Bloggled: Helsinki Bus Station Theory, Google Glass Banned, & Happy B-Day Hitchhiker
Career Advice: The Helsinki Bus Station Theory [via: Karen McGrane]. Puts me in mind of Ira Glass’s comments on stuff nobody tells beginners (also available in the handy Zen Pencils edition). Google Glass hasn’t hit the streets yet, but it’s already...Bloggled: Tweetfarts, Facebook Gets Tublr-y, And Hacking the Brain
Track the carbon footprint of a Twitter hashtag at tweetfarts.com. Yes, that’s tweetfarts.com. [H/T: A Blog Apart.] Thoughtful remarks on the recently-announced Facebook redesign (cue the inevitable comparisons to Google+, Tumblr and every other progressively...Bloggled: Sportsmanship in Texas, A Very Bitter Pill, and Hedgehogs
A high-school basketball game features a twist of sportsmanship that makes it the feel-good story of the week. (Reported by CBS’ Steve Hartman, who now has totally inherited the legacy of the late, great Charles Kuralt.) Steven Brill’s Bitter Pill: Why...Bloggled: Spendy Greetings, Science Redefined and Ankh-Morpork!
Why does a greeting card cost as much as five bucks? Why, because on a day like Valentine’s Day — more likely the night before, stepping into a queue of men three-deep in the card aisle at the local supermarket — you’ll pay it. A new bill in...Bloggled: Paul and Plait and the Pope, oh my.
Former Congressman and Internet cowboy Ron Paul is feuding with his fans over ownership of his eponymous domain. The free market capitalist is appealing to the UN’s IPO authority, ’cause — I guess — he’s irony-deproved. Politics is a...Tweetstream
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