What happened when I linked my WordPress Blog to Facebook
What happened when I linked my facebook to my blog
UPDATE: Oct 2 ,2011, Now that I’ve become a Google+ nutjob, I’m finding it harder to not respond right away within G+, but I’ll do my best…
ABOUT THIS BLOG: I’ve decided that it makes more sense to post contributions to my blog first, and then link them in Facebook (and now Twitter and Google Plus). Serendipitous result, my blog stats zoomed (well, still tiny, but proportionately, pretty cool).
NEXT STEP? Get better using: http://learn.wordpress.com/
Shortlink for this post: http://wp.me/p4njL-F
New Definition of “Hardcore Atheist” Pen Jillette
Just overheard. Definition (Jillette’s ?) of a “hardcore atheist”: someone who doesn’t even believe that that OTHER people are NOT atheists. (!) Love it.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/08/16/139669958/penn-jillettes-god-no-an-atheist-libertarian-on-tricks-bacon-and-the-tsa
Globalrevolution.tv: So, uh, maybe it WILL be televised…. Politics, OWS, Media, Democracynow.org
So maybe it WILL be televised
So uh, maybe it WILL be televised!
SHORTLINK: http://wp.me/p4njL-ah
“And not once did anybody say to me, ‘Socrates, hemlock is poison’.” From Tonight Show? Letterman, Steve Martin
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-9K
“Bonobo Pants,” for men who want to exude the style and grace of a horny, promiscuous Great Ape.
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-9A
OK, it’s WTF time in the land of the zombies and the home of the clueless. Does this company actually think that most people are not familiar with what bonobos are famous for? Arghhhh.
Whoever the people are who came up with this company’s name (and all the folks down the line who went along for the ride without raising the alarm) have broken the land-speed record for utter ignorance and stupidity.
And where did I see their ad? Here’s the best part… in Facebook. Yep. Figures, so this tells us just what kind of intellectual caliber we can expect out of Team Zuke 
http://www.bonobos.com/ Yep this is the company website, I’ll bet you thought I was kidding right?
"Honey, when I saw you in those Bonobo Pants, I just had to have you..."
For eCommerce, eBay, Amazon folks: “How Google+ Changes Everything” Interview with Chris Brogan of “Trust Agents”
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-9t
As an eBay/Amazon vendor and a big fan of “Trust Agents” and +Chris Brogan and +Julien Smith, this article will be of interest to anyone involved in those or any e-commerce areas, or marketing in general, for that matter.
Google+: Vampire Facebook: Zombie?
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-9e
Very funny and provoking article , ” ‘Steve Jobs: Vampire. Bill Gates: Zombie.’ ” in Oct. 30 Sunday NY Times Magazine got me speculating on further Zombie equations, hence my headline.
It’s a fun game and any number can play.
Send me YOUR equations.
Anybody have the "If/Then" math equation for this?
This is a test of WordPress in iPhone
This is test of wp on iPhone
Seven Billionth Baby, 7,000,000,000 … Seven thousand thousand thousand
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-96
“I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren’t you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.”
- Isaac Asimov
Quoted in BBC story today Oct 31 2011
Is there a quick way to send a gmail ms. to google docs, now that Labs app is gone?
The Angry Aussie does an Ayn rant. Priceless.
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-8O
I cannot imagine what kind of environmental circumstances lead people (some of them actually pretty bright) to embrace religion. It beggars my imagination. Ignorance may indeed be bliss, but I’d rather have a fucking BRAIN and live two hundred years with scabies, permanent jock itch and tinnitus than be someone who by some twist of fate is both an adult and truly believes in palpably absurd doctrines and fairy tales.
Lately I’ve been seeing more and more maroons actually proudly enunciate their respect for that miserable twisted little freak, Ayn Fucking Rand. Anyone over the age of 10 who can see ANY worth in her circular “reasoning” can only be excused as a case of early emotional abuse of undetermined nature. So the Angry Aussie is a breath of freaking fresh air. I particularly like the Alan Greenspan bit toward the end.
I do hope he has a rant about Scientology, that would be sweet.
#AynRand #AngryAussie #Satire #Politics #Philosophy #Scientology #Libertarians
Crowd Accelerated Innovation: another reason why Google Plus is and will be an important and vital tool
SHORTLINK: http://wp.me/p4njL-8F
Here’s a quote from this article, TED Curator Chris Anderson on Crowd Accelerated Innovation, Wired Magazine Jan. 2011.
BOLD EMPHASIS is mine.
