Next we have a 2009 “X Factor” winner doing a cover version of a Miley Cyrus song…
Well, back in Christmas of 2009, UK fans voted, and they voted with thier money by buying songs. RatM beat out the expected winner by 50,000 “votes” with the 16 year old song. (source).
Why the old news?
Well, the promised that if they won, they’d give a free concert!
And, in good fasion, they’re going to follow through on the promise. Still, it’s likely going to be somewhere in the UK, so if you’re really into RatM, better be ready to book your tickets.
Also, for what it’s worth, I am not a rabid RatM fan though I do enjoy a few songs from them.
I swear when I saw this at first I thought it was going to be some sort of Global Warming PSA. I generally support environmentally friendlyness, though mostly because I like the world around me to be clean, but hey, behold the FUTURE of Green
chances are that yeah, no one reads you and you’ll never actually “make a difference”. I still say that if you enjoy doing it, keep doing it. Lord knows I still do even though I’ve long since lost th numbers I had 2 years+ ago. On the other hand, I don’t really care about “numbers”.
The story basically goes that a single UK Blogger has cause the resignation of a large majority of some city council to resign.
The story does not go into much detail into how this Blogger caused this, one can suspect some sort of regular criticism. It may be that it actually has nothing to do with the guy’s blog at all, possible he simply regularly attended the meetings and managed to out some sort of scandal while also happening to be a blogger. It also suggest sthat the council members simply needed some sort of scapegoat.
There also seems to be some level of sensationalism going on as the blogger himself suggests that the story isn’t accurate nor that it’s his responsibility at all.
The point though is that if you run a blog, especially a more localized blog, you might be able to make more of a difference than you’d think. Also this sort of “eye opening of the public” is part of what I’ve been saying has been going on with this whole “connected social internet” phenomenon.
I’ve heard two relatively prolific conspiracy theories since the death of Pop Legend Michael Jackson. First is that his death was staged in order to create an enormous comeback. Or possibly just so he could simply go away and leave all of the stressful obsessive coverage.
Second, and if either were true more likely, is that he was killed to release the rights to his library of songs. Please note, not the rights to HIS songs, the rights he owned to BEATLES songs.
That’s right, Michael Jackson owned the publishing rights to a lot of Beatles music. Have you noticed the massive influx of Beatles themes lately inc commercials? Then there was Beatles Rock Band.
Eh eh?
Anyway, I’ve seen a video a while ago that was supposedly Michael Jackson casually strolling out of an ambulance after his “death” but it was grainy as hell and frankly, it could have been anyone. Hell the video could have been Obama wandering out of the ambulance. all we know is Someone, or something, got out and walked into a door in an underground garage.
This one takes the cake though for supporting conspiracy theories.
Here’s a photo of Michael Jackson’s “last rehersal”.
Take a minute to look it over. To the casual person it seems ok right? If you’re familiar with Photoshop take a closer look at Michael himself. Still not seeing it? Pretend you’re into “guys junk” and look again. See it yet? Notice that there is no neon sign between his legs? Of course you didn’t see it you were too busy looking at Michael Jackson’s crotch you PERVERT.
Anyway, the guy in charge apparently screwed up a job any regular Something Awful poster could manage (Photoshop Phriday anyone?).
Let’s take a short break from random political news for some good sound advice. This guy has the right idea in general.
Essentially, what ti comes down to is say, knowing how lighting & thunder works* so you’re not afraid of it. Or having some vague idea of the answer to why the sky is blue**. Or even knowing that if you try to jump a car on your skateboard with a 1 foot ramp, the physics just aren’t going to work. Things like that. Sort of having a general common sense mindset and being able to know “This will work (even if I can’t necessarily make it work) or this won’t work (because it’s scientifically impossible).”
Something like that, I guess.
* Electrical particles between the ground and the clouds cause an electrical discharge (lightning) which superheats the air around it causing a release of sound (thunder).
** Light is refracted through the atmosphere at varying angles depending on the location fo the sun which is why in the sunrise and sunset it’s red.
