I could sit here and list each individual thing that went wrong here, but to save us all some time, let’s just say that all of them did and leave it at that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7Qg6x-wKA An officer was checking a reported disturbance on Wednesday when he heard brakes squeal and an SUV slam into the patrol …
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Don’t Get Sucked Into The Virtual Life
Damn it, I’ve been ruined. Every time I go to look at my Facebook or Twitter on my phone, strains of a certain song begin to play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iimlq6KuFpA It’s a parody of “Circle of Life” from the Lion King. I can’t make out all the lyrics, but I’m going to write out as many as …
If You Use Any Services Powered By Yahoo!, It Might Be Time To Change Some Passwords
So…uh, this is not good. Very not good. Hackers strongly believed to be state-sponsored swiped account records for 500 million Yahoo! webmail users. And who knew there were that many people using its email? The troubled online giant said on Thursday that the break-in occurred in late 2014, and that names, email addresses, telephone numbers, …
People You May Noooooo!
I have always found Facebook’s “people you may know” feature a little creepy. Sure, it has pointed out people that make perfect logical sense why it might think I would know them, but some of its hits are accurate, but seemingly out of the blue. For example, it asked me if I knew a random …
Little Boxes On My Facebook
I’ll freely admit I’m a chicken. I’ve wanted to post this song on my Facebook, but I’m afraid I’ll single-handedly insult everyone who calls themselves my friend. I shouldn’t be…but I am. So here, let me post this from the safety of the blog, even though probably a bunch of Facebook types read here, so …
No Matter What An FBI Director Tells You, There Is Still No Such Thing As Bad Guy Proof Flawed Encryption
I’ve said my piece as has everyone else on the idea of backdooring encryption in such a way that only the “good guys” can break it for the purposes of saving humanity, and haven’t really felt the need to keep harping away on it every time a new story comes up. But today I read …
Refrain, Immediate Poster!
This piece about grieving and social media was going around Facebook, so I read it, since I’m still learning a lot of Facebook do’s and don’ts. But what I found here felt like shockingly common sense. All it said was unless you’re the immediate family of a recently-deceased person, don’t post on social media about …
OKStupid
I’m not familiar with Mike Bobrinskoy, but if the rest of his stuff is as funny as this story about someone trying to scam him on OKCupid with the old I’m stuck in a foreign country and I need money trick, he might be worth getting to know. God, I hope this is all true. …
Access Earth: Crowdsourced Building Accessibility Information
Reading about this new Access Earth project, two thoughts crossed my mind. 1. This looks pretty swell and we should tell our wheelchair friends about it. 2. I wonder if Matt Wozenilek is still out there shaking folks down for cash instead of doing something productive like this to help everyone’s cause. The platform was …
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TapTapPee
Maybe life has passed me bye. That could be. I am, after all, closer to 40 than I am to 30. But rather than slowly come to terms with my advancing age as I mutter about these damn kids today with their widgets and bobbles, I’d rather think that no matter your age, you, like …