I meant to post this before, but enjoy:
So, one of the things that annoys me the most is religious intolerance. I railed against it at college, and I like to think I made a difference. A coworker posted this, and I jumped in with the link, because of course, there can’t be any wrong information on the Internet. Of course, the conversation quickly turned to making plans to go out (a strength of the Internet). And to her credit, although the comment was gone by the time I took the screenshot, the original coworker posted an awesome comment about how it’s great that people can have a conversation like this online and we wouldn’t be able to do that in some other countries.
Then however, bigotry reveals its ugly head:
I could easily debate circles around my former coworker (who I am not mentioning, I may be upset and mad, but I’m not going to additionally link to her name, since it’s in an image, it won’t be picked up while I talk about her hatred and bigotry), but I choose not to, as I was positively seething.
Guess she can ignore the sixth point of the Scout Law (A Scout is Kind, for those not in the know).
And in other dumb facebook updates that I really hope are sarcastic, but knowing my friends it probably wasn’t:
And I’m back! Enjoy some of this awesomeness as I continue to go through my e-mail, back logs of links and find all kinds of stuff from around the Net for you to enjoy:
Lifehacker takes you through the steps to disable Places on Facebook. As with anything regarding privacy on Facebook, the steps necessary are long and involved (or at least, longer and more involved than they should be), but I did them this afternoon, so they aren’t impossible.
Did you know that the Old Spice man wants to be a superhero? Check out his transformation here:
And in other amazing video, watch this deleted scene from Return of the Jedi, available on the soon to be released Blu-Ray versions.
I came cross a new blog, Better Book Titles. A personal favorite (and what has turned into my white whale):
(It’s really Infinite Jest, which I have started and gotten about 100 pages in at least four times now…)
A Chinese mall has a new “rage center” where women can go in and smash items that were going to be thrown out anyway. Pretty cool if you ask me.
This article is just blowing my mind a little bit:
Intel announced Tuesday that it had made the first chip that sends and receives information using beams of light…And the company expects to make one eventually that can transmit a laptop’s hard drive in one second and the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in less than two minutes.
One of the designers of the U.S. State Quarters has released a couple parodies, including this wonderful one of New Jersey:
China is planning huge buses that run on rails (so I guess it is a mix of light rail and bus) that cars can drive underneath. Amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-iIIMco46A
Sharpie is developing a new pen that can be erased for up to three days before becoming permanent. Crazy!
Check out historical events, if they had Facebook status updates. My favorite is Issac Newton, way down at the bottom.
This has been floating around for a bit, but here’s the trailer for the movie adaptation of The Oregon Trail (not real):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHps2SecuDk
And finally, for the D&D kids out there, here’s t-shirt designs for D&D inspired sports teams. I love the gelatinous cubes (because who doesn’t love to say ‘gelatinous’) and the Displacer Beasts:
That’s it for now, but I should be back tomorrow, have a great one!
Slate takes a look at the new system of “Like’s” that will be all over the Internet, feeding information back to Facebook.
Yes, lots of other firms mine our online activity, but Facebook’s system will be all the more powerful because it is voluntary.
