Neo Cro-magnon

Noam Chomsky, the American linguist professor from the university of Massachusetts and adherent of libertarian socialism, has spoken to the nice guys from VBS about Obama.

A really interesting and inspirational chat that will remind you of how little meaning reaching level 80 at WoW really has compared to important things, like social movements, civil rights or the cat video your cousin sent you.

During the chat, Noam takes us through various stages of his activist life, from his collaboration with Bad Religion, to how the internet is helping social revolutions to flourish.

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You can find here a 33 minutes video of Marina Hyde interviewing  Charlie Brooker.

It’s definitely worth watching and gives a funny look into how people from the entertainment industry, interact with public’s criticism thanks to the internet.

Some people think we’re now more rude and stupid, but to be honest I think the internet is only doing what medicine has done for us.

Years ago you would have died of anything. Now thanks to medicine we can live longer, but that highlights problems that normally would have killed people without the treatment. So are we more sick? No, the people who get sick live to tell us about it, that’s all (probably, perhaps, maybe)

The same thing with stupidity, are we more stupid? No, the people who are stupid can demonstrate it on the internet.

Interview with Nine Inch Nails‘ front-man Trent Reznor at Revision3 using questions posted by users of Digg

Questions range from new types of business model to social media and how it affects new bands

Worth watching