It seems that *everyone* is posting links to this video this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs
OK Go has done it again. Another video with lots of visual greatness and no cuts. This time with some talented dogs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs
OK Go has done it again. Another video with lots of visual greatness and no cuts. This time with some talented dogs.
AWESOME. Facebook is down, and people are talking about it on Twitter.
Some of my favorite tweets so far:
@TheDollSays --
Facebook users are roaming the streets in tears, shoving photos of themselves in people's faces and screaming 'DO YOU LIKE THIS? DO YOU??'
@alqaeda --
#facebook is down. Not sure if we did that, but we should claim credit anyway. Hitting the infidels where it hurts, etc.
@postsecret -- BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession.
Some of my favorite tweets so far:
@TheDollSays --
Facebook users are roaming the streets in tears, shoving photos of themselves in people's faces and screaming 'DO YOU LIKE THIS? DO YOU??'
@alqaeda --
#facebook is down. Not sure if we did that, but we should claim credit anyway. Hitting the infidels where it hurts, etc.
@postsecret -- BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession.
Hey, web designers... check this out if you haven't already:
http://css3pie.com/
This is a server-side library that you can use to EASILY add some of the most popular CSS3 features to Internet Exploder: border radius, box shadow, and linear gradient.
It makes the designer's life so much easier, because CSS3 eliminates the need to jump through hoops to display these common "Web 2.0" (that term is *finally* falling out of use, isn't it) design elements. You just specify them as usual, add a reference to PIE, and suddenly Exploder is displaying them as if it were an actual web browser.
http://css3pie.com/
This is a server-side library that you can use to EASILY add some of the most popular CSS3 features to Internet Exploder: border radius, box shadow, and linear gradient.
It makes the designer's life so much easier, because CSS3 eliminates the need to jump through hoops to display these common "Web 2.0" (that term is *finally* falling out of use, isn't it) design elements. You just specify them as usual, add a reference to PIE, and suddenly Exploder is displaying them as if it were an actual web browser.
You mean a 3rd party library? That's cross browser? That everybody can start
using until somebody comes up with an even BETTER one?
What a novel concept.
What a novel concept.
Sep 4 2010 1:04am from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd
bella: classy! Now I have an excuse to buy a bigger monitor and
speakers :)
Donate your speakers to me once you upgrade, IG?
I've just gotta say, back when I was touting FB & Twitter all those many moons
ago & you folk were all nay-saying, it's great to see you all on there now!
:D
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Mon Sep 27 2010 13:11:13 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredI for one am still nay-saying. I may have signed up but I still think it's a cesspool.
Even if it weren't, what about the problem that many people seem to use only Facebook and nothing else to communicate with people these days, and that Facebook, Inc. is not bound by the same privacy laws that ISPs and telcos need to follow? Creepy. Well, and all the moneymaking schemes Facebook and Zynga have going on with their games.
I recently deleted my Facebook account and discovered, big surprise, that I have a little more spare time now. Time I can spend in bars. With real people. Isn't that great? If you want to spend more time in bars as well, here's Facebook's account deletion request form. You'll thank me one day!
that I have a little more spare time now. Time I can spend in bars.
With real people. Isn't that great? If you want to spend more time in
bars as well, here's Facebook's account deletion request form. You'll
thank me one day!
I'm not really the barfly ...
Sep 27 2010 3:38pm from Spell Binder @uncnsrd
Would deleting my facebook account mean I'd have to spend more time in
bars?
:P
What, no bar binder? o.O
I don't usually hang out in bars, but if my friends are there, I'd much rather
be there than on Fecesbook.
I don't get how people can spend hours on that site.
I log in, look around, see that nobody's done anything interesting,
thenn log out for another few days.
It is nice for stalking people though.
I log in, look around, see that nobody's done anything interesting,
thenn log out for another few days.
It is nice for stalking people though.
I joined during a really boring conference. Literally during: I signed up
on my tiny little phone browser. I use it primarily for posting pictures
of my father from the 70s and bugging my company first sergeant to check his
e-mail.
Start playing Farmville, or one of the other mind-numbingly addictive games
that help folks relax (there's a certain zen quality about plowing, planting,
and harvesting plots of land...).
No need to specifically hang around in bars, that was just an example for the optimal use of your spare time. You can do other wholesome and healthy things, such as take drugs or beat your spouse.
But on a more serious note, not having that Facebook obligation is liberating. Also, Facebook, Inc. doesn't have your behavior data in their data warehouse if you don't have an account. The only weird situation it creates is the look in people's eyes when you tell them you're not on Facebook, but if someone is so shallow that the only communications tool they use is Facebook, perhaps you can live without their contact information.
Some people just can't grasp the concept of EM, and they think FB msgs are
the equivalent. TBH though, FB makes it a lot easier. You just type in the
name of someone you wish to send a msg to, or go to their profile. No typing
in e-mail "addresses" and having to deal with "Mailer Daemon" responses ....
Start playing Farmville, or one of the other mind-numbingly addictive
games that help folks relax (there's a certain zen quality about
plowing, planting, and harvesting plots of land...).
If I had that kind of time to kill, I would go outside and tend to an actual garden. We have one, but nothing seems to grow too well. It's mainly because we have a lot of big trees so there isn't enough sunlight.
liberating. Also, Facebook, Inc. doesn't have your behavior data in
their data warehouse if you don't have an account. The only weird
Don't be so sure of that. Facebook knows who you are long before you even set up an account, based on the behavior of people who have sent you email invitations to join the site and become their "friends."
"the inanity of merely everyday conversation is exacerbated by the format such that you get a babble of banalities, a veritable cacophony of phatic nothingness that could only be surpassed if you were to write the words b Uh-huh.b a million times as the captions to a particularly insipid series of of a 1950s holiday by the beach. I mean, does anyone semi-sentient being in the universe give so much as a couple of hours in front of reality television that some happily estranged former friend of theirs has just joined a group called b People who like teab or that their cousinbs illiterate ex has just taken a quiz that 'proves' that a lot of people would probably have sex with him as long as all of those people were the unconvincing constructs of a Facebook quiz?"
-- from one of my favorite critiques
I do agree that there is a lot of "fluff" that appears on my facebook newsfeed,
but it's relatively easy to skip over the stuff I don't care about. And though
I haven't mucked with it, facebook does provide a mechanism to ignore posts
from specific people and applications, so it is possible to trim the signal-to-noise
ratio, so to speak.
When it gets down to it, though I have friends and family that prefer to use facebook as a way to communicate what's going on with their lives, and since I like to hear what they're doing, I maintain an account. That, and I like Farmville, too. :)
facebinder
When it gets down to it, though I have friends and family that prefer to use facebook as a way to communicate what's going on with their lives, and since I like to hear what they're doing, I maintain an account. That, and I like Farmville, too. :)
facebinder