Rachel’s right, this is the best thing ever. At least, once you get the joke. Being the old fart that I am, I had no idea why this was funny until I spent about 30 seconds figuring out what a Team Jacob was and and then it was only a matter of time before, well… it would seem this poor girl confused Pat Robertson, douchebag supreme, with teen heartthrob and Twilight “star” Robert Pattinson.

One being a soul sucking monster destined to spend eternity in anguish, the other a talentless hack who exploits people’s insecurities. I guess that doesn’t help, huh?

Apes will always need to groom each other, and Twitter is great for that. So while Twitter is important, a lot of what it’s used for today is not new content. It’s retweeting or sharing links to content outside of Twitter. Gestures like retweeting or “liking” something on Facebook are more akin to applause than to dialogue. I don’t just write for applause, I like to write to start a dialogue.

—Anil Dash, in a quick chat with the New York Times about blogs, anonymous comments and gov2.0.

Is it merely coincidental that Obama signed this executive Interpol order and that he often goes out of his way to sympathize with and advocate pro-Muslim culture, beliefs and issues?

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One of more bizarre of several illogical and meandering hypothetical questions that renown international security expert Chuck Norris asks in his probing (read: wingut conspiratorial) investigation (read: rant) about a procedural executive order President Obama signed granting certain immunity to Interpol. Right wing nuts love to lap up these kinds of conspiracies as proof of some sort of New World Order despite defending actual threats to our foundational democracy, such as President Bush’s violation of the 4th amendment with warrant-less wiretapping. And since one of Interpol’s charter missions is to fight child pornography, is it fair to ask why Chuck Norris and Glenn Beck support the international trafficking of child porn?

Chuck has already corrected the record about his tears curing cancer, has anyone checked to see if they cause stupidity?

I am so fucking psyched. Spreadsheets fucking rule. And I have to imagine that spreadsheets on a tablet ultra-mega-rule, what with the smaller screen size. Just think, we’ll be able to do spreadsheets or write business letters or create presentations – but mostly do spreadsheets – in the bathroom!

I mean, I do that already, but now I’m gonna do it on a tablet! Wow!

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“Mac user Jim Ray” is pretty excited about the new tablet over at C.A.R.S.

MOOOOOOOOOOLTZ!

(Seriously, what a mensch, that guy)

I have this hulk mode that I sometimes find irrepressible when stupid, stupid technology gets in the way of accomplishing an otherwise reasonable task – at work, they call this “Jim Raging”. You’re most likely to see it when I have to use the MOTHERFUCKING, MOTHERFUCKING fax machine. I’ve sadly destroyed at least one desk phone.

The Oatmeal gets it.

I have a dopplr thing but maybe you don’t follow me there (you should!) so you wouldn’t know that I’ll be in San Francisco January 20-25 and New York February 15-22. San Francisco is a social thing with many of you. New York is a work thing but I plan on having a bit of fun while I’m there (I’ll be in midtown during the week, Brooklyn that weekend I hope). I like to eat good food, drink dark liquor, rock out to some live music, etc. (anyone wanna see Fela? Or the Tim Burton thing at Moma?)

Hit me on my burner if you’re down.

The engineers who designed the GPS system included these relativistic effects when they designed and deployed the system. For example, to counteract the General Relativistic effect once on orbit, they slowed down the ticking frequency of the atomic clocks before they were launched so that once they were in their proper orbit stations their clocks would appear to tick at the correct rate as compared to the reference atomic clocks at the GPS ground stations. Further, each GPS receiver has built into it a microcomputer that (among other things) performs the necessary relativistic calculations when determining the user’s location.

—Don’t ever say Einstein’s theory of relativity doesn’t have practical applications.

So says something called styleguidance. Heh.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

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Mark Zuckerberg seems to be saying that people don’t care about privacy any more, which is, of course, as stupid as it is false. Just because more and more people are using social networks and sharing details of their lives online doesn’t mean that they don’t have the expectation of privacy. And just because Zuckerberg’s little company handles people’s private information so poorly doesn’t mean it’s acceptable for such an influential company to abandon basic decency.

I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything by not having a personal Facebook account.

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