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...progeny.Effectively, everything we now write and put online is a time capsule. What’s more, we aren’t burying these capsules in a town square or hiding them in a basement. Instead, we’re adding our blog posts, reports of athletic successes, and drunken party photos alike into an enormous network of carefully catalogued, redundant, and disaster-resistant libraries, each standing at the ready for researchers down the road, be they academicians or curious teenagers, to query. Our relationship with the future has never been nearly this close before.Digitization of archives such...
...fame, courtesy of a new medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and they're generally amateur in execution and wildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTube or Google Video, and you'll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane crashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people can't stop watching them...
...every video goes viral. The vast majority go nowhere--YouTube hosts millions of hours of drunken parties, tearful confessions, smiling babies, sleeping cats and screen grabs from World of Warcraft, all doomed to obscurity. Nike showed a firm grasp of the form with a popular clip, an ad stealthily designed to look like amateur footage, showing soccer deity Ronaldinho putting on a pair of sneakers and then, incredibly, nailing the crossbar with a soccer ball four times in a row. Some of the successes are accidental. For a while, one of the popular movies on Google Video...
...Thursday, Durham police released the audio tape of a dispatch call made by a responding officer from a Kroger parking lot about four miles from the house where the team party took place. The officer, responding to a 911 call, noted that the accuser was in a drunken state. "She's just passed out drunk," the officer says. Defense lawyers also point to the officer's statement that he has a "24-hour hold" situation - meaning possibly a night in jail on a drunk and disorderly charge. Defense lawyers tell TIME they will argue that it was expressly to avoid...
...with gigs on NPR's This American Life and editing the Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" feature--in addition to The Daily Show and the sequel to Expertise he's writing. "Like Tintin, I'm not one to turn down a good adventure," says Hodgman. "Even when my drunken sailor companion begs me to just stay home in the château for once...