An interesting article about the continuation of the digitization of our society and how businesses sometimes lump all consumers together as ‘users’ instead of actually listening to them.
The momentum of technological growth is too strong for us to prevent it from defining our future. Like it or not, our future world will largely be digital.
The Stranger has a cool article about the Chicago Manual of Style. I’m more prone to use AP, since that’s what I was trained in, in both college and professional experience. But it’s still fun to see writers write about the style guides they use.
Okay, a big update, finally really getting through a lot of old e-mails to myself, so let’s take a look.
First up, an awesome video of a lunar eclipse. Check it out.
I’ve seen their stop-motion Tetris before, but never this video:
Want to make 3-D movies at home? Lifehacker has you covered, but you need two identical cameras
I think I’m going to do this, I already have Twitter updated each day with a new background, so this would be nice to see as well on my desktop.
Awesome execution of an ad, and like he says, hopefully it works.
A strange site, but cool stuff. I particularly enjoy the adjustable tables and the hoodie.
I think I’ve posted this before, but it’s really pretty. Although I worry about removing the beer from the keg just to put into this system.
So, this is a real thing:
This seems just unnecessary. Cats, let loose in IKEA.
Someone made CFLs look much better, I like them a lot:
Okay, that’s it for now, but I’ll be back again soon!
Written: 5/27/2012
We’ve seen it before, namely, with Penn State, and we’ve seen it before with the Boy Scouts. A man was convicted of molesting and abusing at least 15 youth during his time with the Boy Scouts of America and the Scouts Canada. Now, the caveat is that I have no idea how Scouts Canada works, the only interaction I’ve ever had with them was when we had a Canadian troop come to our camp once (which was a lot of fun, I still have my fake passport which let me cross the bridge).
But here’s the sentence that absolutely infuriates me:
“You do not want to broadcast to the entire population that these things happen,” A. Buford Hill Jr., a former Orange County Scouting executive, said of officials’ decision not to contact authorities. “You take care of it quietly and make sure it never happens again.”
No. NO. No, you fucking call the police. This is not hard. You call the police. This man is a monster and the proper authorities, those trained in how to deal with situations like this, need to be involved.
No question should be easier to answer. We’ve seen this go wrong with Penn State, and chronically with the Catholic Church around the world.
Maybe it’s some sort of weird perversion to hide anything to do with sex, to repress anything. Maybe they want to still be able to hide behind the false claim that gay men are the molesters (which study after study have shown that they aren’t), instead of having to admit that straight men are pedophiles. I don’t know.
But this isn’t the answer.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 5/27/2012
An awesome article about parenting, which was written for Mother’s Day. Here’s my favorite quote:
are we now not letting people marry based on what kind of parents they’d be? Because meth addicts and senior citizens can marry. Deflating one false argument only leads to the next. Not worse parents? How about tradition? The marriage-is-unchanged-for-millennia argument is also popular, also untrue, and a particularly laughable stab at reasoning. You wouldn’t accept that logic from your doctor. “Calm down — leeches are a medical tradition going back centuries!” You want tradition? Buy a butter churn.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 5/27/2012
I don’t think I shared this before, but my apologies if I have. The Guardian has an awesome, and easy to read (hence: awesome) graph of LGBT rights by state.
It’s a shame to see how little protections Pennsylvania affords ifs LGBT citizens, we really are second-class, make no mistake about that.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Quick update for everyone, I may or may not be back later today or tomorrow, I’m not sure, but let’s see what I have.
First up, yesterday was the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, check out some awesome posters here, including my favorite:
I’m fairly certain that the Girl Scouts, if they wanted to, would be able to take over the world with this new product launch. It’s like crack.
And finally, a new card game I’ll be downloading, I’m very excited to play this.
Okay, another quick update, let’s see what we have:
I don’t think this is such a great thing, everyone from Pittsburgh knows, just hit the “57” on the glass bottle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67H1eZBHiDQ
My friend Tom will be very happy to know this, you actually can be made into a diamond after you die.
And from copyranter, a movie put together my stock images from Getty:
Rufio, the character from Hook, is getting a movie! At least I think I’m excited.
And lastly, the new song for the soundtrack of Snow White and the Huntsman from Florence + The Machine:
Written: 5/25/2012
This Mother’s Day, GLAAD had an awesome campaign going:
I did not tweet or sign the petition. It’s one part, don’t bite the hand that feeds you, and two, professionalism. Plus throw in my fear of being fired, so I felt it prudent to not participate, but it is a worthwhile campaign, being spearheaded, in part, by Zach Wahls.
Update: This was a campaign to send petitions to the BSA about dismissing LGBT volunteers.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 5/25/2012
No, I wasn’t fired, at least not yet. But a law-maker in Oklahoma doesn’t think we should protect people like me from being fired for being gay, because we choose this life.
He’s wrong, on both accounts, of course.
He responds here, where once again he reaffirms that I deserve no protection and that I choose this life.
So just to be clear, I’ve chosen for myself, a life of strife, hatred, bigotry and unfairness where I live in fear every day of being fired and suppress my own life to keep getting a paycheck from a company who wouldn’t even have me as a member.
That sounds about right.
All my best,
The King of Spades
