Assignment 3

The article is about people losing more IQ to "infomania" wich is addiction to text messaging, emailing etc, than smoking marijuana. Alot of the everyday common officeworkers suffer from this as they generally sit at a computer most of their workday. Apperantly they are very distracted by constant messages and other forms of electrical communication. Quite interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4471607.stm

This guy, javajones, takes up the article in his own blog, but remaining neutral.
http://javajones.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/infomania-worse-than-marijuana/

He says he in no way "condones" the use of marijuana but stillsays that if infomania is twice as bad as marijuana that gives you a good perspeccitve on justhow harmless the "drug" actually is.

I agree, and if most workers experience infomania a very good way to reduce that COULD be smoking pot. Marijuana generally has a very soothing, almost harmonical effect. If you're up in the clouds, the last thing you'd think about was some text. The effect differs from person to person but still, if its half as harmless, it should be considered as a possible solution for this as those little stressballs the companies buy for their staff don't seem to be working do they?

Wich brings me on to the bigger question wich if of course, should it be legalized? Obviuosly. Marijuana is just as, or even less, harmful than nicotine, and alcohol is alot more dangerous but still these products are endorsed by the law.

It is NOT possible to overdose marijuana and there has not been a single death-case in the history of its use. The only dangers are smoking related ones, just as ones with nicotine. However you can clearly overdose alcohol and it has a much bigger effect on your body.

I think however, that there is hope as articles like this are quite common nowadays and petitions to legalize pop up more frequently worldwide.

Lets hope logic overcomes irrationailty.

An awesome song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZ1Z3k533Y

so roll, roll roll my joint..

Glory to George!

Assignment 2: part 2

Rage against the Machine or RATM is, if I had to pick one, my asbolute favourite band. The band members are Zack de la Rocha, on vocals, Tom Morello, a brilliant guitarrist, bassist Timmy C and drummer Brad Wilk.

What I like most about the band is their unique sound, mixing rap and rock fueled by anger at the american society. Tom Morello is probably the most controversial guitarrist, using an insane amount of whammy, pedals, and also really obscure items like pencils or a loaf of bread to make his guitar sound like anything but a guitar. Very good examples of this is Guerilla Radio where Rolling Stones reviewers were convinced RATM was using a harmonica in the songs' solo, but in fact it was a very skillful mix of using a miniswitch as a killswitch and hammerons.
I like listening to them enarly all the time, it doesn't really require a special "mood" to listen to then. You can be hyped, listen to them and get even more hyped, you can be tired and you'll definatly wake up.

All in all, a terrific band and if you were to listen to any of their songs I'd recommend either "Know your Enemy" or "Microphone Fiend".

Glory to George!

Assignment 2: part 1

A person who has greatly inspired me is Ian Brown, the singer in one of my favourite bands, Stone roses. I have a couple of reasons, one is because his last middle name is George (AWESOME!) and the second one ios he makes great music, and third, well, ill let the statement "I smoke out of religious beliefs" do the talking. He is also on alot of banners of my Swedish ultra group, a real rolemodel, haha.

Glory to George

Assignment 1

Blogging has never been particularly attrractive for me as I seldom feel a need to let unknown people know what I think, unless it is of real importance and if I do, there are better forums for that.

For example, like letting people read a kind of diary. I mean who cares if I ate a sweetroll today, or if I met someone I know? It is kind of naive to think that someone actually cares about that, but if you met for example George Cloony on the street (by the way the greatest name on earth, obviuosly) or saw the ghost of George Orwell then that would be worth telling people about because it is interesting.

I think blogging for the sake of keeping a diary is... unnecessary. But if you blog as a means to express political views I think it is a valid forum, because blogging is very populare and I guess, if you market your blog, it is very accessible. This of course also goes for technological and cultural purpouses but again, if you are seriuos about that kind of stuff, there'd be better places to go.

That concludes my view on blogs as a whole, I guess.

Glory to George!