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Random trivia
Facebook's privacy policy is 1300 words longer than the US constitution.
(edit: it's going to take me time to get back into the habit of forming thoughts more complex than a tweet ... thought I have to admit there's a certain elegance I admire in the art of distilling an idea to a single sentence) -
wakka-wakka-wakka
I wonder what the global cost the world economy in lost productivity is today because of google's home page?
edit: I probably should have realized that practically every news item written would make the same quip. -
Hi again.
After giving myself a week to think things over, my facebook account has been wiped clean and is starting its 14-day cooldown to deletion. The last straw was spending almost an hour carefully going through all the fine print and settings to say "no" to all sharing with 3rd-party sites, then going to read an article on CNN only to see my facebook ( Read more... ) -
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure
I am off this weekend to the wilds of the exotic land known as "Toronto" (to see my first ever live Skydome Blue Jays game on Sunday as a belated father's day present to my dad), which, by the whimsies and ironies of fate, will be followed up Tuesday a trip on Tuesday to the wilds of the exotic land known as "Toronto" (to see my second ever live ( Read more... ) -
Logic Puzzle
If you wake up in the middle of the night from a nightmare that you're having a heart attack, how do you tell if the disorientation you're feeling is because you're suddenly awake in the middle of the night or because your brain is quickly running out of oxygen with potentially only seconds of consciousness to reach a phone ( Read more... ) -
Earth Hour Recap
- turned off lights and went out for a walk around the block (a few houses were dark, appartment buildings were lit, government-building parking garage could probably have grown cucumbers ( Read more... ) -
Stewert-vs-Cramer
Journalism has both expanded and contracted in recent years. We have papers, blogs, 24 hour news channels ... but for everything that is said, the biggest story of the economic risks went largely unreported, even undiscovered. I think it is a very fair question to ask why so many people whose jobs it is to ferret out the truth managed to ( Read more... )