“The absurd camp calls YouTube a festering swamp of adolescent distraction: narcissism, kitten videos, and fart jokes. The obvious camp thinks it’s old news that the Internet fosters communities and promotes innovation (and this camp may view online video as a relatively insignificant new contributor to a familiar theme).
Both camps have a point. But they’re missing the big picture. The true significance of online video has been mischaracterized and underreported.
Innovation has always been a group activity. The myth of the lone genius having a eureka moment that changes the world is indeed a myth. Most innovation is the result of long hours, building on the input of others. Ideas spawn from earlier ideas, bouncing from person to person and being reshaped as they go. If you’re comfortable with the language of memes, you could say a healthy meme needs an ecosystem not of a single brain but of a network of brains. That’s how ideas bump into other ideas, replicate, mutate, and evolve.
Several authors have recently taken on this subject. Henry Chesbrough warns companies to adopt “open innovation,” Eric von Hippel speaks of democratizing innovation, showing how, for example, the kite-surfer community outinnovated the manufacturers that were serving it, and Michael Farrell describes “collaborative circles,” demonstrating that throughout history the best creativity has happened when groups of artists, reformers, writers, or scientists connected regularly with one another.
So Crowd Accelerated Innovation isn’t new. In one sense, it’s the only kind of innovation there’s ever been. What is new is that the Internet—and specifically online video—has cranked it up to a spectacular degree.
The way I see it, Crowd Accelerated Innovation requires three ingredients: a crowd, light, and desire. Let’s take each in turn.”
Chrome Remote Desktop HOO HA!
SHORTLINK: http://wp.me/p4njL-8v
Paul Budden, a G+ pal who lives across the country from me, helped me troubleshoot a Google Docs problem using the Chrome Remote Desktop. CRD is still in beta, but it is SIMPLE, FAST and GREAT!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp
Chrome remote desktop
Remember: UPLOAD to Google Docs, don’t cut and paste
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-8k
When you add to or create any kind of doc to Google Docs, REMEMBER: IF it’s really small and you want to cut and paste, it’s not a problem. BUT if your file is of any significant SIZE, REMEMBER to UPLOAD it instead. It works like a charm, whereas trying to cut and paste will lead to nothing but grief.
ALSO, if you are not interested in anything but the pure content and not the peripheral info (such as formatting, styles etc), then you can use a TWO-STEP process:
1. Copy and paste your data into a text file app such as Text Wrangler to strip out everything peripheral
2. Upload the simple txt file to Google Docs.
Viralgra… get noticed now
Share me, tweet me http://wp.me/p4njL-7i
If you need a creative mind, talk to me. I came up with the name, registered it and created the graphic and slogan this afternoon in less than two hours.
quickcard at gmail dotcom.
Be the first on you planet to Share and Tweet this, thanks
http://wp.me/p4njL-7i
Need some ART fast? Ten FREE Quickdraws Offer
FREE: WIN one of ten custom Quickdraws
I’m giving away TEN FREE
Quickdraws.
Submissions deadline Oct 15, 2011
Yours to use any way you see fit with no restrictions*
FIRST TEN submissions that meet the criteria win a FREE Quickdrawartist graphic.
All 10 will be ready and sent to winners by Oct. 20 2011
See PORTFOLIO http://quickdrawartist.com/Artwork/Artwork.html
Submission criteria
1. Must be for a business enterprise or non-profit
2. Must be an actual, verified business or non-profit with EITHER a web address AND/OR a listing in a published telephone directory.
3.These are to show off my “Quickdraw” skills, so please, no requests for a map of Manhattan showing all the bars. Just simple concepts.
4. Give SPECIFICS for your drawing
5. Not for enterprise level (would take too long)
6. Although I do logos, no requests for logos for this offer.
7. Winners will keep quickdrawartist.com address in the graphic (it will be inconspicuous).
8. I will pass on requests that seem to be leading nowhere (ie. does not look like my artwork would get any significant exposure).
* within reason, in other words, please do not publish in “Neo-Nazis Quarterly,” ok?
CONTACT: Quickcard at gmail dotcom
Feel free to share this offer.
Police using tech tool to eavesdrop on your mobile phone calls.
