http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/Read more... )

http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm

The conclusions made from these statistics are retarded, so ignore them.  But I do have one question.

There's a Hare Krishna in the federal prison system?  Really?  What'd that guy do?

If you are in advertising, and you have a Twitter account, you are probably going to look like a douchebag.

Just did an article about Twitter fail and wow.  WOW.  Holy SHIT.  Half of the nominees picked solely due to the douchefactor worked in advertising.  Most of the rest called themselves "new media content creators" or other garbage.

So, I did an article for one of my markets that was a huge hit on StumbleUpon, and the market wants to do a weekly summary of the worst social media ( Read more... )

I need to find a charity that everyone likes, has a good reputation online, and has a sense of humor.  It's for a project I've been working on that's ALMOST together, but we need to get the consent of a charity to associate their name with the project (I have to keep the details under wraps: trust me when I say that you will hear all about this ( Read more... )

As you might have heard, Borders is filing for Chapter 11 (read: they're screwed) and is closing a whole bunch of stores.  The Downtown Crossing Borders, apparently the single most successful bookstore in the entire chain according to what I've heard, is safe.  The Newbury Street one?  Toast.

By the by, if you've got gift cards, use 'em.  As in,

Oh, Lord ( Read more... )

I'm up because I have a video to upload.  And writing from home has certainly been...interesting ( Read more... )

CREDO Mobile and MoveOn sometimes irritate me, especially when they're in their self-righteous mode, but today offered two highly amusing nuggets ( Read more... )

I have an affection for beat 'em ups.  In fact I'm a sucker for 'em.  So it was only a matter of time before I downloaded "Final Fight: Double Impact", which has the original "Final Fight" AND "Magic Sword".  That time was this morning.

I started the game and was having fun until a new player joined.  And apparently his goal was to beat me senseless ( Read more... )