In the Manovich reading, I thought the comment of video/computers as narcissistic to be very interesting.

Now days it seems like everything is made to be personalized in some aspect or another: color, shape, size, sound. We buy ringtones, we get the pink RAZR, we put up picture wallpaper, we get those stupid jinglejangles and skins...and that's just for our cell phones! Computers are almost worse.

Let's take for instance, my computer, a.k.a. POOTER and s.k.a. OKCOMPUTER. The fact that I have such names is the first hint of its narcissistic power; of its ability to reflect an image of me within its content. On my background is a picture of my horse, Frank. Almost everyone has some sort of personalized wallpaper for their computer and almost always it is a picture of themselves. Sometimes it is an image from Digital Blasphemy, which are usually pretty neat. But I digress.