Life without Justin Bieber

I have survived this far without knowing who Justin Bieber is.  Maybe I am really missing out.  Maybe all the nights that I layed awake thinking that there was a higher power out there or that there was a feeling of emptyness in my life was just the hole left by the future presence of Justin Bieber.  I stumbled upon the fact that his haircut is making the news today.  Wow, he must really be interesting if his haircuts warrant an article about them. 

Or maybe I should live in ignorance and assume that popular culture and the media are once again throwing some untalented kid into the limelight prematurely and not waste my time.  Or he could be the next Michael Jackson.  Thanks to Google, I am about to find out.



Here is what I read so far on wikipedia, my curiosity is increasing:
"The Observer newspaper in the UK published a report indicating that Justin Bieber is more influential in the social networking sphere than Barack Obama or The Dalai Lama."

Random thought, is puberty going to be a problem for him with his voice dropping?

AFTER:
As far as him having talent, it's hard to tell with all the auto tune and production, but he just seems to look like hundreds of kids I see walking around town with that moppy hair. 

I think if I were to go back to my life before Justin Bieber, I would be just fine.  It definitely wasn't his lack of appearance into my reality that was keeping me up at night!  To be really fair, I watched about 2 minutes of youtube videos (Baby w Ludacris and part of another one) before deciding I had enough. 

Oh well, guess I will have to keep searching!  Or give him another chance.  What I would really like to see is something where he is playing an instrument and singing live, so I can really formulate a fair opinion of his abilities...

 

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I must be living in the past, since I have a blog

Apparently blogging is being pushed aside by social networking and sites like Twitter.  It seems that sites like Tumblr are doing ok because people really are too lazy to write anymore.  They just want to send out their three word monosyllabic messages to their friends.  Oh well, I guess I am maybe a bit late to start my blog, but I am not giving up yet! 

Here is the nytimes article about it:  Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter

Any people out there still old-school enough to blog?




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Eating bugs and insects

So the thing people keep saying is that instead of eating meat, we should eat insects...  Here are a couple of interesting articles on that:

'Bug Mac' and Lovely 'Grub': Food of the future

Insects on the menu, scientists warn of animal scarcity, experiment with bug diet

Eating Bugs

So, I understand all the pros,but the real question is: 

Would you be willing to surpass the unsavory aspect of it and be able to eat bugs for the environment and your health?



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Google's basic features that you didn't know about

All this reading on SEO and google has made me realize that most people don't really know much about google's features other than searches.  Here are a few examples you may find fun:

• weather
• sunrise and sunset times
• unit conversions
• currency conversion
• definitions and synonyms
• calculator

Here is a site which shows all those and more:

http://www.google.com/help/features.html


Also, a lot of people don't know how to get their searches to get more specific results.  Here is a link to a bit more google search tips:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861




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More on search engine optimization

Here is another article about SEO (search engine optimization) from the NY Times.  I think I find this interesting because I think that  the majority of people take for granted a tool such as google.  Everyone uses it without really thinking of how it works or why certain things appear when we do a search.  People assume that it is a natural order and that things that appear near the top are the most perninent, interesting or useful.  Not so.  Enjoy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Apparently I am not the only one who finds this interesting since it is one of the most emailed articles they have.




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Search engine optimization and the news

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/business/media/11search.html?src=me&ref=homepage

This is scary.  Does it mean every time we surf the web we should be afraid that "reputatble" news sources are just making up articles using popular web searches to better their results in google in order for us to land on their page so that they can make more money on advertising?





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Rockin' uke

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,776351420001_2046375,00.html








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Pretty boys fighting

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/friday-night-fights/?scp=1&sq=fight%20club&st=cse

Straight from a Chuck Pahlaniuk book...  Models and VIPS in a fight club in New York.





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Superbowl ads

Superbowl doritos ad

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