Category: Random
Is It Wrong To Be Enthusiastic Over A Politician
A recent McCain political ad, emded here from John McCain’s YouTube channel. The ad compares Obama to Paris Hilton (I learned writing this post, that Paris Hilton has a website.) and Britney Spears and asks that just because someone has a lot of enthusiastic followers doesn’t make him ready to lead. This ad just doesn’t make sense to me. […]
Moving Is Environmentally Unfriendly
This became really obvious to me today moving my girlfriend to her new place. Just the sheer amount of junk thrown out is crazy. And it wasn’t just her, it was everybody, from electronics and posters to even vacuum cleaners and plastic bins and all kinds of food. Moving just from the basis of the […]
Google Fail
GoogleFail Originally uploaded by jtyost2 Google Failed me when I was trying to sign up for their site search engine for this blog. No real error message, no nothing, just save failed. No idea what happened or what I can do to fix the problem. This is a horrible way to treat the user. I […]
Living and Creating Online: Part 2
Part 1: I talked about just how much of my life is now online, searchable and archived, along with some of the basic reasons as to why I do this. I know want to make people feel better and let them know what I don’t post online. I never post anything about someone else unless […]
Living and Creating Online: Part 1
An interesting phenomenon has been happening with my life recently. I’m moving a ridiculous amount of data online. Just look at the sidebar of this blog to see all the data I have online that is publicly available to anyone. You have what products I am interested in buying, what I am reading online, photos […]
links for 2008-05-17
An Apple a Day: The Top Ten Rants on Twitter (tags: twitter culture psychology) Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong « Does Facebook have the right to block FriendConnect and what is the most important thing to consider when looking at data portiabilty. (tags: facebook scoble […]
links for 2008-05-15
BBC NEWS | Americas | Edwards endorses Obama in US race (tags: politics obama usa) Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: JavaFX as Rich Internet Application Platform Sun’s CEO comments on what happened in the last JavaOne Conference, focusing on JavaFX. (tags: java air programming javafx sunmicrosystems) Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Almost Arrested for Taking Photos at […]
links for 2008-05-14
Privacy: Charter To Begin Tracking Users’ Searches And Inserting Targeted Ads Thanks Charter messing with my internet service, just what I wanted. (tags: advertising internet privacy isp security) Study shows that stimuli unrelated to decision can still influence men’s choices Sex really does sell, in case you were worried. (tags: sexual business marketing psychology advertising) […]
The Rise of the Generalist
Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renaissance Man” in a Connected World?. In this post he discuses how even though we would think that with the internet an individual could have broad knowledge about the world, instead people specialize in their particular area of expertise. He then says that he […]
links for 2008-05-13
2.99 Gas – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog Chrysler has a new program that guartnees 2.99 a gallon gas for new owners of Chrylser cars, amazing idea. (tags: chrysler cars economics gas business) Dumbest Generation? Is this dumbest generation, Eric Burke takes on that question and wins. (tags: education youth) Feministing: Yogurt: […]