TastyFastr is a game based off images from flickr: basically, you compete head-to-head to come up with the shared tag for a set of flickr images. The images are on the small side, so you spend a lot of time squinting into the screen, saying “What *is* that?”
Apparently there’s no one to play with most [...]
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The New York Times has a new blog focusing on air travel. Today’s opening post reminded me just how good things are at the airport and in the air.
In my parents’ youth, after all, plane travel was a thing for the rich few. Starbucks outlets in the terminal; e-mail at 30,000 feet; frequent-flier programs [...]
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…and they didn’t even get to make a sale.
I flew to North Carolina last week to spend some time with my family in their new house. They’ve only been there about a month, so as you can imagine there are still a plethora of boxes that need unpacking. Including the one with all of [...]
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What an absolute crock of crap:
“Next, below, is what President Lincoln could have said, if he haddecided that his speech was not only for Americans, but targeted thewhole world. With this Globish wording, his impact would have beengreatly improved.Anglophones can hardly feel the difference. NonAnglophones observe that they understand better. This is the mainpurpose of [...]
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Looks like it’s a rough day across the Atlantic. “Suitable Node” errors occur when there’s a problem with the ExpressionEngine database, and are repaired through a reoptimization of database tables.
Edit: Obviously, BBC News is back up, within mere minutes of going down. I was more interested in their lack of graceful error handling [...]
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From the LA Times:
“When they ignore Veterans Day and Memorial Day, I think they’re telling us something about the way they view America,” said Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative website that has criticized Google’s logo decisions.
Boo hoo hoo, WorldNetDaily.com. You’d be in a position to talk if your website was full of American [...]
It’s been a while since I wrote about something truly awesome that adds value to my life . I’m reversing the trend today with Expensr, an excellent finance webapp that helps keep track of finance records online.
Now, it may not be mint, the oft-buzzed about web application that took top honors (and a healthy [...]
From Brandeis University’s Library and Technology Services:
Second, we develop the “vaporware” that allows robust and maintainable interaction between core systems like PeopleSoft, myBrandeis, library systems and others.
How’s that for some marketing?
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From Variety
It plans to turn “The Office” into a humorous game in which players have to handle jobs and play pranks at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch.
Wow. There’s only so many ways to make a stupid.
Technorati Tags: The Office, Sellouts
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From NPR:
Phoenix is the city most at risk for identity fraud, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Their new survey shows writing a check is not safer than banking online because of a scam called “check washing.” The thief erases the ink on a check and fills in whatever he wants.
Fairly obvious, but [...]
