Consumer Madness

From this article :-

"Every age group is excited about this product," said a Panasonic spokesman.

"A businessman might capture something wacky happening on the street and send it to his friends saying 'hey guys, looked what happened today'."

A very sad businessman; A very small businessman. Why does it have to be a businessman? This sounds like the company haven't got any real idea of what their product could be used for and have to manufacture a situation. A real businessman could find many uses for this product other than just photographing "something wacky". There are too many products and many of them have no real use other than to accessorise an increasingly gadget led public. A case of sod the use, let's make a nice shiny piece of plastic and decide what to do with it later. We need Santa Claus machines. The ideas in the article linked to back there are the big ones which we need to work on, not the rubbishy little ideas of technology. At the size of a Palm-top or medium sized digital camera, there is almost nothing we can't do and yet we still pour out pollution into the atmosphere, let great numbers of people starve or go without medicines which they deserve and generally behave as if we were living in the Stone-Age (actually worse than that because up until recently agriculture and the making of atrifacts, existed in harmony with the world (Hello Clouds! Hello Sky!) All thinking today seems to be for the current minute rather than the future. The men (and they are still usually men) in charge are not the visonaries required for a decent, sustainable future. If they say they are, they back down at the first groan from the money men and cover there duplicity with bluster and obfuscation (a self-referential word don't you think?). I think you may guess to whom I am refrerring. God over Djinn.

I improved on the playing of the digits of pi over the weekend. I got the alternate notes to occur panned left and right in the speakers and then accomapnied the first beat of each 10 with a chord where the main note was the root. I was going to make the notes pan completely so that the lowest was on the left and the highest on the right but I decided that this would be like listening to the piano from inside. My wife immediately thought of Bill Bailey's character, Manny in Black Books, plays the piano from inside in order to pretend that Bernard is playing so that he can impress a girl. Manny lay under the piano and played the strings with spoons. Totally ludicrous. Read the book reports by children on the Black Books Website. Oh and the false book covers are pretty good too.