Facebook Doesn't Care About You

Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect.  Lately,

The Generational Sweetspot or Why Your Parents Have Such Bad Taste In Names

Interesting theory on why names come in and go out of fashion – it's tied to generational rebellion.  The names of your own generation sound too ordinary, your

Amazon Releases Info on Most Highlighted Kindle Books and Passages

How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting

Music Monday – Scallops, Anyone?

I'd never heard of a scalloped fretboard before but apparently it leads to music sounding something like this…

"You Can't Handle The Truth" – Media Bans in the Digital Age

Everybody's probably familiar with the sad story of Tori Stafford, the young girl from Woodstock, Ontario who was abducted and killed last year.  Recently, some new detail has

Saturday Snap – A Boxful of Childhood Memories

I rediscovered this this box in the garage recently and Pace was *very* excited to get so many “new” toys all at once!  For Pace, it's new but

Friday Fun Link – Blippy & fallin.gs – Oversharing Hits New Lows

If you didn't hear, Blippy, a site that encouraged users to share details about their credit card purchases in another escalation of the TMI world of social networking,

Why Men Don't Read: How Publishing Is Alienating Half the Population

Here's a good article poking holes in the fallacy that only women read.  It's actually a bit of a chicken and the egg thing – do only women

The Crowdsourced Library?

I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading.  You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few

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