IM Hydras
We use AIM at work, most of the time its pretty useful. Except at times like this afternoon when I feel like Hercules fighting the Hydra. As soon as I get answer someone’s question, two more pop up for me to deal with.
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Porn Irony
The real irony, not the kind Alanis sings about. Porn director, church makes PSA against porn for kids. That’s why the veteran director took a recent day off from filming his usual adult fare to make a public service announcement for a Christian anti-pornography group. Its message: Parents, keep your adult videos and magazines out
Viacom channels back on Dish Network
Doc Searls has a good summary about Viacomm and Dish Network settling their recent spat over carrying Viacomm’s bundle of channels. Unfortunately, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Why not? I think it’s because nobody who makes most of their money on advertising wants to see consumers become customers. Viacom, for example, is
Die, Click Here, Die.
My annoyance at using “click here” for links a few weeks back inspired an idea for a quick cartoon that I have yet to put down on paper. Luckily someone has collected all the reasons why click here is bad text to use in links: “Click here” just looks stupid. “Click here” looks especially stupid
Stop unsolicited credit card offers
Seen at kuro5hin: How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers Fortunately, hidden away in the fine print of every single pre-approved offer sent to consumers is a paragraph stating how to prevent credit bureaus from including you in pre-screened lists. If you’re like me and always end up throwing these offers away, I urge you
Wiki’s do beat MS Word
I read a post over at PHPKitchen that echo’s the same experiences I’ve had at work in pushing us to use a Wiki to collect knowledge and document processes. Some quick lessons: Word is too cumbersome for trying to whip out a document real quick. Word makes it too easy to focus on the presentation
How to draw a monkey
Follow along and see how to draw a monkey in four steps. I drew this happy little guy using Pixia, an awesome and free drawing program for Windows. All the anime aside, its got a powerful pen/brush, bezier/spline curves, and layer system. Note, you\’ll have to click through to the full story to see the
E-voting report from the trenches
Avi Rubin, a well-known and vocal critic of electronic voting wrote up his experiences serving as an election judge in Maryland yesterday. His account is a good read and it sounds like a positive experience both for him and the folks he worked with. Over the next several hours, we all were busy checking in
U of Kentucky: Hey – that’s my mascot!
You have to click through to check out the pictures! The university of Kentucky claims an Italian tv show copied their mascot. You have to hate your job when it requires you to say stuff like: “Their mascot is silent and conceptually different: He’s mute and moves along the sidelines of basketball courts,” Damerini said.