QR codes

I saw my cousin playing around with QR codes while I was in Korea, and found it to be cool beyond pretty much anything I've seen icon-wise. (oh, except for that multi-card/PMP/cellphone/scanner/USB/drive/creditcard/internet tablet thingie I caught her carrying around. When will U.S. get off of the morass of technological stagnation???).

Look, I just changed my default userpic to a QR code based one. How cool is that?

Living in U.S. makes me feel as if I'm living in some backwater farming town sometimes. Not that backwater farms are bad, just that it's significantly out of proportion with the level of economic/political might this nation wields at the moment. And yes, even with the failed NeoCon doctrine and falling economy this nation is a superpower, just in case people forgot about that fact.

People may be failing to participate in the major political process of this nation (i.e. voting) not because they're lazy and/or ignorant, but because the political machine of this nation and its goals are so out of touch with the modern world....

That sounds really plausible. Maybe I should do a long post on that one sometime.