Hipsters Across World Continue to Mourn Loss of Barrett and say "Haifa Wha??? Who cares Barrett's dead dude."

Happy Birthday Terra, Observed

I got to see my great friend Terra on her actual birthday this past Monday but tonight we officially observed her birthday by going out and telling the worst jokes imaginable to horrify her. Not pictured but pros at telling the worst of the worst grossout jokes include Melissa, Christopher, and Bart. I may have thrown one or two in there myself...

"YouTube - Broadcast Yourself"

I uploaded my first video on YouTube today - I uploaded it as an mp4 (oooh now you can watch it on a video iPod) so the quality of the video leaves something to be desired. I know the sites I have been frequenting heavily this summer - blogger, myspace, and youtube - still raise a lot of questions for me in terms of the affordances they seemingly provide for the people who use them, the modes of expression they seem to promote, and the sticky business of who or what entities own these sites (particularly with the purchase of myspace by Rupert Murdoch and the subsequent EVIL changes in its user agreement), and in turn, how they set up the relationship between the formal structure of the site and the content that individuals provide for it. Somehow all these questions can't seen to quash my compulsion to keep adding crappy, self-centered content to all three sites...