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Flight update: Gremlin on the wing. Not unusual. Gremlin on the wing holding a placard. Slightly more unusual.
How I Keep Myself Amused on Long Flights – Whatever
Brilliant series of tweets from John Scalzi
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SO many cute pups tied up outside Birite and The Mill today (at Divisadero Corridor)
- Vickery told police he got into the home through an unlocked door. He told investigators he went upstairs to masturbate in the bathroom when he found a remote control helicopter. Vickery said he found some batteries and started playing with the helicopter. He also ate a salad that he brought with him, according to detectives.
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Where I have issues with Facebook is that they’re dishonest about who the customer is. They’ve built an enticing chair, and they let me sit in it for free, but they’re selling my farts to the highest bidder.
Mike Monteiro on Facebook design, How Facebook Designs the ‘Perfect Empty Vessel’ for Your Mind
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We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community!
Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots
I less-than-three billg.
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If you have a Fitbit or Jawbone UP, it’s well worth playing with notch, which slurps up your data and gives you pretty visualizations of your activity levels
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In a lot of ways, the dynamics remind me of early Championship Manager. Sure that was a football management sim, but much of the context, intrigue and humanity of that game took place in the player’s imagination; you had to believe that real lives were being manipulated and arranged by those mouse clicks, button presses and menu systems. The joy was what you bought in as a participant. RedShirts works in the same way and feels all the more compulsive because you have to become a complicit story-teller yourself.
- So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a “Facebook friend,” but I can tell you that a “Facebook friend” is better than nothing.
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Between Foursquare planning to show post-checkin vodka ads and Path being their usual bunch of privacy-shredding terminal dickbag selves, I’m in need of a Foursquare client that didn’t make me sad to be a user.
I finally got around to installing a copy of Aaron Straup-Cope’s privatesquare on a server. Should be fun.
