July 2011
59 posts
Does Everyone Have Free Will? →
gregmintyfresh:
Scott Adams asks the essential question:
What if free will exists but not everyone has it?
It’s certainly been my experience that I have free will. I make choices, and I compare potential outcomes to reality.
Unfortunately, the same isn’t true of everyone. Many people are content to live their lives living the same boring lives in the same boring relationships. That’s...
“This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places...”
– Wikipedia
I had no idea!
“Looking at it in hindsight, it seems obvious: go where people need your service,...”
– This tree guy has good business advice | Justin Jackson
Click through and read the whole article to see how that tree guy saved his business by changing his phone number.
“Nothing explains the gang-style murder committed by Fullerton cops.”
– Homeless Man Dies After Being Brutally Beaten by Five Fullerton Cops - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Game
Last night I tweeted a challenge for myself. I’m only going to send out one word tweets all day today.
Here are the ground rules:
each tweet will only contain one word.
emoticons work like punctuation so they don’t count as words.
it’s okay for a tweet to contain a word and a link as long as that link doesn’t point to a longer piece written by me.
I’ll answer...
“This is American corporate private law, a topsy-turvy world where the burden of...”
– US ISP/copyright deal: a one-sided private law for corporations, without public interest – Boing Boing
Welcome to the future.
“They hate that you’re going to save the world one day, because the world you’re...”
– Greg, Minty Fresh - Nerdiness is Passion
Absolutely true.
“Norway’s government understandably intends to investigate what happened...”
– An un-American response to the Oslo attack - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
I am not proud of the road the United States government has been on for the last ten years.
“An act of the imagination that doesn’t entertain is a poor act indeed. But there...”
– Stephen King on ‘Lord of the Flies’ - Telegraph
“Talent is never static, it’s always growing or dying…”
– J.K. Rowling’s Ministry of Magic | ‘Harry Potter’ Central | EW.com
“Yesterday morning, a woman in South Windsor, CT, called 911 to complain about a...”
– Not Content With Hassling Air Travelers, Off-Duty TSA Agent Uses Badge To Scare Driver - The Consumerist
“It’s not enough for Stephen King to talk to Entertainment Weekly and be all...”
– Turning Writers Into Motherfucking Rock Stars
“Kids’ meals with apples and a smaller packets of french fries will be served up...”
– McDonald’s announces plans for more nutritional menu | MLive.com
Yeah, but they’re probably going to continue to give out caramel dipping sauce with those apples!
“And therein lies the fundamental, though not immediately apparent, difference:...”
– Around The World and Back Again: Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
Please be very careful when using services like AirBnB.
Walmart offers movie streaming - CNN.com →
Discount retailer charging premium prices for its rentals.
Just another way to gouge the little guy.
AaronMahnke: The Coming Darkness - FREE →
aaronmahnke:
I have two novels in publication at the moment. Destiny: A Fairy Tale is the newest title, and it’s set in the world of Southmarch. It has the feel of a classic fairy tale, or one of the Narnia books if you are familiar with those great titles.
The Hand of Andulain is the other novel, the…
“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees”
– How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy | Cult of Mac
“I understand that Google can’t offer support for every little thing, but when a...”
– TwitLonger: Dear Google I would like to bring to your attention a few things before I disconnect permanently
I’m now thinking through how much of my important data Google has stored and which of it must be backed up locally.
“In an effort to follow Apple’s new in-app selling rules, eBook retailers Amazon,...”
– Kindle, Kobo, Nook Apple Apps No Longer Sell eBooks - eBookNewser
This is so stupid.
“Detroit was designed to accommodate 2.5 million people, three times its...”
– Retooling the Motor City: Can Detroit save itself? - CSMonitor.com
“But no call alleging the torture of a child can ever be allowed to be checked...”
– Going beyond duty’s call to save a child - CNN.com
Unfortunately for Christian Choate, no one in his short life had the same resolve.
“And parents: children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you...”
– Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
“Exactly at what point did the US government become the attack dog for big media?”
– Link To Content, Get Extradited | Liquidmatrix Security Digest
The U.S. government is in place to protect the people of the United States not to enforce the corporate policies of the nation’s future oligarchs.
“Focus on others. Your audience is the real audience. Ask questions. Listen. The...”
– The Best Way to Introduce Yourself | BNET
I plan to do plenty of this tonight.
FlyBack →
Apple’s Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use.
“Even with the additions made by Congress, the Declaration of Independence runs...”
– Jefferson’s Writing on the Declaration
“1,000,000”
– This evening, Minimal Mac passed one million pageviews since the start of the year. Thank you so much for reading. You have no idea how much it means to me.
All next week, I will be celebrating the two year anniversary of the site. Cooking up some special things so stay tuned.
(via minimalmac)
...
“From there, the shift was simple. It’s time for a new look at the tired old...”
– The Human Service Business | Create. Edit. Repeat.
Chase gets it, too.
TSA takes first steps toward 'trusted travel'... →
I don’t think it would be very difficult for a determined party to impersonate a “trusted traveler” from the list.
Would the trusted traveler program have prevented Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi from boarding with expired boarding passes?
“But this guy Andre tried to upload a huuuuuuge amount of his music collection to...”
– Comcast Denies Man Internet For A Year For Breaking Data Cap - The Consumerist
Cloud services don’t mix well with ISP bandwidth caps.
Active RSS Categories
Patrick Rhone recently shared his latest RSS feed organization strategy. In a nutshell, he’s using just two folders to keep his important feeds separate from those that are unimportant. I’d suggest reading his article for all the details. His justification is excellent.
I like his plan becuase it’s simple. Simple frameworks with fewer choices tend to work better than those that are more...
“It’s very appropriate they decided to call it “+”. It’s just another extraneous...”
– I really don’t want to join Google but I guess I have to » The Whine Seller: e-commerce, eBay, selling online, self-pub
HOAs Feeling The Financial Sting Of Abandoned... →
Do homeowner associations actually provide anything of value? They just seem invasive and expensive to me.
“When writing email (or any other communication), by all means be courteous – but...”
– Courtesy Suicide » Matt Legend Gemmell
Exactly.
Goodies link is down below
If you’re looking for the Goodies link on your redesigned Tumblr dashboard, it’s down at the bottom now. I had a hard time finding it. Their help docs need updating.
In fact, I’m pretty sure I had to use Google to find that page. The search on the help site is pretty useless for me.
“God, what has happened to us?
There were some heartfelt pleas expressed on...”
– Column: Callous online comments trivialize Grand Rapids mass murder tragedy | Tom Rademacher
What Mr. Rademacher fails to acknowledge is that comments on blog posts and news stories are not well thought-out opinions, expressed for the sake of intelligent engagement. They’re simply gut...
“Member: “Well, no. I’m not sure where his card is and I don’t know his social by...”
– Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » Through Joy And Sorrow, Sickness And Health Insurance
This was posted as a joke but it certainly looks like the reality of our health care system to me.
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime...”
– Warren Buffett
via 37signals (via em)
I’m game.
Texas executes Mexican citizen despite pleas from... →
Injustice. He was never given access to his embassy.
“You can’t become literate by being taught illiteracy, and you can’t...”
– Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Roger Ebert nails it again. (via @sabbatical)
“The U.S. government has been working with foreign air carriers and governments...”
– TSA warning describes surgically implanted bombs - CSMonitor.com
Security by obscurity isn’t security at all.
“TSA warning: If terrorists hide bombs inside their bodies, current screening...”
– TSA warning describes surgically implanted bombs - CSMonitor.com
Will we all need to submit to invasive medical procedures in order to fly?
