Dec 10, 2009

This really appeals to me.

I’ve been a bit amused by the Facebook phenomenon mainly I believe FaceBook is another faddish frenzy that will wane with time, just like MySpace before it and Twitter ultimately. Aside from time being far too precious, the thing I am ceaselessly astounded by is how readily people will give up personal information that will leave an indelible virtual footprint. So when I ran across this article today it gave me a good chuckle: 

“Rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, ancient Japanese samurai preferred to die with honour, voluntarily plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving it left to right in a slicing motion,” the site notes.
This form of ritual suicide was known as “seppuku.”
“As the seppuku restores the samurai’s honour as a warrior, seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body,” the site says.
Today the enemy is not other bands of noble warriors but corporate media who use viral marketing to make huge profits by connecting people across the globe.

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