May 2009
15 posts
I always figured we were better
A new study, carried out by a team of Belgian and Swiss researchers and published in last week’s issue of Science, looked at the underlying cause of what makes one an early bird or a night owl, and what effects this has on day-to-day life. The study consisted of 31 participants, 16 morning people, and 15 night owls—the night owls’ days were shifted an average of four hours later than...
April 2009
10 posts
Bullying 1
Skip this one if you’re not in the mood for being depressed.
This is 11-year-old Jaheem Herrera. About a week ago, he hung himself from his belt.
The short explanation is: bullying. The details are mostly irrelevant.
I have a bullying/suicide story, this ones strikes even me as a little weird. I had a classmate in Montana by the name of Brad Gates. Age nine, I swear he had muscles like...
SEO to fight terrorism??
I’ve been saying for years that normal, non-crazy Christians need to start publicly speaking out against the fringe crazies. By failing to do so, they’re allowing the vocal minority to command the dialogue and claim unchallenged representation. If you don’t reject James Dobson, then he really can claim to be the voice of Christian America.
I was reminded of this by a new story...
“Crash — the real one, the Cronenberg/Ballard one — came out 13 years ago. What...”
– me
that Amazon Fail thing
For the uninformed: Amazon dropped “adult” content from their customer sales rankings. Some are interpreting this as a gay issue, but as far as I can tell it’s broader than that;Lady Chatterly’s Lover is delisted. Amazon claims it’s a glitch. Glitch my ass. If it were a “glitch,” it would have affected something random like Bowling or Pet Care, not a...
Speaking of Karen O, Ta Nehisi-Coates has a why-people-can’t-dance theory and uses my favorite spastic performer as his example. It’s not far off from Might magazine’s awesome Cool Like Me bit from a while back.
I am so goddamned in love with Karen O, it’s not funny at all.
P.S. If you’re lucky, this will be preceded by an incredibly retarded commercial for fish sticks.
P.P.S. I miss NYC.
MacHeist
To me, the redeeming quality of MacHeist is that it gets people paying for indie software.
Between commercial MegaSoftware (Microsoft Office, Adobe CS) and the open source wilderness, there’s a divide where software is either free (as in beer, ha ha) or very expensive. There’s a lot of commercial software — usually indie — that is reasonably priced, but since it’s not $1000 a...
“John Waters, who keeps the Letters of Resignation catalogue by his bed, says...”
– Howard, Princess Sparkle Pony
Twitter shitters
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products….
The retort, from those who engage in marketing, might be that they do make awesome stuff, but getting the word out is an enormous hurdle — thus justifying...