December 2007
21 posts
“Winn Collier is…is…is…a traditionalist.”
– FB status update from Winn Collier after removal of “is” default.
“The categories of optimism and pessimism don’t exist for me. Optimism is...”
– Cornel West
No country for old men
Just take a pass people. I’m doing you a favor here. Trust me, unless you’re a film student, you’ll regret going.
The voice of so few heard by so many
Browsing the web I saw this headline on CNN.com and thought that trouble was brewing again back home in SC about that flag that has cost us so much. So I click through to the article, and oh, it’s 8 PEOPLE!!! When do 8 people doing one thing get to make front page on CNN?? Just so we’re clear — the vast majority of SC people are not stupid blabbering know-nothing bigots. Eight...
Mark “Sorry” Zuckerberg’s Beacon Memo: BoomTown... →
Wow, this is harsh. Do you have to be a smart aleck jerk to be a journalist?
Geekout: How to Make Short URL's | wanderingstan →
Stan wants us to remember that he can write code…
Who moved my feed? →
I know, I know. I can hear all of you grumbling (all thousands of you). But I had to move my feed. This one’s sexier, I promise.
“You have to use the front door!!”
– the bus driver, yelling at me after I used the back door and he left with my bike
“The world can be cynical, which is all the more reason why a long-shot...”
– The Love Song of Dennis J. Kucinich - washingtonpost.com
Dear Gmail team...
Please do something better with contacts. I love that you now let me aim chat in gmail, but don’t you think that some of the people that I chat with in aim just might be some of the same people I email in gmail? Can’t you and your PHDs figure out a way for me to have one contact with many communication channels? Please?
Seth Levine's VC Adventure: BioWest with a ‘Vue →
Our friend Seth likes watching EventVue grow :)
GrandCentral Contact Importer is up!
Of course it’s a little buggy, as all contact importers are… GrandCentral: Import Contacts
On the wikipedia controversy
The fighting seems eerily like Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Just check out how they reverently refer to “the Project” in their talk pages. Golding’s boys did the same for “the Beast” and it ended up leading to self-destruction. “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, — They kill us for their sport”. - Shakespeare
A plea to Bono
Please start your next tour soon. We need a voice of unity again, reminding us of our prosperity and of others’ poverty. We need your voice of hope, calling us to participate in bringing the kingdom come.
U.S.: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003 →
So there’s no longer a reason to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran now, right?
Firefox Extension: Comments for Google Reader →
This is a Greasemonkey script-turned-extension that adds the IntenseDebate comment system to every entry in Google Reader. The comments are stored by the URL of the entry so you will be able to see the comments made by others with this extension that are reading the same feeds as you. — indiekid
Some love for EventVue
Adam Rubenstein is a friend who connected us with BioWest 2007. He is now a raving fan of EventVue and we love him.
“We must never negotiate out of fear but we must also never fear to negotiate.”
– JFK via Barack Obama