lol...reminds me of that old sci-fi story "Alas, All Thinking": http://davidszondy.com/future/Dystopias/thinking.htm See? YOU are 'the future now'. Time to invest in the hat industry - NOW!!

Face-Space!!! Exactly what I thought when I first was exposed to the new "look and feel" as they call it! It seems like everybody wants to be "more like facebook" nowadays. It's sad, really... What we see here is the mindless adoption of memes, behavioral cloning, the reproduction of sameness. As Philip K. Dick wrote: "The Empire is the institution, the codification of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one." (Valis, p. 235, citing entry 41 from "The Exegesis.") - of course, there are different forms of violence. There is non-physical violence, too. According to Bob Altemeyer 25% of the population are authoritarian followers - they will go along with everything, no "violence" needed. Those people are more than happy to live in a world that's completely frictionless and bland and devoid of colour - and to develop new internet services that are just that and all based on the same template: The almighty data-sucking mega-squid called Fakebook. This is what we see here - on a very small scale. We don't want to increase the temperature of the water too fast, or else the frog will jump out - and nobody wants that, right? Our prediction: Boiling temperature will be reached before 2014. For now, we should enjoy our front row seats for a bit longer for maximum learning effect - whether we manage to jump out in time, who knows...

Well, Charles hasn't returned after all and probably never will. Or he will only come back after I clear up that most prevalent of misconceptions about that famous, unpredictable, lovable, friendly cat we all loved so much because, like I said just now, he was...lovable. And friendly. Ok, take a deep breath in...here it goes (the misconception being that this pic was edited and this wasn't his real sleeping position): That picture is not doctored! That picture is not doctored! That picture is not doctored! That picture is not doctored BUT he IS indeed achieving the Even More view of the world. Probably entered another dimension using this technique - a place where all thought instantly becomes manifest And this is why we cannot see him anymore, because he moves at a much faster speed than anyone else on earth.