WHY WE REALLY, TRULY, DEEPLY LOVE THE INTERNET

People with important information can get it out there to the public without having to wait for investigative reporting, official news releases and stuff like that.

(Thanks to Russell Mc and Tom Race)

Comments

[MOTW]

First to ask: what's a panopticist?

[fivver]

*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

[fudtheman]

I put panopticism into google and read a couple of the articles and I STILL don't know what it means.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Whoa - I was impressed. But then, I'm weird, too. Oooh, look, something dull!

[fudtheman]

OK, here's a better explanation
You have to scroll down the page a bit.

[O. the U(manity)]

Consistency? Consistency? We don' need no steenkin' consistency!

[MOTW]

Make each individual visible to himself and others, most of all the observer.

Motto: Dare to be Dull!

[Ellasmom]

I'm glad that at the end the author does recognize the freakish nature of his concerns.

But if he sees a black SUV pull up outside his house that would be the 24 staff getting ready to set a perimeter and download the evidence from his hard drive. He better invest in a "poison-pill firewall" right away!

[KOW]

Like I said, I'm a freeeeeeak.

I'm thinking no investigative reporting necessary on this one. I agree with that statement wholeheartedly and defy anyone to find evidence to the contrary.

[souljoy]

24 loves all it's fans freaky or not!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Boy, and my wife says I spend too much time online.

[O. the U(manity)]

Mine, too, Jeff ...

[Reddsuss]

but we all read the entire thing to find out he knows he's a freak. What's that make us?

[me]

You mean none of you noticed this? I just rolled my eyes and made comments on their choice of fonts.

Then again, I'm a video editor. I notice every little font, transition, special effect, and graphic.

Sometimes I forget to pay attention to the plot.

[Suzy Q]

*faints from boredom*

[Eleanor]

*faints on top of Suzy Q*
*yawn*

*zips out to next thread*

Ta-ta!

[Annie Where-but-here]

I found this interesting, but I'm in marketing with a film major and a continuity obsession. Stuff like that just bugs the krap out of me. Guess I would have noticed it if I ever watched the show.

[Allen at Division]

I'm a former writer and editar editor, and one of my first jobs with Mr. Gutenberg was to spec type. Yes, we notice serifs (normally love 'em, but they're silly with a "1") and kerning and whitespace. Binary is nice, but there has to be room for artistry in the world, too...

[24-aholic]

WTF is he talking about?

[marfie]

This guy gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "watching the clock".

[CJrun]

Clearly, the important typographic glitch is the magazine cover to the right. You know, the one with the letter 'P,' then a lady doing something strange to an infant, then the letters 'en,' followed by an 'i' with a huge dot, then an 's.'

WTF? A magazine full of spam? *oohh, Spam [wanders off to kitchen]*

[Sarah]

If you scroll down all the way to the bottom of the (rather dull, I'll admit) article, there IS a great link to a video of Drunk!Keifer attacking a Christmas tree. It's like a prize for reading all the way through. Because it's a beautiful video.

Drunk!Keifer is the best.

[Val]

And this is important because.......

[Sarcasmo]

CJrun - BRILLIANT! Good eye. That's hilarious.

[will]

me wrote:
"Sometimes I forget to pay attention to the plot."

Oh, kind of like the writers. (Hi-yo!)

Thanks, I'm here all week.

[Annie Where-but-here]

will - thanks for the warning.

CJ- that's a clever spoof on 'Parenting' magazine. Look closely at the others - all spoofs.

[xbalanke]

Maybe I'm just strange [maybe?], but I think "interstitial clock sequences" WBAGNFARB.

[Tazzu]

Wow. Some people have way too much time on their hands.

[funniegrrl]

For those of us with even a passing interest in typography, typesetting, printing, and the like, it's actually a cool observation. Those of you who are bored can go back to your NASCAR races or whatever.

[Val]

NASCAR?! Egads, that truly is the most boring thing in the world. I'd rather do almost anything - like sit around and check out clock typefaces - than watch NASCAR.

[jobob]

Oh, who cares about the typography stuff? Go to the link at the very end to a YouTube video of Kiefer Sutherland tackling a Christmas tree. It's the Jack Bauer Power Holiday Hour!

[Raymond Larrett]

To quote Wikipedia:
"The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a "sentiment of an invisible omniscience"."

From this we can infer that Panopticist is the operator of a Panopticon. Hence the site subtitle - "Cultural Surveillance".

Glad to help!
RL