I have a news reader (duh) and with that comes about 500 feeds. I’ve never counted them, but that seems like a reasonable number. One of them happens to be Robert Scoble, who works for Microsoft. His title is something like Evangelist or something like that (I’m too lazy to look it up), but he’s […]
This hand slap to the head once again brought to you by Technical Writers. Someone with the title Technical Author (cue eye roll) posted a one sentence question to a Help-authoring tool list. To quote: “Can anyone tell me what ‘structured authoring’ is?”. This was met by links to a Google-searched PDF. The person read […]
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If I ever meet the author of AAiOR, I so need to buy him/her a beer/wine/stiff drink, mainly for making me laugh my ass off at the absurdity of this town. The term “overrated” barely scratches the surface of this pompous, over-marketed, elitist town. Too bad they have one of the best employers around (despite […]
It’s like you could replace the University in this story with “University of Michigan” and no one would bat an eye. It hasn’t happened at U-M, I’m just sayin’… Last year, it was the fashion among campus conservative groups to hold anti-affirmative action bake sales: In such sales, prices are calibrated by the buyer’s race, […]
I was playing around with MSN Desktop Search (which rocks, by the way), and came across an email from an old friend and co-worker, Tim (last name withheld for future Google-searching anonymity). I have no idea if this is true or not, but take it as a parable, not so much gospel. It makes me […]
The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin MP3 players are changing peoples listening habits. We dont carry folders filled with CDs anymore. We carry our library in our MP3 players. We dont listen to CDs. We listen to playlists that we adjust all the time. We dont burn CDs anymore, its […]
I just bought this shirt… I think I need to get in the T-shirt business. Link [Via Preshrunk]
The Sociology department at Columbia Univ. is running an experiment in what makes a hit song. From BoingBoing: My colleagues and I in the Sociology department at Columbia University are doing an experiment about pop music which might be interesting to your readers. If they participate they will have a chance to discover and download […]
Support your independent coffee house (or a second, not-as-large chain). Or, just Googlebomb this site withStarbuck’s Delocator. Why? From BoingBoing: “‘The Delocator’ is a site that helps you find independent alternatives to Starbucks in your neighborhood. So why isn’t it called the ‘Starbucks Delocator’? Because the San Francisco Art Institute was too scared that Starbucks […]