This video is brilliant. No other word to describe it, just brilliant. Deep inside every single group of friends, there is some ass flute tweeting, facebooking, and flickring every 30 seconds. This video is for you. Get. A. Life. [Hat tip to @HannaManna]
NetLingo: beepilepsy
Another word of the today from tech dictionary site NetLingo – this time it’s: beepilepsy The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence. Ha ha ha! This one made me chuckle, mainly because I’ve seen it…
New Zealand’s Upcoming Ban on Mobiles While Driving to Include Ban on GPS Navigation
In just another sign of the times, New Zealand’s Transport Ministry has clarified terms on a new ban on mobile phones while driving. Starting in November, the use of mobile phones while behind the wheel will be strictly prohibited, along with the use of any GPS navigation systems from a mobile device. If you enjoy…
QoTD: “AT&T is cutting off your arm and then trying to sell you some bandages.”
Reading other people’s rants is like ringing a person’s doorbell and having them answer in their underwear. You know that little bit extra about them that you didn’t before your eyes saw those Hello Kitty boxers. With that said, Adam Frucci from Gizmodo blows it out of the fucking water with this rant about AT&T’s…
NetLingo: Internesia
I like this word from NetLingo, my fave tech-language site… internesia The inability to remember which Web site a piece of information came from or which bookmark might get you back there internesia The inability to remember which Web site a piece of information came from or which bookmark might get you back there Wowzer,how…
NetLingo: Portal
It’s been a little while since I did a NetLingo Word of the Day, but here’s the latest one: A Web site that serves as a starting point to other destinations or activities on the Web. Initially thought of as a home base with links to other sites in the same subject area, portals now…
Ballmer Lashes out at Employee for Shameful iPhone Use
For some reason I’m not surprised at all to hear about this one. Apparently, at a Microsoft gathering at Safeco Field in Seattle, things went down… It was all light-hearted so I hear, but still, it went down. When Steve Ballmer took the stage at Safeco, he noticed a member of the Windows group attempting…
Push versus Pull relationships and why I left Facebook
Tomorrow I’m going to celebrate my first month without Facebook. I’ve been using the service since it originally came out and was only offered to University students. I stuck with it when they added the news feed feature that at first was heavily controversial, yet today is looked upon as one of the key reasons…
80% of Dentists Report Problems with Texting Patients
This may sound just a bit strange, but the truth is always stranger than fiction…Always. A survey by the Chicago Dental Society has found that 4 out of 5 dentists have reported problems with texting patients. Crazy. I know when I’m in the dentist’s chair I’m doing only what the dentist wants me to do……
The case of the cellphone-controlled Maytag oven
Your cellphone can do a lot of things. Most of them can take pictures. Most can download music and play them through headphones. Some of them can even tell you exactly where on Planet Earth you are currently standing. Some, apparently, have the power to turn on your Maytag oven! Due to some kind of…