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Worth 32 brilliant lives?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

I'm sure by now every one's heard/read of the VT massacre. I wont bore you with anything that hasn't been said yet by the thousands of news sites and other bloggers. I'm writing this after having watched the Cho Seung-Hui's tapes and pictures which he recorded before committing the crime. He then mailed to these to NBC's office in New York that too between the two killing sprees.

Now with this memorandum being publicized to no end, I'm thinking the next socially out casted psychopath will try to follow footsteps. Not only that, he/she might even try to outdo the "largest ever school massacre" for even greater posthumous fame. How do I know this for sure? Cho Seung-Hui in his videos clearly paid respects to the two killers of the Columbine school shootings, calling them "martyrs".

On a separate note, the way he is dressed and posed makes him look very much inspired by video-games thus another barrage of protests against violent VGs is imminent.

In such events I guess the media/news has no option but to give the public whatever information they can get their hands on. It's just that someone very vulnerable is watching it and sees an easy way to glory in the competitive world.

Edit: It seems there is some sanity in this world after all. Canada's TV station, CBC, has refused to air the killer's video for the above mentioned reasons. Bravo.

In memory of the 32

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Say, did you miss the last 4-5 years of the internet? Feeling sad that you dont get references that "one cool video" on the internet. Quit worrying, there are people out to help you.

Presenting almost all viral videos that found glory in youtube-dom (It's missing the "Numa Numa" vid, but who HASN'T seen THAT!). Pay attention, it all heppens in a flash :)