May 2010
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The Stake Knife
Last night, while washing supper dishes, I saw that someone had left a steak knife point-side up in the strainer. I saw it more as stake knife, as I would never let the point standup like that.
See, when I was a third (maybe fourth) grader, a knife accident left an indelible mark on my psyche and on the body of my youngest sister (she is far left, front in the photo here).
One summer weekday...
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'Hey, Buddy, You Can't Poop There'
While shaving this morning, I heard someone outside talking to his dog: “Hey, buddy, you can’t poop there”. Yeah, like the dog understands what the guy is saying. Owners’ actions—letting a dog do its business anywhere it pleases and then cleaning up the dodo with a baggie—reinforce the animal’s poop-anywhere behavior. Dogs are responsive to humans. This owner, and...
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You're Zucked!
Perhaps I don’t pay enough attention to Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis. Something, somewhen, somehow bugged me about his blog posts—maybe it was frequency or attitude, I don’t recall—and so I nuked his RSS feed sometime ago.
But post “The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand” has me howling delight, even though Jason rambles on even more incoherently than I do....
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Let Your Stories Teach You How to Write Inviting...
Marco Arment got me to thinking about headlines today. Let me start by apologizing to Marco for nearly copying his post in it’s entirety. I don’t normally do that. In post “My Bad Post Titles Are Getting Out Of Control And Are Inconvenient For Techmeme, Now”, he writes:
At Least When Business Insider Copies My Articles Nearly In Their Entirety, They Write Their Own...
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'Oh God No' is Right
Cupidtino? A dating service for Apple fans?
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington writes:
My thoughts on this: Apple fans can be annoying when they’re on their own. The thought of them breeding and creating little Apple fans, a whole family of hard core hipster Apple lovers, is just not a good thing. On the other hand, making sure that Apple fans only date other Apple fans is a good way of...
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New York Dog Walkers Bing? What About California?
Microsoft has this nifty marketing promotion where New York City dog walkers wear Bing T-Shirts. Hell, why not any city in California? The people out here are dog nuts, sometimes walking two or three animals at once.
I like the concept, but c`mon, Microsoft, what’s up with the search links? In Microsoft’s blog post promoting the service, the link to partner Big Paws, Little Paws...
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I've Lost Two Tumblr Followers in a Week
Oh, that can’t be good.
People drop me at Twitter. I don’t care. People abandon me at Facebook, I still don’t care. But Tumblr hurts. I love this community. But does it, gulp, love me?
Do you have an abandonment story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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The Register Should Know Better
Right about this time each month, some blogger or journalist ogles Net Applications browser data and writes about Internet Explorer’s declining “marketshare”. The Register is May’s guilty party, calling the data something it isn’t. Headline: “Internet Explorer drops below 60% market share“—that’s for April. Net Apps also refers to the data as...
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Turbo Charge AT&T Internet
AT&T is keeping secrets. I called to change my U-verse service and discovered 24Mbps Internet is available in my area for same price as 18Mbps. That was a brainless upgrade. AT&T calls the 24Mbps service Turbo Charge. OK, so it’s marketing speak, but the service delivers. I’m topping 22Mbps over WiFi. What’s not to like about that?
Do you have an Internet access story...