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Do you squeeze the God Tube from the top or the bottom? Check out this new youtube style video site geared towards glorifying the divine; this video from godtube.com claims that through sign language it can help you realize that “You Are God”. Hypnotizing, isn’t it?:

Stendhal syndrome or Stendhal’s syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly ‘beautiful’ or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of choice in other circumstances, e.g. when shopping.

The Jerusalem syndrome is the name given to a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed obsessive ideas, delusions or other psychosis-like experiences, that are triggered by, or lead to, a visit to the city of Jerusalem. It is not endemic to one single religion or denomination, but has affected Jews and Christians of many different backgrounds.

– Wikipedia

Recently I subscribed to Wiley Wiggins twitter feed. That’s the guy from Dazed and Confused and Waking Life – the one who touched his eyes alot and played with his hair. I am one of the fifteen or so lucky folks who gets to listen in on his daily “tweets”.

Today he wrote this:

“feeling tired, bogged down and unproductive. Going to get some rest this weekend and try to get back on track.”

Wiley is not subscribed to my Twitter feed. So Wiley, if you’re reading this, here’s what I did:

I spent the latter part of my evening signing up to some Web 2.0 websites : Backpack and Technorati to be specific. How many more sites can I sign up for? I feel it’s kind of like Fight Club where he goes to each of the Anonymous Whatever classes. I don’t know why I keep signing up for them when I know I won’t be able to keep up with updating them all.

Will anyone ever watch TwitterVision religiously? I don’t think Twittervision will last very long, at least not in this incarnation. But I am obsessed with how things are ramping up. Do I really give a shit what you ate for breakfast? No. Do I still read them and feel guilty when I miss a tweet, wondering if I am missing out? Yes.

With Twittervision, I sort of feel like a god looking down on the globe, watching the thoughts of His little creations.

But now I am confused. Is this a God Tube or a Twitter vision?

The GodTubeTwitterVision syndrome is the name given to a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed obsessive ideas, delusions or other psychosis-like experiences, that are triggered by, or lead to, a large amount of art that nobody cares about.

I fixed a nasty bug, and ….

I’m not sure I can even call these spam letters “hints” anymore:

“Keeping the computer monitor viewable by anyone passing by lowers the likelihood kids will be tempted to visit online destinations they shouldn’t.
It’s pretty hard to tell the difference though isn’t it? Multiplying the scores by the weights and adding them up tells you, in one number, how preferable each option is.
How many times have you written up a list of pros and cons, only to throw it away as soon as you saw how irrational it was?
Teens may share personal information online and spend time at social networking sites like My Space instead of hanging out with friends in person.
Hard to describe the smell, but the chemicals were pretty strong.

And at the top appears the sum of all the weighted Scores, 62 in our example.

But there’s also a cost of doing nothing.

Oscar CentralKristopher Tapley tries to “make sense of the Oscar buzz.
And it works no matter how many options you have to choose from
All the You’s that create and rate content on heavy hitting sites such as MySpace, Wikipedia and YouTube.

And it works no matter how many options you have to choose from. It’s the only official James Dean fan club in the world.
In this mini-guide I have gathered together some of the more interesting alternatives for those looking to monetize their blogging efforts with contextual advertising solutions.
The journey has been incredible from its beginning. ”

1. Time Botcher says:

“And the only way to get the system to destroy itself is that there is no way but the second best way to get the system to destroy itself is to charge it up with SimonSays things that it must copy. It only can copy us. If we begin tellteaching each other at sit down rock show pretty poetry pattern algorhythmic reading patternGatherings if we begin with the premise that we don’t exist and everything is an illusion then what the iggie AIgov guys will do is start copying us and saying “We don’t exist. We don’t exist. You can’t trust us. You can’t trust us.”

2. My boss and I are contracting at a larger company for the next six months and working in a new fancy office in downtown Seattle by the water. One of the key developers is currently recovering from a nasty spiral meningitis infection and has been put on bedrest for the next month or so back at his home in Missouri. I’m not sure why this was done, but last week someone set up a laptop in the center hallway of the cubicles, with the sickly developer setup on a skype video chat. I’d like to think that this was done so that anyone who had a question for the guy could just walk up to the sad little laptop and talk to him directly. I walked by nervously a few times, and waved – and the guy on the other end of the camera smiled and waved back. Something about this whole scenario creeped me out – gave me the distinct vision of working in an office with other entities who could be computers or humans, OR A MIXTURE OF BOTH. I pictured taking the laptop and making it face a corner when he’d been bad.

3. If you look to the top right of this page you will see that I have signed up for a Twitter account. Essentially this is a simpler, stripped down way of hooking my existence directly into your RSS feed. If you sign up as well, you can be constantly updated with short messages of my daily coming and goings always in under 140 words or less.

Here’s a fun little spam letter I got today (edited for poetic license). Email back “pirate” at : bho@staude.org

“Not without difficulties, though.
If you could have found out two days earlier you would have adjusted
your workplan.
But then, what would legality matter if we became a planet of the
nuclear dead?

For we elites in Australia and a few other lucky countries it is hard
to conceive of a time or place where the enlivening brown beverage
Coke is not available.

Several long gusts of water were then discharged at them by the water
cannon, but to no avail.
Let’s make sure we all go home to our families every night.

we dont even know who they ARE – we don’t know anything. AWE
themselves have compared the size of their project to that of
Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

Questioned on the source of the disinformation campaign, Government
representatives have been curt and dismissive.
Next you’ll want to ask people if they need any help to complete
their promised work.
We are angry and we have every right to be.”