Shark?
May 16th, 2010
AT&T
May 15th, 2010That about sums it up… I can’t wait until my contract ends in two months. I’ll never go back.
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
May 9th, 2010Epicenter Mind Our Tech Business
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
* By Ryan Singel Email Author
* May 7, 2010 |
* 6:58 pm |
* Categories: Social Media
*
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Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.
Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends and family members. Even if you didn’t really want to keep up with them.
Soon everybody — including your uncle Louie and that guy you hated from your last job — had a profile.
And Facebook realized it owned the network.
Then Facebook decided to turn “your” profile page into your identity online — figuring, rightly, that there’s money and power in being the place where people define themselves. But to do that, the folks at Facebook had to make sure that the information you give it was public.
via Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com.
Public timeline – sigmonsays
April 29th, 2010Thoughts on Flash
April 29th, 2010Second, there’s the “full web”.
Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.
Missing dog
April 29th, 2010
Armed robber wraps head in toilet paper as a disguise | Metro.co.uk
April 28th, 2010Police in Nebaska are hunting a man who robbed a shop with a knife – while trying to disguise himself by covering his head in toilet paper.
Some toilet paper: an effective disguise, apparently
Police in Lincoln, Nebraska say that the man entered Kabredlo’s Convenience Store on Saturday with a knife and a head wrapped in toilet paper, and demanded money.
The man – described as a white male in aged 25 to 33, about 6 foot 2 inches, with toilet paper all over his face – took an unspecified amount of money from the store’s safe, before fleeing on foot.
A Lincoln police sniffer dog was dispatched to try and track down the suspect – but discovered only a trail of sheets of toilet paper, which eventually ran out.
The suspect is still at large.
The wrapping of the head in toilet paper is the latest in a long line of innovative disguises adopted by robbers, which have previously included wearing an empty beer box on your head, dressing up as a tree, colouring your face in with permanent marker and, memorably, the Duct Tape Bandit, who wrapped his head up in duct tape.
ShitBegone is for sale
April 28th, 2010ShitBegone Toilet Paper is seeking a new home.
Profitable product with solid growth and margins. Over 150,000 rolls sold to date.
Name and logo available for licensing. Low royalties.
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ShitBegone Toilet Paper is seeking a new home.
Profitable product with solid growth and margins. Over 150,000 rolls sold to date.
Name and logo available for licensing. Low royalties.
If interested contact jed [at] shitbegone.com.
See Through Frog
April 27th, 2010Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here.
April 27th, 2010Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here..
Finally, the truth is out
Krak-a-jap machine gun
April 26th, 2010
Beer cures cancer!
April 26th, 2010
What would Macgyver do?
April 25th, 2010
A Lightning Bolt Hits Water, So Close You Can See Its Streamers | Astroengine.com – StumbleUpon
April 24th, 2010
Gummy bear surgery
April 24th, 2010
Trust
April 22nd, 2010
April 18 – LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY
April 19th, 2010
Songs You Should Know About – Billy Brooks – Forty Days
April 19th, 2010Buddha Statue May Have Many Arms Outstretched in the Civic Center : Nirvana Imminent : Curbed SF
April 19th, 2010Buddha Statue May Have Many Arms Outstretched in the Civic Center : Nirvana Imminent : Curbed SF.
[Civic Center Plaza via Flickr/roarofthefour, Buddha statue courtesy photo via SF Examiner]
Just as those Civic Center tree hats (aka “The Upper Crust”) are nearing the end of their life, a bigger art project’s planned for the plaza in front of City Hall. Behold: a 15-ton, three-headed, six-armed Buddha statue, called, “Three-Headed, Six-Armed Buddha.” We’re fans of literalism too. The work was created by Chinese artist Zhang Huan, who appears to specialize in ginormous Buddha body parts. There’s no guarantees on our benevolent many-limbed nirvana figure reaching the not too hallow grounds of the Civic Center, though — the SF Arts Commission has to raise $100K to ship the thing from Shanghai, and the parking garage roof will also have to be strong enough to withhold all that wonder. Time will tell if the Buddha’s many arms shall caress our down and out friends in the plaza.
· Giant Buddha may be displayed in Civic Center [SF Examiner]
· Malevolent Tree Hats [Curbed SF]
I’m finishing my coffee
April 13th, 2010