Another link dump. I promise I’ll try to include more bloggers and less news stuff in the future. Here’s How to Stop FB From Tracking You Online – Logging out isn’t enough. Can We Play? – Feeling guilty because you don’t get to spend enough time on education and they are aimlessly wasting the day? Don’t. Career Ruin: Homeschooling I realized that public school is like Social Security. There is Read More ...
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D) – Not often Mr. Reynolds writes something this verbose, but when he does, it’s almost guaranteed to be quotable. And if I’m peeing all over the wave of hope-and-change hype that got him into office despite his obvious unsuitability, it’s to help ensure that nothing this disastrous happens again in my lifetime. I realize that it’s painful for those who fell Read More ...
Google released a +1 extension for Chrome last night. Big news? I guess, but maybe not that big.
I’m surprised at a couple of things. First of all, I can’t believe it took Google this long to push this extension out. It’s nice, but nothing that Facebook can’t do for “Like”. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an official “Like” extension out in the next 24 hours. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook acts like this isn’t even happening.
*UPDATE*
Here’s Facebook’s extension, less than 24 hours after….I should do this for a living.
*END UPDATE*
What I really can’t believe is that the +1 button hasn’t made its way to the Chrome base install yet. That’s something Facebook can’t do unless they build a browser and capture market share like Google has. Extensions are great, but they still require people to install extensions, and I’m not convinced that’s something the average user is going to go out of their way to do.
Now…when is the API going to be exposed so that my blog posts can show up in Plus automatically? Twitter has it, Facebook has it.
Well Google?
These link dumps every few days make it nice for me to keep some fresh content coming, even when I don’t have a ton to say. Of course, if you follow @sadcox on Twitter, you get this stuff almost-real-time…for FREE! You Can’t Become a Man From The Sidelines – Join your local rugby club this season. Or learn to play an instrument. Or grow and kill your own food. Build Read More ...
From @MatthewHurtt If someone comes up with an App that lets kids remotely control a robot arm that picks up rocks and launches them or throws punches at defenseless passersby, we may be in some danger. But rocks are heavy. And punching sounds a lot like exercise to me. From what I’ve seen, that sounds like more effort than many of them would be willing to engage in. Plus, it Read More ...
This is so unfair to the rest of us.
“We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image.”
This almost encourages these ignoranuses and the wannabes waiting in the wings to amp up their behavior even higher. Why not take the money from AF and invest in some higher end clothing, hoping those guys will pay you even more to not wear their clothes? Sounds both reasonable and logical to me.
Now, I hope I’ve never taken my obnoxiousness to The Situation’s level, but I think I could have given him a run for his money on the occasional Saturday night at the turn of the century.
I’m old and have gray hair…not at all the image they want to portray for their brand. If I had any kind of platform at all, I’d go out and dress from head to toe in AF stuff. I’d make sure I was mic’d every time I grunted when transitioning from standing to sitting, and I’d make sure their logo was prominently displayed every time I bent over to pick something up and grab my lower back to aid me in standing upright again.
Cha-ching!
I’m not sure what AF expected when they targeted this market.
Warren Buffett, Robber Baron? – Nah….he could never have anything but pure motives. Mother of 13-year-old who smashed up shop blames government – “His mother described him as a ‘good lad’…” Right. Right. Putting Your Chores on Auto-Pilot – Skimmed this…didn’t see anything about containing young tornadoes that undo your work faster than you can do it. 7 Facebook Features Google Plus Still Lacks – Uh…well, it DOES have photo Read More ...
Thanks to the KNS for covering Butch Robertson’s retirement and 750+ career wins.
Rugby was just one of the many things he taught. I learned countless lessons from him from 1993-1996, not the least of which was that the way to make a real impact is by showing up every day ready to do work for decades.
The guy never got a dime for his efforts either. In fact, it probably cost him quite a bit of money to come out in bad weather twice a week for all those years and deal with the jetsam of high school soccer, football, and wrestling.
Thanks Butch, for all you’ve done for so many young men!
Five Facts About the Debt “When it was Chrysler secured bondholders objecting to getting defaulted on by the president’s auto task force, Mr. Obama denounced them as “a small group of speculators” who were “hoping that everybody else would make sacrifices and they would have to make none.” Where was Mr. Obama’s newfound respect for bondholders back during the Chrysler deal?” NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism Read More ...
Lot’s of “How Tos” were read around here in the last week or so, and I’ve linked to some of the best ones. I was pretty excited to get Spotify too. This one may be worth paying for! I’m also playing around with Post Formats in WordPress, which explains the drastic change in the way the blog looks. I switched to the Twenty Eleven theme and I’m going to be Read More ...
How To Move Your Facebook Photos To Picasa – Get them over to Picasa/GooglePhotos/Plus. One step closer to ditching Facebook forever. Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends – It’s ON! HT @slashdot. Fast-food chains selling alcohol – HT @FrankStrovel. I will not rest until I can get a Cherry-Vodka-Limeade straight from the drive-up window. RunKeeper Building ‘The Facebook Of Fitness’ – I started using RunKeeper when it became Read More ...
Long Distance Half-Steppers - “Self-knowledge is a bitch.” I have been all of these people at one point or another, and I’ve definitely run with all of them. There are more I could add to the list too! Desmos Graphing Calculator – I am in nerd heaven. I can’t wait to play with this gadget. I can’t wait until my kids are learning higher math and we can do this Read More ...
Amazon has released even more movies and TV shows for Prime subscribers today, including the last 7 seasons of Sesame Street. Cool! We ditched cable about a year and a half ago and are exclusively streaming stuff from Netflix, Amazon, and Pandora through our Roku box. No regrets, and we haven’t looked back. There’s a ton of good children’s programming available that way, and the adults in the house only Read More ...
Make your secondary Google Voice number permanent – Perfect solution for a a reasonable price. I don’t want to give up my old number for old contacts, but only give out my Google Voice number for new contacts. The 5 Switches of Manliness: Challenge – Part II of this series. Dead on so far. Texas movie theater makes an example (and a PSA) of a texter – Awsum. This should Read More ...
