February 2010
20 posts
Who do you trust? Survey results →
The results are interesting enough …
But the interactive infographics are AMAZING.
How Millennial Are You? →
This, and the accompanying survey results on Millennials compared to other generations is quite interesting.
I came in, as one might expect from my age, right in between Gen X and Millennial in my choices.
I now feel somewhat predictable and slightly old as well.
“A Texas Tribune review of nine years’ worth of e-mails and internal...”
– DNA Deception | The Texas Tribune
So you’re telling me they turned over blood, without permission from parents, to the military, for unspecified, potentially unlimited, and multiple agency or private future testing and comparison?
Great.
The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal →
I don’t care what you say, I don’t think this is a good idea. I’m always amazed antitrust professionals agree to let Microsoft do anything.
They promise to protect user privacy, but my expectations in regard to Microsoft’s ability to implement ethical limitations are quite low.
Glad they’re leaving Flickr alone for the time being.
Journalistic license?
“the first major company to drop Woods’ endorsement contract in the wake of the scandal that linked the golfer romantically to more than a dozen women.” (via ABC)
I’m not certain it was exactly romantic linking there. I could be wrong.
This journalist is already talking about therapy and infidelity, why wimp out on that terminology? See Carlin, “You can’t be afraid...
Paying for your art with your life →
Sometimes, when the artist lurking in me can’t stand another day in my admittedly unlucrative 9-5 job … it’s thinking about things like this that keep me coming back, because at least a few thousand more people can go to the doctor each year because of what I choose to do for a living.
It’s not everything, but it’s more than a little.
“Initially, it may appear as though Apple is grossly overpricing its iPad, but...”
– iPad Estimated to Be Worth as Little as $220 in Parts -
But really, it goes on to say, that estimate is worth crap, so why do I keep seeing it all around?
Stupid sensationalistic journalism.
Deep zoom into Mandelbrot set Boing Boing →
This is awesome for people with vertigo.
The Latest Dispute in Jerusalem is over a medieval... →
This is a good example of what happens when people really don’t want to get along or resolve their differences. This stupid cellar could be shared. For 800 years it’s been of no use to anyone. But no. Instead these people have decided to do the equivalent of dogs pissing on their territory. Useless. Exacerbates conflict. Destructive.
If all anyone tries do in an argument is be right,...
Another Fun Google Search →
Those Aren't Pants →
Another blog that will occasionally threaten to burn your eyeballs out with poor taste … not as bad as the People of Wal-Mart blog … but still, you know, those times when people mistake patterned tights for pants …
“Because we can only attend to a tiny portion of the sensory cacophony around us,...”
– Salon.com Books | Why can’t we concentrate?