Well, That Didn’t Work Out Well
January 31st, 2012Remembering the Last Crew of Columbia
January 31st, 2012Clueless teens dumping Facebook for Twitter
January 31st, 2012I had to read the first sentence of this article twice because I thought it must be a joke:
Teens, after being friended by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles on Facebook, have moved to Twitter to get a little more privacy.
Trading Facebook for Twitter? Really?
Apparently those teens have not studied Twitter very carefully, as all tweets are entirely public; so public, in fact, that Twitter recently agreed to hand over all tweets to the Federal government and DHS, which now apparently monitors tweets for subversive activity. DHS recently denied two British tourists entry to the U.S. because of a couple of jokes they had posted on Twitter. Apparently re-posting a quote from the TV show Family Guy now marks you as a terrorist.
It may take a while longer, but I think people will eventually begin to understand that posting every trivial thought and picture from your life online is not the way to gain privacy.
“I think that Facebook is the biggest waste of time…”
January 31st, 2012A guy named Jake Reilly dropped all electronic communication, including the phone, for ninety days, calling it "The Amish Project." This story is really interesting, as he ran into all sorts of logistical challenges, some of them amusing. For example, he'd meet a girl in a bar, she would give him her phone number, and he'd have to explain he could not call her. And the girl would think he was lying to avoid telling her he did not like her. To keep in touch with friends, he resorted to putting sticky notes in the elevator at work and leaving chalk messages on the sidewalk in front of their office or their home. Perhaps most telling, he realized that Facebook was an enormous drain on his time, and that by staying off it, he had a lot more time to actually visit people in person and talk face to face.
Read the whole thing.
Roanoke Times Leaps Ahead of Mayo Clinic’s Alzheimer Knowledge
January 31st, 2012Florida Highway Patrol’s “Failure to Foresee” Results in 10 deaths
January 31st, 2012EmergencyEmail.org Weather Alert Forecast for 1/31/2012 8:10:00 AM
January 31st, 2012I Knew This Was Coming
January 31st, 2012We Carry The Load
January 31st, 2012The Racialists Just Won’t Go Away
January 31st, 2012T-Shirts Don’t Lie
January 31st, 2012Thousands Seek Astronaut Jobs for 2013
January 30th, 2012Georgia Legislature: Let’s drive businesses out of the state!
January 30th, 2012Via MuniNetworks, some Georgia legislators are getting substantial campaign contributions from the incumbent telephone and cable providers to pass a law making it illegal for communities to create competitive broadband infrastructure. The big win in North Carolina last year, where the legislature did pass such a law, has spurred similar efforts in Georgia and South Carolina.