The Most Dangerous Idol of the Next Generation. I’m a Millennial, born sometime between 1980 and Y2K (the day when all the computers and the universe imploded), and my generation has a lot going for them.
Some call us the “Hopeful Generation” because few generations to ever walk the planet were more mission-minded and cause-oriented. I have friends who use vacation-time to serve in third-world countries, who won’t buy coffee from anywhere but direct-trade vendors, who run fundraiser 5Ks every weekend. I even have friends who’ve shaved their heads and cut their beautiful beards because they saw on Facebook a friend of a friend raising money for another friend with cancer (and that’s a big deal, because nothing gives you instant authority in life like a great beard or stache). Some call us the “Relational Generation” because there’s never been one more connected. Sure, some people (including me) hate on the false-intimacy that social-media provides. Are you swooning yet? I could go on doting over my young friends and I. We’re entitled. Adventures in Generalization. To Generalize is to be an Idiot. — William Blake In a brief essay about how people respond to the destruction of books, Leah Price writes, Afghans rioted after learning that NATO soldiers were burning copies of the Koran at a garbage dump, as Muslims strongly believe that sacred texts must be laid to rest with the same reverence as dead bodies.
One closely guarded “book cemetery” in the mountains of Pakistan contains seventy thousand damaged copies of the Koran. Muslims thus stand near the middle of the spectrum, with Jews, who protect not just sacred texts but all written paper from defilement by laying them in a special resting place called a geniza, on one end, and Christians, who for centuries have happily torn pages from secular books for use as toilet paper, on the other. But to consider evidence would be to give Price’s claim more reflection that it deserves. The Isolation Generation. "Please, sir, may I have some different?
" It's not "more" the average young guy wants today, it's different. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo describes drug addiction as "wanting more," but guys today have what he calls arousal addiction, always "wanting something different. " This never-ending stream of stimulation is behind the growing failure of males to connect with women socially or to succeed academically. They're dropping out of life. Zimbardo cites excessive internet use, video gaming, and online porn as causes of this new addiction. "Boys' brains are being digitally rewired in a totally new way, for change, novelty, excitement, and constant arous-al," Zimbardo says. Survey Says: Education Makes Us More Religious? Each additional year of education increases the likelihood of … attending religious services: 15% reading the Bible at least occasionally: 9% switching to mainline Protestant denomination—ECUS, Lutheran, PCUSA or UMC: 13%.
Lesser Educated Leading Church Exodus. Inventor warns 'Google generation who spend life in front of screens are losing creativity and skills' By John Stevens Published: 22:30 GMT, 25 December 2012 | Updated: 11:08 GMT, 26 December 2012 One of Britain's leading inventors has warned that a 'Google generation' who rely on the internet for everything are in danger of becoming 'brain-dead'.
Trevor Baylis, who invented the wind-up radio, said children are losing creativity and practical skills because they spend too much time in front of screens. The 75-year-old said he fears that the next generation of inventors is being lost, with young people often unable to make anything with their hands. How (and Why) to Manage Multiple Music Libraries in Any Media Player. What about Songbird?
Don't forget to add it to your post. Songbird 1.9 is due before the end of the year (the nightlies work quite well and a RC is on its way out), has a now playing queue (at last) and is library-based (with 3 panes: lists, content of lists, and now playing). By the way it also allows you to convert music on the fly to your device. So there is maybe less need to handle 2 separate library. And it is faaaar more performant than the current version (1.8), at last as well :) Of course, no direct iPod support, but who cares, those people have iTunes (whether they're like it or not).
@klint: I actually meant to add Songbird, thanks for the reminder. @Whitson Gordon: being myself an early fan of Songbird, I had abandoned it once already, came back to it with 1.4.3, and patiently stood with it with 1.7 and 1.8, which really sucks for large libraries :(. So, you definitely should give it a look againwhen 1.9 is out... the trend seems to have reversed ;) Hope it will last... Cheers. The Hunger Generation: 11 Soul Cries That Are No “Game” « THE CURRENT.