Politiku

The Varieties of Non Sequitur Earthquake Response

(1) Tweeting or updating Facebook status with what was or was not felt

(2) Mapping the epicenter in relation to the nearest nuclear power plant

(3) Mapping the epicenter in relation to the nearby bars offering Earthquake cocktail happy hour specials

(4) Making some smug remark bout the n00bs East Coast and Rocky Mountain regions now knowing what it feels like in Cali…

(5) Externalizing the event as the wrath of some ancient, epic enigmatic deity

(6) Impersonating said wrathful, epic, enigmatic deity.

(7) Writing a 5.9 Politiku about: 

The D.C. WHAT quake?
Preparedness policy’s
foundation shaken.

Written by, Susanna Speier

Here’s You Tube’s thing.  Granted, its not so dissimilar from the terms and conditions Twitpic and Facebook use.  All three using the same law firm, far as I know.  But here’s the thing.  Its You Tube and they’re part of Google and I really don’t see anything different about the contract itself (perhaps an attorney can shed some light on what I’m missing here) but again, its Google. You know, “Don’t be Evil” Google, the only corporation that’s ever had the balls to stand up to China.  Yes, that Google. Google with bigger fish to fry than pimping out celeb at laundermat photos to highest bidder cause they’re rakin’ it in through ad sales, yo. 

Egypt haiku surged through the twittersphere on #Jan25 and then following.  Wave would subside and then another surge of micropoetry.

@Ysabeluna Tweeted this one out just a couple days before Mubarak finally stepped down…making it even more  prophetic: 

“Are we witnessing/ History or is it mere/ Anthropology” a few days before Mubarak stepped down.