All Your Base Are Belong To Us – Take Two

I was feeling inspired by my discovery of a new internet meme site today (There, I Fixed It), which focuses on McGuyver style hacks, or kluges, that are LOL-worthy. Yes I realize the ghost of the English Language just rolled over in its grave. If you’ve been jacked into the net long enough, you may [...]

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Regarding Family Guy taking the piss out of defenseless people with Down’s Syndrome

Recently, a Family Guy episode took a lot of heat for its rather cruel portrayal of people with Downs Syndrome. In a conversation with some otherwise rational fans of the show, I got upset with their ardent defense of Family guy – as though any disclaimer could excuse taking the piss out of a largely defenseless and rather tragic [...]

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Be a Responsible Facebook Gamer: Lists

We’ve all been guilty of it. We use a Facebook application, usually a game we play, and it wants to share news with our friends every time we so much as twitch near the keyboard. This can be useful to the 2% of our friends who actually use the application in question but to the [...]

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Despicable Ballmer?

So I was reading an article over at Wired today about the HVAC going out on Steve Ballmer’s CES 2010 keynote speech. They had this great image of a Steve Ballmer silhouette against the darkened room as Microsoft and the conference center staff struggled to restore power. Suddenly I realized where I knew that figure from. [...]

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Next articles delayed due to a LOT of research

Hey folks, Yeah, I’m still out here. I’ll be spending a portion of my weekend working on some really cool new material for this blog. Subjects coming up include an innovative approach to studying the GenX/Y workplace, personal branding during a recession, and the internet as a memory augmentation in day to day life. I [...]

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