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For years I’ve held off opening up, or rather creating a MySpace account^[1] purely for reasons to prevent exploiting myself or others.

However, I came to the realization that when you look past the negative aspects and focus instead on the positive outcome of reconnecting with people that you might have lost touch with, well then it doesn’t seem so bad.

In fact, it’s safe to say that despite the countless amount of good and bad press, which any good journalist or sane person would tell you is just effortless advertising, there are a lot of interesting outcomes that occur when you set up your own space on the web.

Has anyone ever seen Criss Angel’s A&E series Mindfreak?^[1]

It seems like most of his “magic” is staged, especially in certain situations where the illusion seems out of ordinary — in some cases surreal — and yet the skeptic in me assumes he’s using clever camera angles and audience plants.

Case in point, in one particular trick he asks a woman to write the name of an animal on a slip of paper. He then takes the paper, glances at it noticing she wrote “butterfly”, folds the piece of paper and magically — out of thin air — summons a real butterfly.