Word of the Day: Defenestration. A lot less dirty than I expected it to be. From this barely interesting story on Defamer.

Lily Allen covers the Specials at the Glastonbury Festival. Brings back fond memories of the '90s Ska renaissance.

Interesting essay by Danah Boyd about how Facebook and Myspace are starting to show class divisions among teens in social networking. "Most teens who exclusively use Facebook are familiar with and have an opinion about MySpace. These teens are very aware of MySpace and they often have a negative opinion about it. They see it as gaudy, immature, and "so middle school." ... What hegemonic teens call gaudy can also be labeled as "glitzy" or "bling" or "fly" (or what my generation would call "phat") by subaltern teens. Terms like "bling" come out of hip-hop culture where showy, sparkly, brash visual displays are acceptable and valued. The look and feel of MySpace resonates far better with subaltern communities than it does with the upwardly mobile hegemonic teens." The fact that Myspace is banned in the military and Facebook isn't is also fascinating: "Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook."

And even more fascinating, Boyd laments the fact that even when a new, "socially equal" technology comes along, we fall right back into our old ways. "It breaks my heart to watch a class divide play out in the technology. I shouldn't be surprised - when orkut grew popular in India, the caste system was formalized within the system by the users. But there's something so strange about watching a generation splice themselves in two based on class divisions or lifestyles or whatever you want to call these socio-structural divisions."

Michael Cera (from the late great AD) and his cohort and Clark Duke have a webshow that is wacky and funny and jovial. Cera's even hooked them up with cameos aplenty-- saw David Cross and Brian Posehn in the first few shows, and I heard Tony Hale shows up too. Cera's going to be big.

An LED faucet that has a little open trough on the top, and LED lights that go from blue to red based on the water's temperature. Me wanty!

I am now twittering. I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to use it for yet, but so far I like it. The IM doesn't seem to be working though, which is lame.

So the two guys in charge of the governmental branch that enforces the law don't actually want to see it enforced. Houston, we have a problem.

Allison Stokke is a young, athletic, beautiful pole vaulter who's had her pictures spread virally around the Internet for a few weeks now. The Washington Post finally went to look her up last week, and it turns out (surprise, surprise, leering message board frequenters) that there's an actual person behind those photos. And that person doesn't exactly appreciate being stared at, even virtually. From the piece: "Even if none of it is illegal, it just all feels really demeaning," Allison Stokke said. "I worked so hard for pole vaulting and all this other stuff, and it's almost like that doesn't matter. Nobody sees that. Nobody really sees me." Actually, millions of people have seen her. But only now are a few of them starting to realize the attention was unwanted. Fascinating.

Infinitum Labs (who have lost millions trying to make a gaming console) is still alive after a few years, despite having never sold or even created an actual product. It's just amazing how long loser companies can stay alive just using hype, and hype doesn't get any bigger than in the videogame industry.