Feral Beast: Cowabunga: Surfer Dude and the theory of Everything

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Cowabunga: Surfer Dude and the theory of Everything

What's he been smoking?
The bald thinker, Garrett Lisi, aka as 'Surfer Dude', has apparently figured it all out while snowboarding the slopes of the High Sierras and riding the waves in Hawaii, top scientists tel the Torygraph. For a fascinating post on philosphy, cosmology, and everyday survival....and its follow-up commentary from blokes who like to think about such things, check out London's Daily Telegraph. Hollywood is already banging on this guy's door. The E8 geometric figure, which resembles the science fair string projects popular in the 60s, is pictured above and below, next to the genius of cool.

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Feral Beast? Try Lemming

If the press were an animal, what kind of animal would it be? I’ve got my answer. A legion of lemmings, furry and well-intentioned, but ultimately condemned by their nature to follow each other mindlessly off a tall cliff, over the Paris Hilton peak or into the Invade Iraq crevasse. The words “feral beast” certainly wouldn’t come to mind. It’s not particularly accurate or particularly evocative. But that is how the departing British prime minister, Tony Blair, sees journalists: as malicious tormentors who have tried to tear him limb from limb.

--Gal Beckerman of the Columbia Journalism Review

“Journalism is a form of cartography,” write Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach of Pew. “It creates a map for citizens to navigate society. Inflating events for sensation, neglecting others, stereotyping or being disproportionately negative all make a less reliable map.”

"Journalism is good at solving small problems or taking small bites of a big problem. It’s not good at solving big problems." Adapted from David Simon, creator of The Wire.

Retrospective : five decades of journalism as reported by CJR

Fake AP Stylebook reminds us: Unless you're doing a story on the Muppets, you are not a gonzo journalist.

"The once idealized information superhighway has become a parking lot of error, misinformation, rumor and junk." Poynter Institute, advocating a broader definition of who is a journalist.