I Hate Facebook.

“Initially Zuckerberg asked a small group of people to sign up to Facebook. At a certain point he told us to start inviting friends, and that is what we did on the first and second day which the site went up on the Web. We could only invite students enrolled at Harvard. In fact, if [...]

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Misplaced Technology – Twitter, June 20, 1776

thom_jefferson
Wrote some stuff with @johnny_adams today.  Looking forward to emancipation from British!
5:12 PM Jun 20 from TwitterParchment
Just invited Ben Franklin to sign up.  Told him it would be cool if he could tweet from France
5:19 PM Jun 20 from TwitterParchment
@ladiesloveben Are you serious with that screenname. 
5:48 PM Jun 20 from TwitterParchment
#followfriday @ladiesloveben @johnny_adams @thegeneral @hancock @samadams [...]

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Senate Transcript, Environment and Public Works Committee, SD-406

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER, D-CA:  I’d like to thank the chairman and our audience this afternoon for allowing me to question Mr. Baggins on carbon emissions in his shire… shire, is it?  Shire.  I have a series of serious questions concerning several aspects of this – um – this shire, and I just want… I want [...]

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Somewhere over America…

I’m on my way to San Francisco, enjoying Virgin America’s on board wifi when I get this:
Loren: in case you were wondering…it is Rob Thomas week on iTunes…(no joke)
Foiled again, Rob Thomas! Damn your eyes!

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10 Broken Things – Customer Service

There are some things which we know to have created for a specific use, but because they seem so innate to our purpose, we do not know their origins, for we have simply forgotten as to why we ever did it in the first place.
Early on, someone created ‘customer service’.    And, surprise; they didn’t [...]

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The further thumbing/dumbing down of a nation.

http://www.lgtexter.com/
That’s right, a texting competition.  In its third year.  On a national stage.  I want you all to marinate in that for a bit, because, well… this sort of goes along with a commericial for the Washington Post I heard this morning on the radio, y’know, the ones that say, “Today in the Washington Post,” [...]

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29

I’m getting old.  Last year, I ran through my own terms of denial like a knife through hot butter:  “28 isn’t old, it’s mature!”  “30 is the new 20, my testicles will work forever!”  “As long as you dumb bastards keep wearing Uggz, old will be way cooler than young!”  And so on.
But it’s time [...]

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Nerdapalooza 2009 – The Scripps National Spelling Bee

It took two days of commuting through the Hyatt on my way to and from Metro Center here in DC to notice the preteen masses clamoring about the hotel lobby.  Typically, I associate crowds like this with Pentagon City or the National Mall at the height of summer, as tourists roll in from all points [...]

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Wolfram Alpha < Google

Today, new super “computational engine” Wolfram Alpha is being released, and of course, geekdom has pegged the unsuspecting tool of science against the popular search engine, Google.  So I devised this little scenario.  Behold… The ultimate query tested:

I think the results speak for themselves.  Nice try, Wolfman Alfred, or whatever.

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