Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben

Love these guys. It’s the EU crew thinking twice about Googies image generation of ciudads the world over. Just like a few in the USA got concerned about privacy concerns on Googs doin a 360 street view, the EU is a bit concerned too. Not surprising, but will they stop or block Googs from oing it and with such legislation would it be harder for the EU to chastize China? ouch,. I especially love this quote which makes it sound serious:

“Google Maps and a related computer-based service called Google Earth have drawn criticism from a variety of countries for providing images of sensitive locations, such as military bases or potential targets of terror attacks.”

It is serious, no doubt, not to make light of it, but this is part of the future of how the global community interacts, what is defined as a right and in turn a possiblity is to be discussed and yet discussed again –

where do the lines blur with this new tech a deck do! One of the articles covering this story is on Reuters.

Tags: google, tech, news, EU, privacy, user rights, maps

The FBI is sayin China could hack the US networks with unbranded cisco routers? But what I can’t understand is why the US gov is outsourcing it’s tech needs in the first place. The government should be producing tech and making state of the art. Have the best technology experts making the best for the gov, all the government sectors, not just secret divisions. This is part of the fundamental gap in ground up structure and knowledge base of the Existing US tech sector specifically in the government. Update the systems, make it better, draw in the experts and let the private sector do private sector tech and secret government tech and government infrastructure be developed and supremely awesome!. Make some great stuff US gov, don’t outsource the tech to china. Dang go do some push ups, a few crunches and get to work in the lab. Make USA tech the global leader. Make the government infrastructure like no other and stop out sourcing!

Tags: tech, terror, china, usa, servers, hacking, military

The Australian gov is popin the kangs with some darts and then eating them. Naw, as far as we know they are just killing them. Eating, not sure.

Regards, mister dart gun

Tags: kang, kangaroo, culling

Yeah. Not quit xo-man - o -war, or bio-mechanical- but it is a exo-skeleton:

Tags: xo-skeleton, armor, future, military

I’m on a brief break from regular posting as I have become quite busy doing alot of work and yard work! The regular posting will soon return, Fractured thoughts are now in a fractured moment…

Alot of stores are posting signs like this one:

Apparently, it’s a simple way to educate consumers who are not following the commodities price rise.

Tags: wheat, rise of coast, bread, costs more, food shortage

Who would have thought a whole industry of creative and interactive and engaging works would be all over the place. When I was a kid, I read comic books and watched cartoons, and thought, this could be better, and today, it is better, it was always better in my head, in my imagination. The stories would take on a life of there own, and some of what makes todays cartoons and continued story-lines from classic comics and new story-lines with new an interesting and creative characters, is that they have built themselves as continuations, improved themselves, and alot of like minded bros and gurls have really just gone there and made wicked awesome stories and characters! From legion of superheros, to ben10, to ben10 alienForce, to cable - the x-men franchise, spidey, batman&robin, teen titans, remakes and newbies, new comics - fantastic stories and movies. Re-inventions, good and bad, it’s pushing into the mainstream, and my Uncle recently said to me, “You know, when you were a kid, and would be interested in this ’stuff’ I got worried,. I thought, what would he do when he gets older and needs a job. He said one day, a friend said, he’ll do something that hasn’t been invented yet.”

I didn’t know how i was gonna make money when I was younger. I was a bus-boy, a camp counselor, a cook, a dish-washer, a bouncer, and then I was a photographer, and learned archiving, and then I landed a gig doing tee-shirts cause someone I met while waiting tables broke his ankle and needed a replacement till he got better. I got my lucky break, literally. What my uncle said was true. He was concerned, and sometimes I am too, but, what’s true is, so quickly the world has changed to become as fantastic and awesome as we want it to be. We are carving out new realms of content to explore and engage and new ways to see it, read it, hear it and interact with it, and whether the star trek tricorder is the device, or a new magic watch influenced by Dick Tracey, or some wicked spaceship time machine that makes you transform, or fly. Man, we got some wicked sweet times infront of us. I can’t wait to see what my kid makes.

Basically, foster the sharing, the growth, if you like the comics, the cartons, don’t let anyone tell you, enough with that junk. Dude, keep it going, Make your own. Your’s could be the next great one 30 years down the road, or even 30 days down the road. We are at a time where anyone can be the next awesome drop producer. Make it. Don’t listen to the may sayers. Make it again, and a gain and get someone else excited, they might be the one who gets it, but you may be the one who supplies the vehicle for them to get there. Work hard and be prolific.

It’s not about being right, it’s about taking the steps to get there sometimes. Produce, make it awesome. Re-work. Mess up. it’s great to mess up. You remember mistakes more than successes. It’s in the mistakes that you may find your awesomeness. Share with others. They might not like what you are doing. They may think it’s wrong. But the feedback is valuable. Show it to someone else. IT’s helpful. Don’t be too sensitive, cause, well, they could be wrong, but it is a valid opinion.

It’s a good quote, and I am taking it out of content, it’s from Barry Schuler about twitter and it’s short outage, run in parallel comparison to the outage AOL had early on. It’s contrasting service and users and reliance and loyalty, but it also gets to diligence, and making it gogo, and what in the end we get excited about:

We may accept low quality service cell phones. But when we pick up the phone, we expect a dial tone. When you send e-mail, you expect it will be delivered. So this clearly is something Twitter has to take seriously. If they do go ahead and understand that they need to have a bullet proof back end–and that sort of thing is expensive–they could wind up with the same good news success story. If not, people are going to go to someone else.

Do it. Be prolific. Mess up. Do it again. Getting right. Make it again. Better. Mess up, make it better, you get the point.

Tags: passion, do, doing the doing, comics, cartoons, scifi, adventure, ebn10, xmen, awesome

What “Condi” Rice is getting at, is that, yes, Rice and other grain prices are inflamed in part by the segmentation of crops for consumption, and for bio-fuel. It’s a nifty headline also. Thanks Condi.

And what a defining hand jester this is:
 

I visited costco for my monthly visit. Yeah, rice is really in shortage there. I asked the dude, what’s up with the rice shortage, one of the managers said, “Media scare, got all the customers buying up the rice. Only one in stock is Uncle Ben’s Fortified. We’ll have some other varieties in Tuesday, basmanti, and the such.”

Tags: rice, grain, shortage, food scare, politics, bio-fuel, media scare, food shortage

I start my new role as Head of Digital with Iris, http://www.irisnation.com . New Frontiers. It’s gonna be awesome. Wonderful to be joining a team of like minded individuals and make some kick ass work!