Proof that Apple Store Employees are Chill

October 5, 2009

Here’s a YouTubings of a girl making a very silly MMMBOP lip-snych video in an Apple store. I like how cool that Apple Store employees are with her doing her hair-tossing dance in the middle of the store. Best Buy security would likely have removed her 30 seconds into the song.

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Pledge to Serve the President – WTF?

September 3, 2009

This sort of super creepo cult of personality BS should not be taking place in America. The president is an elected official, not god-head of the union.
Maybe I’m overreacting. Maybe this is some sort of high-concept art piece that’s attempting to show what it would be like if American culture had [...]

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FAIL: Avira AntiVir Personal Edition

August 7, 2009

After taking CNET’s recommendation, I installed Avira’s anti-virus package.  Now, after having the program pop-up ads (that beg me to buy the full version) crash other programs several times, I’m uninstalling the software.  This little annoyance isn’t just a small design flaw, it’s a critical mistake on the part of Avira.  Why?  Because their freebie [...]

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How to be Popular Online: Launch Your Site in 1995

July 30, 2009

If you want to be popular on the interwebs, you should have gotten started quite a while ago.  The folks at Pingdom plotted the top 50 most popular site online today against the years they were launched.  The trend isn’t exactly an affirmation of Web 2.o.  In fact, 15 out of the 50 were launched [...]

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DISQUS CSS Styling

July 30, 2009

Kudos to Adam Karas for making the only comprehensible guide I could find on how to style DISQUS with CSS.
Karas makes this very easy, but I thought I would add a note for anyone using DIY Theme’s Thesis framework. Thesis will jive with this very easily, so long as you paste the header code [...]

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If I were an animal, I know what I would be

July 29, 2009

My first fan site! Check out CordisaBear.info

Thanks to Dan & Jerry.

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Microsoft & Yahoo Redux

July 29, 2009

My comments on the new Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal appears below. Please ignore the date.

Cross-posted at TechLiberation.com

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Snuff Box on the Mac vs. PC Debate

July 28, 2009

I’ve been watching a lot of clips of Matt Berry, a popular British comedic actor, on YouTube lately.  Here’s a clip from Snuff Box that takes on the Mac vs. PC contraversy:

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Cookie Swap for Firefox

July 24, 2009

If you’re like me and you’re frustrated by having to switch between personal and business accounts when using tools like GMail or Google Analytics, the Cookie Swap add-on for Firefox is the solution. This is simply awesome as up until this point I’ve been using separate browsers for separate tasks, but I don’t like [...]

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Tequila on the Melodica & Ukulele

July 23, 2009

Next on my list of musical instruments to pick up: melodica and ukulele.

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Nintendo DS TalkBox

July 23, 2009

This is just plain awesome—everything about it.

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Cited by Reuters on Hollywood & Antitrust Regulation

July 22, 2009

I was cited along with Max Blecher, a top antitrust litigator with the firm of Blecher & Collins, and Paul Sweeting of themediawonk.com in a recent Reuters story on Hollywood and antitrust regulation.  You can check out the piece that was cited at TechLiberation.com.  The same piece was also cited by Breitbart’s Big Hollywood blog.

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Off-the-Shelf Politics 2.0

July 16, 2009

I’m non-partisan—in the sense that I don’t know which party to dislike the most—but I do like competition and I especially like to see well-made websites. Enter NetBoots, a new political website service from the folks that brought you the “Ron Paul Revolution.”
It’s about time someone started offering off-the-shelf solutions for political sites. [...]

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Cited by the DC Examiner on Video Game Censorship

July 15, 2009

Cameron English cited some work I did at my old gig over at CEI:
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Cord Blomquist somberly reminds us, “with video games as a precedent, other forms of ‘politically incorrect’ media could be next.”

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Ignite Show: Greg Elin on Hackers in Washington

July 15, 2009

This isn’t really about “hackers” per se, but about government transparency—the mission of the Sunlight Foundation. Elin’s presentation also full of great jokes at the expense of our highly broken government.

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How To Do the Moonwalk

July 2, 2009

I think the best tidbit of knowledge from this is that Michael Jackson got the idea for the moonwalk from watching Marcel Marceau.

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