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Monthly Archives: August 2008
About “Spot Us” « Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting
August 26th, 2008 – 5:30 pm
How Spot Us Works
1. Anyone can create a “story idea.” Example: “I would like to see somebody do an investigation into the quality of our water in San Jose.”
2. Journalists create pitches that can be inspired by your ideas.
3. We get pledge donations - but nobody’s credit cards are charged until we reach our goal. [...]
Linkage: August 25th
August 26th, 2008 – 1:00 am
Australian pastor, musician fakes illness to get money (OneNewsNow.com) - About two years ago, Pastor Michael Guglielmucci announced to his congregation that he had terminal cancer. Today, he is cancer-free. To the shock of many church members and fellow pastors, at a recent Australian Christian Churches (ACC) – formerly named The Assemblies of God [...]
Linkage: August 24th
August 25th, 2008 – 1:00 am
Penny Arcade! - A Life Of Service - Oh, you know… uh… A wookiee. (none)
Linkage: August 23rd
August 24th, 2008 – 12:01 am
Nigerian scam victims should be locked up - The INQUIRER - VICTIMS OF THE NIGERIAN SCAM should be locked up and not pitied according to a Nigerian diplomat. The Nigerian high commissioner to Australia, Olu Agbi has made the point that people who are ripped off by the scams are just as guilty as the fraudsters [...]
Jumping ship again…?
August 23rd, 2008 – 11:45 pm
I am thinking about moving back to Movable Type, for some of the following reasons:
They set it free
I initially moved away from MT around the same time that Six Apart kind of fucked us all over. Now that they’re back into releasing a version under the GPL, it’s worth supporting that.
Kick in the [...]
Dave Winer for CTO of the United States…?
August 23rd, 2008 – 4:57 pm
I won’t be able to vote, but given most of you reading this live in the United States, you may have influence. Dave Winer would make a most excellent US CTO, and we now give him our full support should he decide to officially put his name forward. Winer knows RSS, he knows blogging, and [...]
Bookmarks for August 22nd from 15:35 to 15:35
August 22nd, 2008 – 5:00 pm
Shifting Mind » Postalicious - Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit, or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog. (none)
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
August 21st, 2008 – 11:51 pm
Bad design is where the customer thinks it’s their fault that something doesn’t work. So if you can’t make your GPS device work in your car — I mean, there should be a riot because they’re so poorly designed! Instead, the user thinks, ‘Oh, I’m not very smart, I can’t make this GPS thing work.’ [...]
YouTube - Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water
August 21st, 2008 – 11:22 pm
YouTube - Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water.
Wait, what?
August 16th, 2008 – 12:18 am
I used Metlink’s journey planner to tell me how best to reach the airport tomorrow morning, should I wish not to catch a cab. Here’s one of the options it told me. I am seriously not making this up.
Starting at my usual train station at 2.48am, walk to the Night Rider [...]
links for 2008-08-12 [delicious.com]
August 13th, 2008 – 12:30 pm
A List Apart: Articles: Deafness and the User Experience Like with most things, there isn’t a single, fix-all solution to the issue. However, as [...]
Y’all don’t know what it’s like, being male, middle-class, and white!
August 8th, 2008 – 7:16 pm
I now have this song in my head thanks to some poorly-thought-out twitters. Enjoy.
Ben Folds - Rockin the Suburbs
Voltron? Is that you?
August 6th, 2008 – 5:48 pm
Here’s my old place in Hobart. I can’t make out whether the poster in the right window contains Voltron or Optimus Prime.
Either way, that’s the good shit.
What?
August 1st, 2008 – 12:27 pm
I don’t really understand, but I like it very much. (hat tip: @NickHodge)
