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Book burning has never been easier: the match head IS a
full-
verse copy of the book. This cuts down on the messiness
of
paper ashes, plus allows for simultaneous burning on a
scale
never before possible. The business model requires a
eBook
purchase, and custom match books with personal
libraries are
ordered online.
A cloud service makes this even easier: just buy the
eBook,
and you can see the match head, zoom in to the
nanometer
dimension image and activate the ignition via a web
interface.
Terry Jones
http://www.youtube....watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
Presiding over a burning [nomocrow, Sep 12 2010]
XKCD
http://xkcd.com/750/
e-book burning [hippo, Sep 14 2010]
[link]
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// activate the ignition via a web interface // |
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Marvelous. Salman Rushdie could get rich off this. But, for
the web version, how do you reassure people that a fresh
match is burned each time, rather than replaying video of
the same, single burning? |
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You control a robot with ignition laser (CO2) at a
custom angle and magnification, time stamp and 128
bit UID. This would require an infinite library of
videos. However the true joy of the product can only
be appreciated in hand. What's the fun without
danger? |
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It also suggests various alternatives. For example, suppose
one were prepared to make the effort to encode a book (I
dunno - any old book, I guess) in DNA (an old idea, and by
no means impossible, just expensive) and clone it as a
large-insert plasmid in good ol' E. coli, and then release
these bugs into the environment. |
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The simple act of cleaning or disinfecting anything would
then have a finite risk of destroying one or more copies of
the text. |
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//custom angle and magnification// Like Google Earth? |
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//the point of book burning, which is to seek out and
destroy existing copies of certain books to rid the world of
their influence// |
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I disagree. In many cases, the burning of the book is
symbolic (otherwise, why not put the books quietly into
landfill)? The kerfuffle over the planned burning of the koran
is not because they're worried about losing a few copies. |
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//the burning of the book is symbolic// Perzactly. This way,
the publisher profits, and the author, if any, gets royalties.
Everybody wins. (Alternatively: the book-burners get
rooked.) [molecat] that was the point, was it not? (I mean,
in addition to the advantages [8th_of_7] alluded to.) |
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Ridiculous response because that suggests it's a subjective matter. It's just flat-out wrong. Religion relies on illiteracy not an abundance of paper paperweights. |
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// It's just flat-out wrong.// |
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It's just flat-out childish is what it is. If someone wants to
burn some paper which has been darkened by ink in a
particular pattern, who cares? I use a Mac, other people use
PCs: am I particularly concerned if someone thinks it's
symbolic to burn a pile of OSX manuals? No, not really. |
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4 billion years of evolution, and the majority of people still
act like five-year olds. Wipe us all out and start again. |
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I love it. It demonstrates the lack of interpretive powers religious folk have, something that is clearly exercised by reading, for instance by the dynamism of changing contexts etc. It interests me that the sole interpretation of the symbolic book burning by the religious folks is as a statement they are making about someone else rather than a statement they are making about themselves, for example about their commitment to literacy, and the very powers of interpretation it exercises. This provides an excellent example of noumenon and phenomenon where the thing itself is interpretation or literacy as an abstract notion, and the phenomenon is the book burning. |
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That's taking literacy too literally. |
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[rcarty] why do you suppose that's their sole interpretation
of book burning? I believe it's a very deliberate statement
they're making about themselves, and that statement is "We
are different from those outsiders." We're the outsiders:
we, who can't stomach book burning any more than the
Ephraimites could pronounce "shibboleth." |
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Their leaders, at least, understand that the more they make
the outsiders hate and fear them, the stronger their sense of
community. |
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They are the absurd, and I don't intend to impose meanings on the absurd. It's the symbolic action that I'm commenting on. |
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It's the multitude of possible interpretations that renders it meaningless. It's an absurd action, by those without the capacity to interpret meaning. |
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Alternatively, we can put Fahrenheit 451 on the
match head for irony. |
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//4 billion years of evolution, and the majority of people still act like five-year olds. Wipe us all out and start again.// |
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This calls for a book-burning video game. |
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// Wipe us all out and start again // |
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You'll manage it any day now. That's why we're here. |
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And then we shall post the video on the galactic equivalent of YouTube. |
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fervently waiting for the YouTube video of the guy slipping a cardboard-bacon bookmark in between the pages... "Take that! Muslimism". |
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Excellent idea. [+] I could also see a market for books that doubled up as fire-lighters or winter fuel (log-books?) |
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//You're missing the point of book burning// [Marked-for-tagline] - made me chuckle anyway :) |
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Proper bookburning should be considered a kind of ideological equivalent of a lynching, and to be done properly, really needs to be conducted by an angry mob. |
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This production-line facilitation of book-burning completely removes these romantic elements (faces lit by firelight, the sense of community) - this idea totally ignores those aspects of a proud and long-held tradition. Tusk-tusk etc. |
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+ you can make match-head flags, too!! |
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I disagree! A real match has warmth and a small
measure of comfort! |
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