Category: Random

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » If pigs could fly A tale of an airline’s stupidity and bad customer service. (tags: customerservice airlines) Cognitive Daily: Perceived moral blame can change the memory of a crime Interesting research into how we perceive someone can change our attitude towards them in terms of accountabiliaty towards a crime. (tags: […]

Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored? How easy it is to spy on someone’s cell phone. (tags: security privacy phone cellphone) Schneier on Security: Tourists, Not Terrorists Yet another overzealous scared public recating stupidly and the police helping them act retarted. (tags: security tourism travel terrorism) A VC: Three Reasons To Use Disqus […]

Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect You can now push your data between Facebook and other sites, awesome. (tags: facebook myspace api community dataportability opensocial) Cogent Metal: Firefox Smart Keywords Tip Good tips for Firefox users (tags: firefox tips productivity) Scoop: Facebook To Announce Safety And Privacy Deal With 49 States (tags: facebook privacy […]

Let’s All Reinvent the Wheel… Again, and More – The Daily WTF Ouch, bad interview and resume stories. (tags: interview programming resume humor) If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Some people are pretty stupid and think they know the law but they really don’t. […]

Buttons Padding Demo Padding of buttons in various browsers, important to remember. (tags: css webdesign button form) BBC NEWS | Technology | Building digital life lines This is good work, setting up communication lines post disaster. (tags: communication technology telecom charity unitednations) A List Apart: Articles: Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? Interesting little study […]

Nine Inch Nails Album Is Free Online – New York Times This is totally awesome of NIN. I’ve already got the album and think it’s really good. I can’t wait till he puts up the physical copies for sale. (tags: music nin technology piracy) BBC NEWS | Business | Oil hits $120 a barrel milestone […]

Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal (Updated) (tags: internet business microsoft yahoo) Yahoo’s Tough Week Ahead Now that Micrsoft has pulled the plug on a deal, what happens to Yahoo? (tags: yahoo microsoft business) Guessing Yahoos Opening Stock Price – Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook – New York Times […]

Schneier on Security: Sky Marshals on the No-Fly List (tags: security stupid) Bad Astronomy Blog » Where is the center of the Universe? (tags: astronomy space science) The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class? » My Money Blog An interesting talk about the change in the American middle class from the 1970’s to the 2000’s. […]

BBC NEWS | UK | Keyboards ‘dirtier than a toilet’ Sounds like this could by my keyboards. (tags: keyboard Computer Health hygiene office) Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release Well that is cool. (tags: apple movie) Feministing: Thank You Thursdays: Madonna Good point of view on Madonna and her place in […]

twistori This is so cool. Sit and watch it for a couple of minutes. (tags: twitter web2.0 culture socialmedia) Schneier on Security: Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police Kinda scary that Microsoft themselves would release this tool. Though none of it is secret backdoors and all the code and programs are available. […]