Another brick in the wall:
Well, yet another reason to stop expecting one’s civil rights. We can now have a general symbolic funeral and call it Civil Rites. Uneffingbelievable
Big Brother's Little Brother
Google, Oracle, Monopolies and is/are Google “pussies”? (Shortlink: http://wp.me/p4njL-7g )
Whale and kayaker (see description)
DISCLAIMER:
I’m very “fond” of both Apple and Google. I cd go on for days about how/why they are wonderful. HOWEVER, they are huge entities with tremendous global/historical/political impacts. And in the case of BOTH these companies, they have committed very egregious act. In terms of Google’s “do no evil” well… So in spite of the fact that I love’em and use them and own their stuff, I’m committed to being aware of the good, the bad and the ugly.
Side note: some thoughts generated from Hangout chat today. After 35 years, Microsoftee may have finally wrapped its head around what Apple does as a WHOLE, with Windows 8. I’m an Apple user, but I did look at a Youtube presentation of 8 and it looked very good. Especially in terms of the fact that the whole world is going to go touchpad and voice to text. So it occurs to me that it may not take Facebook 35 years to figure out what Google Plus is doing right. The one thing they will NOT be able to emulate is the fact that Google is looking to tie together its whole panoply of apps into one whole, and Facebook does not have as much to tie together. See/hear http://cinch.fm/scobleizer/282081
In google news today:
Oracle vs Google in court today: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/18/BUOL1L5Q8I.DTL
The anti-trust case against Google: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/19/the-antitrust-case-against-google/
Senate hearings scheduled for Wed
Apple (AAPL) is conspicuously absent from the witness list for Wednesday’s hearing on “The Power of Google” before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights. Yelp! and Nextag will be represented, but Google (GOOG) has stepped on a lot more toes than theirs to maintain and extend its dominance of the Internet’s sustaining source of revenue — advertising dollars.
The above article has a link to “Google Are Pussies.”
A fascinating article, about which I would love to hear intelligent discourse. Also makes me wonder…”Google ‘are’ pussies?” Should it be “Google ‘is” pussy?” or maybe, “Google is a conglomerate of pussies.” Is “pussy” even the right term? How about we bring back “evildoers?” Why let Bush and rightwingers have all the fun?
Decennial thoughts on 9/11
I have two things to share on this day. You may not agree with me, but I hope you will agree with Voltaire: ”I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” And if you don’t agree with THAT, well, as Voltaire might say, “tant pis.”
1. The first is that I regret not being true to my outrage. Of not acting on my beliefs and outrage. Of course, as an American, I’m outraged for all the “usual” reasons. But beyond that I’m outraged at so many things that followed, including the Republicans filibustering the release of funds to help compensate those who sacrificed their health and lives trying to help at ground zero, in the weeks that followed and outrage at the Democrats for not fighting the Republicans harder to cut loose those benefits… and it all goes downhill from there.
I won’t go over the many other outrageous actions and inactions for now, I simply want to say that it amazes me that no matter how much one can try to dismiss “conspiracy nuts,” no one has even begun to explain the collapse of building 7. That fact alone should have been the driving force for a growth of political awareness AND the single biggest cudgel with which to beat the truth out of the military/industrial/media/government complex that treats us like mushroom growers grow mushrooms, by keeping us in the dark and feeding us shit.
Today I did at least take a few minutes to do a few minutes of research. Unfortunately that is all the time I have to spare, and I apologize. I did find one person who articulates a good bit of what I feel:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/engineers-request-permission-speak-freely-regarding-world-trade-building-7
From there, if you scroll down to Comments, you can read what “Acrabbe” has to say (dated 0520/2011) and at the bottom of HIS comments he points to:
So far, these links come as close to what I feel as I’ve been able to find. Now I’ll need to put this in my own words, and I will not take another decade to do that.
2.
“One day on the road in the English countryside,
A clergyman happened to meet Plague.
“Where are you bound?” asked the clergyman.
“To London,” responded Plague, “to kill a thousand.”
They chatted together a few moments longer, then parted.
Some months later they chanced to meet again,
And the clergyman inquired,
“As I recall, you were going to kill a thousand.
How is it that two thousand died?”
“Ah, yes,” replied Plague. “I killed but a thousand.
Fear killed the rest.”
“We” invaded a country that had NO relation to 9/11 and we punished everyone who pointed to American complicity IN 9/11; complicity by design or neglect or both.
And here is a link to a page pointing to some of the costs of this folly.
http://bit.ly/pk1hgv
"Die Klage" Bronze. Artist: Kathe Kollwitz
When will Google Plus be released out of beta?
