Now that Digg Version 4 is here, much to the dismay of the community (who resoundingly spoke up about its apparent suckiness), what the hell do you plan on digging -- I mean doing -- with your free-time? For those of you who decide to leave Digg rather than battle Kevin Rose in an attempt to return the site to normal, we believe Reddit is the obvious answer to your quickly diminishing finger calluses and disconnection from the social web. "But Reddit's comment system is confusing!" "Yeah, and the design is horrid." "Which subreddits do I subscribe to? There are so many!"
- Mich De
Child Soldiers by: Master Photography Steve McCurry "One of the darkest and most vile tragedies of our species as a whole is the brutalization and enslavement of children. The worst possible manifestation of this is represented by the plight of the `War Children' throughout the world. Being beaten, drugged, raped and tortured is all a normal fact of daily life for them. Killing and even cannibalistic massacres of their own families is frighteningly common. How so many can complain about the small issues the vast majority of humanity has, while we sit by idle knowing the plight of so many innocent children is abominable. Next time you get pissed off at how slow the lady in front of you is counting change, or through a tantrum at a restaurant over a spot on your fork... think of what it would be like, to have not eating since last week when you were high on heroin and chopped up your mother for a meal after watching 30 men rape your 9 year old sister while 2 raped you holding your drug...
- Mich De
A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. I suggest watching it twice, with video, then close your eyes and just hear the sounds.... ohmmmm
- Mich De
.. a world where incredible progress has been made in science and technology: life extension treatments, cybernetics, and more. Its just a shame that the human race hasn't progressed equally well. Welcome to the future, where the more things change, they more they keep sucking..
- Mich De
"FTA "Imagine taking a break from your busy life and heading out for a little surfing excursion. When you reach the beach, you discover it's deserted except for you and your friend. Thrilled to find it so private, you snap a shot with your smartphone and post it on Twitpic. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, certainly more than 140 characters that Twitter allows. You then tweet this message with a link to your photo, "Secluded Kinard beach. No one here except us 2 surfers." 1diggdigg It's like a solitary slice of heaven, at least until you find out what was scraped and posted on I Can Stalk U. Instead of what you actually tweeted, by scraping geotagging information, icanstalku.com posts what your tweet really says. The Kincaid Beach photo and tweet turns into this: I am currently nearby http://maps.google.com/... ... So has anyone else ever innocently send a pic to twitter?"
- Mich De
":) Nice to meet you @TalkGibberish & @DouglasQ. I'm not famous, just an eccentric old crackpot who reads way to many blogs and chatters to much. I'm friendly though, so I'm lucky enough to have a few remember all the old days fun ;)"
- Mich De
"@PhilPerspective I'm not sure yet, I was to scared to go to sleep in case I'm dreaming :) but thank you immensely for the return welcome and remembering me. ps still luv the hat ;) @RobertWright Thanks Mr Wright ..... :)"
- Mich De
By taking a closer look at the recent history of celebrity scandals and the public reaction to them, we can gain some insight into what behaviors Americans consider tolerable and from whom.
- Mich De