Monthly Archives: March 2009

Exploiting Friend-of-Friend: How Facebook Can Become An Effective Dating Site

Single people: Are you sick of seeing this crap on Facebook?

I am.

Thing is – I’ll never sign up for Singlesnet or any dating site. I don’t want to meet somebody on those sites. If I were looking I’d rather meet somebody who my friends already know and can vouch for.

Hey, Facebook knows who my friends [...]

An Economy of True Friendship…and Penalties

ABC writes Facebook: Job Hunters Over 30 Beware.

It includes the story of “Stella” – a 36 year old publicist who’s past came back to haunt her on Facebook. One of her sorority sisters from years ago thought it would be a good idea to publish embarrassing photos of her:

“You can now find me squatting to [...]

A System For Global Keyboard Shortcuts

I used to never use keyboard shortcuts, but these days a few of them are so ingrained in my brain that I can’t live without them. On the keyboards I use, the S key is beginning to fade. It starts with Command (or CTRL) + S. From there you begin copying and pasting with keyboard [...]

Adium 1.4 Will Have Twitter Support

I’ve been thinking of weening myself off the Twitter, but Adium’s upcoming implementation looks ideal.

Fear not! Using Matt Gemmell’s MGTwitterEngine, a library used to communicate with the Twitter API, I’ve managed to make what I consider to be a very good Twitter client into Adium. Your friends (people you follow) are displayed in a group [...]

Mixing for MP3 Is Stupid

In my opinion.

Once in a while I’ll read something about mixing engineers and how they create different mixes for CDs and digital music services. The arguments are that encodes don’t recreate certain frequencies well, like anything below 100hz. So because of that they may suggest boosting the low-end on anything that will be used for [...]

Link: I Went To The Mirror

Bob Lefsetz on Todd Rundgren:

But how come no one under twenty five seems to know Todd Rundgren? How come he had to do that execrable New Cars tour for the cash? Can’t we bring one of our supremely talented musicians/producers/engineers back? Someone who cut the Band’s “Stage Fright” and produced Grand Funk’s greatest [...]

YouTube – Airwolf intro

I’ve had the theme from Airwolf stuck in my head for a bit.