Friday Random Ten – The “If You Put Them All In a Room, Will They Sync Up?” Edition
Or, “Where I Crap on Mac Users,” thanks to this delightful essay pointing out the class aspirations inherent to Apple products, cost, technology, and design. Consider this your daily flame. …something that to me is so obvious that it barely needs mentioning, and yet I never see people talk about it openly: the real advantage [...]
...read moreHow Moms Use Their iPhones
Because mothers are more than their children or grocery shopping habits, I’d imagine they tend to check their email, conduct business, and make phone calls too. Was that on the survey?
...read moreDown for maintenance We’re back!
Some tech work needs to be done with the blog offline. This could take some time.
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Women are welcome at Yahoo events
Image via. So long as they’re performing lapdances for men. Yahoo has issued an apology, promising that it won’t happen again. Given the history of tech chauvinism, though, and the fact that this exact same thing happened last year, I’m not sure I buy it.
...read moreFacebook for the Rich; MySpace for the Poor?
Earlier research showed that the social networking choice between Facebook, MySpace and Xanga was based on the users’ race, ethnicity, and education, with Latino students trending toward MySpace, white students trending toward Facebook, and Asian and Asian-American students trending towards Xanga. Interestingly, there were no discernable social networking trends for black students. In the meantime, [...]
...read moreWhat the DOE doesn’t want you reading
As I mentioned in my introductory post, I will be a senior at a public high school in NYC this fall. (As much as I’d like to forget all about school during these fleeting summer months, it still seems to be on my mind.) As far as public schools go, mine is pretty well furnished. [...]
...read moreI’m glad I have a Mac.
Dell makes a new computer — the “Della” — for us lady-folk. And it doesn’t just do boy-stuff like let you create documents and surf the internet and play games; it does girl-stuff, too, like helping you count calories and plan recipes! According to the site the Della can change a woman’s life “Once you [...]
...read moreThere’s a Reason I Don’t Like Having My Picture Taken
And the primary one is that once it’s out there, anyone can do anything to it. One day, you’re exchanging promise rings, and the next thing you know, you’re prosecuting your ex-fiancé for putting photos of your boobs on MySpace. The perils of modern love! Richard Morgan delves deep into what he terms “Revenge Porn,” [...]
...read moreLady Yahoo!
I don’t even want to do a full post on the new Lady Yahoo! site Shine — specially vamped to sell lady products via lady advertising — so I’ll just compile some of the headlines. Whose Design Is It Anyway? Does the man in your house have a say in the decorating, or is he [...]
...read moreSpace: The Funnest Frontier!
So, hey, Phoenix Mars Lander, anyone? Awesome, right? It landed on Mars! Well, I think it’s awesome. For those of you who don’t spend your typical Saturday night watching NASA TV, the lander is on one of Mars’ polar regions, looking for ice. And by gum, it found some, my friends: This picture is too [...]
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Testing testing testing
This post is open to comments to test whether the improved database and new template can cope with people commenting. If you can’t think of anything else to write, I’m rather fond of limericks.
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