Archive by category 'You’ve heard the ads: “Name a star, get a parchment certificate, and have it recorded in the Library of Congress.” Do I have a deal for you. Name any star you want in a tweet and it will be recorded in the Library of Congress. You’ll have to print your own certificate if you want [...]
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YouTube Serves Notice on IE6
YouTube is preparing to drive a wooden stake into the heart of Internet Explorer 6. Kill it!
Buzz Kill
Watch Dave Winer’s opinion of Google Buzz drive off the cliff: Twitter-killing follow-up. (Scripting News). http://r2.ly/xcex # My first Buzz tweet. Not sure if you’ll be able to read this. Let me know. http://r2.ly/xcp7 # After 15 minutes I remember that Google is mean and distrusting and filled with side-goals that have nothing to do with [...]
iPad Limitations — Here to Stay?
The original Apple Macintosh had a monochrome display, a one-button mouse, no expansion slots, and a keyboard with no function keys or numeric keypad. Apple touted each of these limitations as a feature. Yet each of these limitations was eliminated in later products. The Apple iPad has no GPS, no camera, no stylus, no flash [...]
Pepsi’s Old Logo Is New
I like Pepsi but not their new logo. I’m not alone. I think Pepsi’s 1973 logo was their best. Pepsi apparently agrees; their Pepsi “Throwback” uses it. By the way, the can is white, not silver, as Pepsi’s picture suggests. Now, make the logo larger and lose the yellow “throwback” ribbon. Pepsi, if you need a reminder, here you [...]
Easy Cash With Google?
From The Official Google Blog: “Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!” or “Easy Cash with Google: You Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!” You may have seen offers like these using Google’s name or logo that sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, nearly all of them are, and, [...]
EPA Declares My Personal Emissions to be Pollutants
Seriously. :-/ ___ Yeah, both carbon dioxide and methane, for the juvenile among us. For some reason, the EPA chose to ignore water vapor, another greenhouse gas I emit. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagoenergy/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
On Searching for Truth
A search for truth with no willingness to change is: Like a fishing competition. Catch and release only. Like a vegetarian going big game hunting. Just another trophy for the wall, ultimately unsatisfying. Like a scene from A Few Good Men. “You can’t handle the truth.” Familiar? ___ Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrjoro/ / CC BY-NC 2.0
Facebook to Sell Targeted Ads in Your News Stream
Facebook will soon have targeted ads in your news stream. Why do I make this baseless1 claim? Allow me to direct your attention: I. Facebook has proposed an updated Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that bans sponsored status updates. That indicates two things: Facebook is contemplating commercial messages in the news stream. Facebook doesn’t want [...]
