September 2009
1 post
“Shut out the world for just a moment.”
– Dove Promises® Message
July 2009
2 posts
“The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.”
– ~ Michelle Hammersley
June 2009
5 posts
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ok
1 tag
“Few people know how to be old.”
– La Rochefoucauld
May 2009
3 posts
1 tag
“Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the...”
– unknown
1 tag
“Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance where they grow;
But crushed and...”
– Goldsmith
1 tag
“Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the...”
– Lydia M. Child
April 2009
3 posts
1 tag
“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
1 tag
“Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of...”
– Friedrich Schiller
October 2008
1 post
Some simple examples of what you'll be able to...
The concept of OpenID isn’t limited to single sign-on. It is far, far more than that. OpenID is an identity address through which, you can publish anything and everything about yourself and where others can go for information about you, for example, feeds you generate, your contact information, your calendars, or any other service or information you want to publish.
Contact/address book...
September 2008
8 posts
Rich get richer
Our current economic situation is an example of why greed is bad. Lots of rich people have and are profiting from this mess, which they mostly created, while the rest of us are going to be devastated, or worse. We’ve been hoodwinked. Greedy individuals have manipulated the economy into a situation in which everything around us can be purchased at a fraction of its value. For one thought on...
Sometime around September 30th is International...
Prepare to vague.
I'm so incredibly sick of email as identity!
Email was never intended to be used for identity purposes. Please, everyone stop using it to identify accounts. Sure, use it to register for accounts but never make it the account identity. Email addresses change. In the future, hopefully, no one will even have a fixed, static email address, each address being one-time use. At the very least, provide an option for a user name, otherwise, implement...
What happened Jon?!
Can’t hold Tony’s feet to the flame? “No democracies have gone to war?” Bull.
The biggest problem i have with the Republican...
Is its dependence on the religious right. This is the group that:
keep insisting creationism is science.
abstinence is the only sex education that should be taught - against stacks of evidence proving otherwise.
want to throw out the first amendment - thinking America should be a theocracy, a Christian nation.
protect child-molesting priests.
fear their supposedly all-loving creator.
...
Confession: Compassion versus criticism
I’ve never been opposed to someone being critical of my beliefs, opinions, statements or whatever. I always try to see it as an opportunity to learn and grow. Even if i don’t know them personally or even if they’re anonymous, i’ll weigh their opinions against my own and others’. It’s an opportunity to see things from a different perspective. But if the criticism...
It's discussions like these...
“I am disabled, I fucking hate it and I want to die … but I can’t kill myself because I’m worried about bad karma and a friend made my promise not to.”This thread shows the importance of community and why the internets are so wonderful. There are no prejudices here. No one cares who the person is, just that it is someone that can use a helping hand. And people step up. Beautiful....
I'm never voting for fear, war and hatred
I’ll never vote for a candidate that believes starting a war is a solution. When human lives are involved, the best defense is not a good offense. With that mentality, we should just kill everyone and there’ll be peace. At most, the best defense is just the presence of a strong offense, which should be the UN and only the UN.
Will you stand by and let one man pummel another on the...
August 2008
2 posts
Why I'm a slightly left of center independent
First, if you think in terms of absolutes, black/white, either/or, or yes/no, please stop reading this and go read about complexity, fluidity, probability, balance, cooperation, negotiation, moderation and compromise. Ok … Why i’m independent is simple. Being unaffiliated frees me to consider all sides with less bias than i would have if i were affiliated with a team. I’m...
Better comments
First, any good comment system should provide fully threaded comments but, unless the user chooses a threaded view, they’re displayed as a stream. Each reply simply “@” refers to comment(s) to which it is a reply. e.g.
I think threaded comments suck (by flatworld5)
Well, the world isn’t flat any more so get over it (@flatworld5) (by haterpants)
Boo (by...
July 2008
10 posts
Impressive Illusionist
Astrotheological Literary Hybrid = Bible
A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically
Feist can teach me to count any day
Joss Whedon's "Dr. Horrible"
I love Act I.
From someone that won't make it happen
Here is what should happen:
Feeds and feed items need to be taggable privately, and organizable by friends and globally.
Feed items need to be prioritizable by interest and priorities must be fluid. Essentially, a very robust search feed.
Feed items need to be filtered for commonality so that the same item from multiple sources are properly aggregated and attributed.
Socially, the model...
WatchThis explained the surprisingly interesting <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law”>power law</a> distribution. To me, it clarified why there are so few with so much and so many with so little and, because it’s the natural social phenomenon, why it must be up to governments to level the playing field … some.
WatchThe Onion. Consistently bringing the hilarity.
WatchI love the potential of this for video games!
June 2008
5 posts
On the nature of the social aspect of the net
To more accurately respond to this requires more than 140 characters at a time.
My argument is simply that the social aspect of the net should more closely model how humans build (and destroy?) relationships. It is an organic process in that, I don’t see someone and think, “friend”? No, ok, then “fan”? The process of building relationships online isn’t that...
I sure hope iStat was the reason for my Mac’s random reboots.
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“Nice!”
Awesome