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Following up to my post from yesterday, I found another funny last.fm calculation, the AEP Calculator.

You just type in your username and based on the top 50 artists in your profile, it will tell you how diverse your music taste is. If you are over 4 you’re very diverse, under 0 means you’re kind of obsessive about your top artists.
See the site for more information on how this index is calculated.

My my AEP

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This has to be the most clever and awesome marketing campaign ever.
…or the most scary thing I’ve experienced in quite a time.

Try to get it:

  1. NIN alternative reality game
  2. Current Summary of Year Zero Info
  3. Year Zero – watch the clip!
  4. Overview from Rolling Stone Magazine
  5. Add shatter36@gmail.com to your GTalk (or any other Jabber client) to geht updates whenever the relevant sites are changed. More info here
    Basically, its wget -r + diff -rq + a POE Jabber client (for those that care)
  6. Download all of the songs that where found so far. They found a new one yesterday!

…and so much more.

UPDATES:

  • added one more overview link.
  • a Jabber bot 🙂
  • The music

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SPINI just watched an hour long documentary called “SPIN” by Brian Springer (read more details about it here). He set up numerous satellite dishes back in the 90ties to watch and record the satellite feeds that the big media companies used to deliver their material from the point where it was shot to their broadcasting headquarters. Those feeds are the unedited versions of the events they where covering and so Brian Springer could see and hear a lot of things that weren’t broadcasted later on national television.
This film basically shows us how characters are set up via media channels for the population to believe whatever those characters tell you on your TV. The events of the 1992 election draw a very dark picture about what was said in public and who and what really was behind the scenes.
And that was back in the 90ties just imagine how much more advanced media manipulation techniques are today judging from how far they already where ten years ago.

Seeing this really got me thinking about television in the US again. I’ve already written about another story concerning this matter a while back (Bush ???planted fake news stories on American TV???). How can all the people there sit still when they must know that they are being manipulated in such an obvious way. How can they not stand up and boycott this whole web of lies. Are US citizens really that lazy that they don’t care about the truth anymore because it is easier to dwell in a lie?

I can just suggest to everyone to watch this film, it’s a real eye opener. I found it on “Chaos TV” in the Podcast Directory of the iTunes Store. It is episode 74 of Chaos TV and the full name there is “CTV074 Spin”. Or watch it on Google Video.

So that’s my call to all people out there:
Stop watching TV!
Don’t just sit back and passively consume made up stories about how your surroundings should look like. Use the power you’ve got, use the Internet!
Go out and search for information yourself and please don’t use any of the big media companies for your research.