This skit originally aired on a Norwegian comedy television show in 2001, which provides me with a segue: Apparently when the Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" (a religious satire about a man born in the stall next to Jesus, who has amusingly parallel -- if less godhooded -- experiences) was released in 1979, it was banned in a number of countries, including Norway. In Sweden, however, the movie was marketed with the tag line, "So funny, it was banned in Norway!". (Read about more banned films here.)
Saturday, December 12, 2009
What goes around, comes around
This is an old video -- it made the rounds in the early part of the decade and again a couple of years ago. It's still funny. When I saw it in previous years, it didn't have the ring of truth that it has now -- I feel much this way about Facebook. You have this thing called a Wall? And when I type something there -- who sees it?? Huh? I am feeling old -- I just don't get Facebook.
This skit originally aired on a Norwegian comedy television show in 2001, which provides me with a segue: Apparently when the Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" (a religious satire about a man born in the stall next to Jesus, who has amusingly parallel -- if less godhooded -- experiences) was released in 1979, it was banned in a number of countries, including Norway. In Sweden, however, the movie was marketed with the tag line, "So funny, it was banned in Norway!". (Read about more banned films here.)
This skit originally aired on a Norwegian comedy television show in 2001, which provides me with a segue: Apparently when the Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" (a religious satire about a man born in the stall next to Jesus, who has amusingly parallel -- if less godhooded -- experiences) was released in 1979, it was banned in a number of countries, including Norway. In Sweden, however, the movie was marketed with the tag line, "So funny, it was banned in Norway!". (Read about more banned films here.)
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Very amusing. The actors have the social interactions tuned just right.
Very funny. I haven't seen it before.
For what it's worthy, I've been playing around with FB quite a bit recently, and am ready to conclude that
1/ the security model is extremely ad hoc, opaque, and probably broken (I recommend keeping your FB password unique -- don't use one common to other sites -- and don't publish your email address.)
2/ no one really understands it,
3/ pretty much everyone just uses the status posting on the home page, rather than the wall, which thus is very quiet,
4/ the live feed has all kinds of trivial notifications, but everything appears there first, and the delay between the live feed and the news feed can obscure how things really work,
5/ performance is spotty, and its buggy.
Is this consistent with your experience?
Most of my 'friends' are jazz musicians. I receive lots of gig announcements, which is the real reason I use it.
You, Tom, have a far more explicit understanding of FB than I've developed. I'm still confused about the difference between status on the home page and status on the wall, and in fact, just what the wall is for.
By the way, yesterday the Texan read an article that if you Google yourself now, it will turn up your FB profile -- and that Google has been quietly suggesting to all the social networking sites that they clean up their privacy. We tried, and yes, her FB profile comes up first for her on Google (she has an unusual name). My more common name has several mis-leads, but there is not only my FB profile and Infocom-related entries, but the shock of seeing myself in video, from the documentary that will be released early in 2010.
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