the new clipse

the new nas video

the new jay video

the new timberland

the lupe fiasco daydreamin live video

and finally that ghost face shit

This article quoted me back in June of last year. I’m hoping that if I link to the article it will be the first thing that pops up when you google my name. Here goes nothing!

We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

- Carl Sagan

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Ever notice that YouTube videos are often dugg by association?

What do I mean:

These three videos are the first, sixth, and twelfth top stories on digg today, and guess what? They are all right next to eachother. Unless there is another way to explain this then it seems like its not always the best YouTube videos that get dugg but just the interesting ones surrounding other videos.  This is not necessarily a bad thing, but interesting none the less.

Web 3.0 is already a more hated term than web 2.0 but the point of these terms is to define important revolutions in the way the web is used; so they do merit an existence. In my estimations Web 3.0 is going to be bringing web applications to objects other than computers. The Web is going to be 3D. When Wi-Max becomes the norm there will be a huge amount of potential for data to be collected and transmitted. Anything and everything will be able to be tagged, manipulated, and have a history on the web. For instance think of your laundry bag. If you put a scale at the bottom of the bag and plug in a set amount of weight (say 30 pounds) that will trigger a wi-fi signal to be sent to your online productivity application whenever this weight has been reached: you will know when to do your laundry. This kind of thing may be solving problems that don’t exist but its just an example. Another example might be to have all the lighting in your house controllable through your PDA or cell phone. This is already possible, but this type of application is begging to be made easier and more mainstream. Another example could be to have your fire alarms and carbon monixide detectors tied into your cell phone, so when they go off then your cell phone and your girlfriend/best friends cell phone rings with an automated message. These are ideas that are just off the top of my head and much better ones are possible. I’m only thinking about the household. Think about making applications like this for your car, or for your clothing, or for your pets. This is Web 3.0 - the web in 3 dimensions.

In 1964 a Russian astronomer named Nikolai Kardeshev created a system of classifying advanced technological societies. They are known as the Kardeshev scale of advanced civilizations.

There are 3 types of civilizations on his scale, they are Type I, Type 2, and Type 3. Each successive civilization is significantly more technologically advanced. So lets start out with a type I civilization

Type I civilizations are fairly advanced. They control the energy of an entire planet, like planet earth for instance. This civilization has complete control over the planets weather, can prevent natural disasters like earthquakes, and they control about 10 to the 16 watts of energy, a huge amount of energy. This type of civilization still has to worry about things like extinction because of a comet impacting their planet. To put things in perspective the human race on this scale so far are about a .7, well below a type 1. Reasons for this are that we are still killing eachother for very irrational reasons, we have no control over the weather or natural disasters, and we haven’t been able to harness an energy source that isn’t running out. So we have a long ways to go. Some scientists have predicted that earth has the potential to reach a type I society by around year 2200, so really on a cosmic scale that’s a blink of an eye, that’s tomorrow.

A type 2 society is able to control the energy of an entire star, a star like the sun is average sized, or a little bit smaller than average, but compared to the earth its gigantic, and a type 2 will be able to directly mine energy from stars. A type 2 civilization will have explored at least its own star system and also have colonized several different planets. The energy that a type 2 civilization is able to harness is about 10 billion times the amount of a type I civilization. Good examples of type 2 civilizations from science fictions would be star trek, they are supposedly around a type 2.2 or 2.3 because they have only explored about a tenth of their galaxy, remember there are billions and billions of galaxies so even though type 2 seems advanced, it really is fairly insignificant on a cosmic scale. The civilizations in Star Wars are around 2.7 or 2.8 type civilizations. These civilizations are strong enough that they cannot become extinct and scientist have predicted that the human race could attain type 2 status by around year 5200. That seems like a long way away but again that’s pretty much a blink of an eye. The article I got this information from said that if the age of the universe was the length of a 24 hour day, 500,000 years would be the equivalent of roughly 3.5 seconds. So its year 2006 now, year 5200 is about 4,000 years away. This is like milliseconds on a cosmic scale.

A type 3 civilization is obviously the most advanced out of all of the types. This civilization can control the energy of an entire galaxy. It can manipulate space-time and they posess godlike powers. There is nothing that can make it extinct besides the end of the universe, and this civilization might even be able to fix that too. Scientists have predicted that the human race could achieve type 3 civilization by year 7800. So we’ll be long dead, but that’s really not that far away if you think about it in the right frame of mind. But as I said before we have to make sure we don’t kill eachother first.

http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000105.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale