Facebook has gone from a very private way to communicate with only the people you want to communicate with, to a firehose of information about you and everyone you kinda-sorta know. @jfloyd pointed out this article earlier today, and it pretty much sums up why I have been changing my relationship with Facebook for a while. Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful Read More ...
Thankfully no one was hurt, and how fortunate that a stand-up citizen had access to a legal firearm and was able to thwart a bank robbery. Torres then pulled a 9mm pistol on the robber before he left the branch building. “That’s when I took him down. The whole thing lasted three to four minutes. The tellers were all nervous,” said Torres, who ordered the robber to get on the Read More ...
I know everybody already reads Seth Godin, but I wanted to link out to today’s post by him anyway. He may be 10 years or so ahead of his time, but I think he’s hit the nail on the head: Back before the digital revolution, access to information was an issue. The size of the library mattered. One reason to go to college was to get access. Today, that access Read More ...
It’s for real. To go on and earn the pin, Scouts will need to teach adults how to play videogames, participate in a family gaming tournament, and learn how to comparison shop for prices. My sources tell me that the Scouts plan to announce more new badges later this year, including one for mastery of a deck of Sitcom Character Trading Cards and one for learning to identify 10 different Read More ...
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow night is the throwback baseball game at Farragut High School benefiting the National Parkinson Foundation. If you can, go out to support this cause and see some great baseball! My buddy Pat Dorwin was a member of the 1982 State Championship game at Farragut and has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. He’s been heavily involved in organizing this game.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Earth Day. Earth Day 1990 gave me the opportunity to see The Bellamy Brothers, Roseanne Cash, and Rodney Crowell all at the same venue. For free! Can’t beat that. Luckily, there will always be some sort of environmental scare going on, so even if they change over 40 years or so, we’ll still have the opportunity to listen to some good music while surrounded Read More ...
The big fat line painted on the parking lot you were exiting and the big octagonal red “STOP” sign were directed at you. Luckily (mostly for you), I’m a much better cyclist than you are a driver. If that weren’t the case you’d be dealing with some actual legal problems. I realize you were in too big of a hurry to get somewhere to at least roll down your window Read More ...
Now that Google has purchased Picnik, presumably to try to better contest Flickr in the online photo sharing market, I’m hoping they take a huge step to offer something Flickr can’t come close to. They already offer amazing photo organization at home (Flickr doesn’t), but it’s not quite where it needs to be yet… I absolutely love Picasa for the desktop. If you haven’t checked out its ability to do Read More ...
Inspired by this post via Instapundit, I thought I’d build a little Google Spreadsheets chart based on nothing but some semi-random words. People love charts, right? Below are the number of Google results I got today from doing a search on “Obama is a _______”. I did this for my own amusement, and I wouldn’t put too much stock in these results. Everyone knows that popular opinion and popular vote Read More ...
I’ve been waiting patiently for Sprint to update the HTC Hero to Android v2.1. First it was going to happen in March. Then April 9 was the date. The latest date I’ve heard is April 16…we’ll see? Anyway, there are several apps I’ve wanted to grab for a while, but couldn’t get because I’m stuck on version 1.5. Yeah, I know I could root my phone and do it all Read More ...
We saw a couple of these Portugese Man O’ Wars washed up on Satellite Beach yesterday as the tide was coming in. We were cheering for them to make it back out to open water, but not enough to get close enough to catch them. Tenacles up to 50 meters long and possible interference with heart and lung functionality? No thanks…
We were very lucky Discovery launched this morning, considering there were a couple of no-go periods leading up to liftoff due to some communications issues. In order to make the 6:21 am launch we had to wake up at 2:45 so we could make it through the gates at KSC by 4:30. It would not have been fun to have rolled 8 adults and 2 kids under three out of Read More ...
