“The thing to remember is that nobody cares if you’re doing something by yourself, looking pathetic. 9 out of 10 of them won’t really notice you and 99 out of 100 of the ones who do won’t remember you tomorrow. Life isn’t high school where you see the same people every day. Unless you’re in high school, of course. Then you’re fucked.”
Facebook creepiness sent to me by a friend. They said that in this case, Facebook was checking that a stated minor was actually under 18.
An aspiring social media marketer.
- friend: do you have a large connection of internet people, by any chance?
- me: um, what do you mean by internet people?
- friend: people you know online who dont mind the occasial quick spam message =)
- friend: and by spam, i mean please help me win a contest by upvoting
- me: not those kind of people, sorry
“Another name commonly used for this garment is the “bro”. This appears to be a play on words that draws on its roots in romance languages, where the suffix “a” refers to a feminine object and “o” to a male object. It’s also possible that the nickname “bro” came from the word used to refer to other males in camaraderie (or in reference to one’s brother).”
“It should be common and legal to change your name at twenty-one and say, “That wasn’t me. It was a different person. Kind of looks like me but I’ve changed a lot.”
Google CEO Eric Schmidt on handling online identity.
Note: changing your name still wont save you from the google cookie.
Hey kids, it’s time for old, 2 hour long Arabian comedy with muppet song intro day!
Watch for the girls playing basketball in short shorts at 58 minutes in and the catchy dance number at 63 minutes.
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I was stuck without transportation or motivation last week so I decided to chart my online identity. Each node is an account or online presence with a list of what information can be gleaned from it. (eg: gender, location, sexual attraction to pink toilet seats)
Nodes are linked with others that have information in common (eg: shared alias or link pointing to other presence) Sites which are private or ambiguously linked (site linked to, but no specific user specified) are noted with a clouded outline.
Some interesting things can be considered with this data. Though my main/real email address is publicly available (and associated with my name thanks to google cache) it’s very hard to link it to any other facet of my online identities.
In other news, I am not paranoid; just realistic.
Cool typo bro.
CompSec 101
- greatcaffeine: I'm trying to figure out how my Steam account got hacked, that's the main reason I'm asking. :P
- linie18: its really not that difficult; did you tell anyone the password?
- PooP: greatcaffeine: don't be suck a n00b
- PooP: *such
- linie18: hahaha
- greatcaffeine: It's a pretty secure password.
- PooP: obviously not, password isn't very secure anymore
- greatcaffeine: Indeed.
He’s like John Gruber except more stoned, more youthful and more likely to get laid.
“I’ve talked to people, and often your ‘fixes’ are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were ‘too confusing to the user’.
That’s _not_ like any other open source project I know about. Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not ‘it’s too complicated to do’, but ‘it would confuse users’.
”
13 Dec 2005: [Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME
In which Linus brings the smackdown on Gnome’s candied bottom.
BCPS totally didn’t photoshop those black kids in.
Someone at ArchLinux.org uses a mac with skitch.
“Dawn Wilson was born in Connecticut, but now resides in Milan Italy with her two daughters, where she teaches English as a foreign language … She enjoys utilizing the power of brevity in her writing.”
Because you can’t just say you write short form stuff.
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So ttly random lol.
I’m all for fun, but “throw cans because it’s random” is a really shitty plan.
