Just discovered the webcomic Diesel Sweeties: http://www.dieselsweeties.com
Pixels + Robots = Win.
I'm trying out Kaneva - http://www.kaneva.com
The thought of GlaDOS and HAL hooking up = sheer and epic hawtness.
http://www.halolz.com/2009/05/21/hey-baby-wanna-kill-all-humans/
Be honest, is it weird that I find this incredibly sexy?
So I have been an active StumbleUpon user (nul1nk4g3.stumbleupon.com) for about a year and a half now and have been wanting to try Digg also (as well as some others like NewsVine and Slashdot and Mister Wong, but Digg was top on my list of things to try). I had signed up for Digg in February but had only dugg one thing so far as I hadn't gotten around to installing the Firefox toolbar and I kept forgetting my username. :-X
Well, half my friends are at A-Kon this weekend and the other half are busy doing other things today and the boyfriend is working then hanging out with a friend, so I decided to try out Digg.
Here I am, should you wish to add me: http://digg.com/users/sweet0nessness
Diggs of my blog (and Stumbles and whatever else) are appreciated, I think I could build up a loyal readerbase if word got around. :-] :-]
Thou shalt rofflemow.
I told you I would let you know when the duckling/gosling video was posted to my YouTube channel, and here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaxBi2WLoqE
It isn't in HD, unfortunately, because I haven't gotten software yet to edit my raw AVCHDs from my new Handycam. YouTube supports HD uploads *elbows Facebook in the ribs - "Give you any ideas?"* so I upload any HD videos that are fine as is, but when I went to Bedford Boys Ranch and recorded the duckies and goosies, I did so with several different takes and rather than have people have to watch multiple videos to see what should be one big video, I converted them to WMVs and used Windows Movie Maker to string them together.
Warning: This video contains the raunchiness that is...a pigeon vagina. I kid you not. Look for it. Two pigeons tried to make my innocent video of a pleasant day at the park into a birdy pr0n0 by starting to get busy in front of my camera.
Lest you wonder, all posts without a title are status updates (as seen on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.) posted via Ping.fm, an awesome website I've been using since they were in private beta. You simply enter a status update once and it sends it to all your social networks, blogs and microblogs. You can also post full blog entries (with titles, unlike the status updates) to multiple blogs, but I usually prefer the more full-featured Vox posting page for that. There are other websites out there that perform similarly, but Ping.fm has been my choice thus far. So when they added support for Vox I jumped on it like The Sugarhill Gang.
Wow, that was a stupid joke.
Want to hear something even cornier?
When I first started using Ping.fm, it was in private beta, like I said before. I personally wrote them and asked them to send me an invitation. And get this - I actually said, "Pretty please with Ping on top?"
They may have sent me an invite out of pity for my sheer dorkiness.
In September of 2008, TechCrunch posted this story regarding some Facebook apps being taken over by SpeedDate:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/12/speeddate-hijacks-facebook-users-with-a-bait-and-switch/
It didn't end with those three applications, however. I just today got e-mails from about a dozen of my other Facebook applications saying that they are becoming SpeedDate clones. And there have been more between now and then.
This annoys me. And when I say it annoys me, I don't mean the same level of annoyance I would reach if a friend were, say, poking me in the side repeatedly or singing "If You Seek Amy" to me for the 5,827,490,108th time in a row. (Britney Spears used my name in a song to tell us how much everyone wants to do her. I get it already. It was funny the first hundred times.)
No, I mean that this annoys me on a level that I cannot begin to explain and that you cannot begin to comprehend. I know it's probably a stupid thing to be angry about, but I am human, so sue me, and I am royally PO'd.
This is not something that an honest company does. (Referring to SpeedDate, not Facebook.) Good websites/businesses/apps/what have you speak for themselves. Viral marketing is one thing, but they shouldn't rely on manuevers like this. As you know, I'm in a relationship, so I wouldn't be using SpeedDate anyway, but even if I was single, I wouldn't use SpeedDate now if you paid me, after what they're pulling.
A post on one of the several Facebook groups speaking out against this reveals that this is not against Facebook's TOS for application providers. A change is certainly in order, then.
If you're on Facebook then I urge you to act with me. Unless you are actually using SpeedDate by choice, remove all the clones from your applications list. It will give you a choice to say why you are removing the application, use the space to tell them why and give the app a low rating. (Since the user base is being moved to the SpeedDate clone, I'm assuming the ratings are as well.)
Urge Facebook to change their policies regarding these apps. And tell SpeedDate what you think and how their behavior on Facebook negatively impacts your opinion of them.
This is the same tactic that Trojan horses use to infiltrate your computer and wreak havoc. It's no way for any reputable company to attract users.
