Well, now that I'm part of the Internets in even more ways (as the pic of Tron Guy on the mobius blog will tell you), I suppose it's time to throw the flag down once again in Biotelemetrica. So here it goes:

Participatory madness of ROFLCon! If ROFLCON could be summed up in a single image, it would be this:

There will be more to come regarding the event, but clearing the blackboard off of that pic took two days, so I'll leave it at that for now.

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

If you have a few minutes, read/watch this wonderful interview. We've been on an essentially passive materialism-->television-->shop-->watch-->shop bender of consumption for a good long time. Large amounts of bonding among early 20-somethings--the ones I know anyhow--at some point meander to "OMG, you watched the smurfs when you were little!? Me too!" Or it's modern equivalents of dancing with stars, generating idols, etc. At some point, there will be an ever so minor shift to participation (or maybe a sea change). As we slowly figure out that "holy shit! I can play along too!" we will be in a wild, wild future. "Oh fuck! The Internet is here."

Lesbians angry about being co-opted by homosexual women

Citizens of the Island of Lesbos--part of Greece--are starting a lawsuit against members of the Greek LGTB community for using the word lesbian to refer to female homosexuals when, in fact, the term refers to citizens of the island--where the term lesbian was taken from in the first place. Uh-oh, boys|girls, it seems we've fallen through the looking glass all over again. And here we begin the wild adventure of over-used identity politics. Unitnended consequences a-go-go!

Heh. Info overload continues: how to deal with blackberries and overtime pay?

Answer: Here's a plan: buy a carboy and make blackberry wine. In general, abundance is a tough one. Cf. Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share