Twitter Announces a great solution for TOS issues: When your users are being harassed, and that harassment is covered in your terms of service, just ‘task your lawyers’ [ed note: not my grammatical construction] to review your TOS so that harassment via your product is no longer your problem. Problem solved, right?
Blogging in Theory and Practice: My favourite quote is this - “Like a great number of weblog authors, I had started a mental recycling project.”
Freedocumentaries.org: I don’t recognize a lot ofthe titles, but the ones I do recognize are excellent, so hopefully they are in good company. Warning: documentaries are almost never about happy subjects - there is no cuteoverload.com documentary :)
Yogurt: “it’s substitute for human experience good.” There is nothing wrong with yogurt as a product, if you like to eat it, but there is something so very, very wrong with yogurt marketing.And marketing food as medicine. And all other marketing aimed at women. But for now, yogurt ads. And if you forget everything this video has to teach you, just remember this: Yogurt eaters come from every race, but just one socio-economic class. The class that wears grey hoodies. It’s that ‘I have a Master’s but then I got married’ look.” Hilarious.
I scored my Wii quite unexpectedly last year. I was walking through a Microcenter, looking for something trivial and small when I passed the Wii display, and asked the salesman if they had any in stock. Expecting a ‘no’, I was a little stunned when he said he had one left, and I felt nearly obligated to buy it, given how much whining I had previously done about how hard they are to find.
And thus, now we are Wii-ers. And sure, I live on a golf course, but that doesn’t make me feel guilty about playing Wii golf, instead. I might have to draw the line, however, at Wii Fit.
Cell phone jammers: I could make the obvious joke about how great this technology is, but I can’t get my head around the other side of it - this would be a great tool for criminals, given how few public phones still exist.
Thank you MichaelH for your help in upgrading my Wordpress software. Now, a month of school, and then some redesigning and tweaking - I know there are problems with the css in places, and a few links are messed up.
But fixing it has to wait all these papers are written!
Ben Stein has a new movie out, called Expelled: No intelligence allowed. The tagline is pretty precious: Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is every generation has its rebel…Ben blows the horn on supression. Apparently, Big Science also expelled grammar from the classroom. Its hard not to automatically reach for the joke on this one, but the movie is dead serious about ‘exposing’ the stranglehold so called Big Science has on …. science…and how unaccommodating they are about teaching things that….aren’t scientific….in science classrooms.
Of late, I have become very interested in representations of women in the media, as part of my ongoing theme of interest that can be best described as how women consume media, and how media consumes women. Tell me what is wrong with this soundbite, from an interview in Elle magazine (scroll down to the headline, “Ashton Kutcher talks sex, drugs with his stepdaughters.”
Beware the curse of YouTube: Lore Sjöberg explains why having every bit of pop culture online is a dangerous thing, using the lyrics of La Isla Bonita his example.
PDF Pad: Excellent free source of templates - from Cartesian graph paper to blank sheet music.
Wesabe: A social networking site for your bank account.
