Several things to blog about, briefly, from today;
First, a famous stunt climber climbed the New York Times building in New York with a banner that said “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.” Story on the Times blog.
Second, in the no-hope-for-the-world department, we have the grisly story of an old man getting hit-and-run by drag-racing motorists in New Haven, and dozens of people see it, cluster around, drive walk and cycle by, and nobody helps him or even calls 911. His head is bleeding all over the sidewalk and nobody does a godamn thing till a police car that's responding to another call happens by. WTF?? How can people be so heartless?
Can we have any hope that we as a society will ever care about any victims of war or human rights abuses or polar bears or... anybody, when people can't even bring themselves to care about an innocent old man lying on the street bleeding to death right in front of them? I hope they catch the drivers that hit him but I also hope they arrest and try all those people who just stood there doing nothing. The heartless assholes should be punished just like it was negligent homicide.
Third and least important, the oddly interesting episode in the annals of the art world where the Getty museum was trying to you-tube-ize their big California Video exhibit in effort to ride the coattails of the internet user-created content boom, and in reply some internet pranksters played a great joke on them. The Getty apparently didn't like that they'd been punked and failed to play by their own rules, deciding not to screen the highest-rated and viewed videos.
That's some of today's highlights. enjoy the rest of your afternoon!
Posted by steev at Junio 5, 2008 03:46 PM