Conspiracy?

Every now and then I like to stay up late in bed and go into deep thoughts I normally wouldn't even touch during the day. It came to me while listening to a remixed song of Nine Inch Nails song Light's in the sky. I started thinking about the alternate reality game that Trent Reznor had set up to build up hype for his Year Zero album.

The game builds up a story around America as we know, with war building up and tensions in other countries. The game revolves around the end of the world through biological warfare. Clues were scattered across tons of websites, within a wide variety of formats ranging from text publications to audio and video. Some of the sites that participate, I am trying to believe ; Church of Plano ; 105th airborne. Obviously they all follow the same style being affiliated and all.

Now to my point. Browsing around the other day, I remember reading about a fictional scenario where one man reports that not drinking city water makes him feel much better, clearer minded, and more alive. So while laying there, listening to this song I start thinking about that page I came across that I didn't even bother to give more than one minute of my time.

I may just be paranoid, but it might also be possible for a government to participate in something similar. Hell, over half our population is on some sort of medication or other anyway, myself included. We take drugs so that we can be "normal" again, but do we really know what normal is?

I remember also reading up on Chemtrails, another conspiracy revolving around jetliners. According to what I've read (which probably isn't completely accurate) the military is allowed to conduct tests on communities without their knowledge, as long as its deemed safe. This brings me back to the tests the military did with LSD on their own soldiers to record results. Now imagine those Chemtrails as a sort drug, fly a few jets routinely over a big city and nobody would ever question it. What if they were using those jets like crop dusters over a harvest? It's all about control, keep the people on your drugs and nobody will question, everybody obeys.

Perhaps I'm digging too far, but its an interesting thought. I don't like to just sit here and pretend I'm the only one thinking this way. Your thoughts are appreciated.

Time flies....

Wow, has it really been almost 3 weeks since my last post?

Anyway, a lot of action has happened recently. There's been the graduation for the majority of my friends, leaving me here to realize I need to start focusing on my studies. I recently got promoted to a manager position at work, so now I can start kicking ass and taking names. I've also been averaging about 5-6 hours of sleep every night, which has been taking its toll on my sanity (good thing coffee was invented).

Not much more to say at the moment, aside from the tree that just fell in my backyard 15 minutes ago not much else is interesting in my life. I work and sleep, that's it. *sigh*

Oh joy

Know what I love more than anything else in the world? Overdrafting multiple times on your bank account because they fail to keep you updated, or inform you that your even overdrafting at all, and then getting hit by a $200 overdraft charge. Thanks Chase banking! You bunch of f***ing legal criminals.

Theanine

So, I had a bunch of energy drinks the other day. Amp's "Elevate" to be specific. What's interesting is that it contains a ton of L-Theanine. So what's so special about it you may ask? I noticed that having a lot of theanine increases my attention to details, my sight and smell seemed to become much better and clearer than usual. I'm fairly sure that Theanine was the reason for this, but I intend on finding out soon. I'm going to the store in a few minutes here to look for some, I'll keep you all posted.

Digg vs Reddit

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Topic	Digg	Reddit	Winner
Page Look	Digg is very friendly on the eyes, it's pretty and easy to navigate through. All around creating a great experience by the end user.	Reddit doesn't feature nearly as many colors, and still offers a broad spectrum of navigation. However, to the untrained eye it has the potential to look like an HTML mess.	Digg
Categories	Digg has quite a few categories, and certainly any topic in the world could be sorted into one. However, users may find that they have the potential to be a little too generic at times.	Reddit has all of the same categories that Digg does, but it also allows you to include user created categories. This type of addition allows users to be able to narrow down a group of news that they'd be incredibly interested in.	Reddit
Content	Digg has a fairly up to date content system, and front page stories are almost always current. Occasionally Digg's users will push a very old article to the front page, causing much frustration for us seasoned internet users. Digg has also started to interview celebrities with questions that get upvoted by the users, something not many of us are used to.	Reddit always has current events on their front page, and will hardly have old repeats. The content on Reddit is so fresh, that I usually find Digg has it's stories on their front page the very next day, with the title's copied word for word (creating a very negative image for Digg). The submitions seem to come from diverse sources as well, whereas Digg's articles all seem to come from the same and somewhat questionable sources.	Reddit
Users	Digg has a userbase that can be funny sometimes, but more often they seem cocky and rude. I say this because they seem to find any reason to bury you're comments or articles, and once they start it won't stop. I remember posting a joke, and they all took it seriously. These people seriously took the liberty to tell me how wrong and disgusting I was, while I laughed at how stupid their attitude was. I guess part of the problem is that because the site is so colorful and friendly looking, people flock to it in the masses just like myspace. Keep in mind that Myspace is rivals with Facebook (a far more intelligent social network). With that mass comes great stupidity, and hostility towards us educated folk.	Too often I click solely on Reddit's comment links, I do this because I find the users not only funny but useful as well. Reddit includes a section called self, where one user can ask the entire site their opinion. I came by a user who posted a question about our judicial system. After 1 or 2 replies funny replies, someone actually had made a post that included further research links, as well as a brief explanation.	Reddit
Politics I bring up politics because I feel that a site should try very hard to take the most neutral path, and allow everyone's voice to be heard.	During the heat of elections all I heard from this site was "OBAMA OBAMA!", not that I'm against him, not that I'm for him. It just seemed a little fishy to me that the only articles ever making it to the front page were either bashing other parties, or praising Obama's.	During elections we still had the occasional "OBAMA OBAMA!", however, it wasn't that way 24/7 365 like on Digg... I actually found it relieving that Reddit's articles were questioning his policies and pointing out those of other candidates, while not drowning out the voices of others with senseless gibberish.	Reddit
Upgrades	Digg is constantly changing their site and working to provide the newest features for their followers. I tend to use the mobile version of their site quite frequently. Since the creator of the site (Kevin Rose) is a huge techie himself, I'll bet he's the one thats driving them all onward. However, I'm not too fond of the new Diggbar it's rather horrible.	Reddit, well... They haven't really changed too much because they haven't really needed to and users have grown rather fond of the simplicity. They also have a mobile version of their site, but they tend to keep their updates very hush hush. Also, I'm almost 100% certain you won't see a Redditbar ever annoying you there.	Digg -Based on the progression of ideas, despite how shitty the Diggbar is.
Fanboys you know about these well if you've spent time in forums.	Thousands and Thousands, all congesting the comment space with their arguements in one back and forth never ending tug o'war. I've never seen so many people gloat about apple products in my life, the same applies to microsoft or pc's, but really I have never heard sooo many people willing to talk on and on about why their Apple products are supreme.	One or Two here and there. However, for the most part they would rather spend their time debating over a current event article, rather than their loyalty. This silent subgroup is part of what makes Reddit nice, people know when to shut the hell up and respect others.	Reddit
Front Page	Digg has a sidebar displaying the top stories of the day, and while this is a nice feature. You will find a consistency among certain users postings getting to the front page and being the top stories of the day, despite being dupes of other stories. As a user, this is frustrating when you submit a story before this "superuser", and yet they still make the front page. You feel ripped off, and many of digg's users have noticed and complained about this with very little being done.	Reddit's front page may look very bland, as mentioned in the Page look category. However, much of the content is fresh and diverse. It would probably be nice to be able to have the top stories directly on the front page, but it Isn't too much of a hassle to click directly on the "top" button to access them. I believe Reddit's admins like's to keep the site looking clean, while they do this well it's almost too clean, almost.	Reddit
Choice Winner: Reddit