I think this excellent graphic explains it all. Too bad all this great technology is used for “funny” pictures and trivia. There never has been a golden age of knowledge, a highly intelligent and educated mass of people. But at least for those who crave knowledge live and learning has become much easier.

Let the rest blog and twitter about cats and American Idol.

Stage6.com has been killed. It was the best video site so far, because it over high-quality viewing (based on the great DIVX codec) and - let’s be honest - tons of excellent pirated stuff.

What attracted me was the fore mentioned quality and many great user groups full with documentaries and arty stuff. It’s all gone now. So I have to do some housekeeping and delete the video links on my blog as well.

Goodbye Stage6 - you will be missed.

PS: I am pretty sure all that stuff will come back on another site.

This blog started just four months ago in September - since than it has been a regular pleasure to write on an almost daily basis. First I recycled many old favorite postings from previous three reincarnations of the orangeblog. But since November it was mostly new material.

Thanks to Edosan, who helped to reboot my brain after my one year blogging abstinence. Other long time supporters include RichMc, Judi, Leonardo, Andrew, staticbrain, mrbalihai, blogotronic, moon, Jolene, Dave, mo and zoee.

Via StumbleUpon I have made many new friends and regular readers: like Judefa, Lisabal, Mayamoi, anotsoperfectstranger, zichi, neugen, xtine, Shelly41, Jackanapes, lucecorner … (hope I haven’t forgotten anyone?). Plus some new reader and commentators like trang. I am sure there are some other regular  visitors out there who haven’t commented - so I don’t know you by name yet - also thanks to you …

It is amazing how much Kitsch animations like that are on the web. I can understand when a little girl likes such crap, but when so called grown up woman indulges in such little dream worlds it becomes a case for a therapist.

Still waiting for your knight in shining armor too?