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Mobile Twitter bookmarklet displays the new, updated Twitter on your smartphone
Twitter recently unveiled a new interface for their mobile site located at mobile.twitter.com loaded with the features you’re accustomed to having on the desktop version of the site. However, when you browse to Twitter or follow a link from an … Continue reading
People don’t seem to like Carrot Top
A tweet from @Mrs_Misanthrope got me thinking about how much everyone seems to dislike Carrot Top. So I decided to conduct a scientific study by asking a complete stranger on Omegle.com what they thought of the freakishly-built prop comic. The … Continue reading
Clogging Twitter with Spam
It has always been inevitable that Twitter would be used for spam, and perhaps what’s most discouraging is that it’s the useful sites like Tweetgrid that make gathering usernames so easy. All a spammer needs to do is search for … Continue reading
How to Get from Albany to JFK Airport in New York City
Over the years I’ve fine-tuned my routine of getting from the Capital District to JFK to embark on a number of great journeys. There are many ways to go about it, each one ranging in price, reliability, and speed, but this one is my tried and tested favorite. Continue reading
More on the Muslim Cartoons
Andrew Sullivan from Time wrote a decent editorial about the cartoon controversy. An excerpt: The Arab media run cartoons depicting Jews and the symbols of the Jewish faith with imagery indistinguishable from that used in the Third Reich. But I … Continue reading
Where is our military budget being spent?
Note: I submitted this letter to the editor at the Times Union. Apparently it was not picked for publication in the newspaper, so I’m publishing it here. This week [late April 2005] the Times Union ran an article about how … Continue reading