SHORTLINK: http://wp.me/p4njL-6X
Surfing around I’m getting the impression that it will be July 31 or so. Google Plus is so huge, that it may be that they want to work out any major flaws before public release. On the other hand, if they have not released it to a large enough beta test base, they will have painted themselves into a corner. As Steve Levy and others have testified, non-engineers are second-class citizens at Google. This is probably their biggest Achilles’ heel, and staying on the Greek theme, it represents tragic hubris. From what I can see, Google Plus is the bomb, in spite of Google’s lack of social empathy. Word is that Larry Paige (now the new emancipated CEO of Google) is trying to learn to become social, and is actually tweeting…. Don’t get me wrong, I think Google is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Of course, the guy who first marketed sliced bread took about 10 years to make it the default bread choice for Americans
The giants are maneuvering, creating giant strategic alliances. Facebook will have Skype video conferencing, but Google Plus will be offering video conferencing for up to 15 people. Sad that Skype is in Microflaccid’s paws, sadder still to see it allied w/ Facebook. Every night, in my atheist prayers, I pray that Steve Jobs and Google will bury the hatchet and realize that their common interest is to pool resources against the Beast: Facebook and Microflaccid.
http://mashable.com/2011/06/28/google-plus-videos/#MRkAdTflltc has 11 videos about G+ features. EVERYONE in the videos is under 25, most of them are white and “good looking.” The voice-over copy is beyond mundane, like it was written by the people who wrote for “Friends” but on downers. Eisenhower era crap. Beyond dumbed down. This is spite of the fact that G+ will blow FB out of the water. If Google invented sex, they’d probably say “hey you know how you love meatball sandwiches? Well sex is kind of like that too, you know, kinda messy, but worth it…. You may like it.”
Authors
-
quickdrawartist
- New Definition of “Hardcore Atheist” Pen Jillette
- Globalrevolution.tv: So, uh, maybe it WILL be televised…. Politics, OWS, Media, Democracynow.org
- “And not once did anybody say to me, ‘Socrates, hemlock is poison’.” From Tonight Show? Letterman, Steve Martin
- “Bonobo Pants,” for men who want to exude the style and grace of a horny, promiscuous Great Ape.
- For eCommerce, eBay, Amazon folks: “How Google+ Changes Everything” Interview with Chris Brogan of “Trust Agents”
Google Plus adds Tweet, Translate and Delicious to its Stream Post options… AND an ALERT to Delicious users.
G+ New Functions in Posting in Stream
ADDENDUM: turns out this is a Chrome extension. But it’s great.
SHORTLINK: http://wp.me/p4njL-7x
As of this morning, several more functionalities showed up under posts in the G+ stream. Previously there was Plus1, Comment and Share. Now there are 3 more: Tweet, Translate and Delicious.
Apparently, not everyone has this functionality yet (same as with the advanced version of Hangouts). But I’m certain this one will roll our very soon to everyone. My page is http://gplus.to/quickdrawartist
Delicious
This is significant on many levels, of course. One being that, as I’ve thought myself, Google+ will replace many things, but not Twitter, unless it buys Twitter. And if it does, it will probably have the same hands-off approach that it uses with YouTube. My perspective has been that Twitter has a special place and set of functionalities that “plays well with others,” including Google+. Twitter is clean, powerful and flexible and very well administrated. I have never been able to fathom why so many folks express the feeling that Google+ would replace Twitter. What was I not getting? At this point, I think it’s a safe bet that Google feels the same way about Twitter.
Very cool right? But Delicious? Why Delicious? Google already owns its own very good google.bookmarks.
DELICIOUS USERS, SEE THIS NOTE**
I think I know why, because Avos (owned by YouTube’s founders) has acquired Delicious from Yahoo and Google OWNS YouTube.*
As a long time fan of and early adopter of Delicious, this is great news on many fronts, to my mind at any rate. Delicious has some significant functionalities that Google.bookmarks does not. On the other hand, Google.bookmarks ties into the rest of your Google apps. So I think we’re going to be seeing a conflation of the two.
Lately, I have been bouncing miserably between Instapaper (it’s so fast and handy), Firefox bookmarks, and lately, with the advent of Google+, Google.bookmarks, while in the back of my mind wondering why I didn’t keep using Delicious. Probably because I’m allergic to Yahoo.
What would really even fantasticker would be for Google to also buy Instapaper and merge its sterling functionalities as well (and improve its folder function too, or replace it).
*http://www.avos.com/delicious-press-release/ YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo!
** This popped up for me this morning, so check it out if you have ever used Delicious: up “To continue using Delicious, you must agree to transfer your account information to AVOS by Friday, September 23, 2011. Click here to transfer now > https://secure.delicious.com/settings/optin “
Attention Delicious Users