Like Andrew Breitbart only more so
"She just paints whoever inspires her," twitters Mandy Nagy — aka Liberty Chick — whose mother's deep, dark and delicious portrait of Andrew Breitbart (detail above) caught our eye in the thrust and parry of the social media matrix yesterday. Breitbart's using the image as his new Twitter avatar. "Your face was a good one to paint (while listening to "Burning Down the House)," quipped artist Nagy. "Like Andrew Breitbart only more so," we chimed in. (View Nagy Gallery here)
By Sissy Willis of sisu.
"Why bother to remember when you can just use Google?" runs the ars technica headline teasing the latest scientific findings of where our social-networking heads are at:
The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by Science Express describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten.
Like any set of entrails, these have got some of our fellow opinionators tearing their hair out over the end of civilization, but we're kinda thrilled. It's totally Darwinian, our homo sapient survival instincts kicking in to adapt us to a changing environment. As a brand manager might put it, It's the "transactive memory," stupid …
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I don’t care whether or not we “remember” minutia. We can “google” that stuff on need.
But, all I have to do is read what is on the ‘net, talk to almost anyone under the age of 40, or watch television and I’m utterly convinced that we, as a nation, have lost the ability to think critically.
It simply doesn’t MATTER what facts you know (or don’t know) if you can’t reason critically.
Agree with you, Huey, re hopeless if you can’t reason critically. As the great Thomas Sowell himself wrote:
“Even if every conclusion with which students are indoctrinated were true, unless those students develop their own ability to weigh opposing arguments, these conclusions will become obsolete as new issues arise in the years ahead. These ‘educated’ people will have developed no ability to analyze opposing sides of issues.”
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I love the “one ear in and one ear out” look.
Agree with you, Huey, re hopeless if you can’t reason critically.
A suggestion I can offer to those who care is to get an internat sata hard drive. Get it as big as you can, ($85 for 2TB on amazon) and use it to store experiences you have on the internet. I literally bookmark most every interesting political story and use a free addon for Firefox like [Screengrab!] that copies the entire page with comments as a jpg. The jpg is then titled, oh say, “Ground Zero Mosque 07162011.jpg” and filed in “political”. Yeah, trying to remember all the information on the nets is like trying to be a commercial real estate broker with 20 clients, and only a pen and paper or your memory to work with. Impossible. To live digital lives, we must have digital tools and plan. With a little work, you too can have a massive data hoard. With practice, you can sharpen the data to skewer any leftist’s argument with screenshots, dates, and factual information. Anyone serious about this will want to use RAID, and also sort bookmarks and drive data constantly.
I like your style of writing. While I agree with your points I reckon not everyone would. Anyways you have presented your points very well.
He reminds me of the Unabomber.
What the?
They are the result of a healthy combination of experience and the innovation.