. It’s like you guys are the Bidens (M) to our Obamas (X), seriously.
[edit: I do realize that alot of this Gen M negativity is misdirected passion, i.e. the fire of youth. I think the future will be an interesting place: Gen X + Gen M = change that is startlingly and lastingly true]
i need about a month or so away from the internets.
cs, i don’t know whether to thank you or throw water balloons. remembering to be mindful about what’s going on overseas has resulted in a huge spike in my blood pressure. it seems the world is built on nothing but f^(%*!@ absurdity. no wonder i dropped out the first time.
in order to forestall another such exit, i’m going to remove the wireless interface from my laptop and do what i need to do, bracket out the world so i can do my part to change it.
au revoir, safe travels, & best wishes, all~
p.s. will check email 1x or 2x a week if anyone cares to write feels like writing. *^_^*
caro:
Nice.Yep…good work Foursquare. I’ve been checking in at my gym every time I go so I can keep track of what I’ve been doing. Essentially 2 button presses and I’ve documented my workout sessions.
I AM the mayor of Maxim Fitness. Anyone up for challenging my mayoral status?
And therein lies one major step forward in the fight against getting off my ass. Add some games and competition to getting me off my ass that I can use against my friends in my neighborhood. And then add in some monetary rewards for winning the competition (like a free drink around the corner at Destination? All of this could then be tied in to my insurance company (or maybe even my taxes?) so my premiums go down as a result of my healthy lifestyle?
Damn…wouldn’t it be nice living in the future in an ideal world?
It would be supernice if we could do the same for civil engagement. Get people off their butts and involved. This hyper-“me” sh!t (80’s^3) is getting to me in a severe way.
Why Hulu Succeeded As Other Video Sites Failed - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (via caterpillarcowboy) (via mikehudack)
It probably didn’t hurt to have Seth McFarlane plug it all over the place on cable. Most of the world has probably never heard of Joost, Veoh, etc. etc. etc. but they know Family Guy (unfortunately). Sure, on some unconscious level this brand stuff works but for Joe the Plumber, what he already knows sells what he’s not so sure about. A body could have the best product in the world but if no one knows about it, it won’t matter.
[edit: I am rolling my eyes at this b.s. disguised as analysis. This is from the NYT?!?!? Sheesh.]
Kinarm Ko and Hans Schöler’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster have succeeded for the first time in culturing a clearly defined cell type from the testis of adult mice and converting these cells into pluripotent stem cells without introduced genes, viruses or reprogramming proteins. These stem cells have the capacity to generate all types of body tissue. The culture conditions alone were the crucial factor behind the success of the reprogramming process.
From the imagation of Graham Roumieu in his wonderful book, Bigfoot, I Not Dead. This is
probablythe most entertaining book that I will read all year.
“If the walls of the Big Dig House could talk, they’d tell you that it’s comprised of 600,000 lbs of recycled materials that were rescued from the Big Dig highway project in Boston. Inhabitat last reported on the striking modern residence in 2006 when it was still in its planning stages, and it has since come a long way from being a pile of rubble and recycled materials. We may now behold what stands today — an elegant and modern private home in Lexington, MA with an exciting backstory.” (via Inhabitat » Big Dig House: Recycled Residence Reaches Completion)not only is this house made of recycled materials, but it’s a house i’d actually like to live in.
Same here.
ditto.
… the term consciousness still has no adequate definition, and the question of how it is generated by the brain is the biggest challenge to modern neuroscience. Researchers investigating this mysterious phenomenon therefore use a working definition, and focus on the subjective contents of conscious awareness. This is usually done indirectly, by using functional neuroimaging to investigate, for example, the neural correlates of visual perception.
Now a group of French researchers and clinicians report that they have measured the neural correlates of conscious awareness directly, and with higher spatial and temporal resolution that previous studies, using electrodes implanted into the brains of patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy. Their findings, which have just been published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, lend support to the global workspace model of consciousness.
The journey undertaken by newly generated neurons in the adult brain is like the cellular equivalent of the arduous upstream migration of salmon returning to the rivers in which they were hatched. Soon after they are born in the subventricular zone near the back of the brain, these cells migrate to the front-most tip of of the olfactory bulb. This is the furthest point from their birth place, and they traverse two-thirds of the length of the brain to get there.
The first leg of this epic journey - the departure of the newborn cells from the subventricular zone - involves some of the signalling cues that guide cell migrations during development of the brain. However, these signals alone are known to be insufficient, and until now the precise mechanisms governing this migration were unclear. But a new study by Canadian researchers shows that the cells travel such long distances by crawling along the capillaries in the olfactory bulb.
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