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16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Photosharing - compari... · 0 replies · +1 points

I guess that makes you my driver's ed instructor, doesn't it? And thanks.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Jon Udell on Del.icio.... · 0 replies · +1 points

A little too fast for me. He was zipping around between personal buckets and global buckets too quickly for me to follow very well. But his point at the end about the evolution of language is an intriguing one.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Fifteen Things I Learn... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm not seeing much for Wash U School of Medicine yet when I search delicious. I guess we're not on the radar of social bookmarkers yet.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Even tastier del.icio.us · 1 reply · +1 points

I feel like I need Geritol or something--just can't quite wrap my brain around social bookmarking, but I'm gonna try. Signed up for a membership and added the plug-in to Firefox.

The qualm I have going in is that the new sites I visit in an average week are typically remarkable, interesting, or relevant only in a very transitory fashion--stuff you share on Facebook to give your friends a chuckle and have forgotten by the time the next morning rolls around. Social bookmarking makes me feel like I just don't "get around" anymore.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Video, YouTube, and th... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree. Did you hear about the ten-year-old Australian tantrum thrower whose mother asked a cop to taze her--and the cop did as she requested? There's got to be some way to get the message through: this ain't a behavior modification tool.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Assignments for 9-15 N... · 0 replies · +1 points

I dunno. I guess I've been cautioned for so long to be suspicious of "spyware" that installing a program specifically for the purpose of letting an internet site watch me do something seemed foolhardy. But "Genius" on iTunes is already doing that, right?

I set up the laptop at the office Christmas party, and asked last.fm to play Christmas music. Went fine for the first three or four songs, then suddenly I noticed that it was playing Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (or however that's spelled). Perhaps I've never listened to the lyrics closely enough, but somehow that doesn't strike me as a Christmas song. I turned it off and put in Bob Dylan's new Christmas CD.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Stark Images, Uploaded... · 0 replies · +1 points

What on Earth could CNN have meant with its disclaimer "unverified video"? Were they worried it was CGI? Or that it came from another country racked with pro-democracy protests at the same time?

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Video, YouTube, and th... · 2 replies · +1 points

Wow, what a horror show. It's shocking that videos like this or the "don't taze me, bro" video haven't generated more backlash against the widespread abuse of tasers--they're not cattle prods, to be used routinely for behavior modification when someone's being uncooperative. There is a risk of death, serious injury and permanent disability from exposure to the kinds of voltage supplied by tasers, and they're only supposed to be used when someone's in imminent danger of harm. We don't need to see what was going on--if this kid was on the floor, as is implied by the repeated demands that he stand up, then he wasn't in a position to harm anyone.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - A Comcast Technician S... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm with you Scott and Kathy--I sympathize with the service tech. Who wouldn't fall asleep if you're regularly put on hold for an hour? Who knows what the poor guy was juggling--multiple jobs, single parenthood? Falling asleep in an inappropriate location is not an indication that you're lazy or stupid--it's an indication that you're sleep-deprived.

16 years ago @ Scott Granneman's... - Videos that Put YouTub... · 1 reply · +1 points

Evolution of the Dance now has a sequel, Evolution of the Dance 2. Not quite as funny or popular as the first, but still worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inLBPVG8oEU

It's astonishing how fast these things can spread. I was just reposting a link to a Muppet version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody a few weeks ago, saw at least one friend repost my repost, and now the video has, in its various incarnations, had in excess of 10 million views.

I wonder if multiple repostings are pulling down viewing numbers nowadays? Search for Evolution of the Dance (posted 3 years ago) and you only get one straight link (other links include the sequel and an Optimus Prime version), but if you search for Susan Boyle (more recent), and you get multiple links to the same segment of her premiere on Britain's Got Talent (in addition to other, newer segments).

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