Illustration from 1960s cookbook
Language, technology, and Millennial hate.
#739 “The Future Of The English Language”(g) on Flickr.
Can social media stop an epidemic?
Virus hunter Dr. Nathan Wolfe says we can mine “big data” to stop disease outbreaks before they spread
CBS Evening News: Congress Considers Internet “Kill Switch” - VideoSurf Video Search
The US Congress considers giving the President the authority to shut down the Internet, just as the Egyptian state has done to quell protesters.
The Gamified World (via newscientistvideo)
“Anything that can be measured can be made into a game.”
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/24-hour-play-time-get-ready-to-for-the-game-of-your-life.html
Social Networking Wars (via TechWreck14)
In this 2008 animation, social networks vie for a user’s attention. MySpace struggles with its waning popularity, not wanting to go the way of pathetic Friendster, while preppy Facebook stays smug. Meanwhile, Second Life lurks creepily.
This is already dated at only two years old.
Are You Popular? (1947) (via shaggylocks)
From YouTube description: One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of “good” and “bad” girls, proper and improper dating etiquette, courtesy to parents, and an analysis of what makes some people popular and others not. A scream and a sobering document of postwar conformity. Mind-boggling double-standard for the “bad” boy and the “bad” girl. Classic Coronet.
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How Do You Do? Teenagers and the Rules of Proper Social Etiquette (1946)
Coolio TOO HOT(FULL CLIP) (via elcondenegro2002)
You might vaporize if you don’t wear a condom.
WARNING—CENSORED VIDEO.
Everybody listen up cuz I’m about to get my speak on
Fools be trippin’ when it’s time to get their freak on
Runnin’ round town
Puttin’ it down
Without no protection
Fo’ the erection
When it’s time for selection
What’s your direction?
Before you make a choice you betta do some inspection
If you don’t know my aim, an’
Don’t know my game, then
Let me explain now
Aiesha slept wit’ Mark
Then Mark slept wit’ Tina
An’ Tina slept wit’ Javier
the first time he seen her
Javier slept wit’ Loopy
An’ Loopy slept wit’ Rob
Cuz he was rollin’ on beans an’ had a goodass job
Rob slept wit’ Lisa who slept wit’ Steve, an’
Steve was positive
H.I.V.
What started off as a plan
Ended up in the plot
Ya betta cool ya ass off
Cuz it’s too damn hot….
(Chorus)
Oooh It’s Too Hot
T o o H o t
Too Hot lady
T o o H o t
Gotta run for shelter
Gotta run for shade
It’s Too Hot
T o o H o t
Too Hot homie
T o o H o t
Gotta make some sense from this mess that we made
Your doin’ everything momma told ya not to do
Now you’re tryin’ to walk away cuz ya know it’s true
Your sister can’t explain, an’
Your mother’s ashamed
to admit you both had the same last name
I don’t have to ask you where you’ve been
Cuz the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn
A mind is a terrible thing to waste that was the slogan
But now it’s ‘95 an’ it’s don’t forget the Trojan
Explained it to her momma
Before somebody get her
gotta ‘hip’ her to the game of those smooth talkin’ niggas
‘Love’ is a word, seldom meant but often heard
Latex
Safe sex
You better learn to get hip to the facts
Before you react or
End up in a box on your back
Sometimes ya axed fo what you wanted
Get what you got
Don’t get up in the plot
It’s too damn hot…
-Chorus-
Another day in the city, an’
oh what a pity
Even though we did our duty things are still lookin’ shitty
Everybody in the pack stacked tryin’ to make some scratch
Walkin’ in the rain but they ain’t got no hat
Understand that we livin’ in the 90’s loc
Nuclear waste, cannibalism, and pistol smoke
Sex, lies, videotape an’ rape
Just a little ‘bump & grind’ can seal your fate
We need to do something drastic
shit’s gettin’ tragic
And if you don’t believe me
Then go ask Magic
Everybody an’ their momma preaching abstenence, these
Kids ain’t checking for abster shit
So put a condom in their hand and hope it don’t bust
Another victim of the lust
In God we trust
What started off as a plan
Ended up in a plot
Water can’t cool it off cuz it’s too damn hot….
Nada Surf Popular (via shawn341)
Lyrics read from Penny’s Guide to Teenage Charm and Popularity, 1964.