Light a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

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For those of you who follow my wife and her technological advances in blog reading will be deprived of my latest update to my blog: the Quote Rotator.

A neat little plug-in for Wordpress written by Luke Howell, and written well from what I can tell with my idots knowledge of CSS and PHP. After instalation there is an option to donate to his cause. The cause of “I don’t want to die.”

Which I think is a pretty good cause.

And a special thanks to Gthing who turned me on to the plugin.

What my wife affectionately refers to as “InfoTainment” is one of the many reasons that I do not watch TV.

InfoTainment |ˈinfō-tərˈtānmənt| -noun

•Useless information paraded as useful for entertainment purposes: Fox News is 70% infotainment.

•(A contraction of “information” and “entertainment”)

A problem I find with mainstream television is the blur of pertinent information and entertainment information.

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Just after this appearance on Fox, Montel William’s 17 year show was canceled.

It continually amazes me that after a moment of insight what was once so mundane and typical is transformed to odd and Jamais vu*.

Picture from www.illustratorworld.com

*(French: “never seen” opposite of Deja vu)

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” -Marie Curie

My most recent insights have been from an educational film from a Professor at the University of Massachusetts named Sut Jhally . I watched a graphic but extremely enlightening interpretation of how the media (particularly the Music/Music Video Industry) and our culture are intertwined and interact. The film is called Dreamworlds 3.

The film discusses how music videos have moved from a cultural fringe to the mainstream, and how this change has effected our society in the form of cultural stories and cultural acceptability. The film shows footage of riots and group molestations caught on film and the startling, almost exact, similarities in some music videos.

The most moving and, and to be honest, the most disgusting part of the film discusses how the objectification of women in the media (in the makers opinion) is changing the inner understanding of how young girls view themselves and the world.

I would suggest it to any adult.

This film deals with subjects and content that is not for children or adolescents.

The film brings a type of accountably and rational that I have sensed lacking from our “mainstream” media. We should be holding makers and broadcasters of this content accountable for what they are encouraging.

This is you Viacom (in the form of MTV and BET), Sony BMG, Warner, and Universal.

Watch at your own risk, anything you watch.

Thank you Mr. Sut Jhally. I appreciate your thoughts.