Yostivanich

“As it stands, Twit­ter fol­low­ers are at a sig­nif­i­cant dis­ad­van­tage over RSS sub­scribers, because the for­mer are less engaged than the lat­ter. This isn’t to say Twit­ter accounts can’t be highly influ­en­tial, just that they require a lot more skill on the part of the author to engage his or her audi­ence, says Scocco.” I agree.

“Mil­i­tary imposters are noth­ing new. But the prob­lem has grown or at least become more obvi­ous as char­la­tans are eas­ily able to find fake mil­i­tary doc­u­ments, medals and uni­forms on auc­tion Web sites. At the same time, the Inter­net has also stepped up the cat-and-mouse game, allow­ing watch­dogs to uncover fraud­u­lent claims much faster and mobi­lize a more effec­tive response.”

“On an aver­age week­day, the unem­ployed sleep an hour more than their employed peers. They tidy the house, do laun­dry and yard work for more than two hours, twice as much as the employed. The unem­ployed also spend an extra hour in the class­room and an addi­tional 70 min­utes in front of the tele­vi­sion.” Interesting.

“The US says it is using all avail­able means to assist three Amer­i­cans arrested inside Iran after appar­ently stray­ing across the Iraqi bor­der. Iran accuses the three of ignor­ing warn­ings from bor­der guards and cross­ing into its ter­ri­tory on Fri­day from Iraq’s Kur­dish region. Wash­ing­ton has asked the Swiss, who look after US inter­ests in Teheran, to seek con­sular access to the three.” Fun times.

“microblog-purple is a plu­gin for Pid­gin that works both on Win­dows and Linux, that sup­ports Twit­ter, Iden­tica, and Laconica-base server through the con­ver­sa­tion win­dows.” Easy to use and totally works.

“Apple key­boards are vul­ner­a­ble to a hack that puts key­log­gers and mal­ware directly into the device’s firmware. This could be a seri­ous prob­lem, and now that the pre­sen­ta­tion and code (PDF) is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploit­ing it.” Oops?

“Adver­tis­ing, for another, as more and more women came to feel harassed by the “porno-chic” trend that put nearly-naked women on bill­boards every­where. “Being able” to go top­less grad­u­ally evolved into feel­ing obliged to do so, and even­tu­ally, the pre­vail­ing fem­i­nist per­spec­tive changed from rev­el­ling in a new-found free­dom to refus­ing to give in to the end­less pres­sure to flaunt a “per­fect” body.” Pretty much sums up the whole change in fem­i­nist per­spec­tive regard­ing sex­u­al­ity, and reflects my per­sonal feelings.