The Cat Will be Taking it Easy Today

... that's my plan too. Keep it loose, but not too loose they tell me.

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These Guys...

So happy I was invited
Give me a reason to get out of the city
See you inside watching swarms on TV
Livin' or dyin' in New York it means nothing to me
I gave my heart to the Army
The only sentimental thing I could think of
With cousins and colors and somewhere overseas
But it'll take a better war to kill a college man like me

I'm too tired to drive anyway, anyway right now
Do you care if I stayed?
You can put on your bathing suits
And I'll try to find somethin' on this thing that means nothin' enough
Losin' my breath, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Losin' my breath, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
I want to sit in and die
You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
I want to sit in and die
You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

This pricey stuff makes me dizzy
I guess I've always been a delicate man
Takes me a day to remember a day
I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand
I was a comfortable kid
But I don't think about it much anymore
Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth
And we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party

I'm too tired to drive anyway, anyway right now
Do you care if I stayed?
You can put on your bathing suits
And I'll try to find something on this thing that means nothin' enough

You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
I want to sit in and die
You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
I want to sit in and die
You and your sister live in a Lemonworld
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo...

Losin' my breath
Doo doo doo doo doo doo... 

 

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Online Personalization Creates Echo Chamber to Affirm Biases

The Echo Chamber...

Natasha Singer for the New York Times writes that, "If we don't chip away at the insulation of consensus, they caution, the promise of the World Wide Web could give way to a netherworld of narcissism Net."

In the article The Trouble with the Echo Chamber Online Mrs Singer highlights thoughts from The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You; and discusses with the book author and MoveOn.org board President Eli Pariser how current media insulation is creating siloed experiences for users. Essentially what they're talking about are the downsides of personalization of the web.. in particular data collection and cataloged recognition that influences search results in Google (Amazon, etc.).

It's an interesting article and likely an interesting book. Fragmentation of publics do to splintered media and gross availability of ideologically-specific content has been a predicted threat for some time. It would be interesting yet to know that Mr. Pariser might add to the discussion in his book.

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