"I also like St. Ath-a-nas-i-us..."

The papers are starting to drop like dominos, but respite time is being strictly rationed for supportive wife and sick-with-a-cough daughter, so alas, poor blog, you continue to remain un-prioritized and un-updated. Here's a treat for your patience, which Herr McNutt has so graciously brought to my attention (that's a real person, btw, not another imaginary cartoon squirrel-like creature I've concocted as part of a weird sleep-deprived hallucination that finds me conversing with empty blog space...). A fairly accurate depiction of the kinds of things one can hear in the hallowed halls of Duke Div - which, to quote the aforementioned pseudo-cartoon squirrel, is "supposed to be funny. but it depresses me." Even so, its an excuse to talk to my blog...my precious...ok, seriously, just pray for me as the paper trail of tears continues - I evidently need it, blog - and enjoy:

Computers Cause Wars

The proof? According to wired.com, they've already begun pitting old rivals against one-another like pawns in their chess game of world domination:

An embarrassing error on Google Maps has been blamed for Nicaragua’s accidental invasion of Costa Rica. Last week, Nicaraguan troops crossed the border, took down a Costa Rican flag and defiantly raised their own flag on Costa Rican turf.

But the troops’ commander, Eden Pastora, told a Costa Rican newspaper, La Nacion, that his invasion was not his fault, because Google Maps mistakenly said the territory belonged to Nicaragua. Government officials in Nicaragua have also blamed a “bug in Google” for the error.

Google admitted fault in the matter, but I'm convinced they've already been co-opted by the machines as a cover-up for the greater robotic uprising on the horizon, as admitted by two computer propaganda artists in the following recently leaked video:



Regardless, perhaps its finally time for educators to admit that training in technology and teaching children to utilize search engines is no substitute for embodied, hands-on learning - the kind that includes, for example, actually reading books, doing real research, following maps, and visiting communities before claiming sovereignty over them. Otherwise, the reality represented in (and by) this video could become our inevitability. (For an actual assessment of the Internet's invasion of our neuro-regions, check out Nicholas Carr's fascinating book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains - that is, if you can still read, or if Canada has not yet mistakenly invaded your town).

I raise these warnings by way of blogging about Andrew Sullivan's blogging about yet another blog, so perhaps my own technology-dependence undermines my own argument - or, perhaps its proof that the revolution has already begun...