AKA: Where do people find time to do all that CRAP?

[theweaselking]

Gin, Television, and the Cognitive Surplus, by Clay Shirky.

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Not all TV is the cognitive wasteland of Gilligan's Island (said the woman whose TV is only hooked up to the Playstation.)

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Explains... well, explains quite a bit.

Bookmarked and is being forwarded.

[boixboi.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that gin is the new gin.

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Awesome article

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

I have misused the quote for quite a while, but the version I like the best is still:

Television is the mindkiller; television is the little death...

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

That man's existence makes my brain happy.