April 2011
If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over... →
Remember those self righteous morons who took such groundless pride in not having a cell phone? Ten years ago, those people were left behind. Sure, we liked them. But they became annoying to get a hold of, forcing you to go out of your way to be friends with them because they labelled some new technology as beneath them without even taking the time to understand it. They didn’t want to learn...
Is this even human?
In Sports…
The Flip Video Story.
“Flip Video products discontinued: April 12, 2011. Cisco restructured; 550 people laid off.”
Long story short.
Fearsquare (via Laughing Squid)
“After checking in, users are show data about how many robberies, violent crimes and “anti-social” crimes occurred in that vicinity over the most recent one month period. And just like Foursquare, users can see where they rank on leaderboard, in this case measuring the total number of fear points they have collected from checking in to dangerous locales.” (via)
This article...
Authorized Steve Jobs biography | Los Angeles... →
An authorized biography about Apple visionary Steve Jobs will be published in early 2012, it was announced Monday. The book will be called “iSteve: A Book of Jobs.” iSeriously.
http://isthegovernmentstillopen.tumblr.com/ →
Who spends the most years in retirement?
“In the United States the average years in retirement is 10 years for men and 16 years for women (mostly because men typically die earlier)—among the least in the world.” - Flowing Data.
Note that this chart suggests seniors from Mexico have almost no retirement at all.
Charlie Sheen Expectations →
The interesting thing about Charlie Sheen is not so much that he is crazy, but that he chooses to reveal his craziness so freely. Other movie stars who might be plenty crazy have a different approach to knowing when to show themselves, and when not to…[more]
