why is the USA so frequently the victim of resentment around the world?

“This section attempts to answer the question: why is the USA so frequently the victim of resentment around the world?

The USA government blames hatred of democracy and envy at the American way of life for this resentment. Many people in the USA and a majority around the world look towards USA foreign policy for the answers. Much of this policy, its history and consequences is under-reported by the American media.

The American people are generally a friendly, kindly and compassionate people. If they knew one tenth of what their governments get up to around the world and in their dealings with foreign governments and people, there would be an enormous outcry. For this reason much is hidden or obscurred. Since the terrible events on 11 September 2001, many Americans have taken to the internet to find out more about the world beyond their borders.”

Robot Parade (and yes, it is real)

Come Celebrate And Take Part In A Gigantic Piece Of Human/robotic Performance Art.
Dress Like A Robot! Build Or Bring A Robot If You Can!
Listen To Or Perform In A Robot Poetry Slam.
Stand Up For Robot Rights.
Don’t Let Them Be The Slaves Of The New Millennium.
Dress Up As A Bot And March For World Peace.
Respect For The Robots.
We Love Everybody!
All Welcome, Regardless Of Biology, Species, Gender, Race Or Wavelength Or Circuitry Or Programming!!!

Chocha

eBay Member Profile that you must check out until you have milk come out of your nose and then possibly out of your ears if you really laugh hard and have very little control over your bodily functions.

Excerpts:

My friend’s mommy told me what Chocha means in Spanish. Then she showed me. A++!

I am a robot. I bid on grease and computer chips.

I am new in America! Thank you eBay for wonderful wife! I will beat her often!
member546461( 11) Jun-29-99 00:52
Reply by member546461: You’re Very Welcome.

The Sheep Market

Salon talks about the Amazon Mechanical Turk, and also pointed me to the Sheep Market:

In its earliest days, someone posted a request on Amazon Mechanical Turk, offering to pay 2 cents for a drawing of a sheep facing left. Peter Cohen, director of Amazon Mechanical Turk, says the company was “puzzled by” the request. The requester was Aaron Koblin, a student in UCLA’s Design/Media Arts program, who was writing his master’s thesis about the site. He was intrigued by Amazon’s effort to “establish a framework for the utilization of people as computers,” as he wrote in his thesis. “My project was very tongue-in-cheek,” he tells me. “On the one hand, it’s using the system the way it’s meant to be used. On the other hand, it’s asking them to do this ridiculous thing.”

The grad student invited turkers to draw up to five sheep at the rate of 2 cents apiece. Over 40 days and 40 nights, the sheep flooded in at a rate of 11 per hour. By the end, 7,599 turkers had participated. He collected 12,000 sheep and promptly put 10,000 of them up for sale at the rate of $20 for 20 sheep at the Sheep Market.

Now I know

I knew I was doing it wrong.

Also, Alec Baldwin’s iPod?