“ There’s a certain amount of pain you can inflict on customers without losing them and the banks are all doing careful calculations…
Mark Schwanhausser
thinkpol.org
npr:
Steve Jobs arrives in heaven, by editorial cartoonist Dave Fitzsimmons.
But Seriously...: How to Update Facebook From Google+ (Without Using an Extension)
Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.
We can use that email address to cross post from Google+,…
“ Because I believe in democracy,” he said. “I believe legislators are elected to make their own choices to vote — to vote their constituents, to vote their conscience.
Dean Skelos, N.Y. Gay Marriage Vote May Have National Impact, 25, June 2011
“ [P]eople don’t understand that Facebook doesn’t consider the users their customers – they consider the advertisers their customers.
Facefacts, Jason Scott. May 7th, 2011
Wikipedia, now an authoritative source? Take that GSLIS education!
(xkcd, Advertising Discovery)
here there be dungeons and dragons
Awesome little documentary on D&D, and Uncle Monsterface outro music ftw!
(Source: wilwheaton)
“ Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them.
Douglas Adams, August 29th 1999
