January 2010
40 posts
If an idea hurts, you probably put it in the wrong...
Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) 1/29/10 7:09 PM
Just laughed about this for a while.
“(growthef%#$up) There are peas in the __. I do not like peas. I would like a...”
– The Soup Peddler (souppeddler) on Twitter
Pretend the parentheses are brackets, because Tumblr won’t post it right without it.
“The Blythes Are Quoted [was] Montgomery’s final work of fiction. Delivered...”
– Anne book revives interest in P.E.I.’s star attraction
Didn’t know there was another book. Didn’t know about L.M. Montgomery, either.
Remembering The Golden Rule (on the web) →
If you want to post pictures to the Internet that contain other people - whether on Facebook, Twitter, your blog or elsewhere - you should read this.
I’m admittedly a person who really hates having pictures of herself posted anywhere without her consent. It makes me feel like I’m not in control of my own online identity. I think I’m more of an extreme case of this, and I have...
“It’s not surprising that many (if not most) men are baffled about why...”
– iPad Leakage - Geek Girls Guide
I could go on about what I think of the tech specs, etc, but like many, apparently, the rather-unfortunate-someone-should-have-checked-with-marketing-but-not-deal-killing name got in the way first.
But I really posted this because I nearly spit my lunch out at...
Unhappy Hipsters →
Take THAT, Dwell and its legion of modern-ish hipster-ish homes that seem uncomfortable to actually live in!
The 'true story' of how Dr. Martin Luther King... →
I did NOT know this, but … this is excellent!
A small excerpt, if you will, from Dr. King, “You are the first non-stereotypical role in television! Of intelligence, and of a woman and a woman of color?! That you are playing a role that is not about your color! That this role could be played by anyone? This is not a black role. This is not a female role! A blue eyed blond or a pointed...
“Stupid, stupid inefficient messy organic life-containers. Argh.”
– Kaja’s Monster Table (my quote o’ the day)
Anonymous Facebook Employee Conversation →
This is the source of the conversation below.
So am I paranoid or realistic about my distrust of...
The Rumpus: On your servers, do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth?
Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment. The only reason we’re changing that is for performance reasons. When you make any sort of interaction on Facebook — upload a photo, click on somebody’s profile, update your status, change your profile information —
Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history?
Employee: That’s right. How do you think we know who your best friends are? But that’s public knowledge; we’ve explicitly stated that we record that. If you look in your type-ahead search, and you press “A,” or just one letter, a list of your best friends shows up. It’s no longer organized alphabetically, but by the person you interact with most, your “best friends,” or at least those whom we have concluded you are best friends with.
Rumpus: In other words, the person you stalk the most.
Employee: No, it’s more than just that. It’s also messages, file posts, photos you’re tagged in with them, as well as your viewing of their profile and all of that. Essentially, we judge how good of a friend they are to you.
True Love Waits... And The Rest Of Us Get On With... →
I’ll echo my gratitude (in the post, kinda NSFW), I don’t take them for granted. I grew up in a place where the ultra-conservative morals I struggled to live under were so inequitable/misogynist, frequently racist, always constricting and eternally suffocating that I left as soon as I possibly could, and went to have a much more interesting life somewhere else. Some people live there...
'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One... →
If I could do anything, I might write for the Onion, if I were that clever of course.
It was a hard choice between posting this or Gay Teen Worries He Might Be Christian.
True Stuff
Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) 1/16/10 10:01 AM Amazing how much “self-help” advice never gets to the part where you cowboy up and learn how to actually help yourself. By yourself. Sent with Tweetie
"Girl Power": study shows how changes to marriage... →
Funny, isn’t it, that this article could have been written about the latter half of the 20th century - when marriage and children happened later in life, there was more emphasis on one’s working life, the economic importance of a dual income household and increased educational opportunities.
Because it always pisses me off that people think history started in the 19th century, and...
“A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading...”
– Body scanners can store, send images, group says - CNN.com
“I find it shocking that right before a storm hits grocery stores run out of...”
– Anna Maria Horner: Snowday Pretty
A Return to a Simpler Time? →
The little kid at the end of this is my hero. It sounds like they DO need to go to school and revisit a history class.
Truly, wishing for the “good old days” is such a load of crap. Nobody who knows about history buys that sort of drivel.
Which old days do people think was good? Those good ‘ol racist days with fun segregation? How about the days when women couldn’t vote...
“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake...”
– Stephen Jay Gould (via butdoesitfloat) (via jeremyturner) (via merlin)
Walkers Crisps →
Look at the flavors on these bad boys! Marmite indeed.
Vanity Fair on Twitter fame: Twembarrassing - CNET... →
A followup to that Vanity Fair article I posted. Thank God someone said it.
I unfollowed Felicia Day. I’d be embarrassed to follow her after that. Sometimes she seems like a normal person, but other times she comes off like she’s desperately hoping to become a Hollywood airbrushed starlet.
“Facebook is just way too slow. I can’t deal with that kind of deep engagement.”
– Stefanie Michaels, a “twilebrity” (via vanityfair.com)
aka The most disgusting thing I’ll read this week.
Cofffee-table book from the Vatican reproduces 105... →
Ooh, look, isn’t my birthday in 7.5 months?
My fave: “In a 1550 letter, Michelangelo complains that a long papal conclave has interrupted his work on the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, and he needs money.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Typical.
How the Byzantines dealt with Werewolves →
What they did to people they thought were vampires was considerably less kind!
Actually, this illustrates a facet of the long history of western medicine’s treatment of and perception of psychiatric illness. There’s quite a difference in ideas about what to do based on the century. Naturally, some thought it an illness while others turned to the explanation of demonic possession or...
“The Alabama mascot is the Crimson Tide. The red tide. Interesting mascot. In...”
– John Kelso - As far as rednecks go, Alabama may have UT beat
