The reveries of Joseph P. WagnerTumblr (3.0; @josephpwagner)http://josephpwagner.com/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq40fjUOy71qmff8ao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>A map of the world designed to be offensive to everyone, everywhere.</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/9070853445http://josephpwagner.com/post/9070853445Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:54:55 -0700map“I went to church today to pray it all away. I watched the meek pass the hat around, but I had already paid.”<br/><br/> - <em>Chris Cornell, <em>Today</em>.</em>http://josephpwagner.com/post/8836641117http://josephpwagner.com/post/8836641117Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:39:33 -0700““Raising the debt ceiling is kind of like increasing blood alcohol levels to solve drunk driving.””http://josephpwagner.com/post/8385087186http://josephpwagner.com/post/8385087186Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:45:43 -0700debt ceilingnwo<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp89xt3SUd1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>MEOWTRON - UNITE!</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/8323322797http://josephpwagner.com/post/8323322797Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:37:05 -0700meowtroncats<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp7ld80BAS1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Another world?</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/8303322891http://josephpwagner.com/post/8303322891Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:46:20 -0700nucleartest site<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lox4zyYyvZ1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Black Hole Sun, won’t you come, and wash away the rain?</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Two teams of astronomers have <a href="http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13435" target="_blank">discovered</a> the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. It’s 12 billion light years away, and holds at least 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans combined.</span></p> </blockquote>http://josephpwagner.com/post/8067878373http://josephpwagner.com/post/8067878373Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:16:46 -0700spacescienceblack hole<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lotqsiVnZ71qmff8ao1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>I’ve been downscaled to 8-bit!</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7992918971http://josephpwagner.com/post/7992918971Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:17:06 -07008 bittiny tower<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lospx39rVe1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One loan paid off to the point they owe ME a Penny!</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7974632453http://josephpwagner.com/post/7974632453Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:00:39 -0700loandebt free<a href="http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-assholes-its-your-fault.html">If your Community is Full of Assholes - It's your Fault</a>: <p>I can’t agree more with this article.  Community Managers everywhere, if given the right resources (yes, this sometimes means money) can be empowered to keep dipshits at bay and even convert them into semi-productive members of their communities.</p> <p>The problem is that resources are extremely hard to come by.  Because of that, many (smart) CMs avoid providing anonymous outlets for inter-community communication.  See: Company Forums.  Instead, they participate in community-created forums that self-police and social media outlets tied to real identities.</p> <p>On <a href="http://thenethernet.com" target="_blank">The Nethernet</a>, a game that peaked around ~10k DAUs (if my memory is right), in order to keep assholes away I had a team of over 10 community volunteers that we called Stewards.  This amazing group of dedicated individuals spent countless hours helping make TNN one of the most amazing web communities I have ever been a part of. </p> <p>Is it your fault your community is full of assholes?</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7928646918http://josephpwagner.com/post/7928646918Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:02:33 -0700communitycommunity management<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loo36kTsx71qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>What can’t we do?</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7874426365http://josephpwagner.com/post/7874426365Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:59:08 -0700architecture<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lon02x7Mo71qmff8ao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>How excited would we all have been if Apple had announced <strong>this</strong> this morning!?</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7844580613http://josephpwagner.com/post/7844580613Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:54:00 -0700os xlionmarucattechapple<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lom76zBRsp1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Another unknown wonder of the world.</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7832443755http://josephpwagner.com/post/7832443755Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:30:35 -0700giant holenaturearchitecture<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KiKPgmN5jTg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“<strong>Nyan Cat</strong>, also known as Pop Tart Cat, is an 8-bit animation depicting a cat with the body of a cherry pop tart flying through outer space. While such absurd themes like flying kittens and pastry cats have been around for some time, the surreal humor behind this particular combination has captivated YouTubers and online art communities, spawning dozens of fan illustrations as well as receiving some mainstream coverage in April 2011.”</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7831800730http://josephpwagner.com/post/7831800730Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:12:20 -0700nyan cat8 bitcat video<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lokfueodiv1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>If you haven’t played <a href="http://kotaku.com/5818057/kiss-your-life-goodbye-with-tiny-tower" target="_blank">Tiny Tower</a> yet and you own an iOS device, it’s supreme, mindless fun. (Godzilla not included)</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7793374631http://josephpwagner.com/post/7793374631Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:42:14 -0700tiny tower8 bit<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loihiupaKS1qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Craters from the HE shells measured 30-ft. wide and 30-ft. deep while the concrete piercing projectile proved capable of penetrating 264-ft. of reinforced concrete before exploding! Maximum range was 23 miles with HE shells and 29 miles with concrete piercing projectiles. Muzzle velocity was approximately 2700 f.p.s.”</p> <p>Holy. <b>Shit.</b></p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7750521443http://josephpwagner.com/post/7750521443Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:23:18 -0700historybig ass gun<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/study-why-bother-to-remember-when-you-can-just-use-google.ars">No Need to Remember - Just Google it</a>: <p>“The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it. The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves.”</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7737826592http://josephpwagner.com/post/7737826592Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:27:07 -0700googlememory“Dear Netflix , ever play Lemonade Stand? You can’t charge $.80 & then up it to $1.60 without adding more sugar & lemons.”http://josephpwagner.com/post/7732778536http://josephpwagner.com/post/7732778536Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:53:24 -0700netflix90s nostalgia<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_logq3gffA41qmff8ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I took to searching for people to follow <a href="http://twitter.com/josephpwagner" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>, and for some reason I came across the Flat-Earth Society.  Above is a map of what they believe the world to be: A cylinder with a giant Ice Wall surrounding it, above which celestial bodies, such as the sun and moon, rotate around.  The picture does the concept more justice than I can, so enjoy.</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7714747077http://josephpwagner.com/post/7714747077Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:33:16 -0700flat earth<a href="http://www.webmd.com/healthy-beauty/news/20110714/sunscreen-users-more-likely-burn">Sunscreen Users More Likely to Burn</a>: <p>I’m almost certain this is why I haven’t been able to run in over a week due to lobster-colored walking appendages…</p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7678200632http://josephpwagner.com/post/7678200632Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:00:10 -0700science<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117313948379987.html">We are all on Drugs</a>: <p>At the time, he recalled, his doctor clients were giving him a lot of grief over patients who were “flipping out” over the weight gain associated with the drug, along with the diabetes. “We were instructed to downplay side effects and focus on the efficacy of drug…to recommend the patient drink a glass a water before taking a pill before the  meal and then after the meal in hopes the stomach would expand” and provide an easy way out of this obstacle to increased sales. When docs complained, he recalled, “I told them, ‘Our drug is state of the art. What’s more important? You want them to get better or do you want them to stay the same—a thin psychotic patient or a fat stable patient.’”</p> <p><strong>Just take your meds.</strong></p>http://josephpwagner.com/post/7652898480http://josephpwagner.com/post/7652898480Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:17:12 -0700nwobig pharma