hah, this was satisfying. I do all the animations for this series, but never watch the episodes all the way through. I saw the picture and thought oh that looks familiar...

i once read that suicides tend to be of above-average intelligence, which makes sense. asking lots of questions about the world is a pretty good recipe for depression. what i call the tyranny of aesthetics: the greater your ability to discern fineness of experience, the more things will disappoint you. ignorance may well be bliss.

this is really asinine. so much communication is so exposed by this bottleneck. one of the biggest original points of the web was the redundancy, how nobody could stop the flow by sticking a bomb in the right box. did some MBA make a nice powerpoint presentation to greedy stupid stockholders or something? we see how easy it is for a sub and some clippers to rip out the heart of the web in the middle east. would take not much initiative to the same thing right there. so stupid.

looks like they're using this cool (and open source!) thing: http://blog.papervision3d.org/