Stuff happens to me (and I'm there for some of it).I connect people with ideas. Or ideas with people.
Once in a while, just for giggles, I connect ideas with other ideas, or people with people. Actually, that last bit is pretty cool.
This space is kinda for my "scratchpad," quick thoughts that don't really have another place to live.
More developed thoughts wind up at my blog
How to get rich
Here’s how to get rich:
- Identify social ill.
- Imagine theoretical fictional character who stands as antithesis to that ill.
- Write character into book/movie series and make billions off of people who would rather spend a few bucks watching someone pretend to fix aforementioned ill than actually get up off the couch and do something about it themselves.
Oooh! I got one! I think I’m gonna pick “inequitable distribution of wealth” for line #1! WOOHOO!
Brittanica stops publishing
[Encyclopedia Brittanica president Jorge] Cauz admits that he will miss holding its volumes in his hands. That product, he says, is “not only romantic, it’s also nostalgic.”
—from here
So many questions. So little time.
Why do I get so many emails from Formspring? I think it has something to do with Tumblr.
Also, does anyone know how to set up Tumblr to be interactive? I’d love for you all to be able to leave comments. I’ve been nosing around for the settings but I can’t find them. Email me at jeffholton@mac.com.
Checking in from Facebook on a computer
A week or so ago I posted on Facebook that you could “fake” your browser into making Facebook think you’re on a mobile device by going to a particular URL. This is useful, for example, for checking in while on a laptop, which you can’t do from Facebook’s default URL.
I just noticed that the link I posted is not working. I have no idea if this is a temporary or permanent change. I would not be surprised if it is a permanent one.
However, I immediately found a much more obvious one that does work. http://m.facebook.com
You can almost always add “m.” to the front of a URL to get the mobile version of the site, if it exists. I suspect this URL will be retained permanently. Knock yourself out.
Fresh Beat
Yesterday, my four-year-old informed me that “It’s okay to watch the Fresh Beat Band because they encourage preschoolers.”
Yeah. Okay. Thanks for that. I guess you’re in the clear then, kid.
Futureshock: Mongolian beef edition
Someday, in the far distant future, an archaeologist will dig up pounds and pounds of the hot pepper husks I routinely discard from my Mongolian beef and falsely conclude that the early Information Age Californians engaged in regular, ritual, religious masochism.
I love you, Jon Acuff. You’re like some magical Ferris Bueller actualized into reality through a Star Trek “holo-deck” with the failsafes and the Heisenberg compensators disabled, which, until you, was something only the butler from The Nanny had managed to accomplish. Sort of. I want to take a high-speed ride with you down a Chicago highway in a 1978 Alfa Romeo 2000 Sport Sedan with John Williams blaring on the stereo. Just to say I did. I’ll pick you up right before lunch.
Who killed more Indians than Custer? Union Carbide. →
Here’s the thing. If you write a book called God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, you sell a lot of books. If you write a book called What’s So Great About Christianity on the evils of atheism, you also sell a lot of books. If you say that neither extremist viewpoint makes any sense, you end up doing a podcast and working as a greeter at Wal-Mart directing customers to the section where they sell Hitchens and D’Souza books. The truth is less incisive, it’s less inflammatory, it raises no ire, and it draws no audience.
—Brian Dunning
Thanks to Louis Shikles for directing us to this.
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The new consensus on American liberty
The classic Left view of American behavior is that people should be allowed to do whatever they want.
The classic Right view is that people need to be given margins for behavior to maintain social order for the common good. (In short, we should do what the Right says is okay.)
The past 60 years of social development have brought the Left and the Right together to a consensus view on American liberty. The new definition is this:
People should be allowed to do whatever they want. As long as I say it’s okay.
If I’m being completely honest, I guess that’s what I believe.
I bet it’s what you believe, too, deep down.
I kinda wish it wasn’t what you believed, because I bet you don’t think all the things I want to do are okay.
You need to change that belief, because you should be allowed to believe whatever you want. As long as I say it’s okay.
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