Yostivanich

“They’ve come up with a num­ber of their own solu­tions to solve a mas­sive scal­ing prob­lem, and some­times we (the users) see bugs as a result of that. But, in a world where the much smaller Twit­ter goes down reg­u­larly, Facebook’s rel­a­tive sta­bil­ity is pretty impressive.”

“You now will be able to pur­chase songs as gifts for your friends. The “Music and MP3s” sec­tion of the Gift Shop, pow­ered by LaLa.com, offers over 8 mil­lion songs for any music lover from artists such as Bey­once, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sina­tra, Imo­gen Heap and even Wolf­gang Amadeus Mozart. Web songs are 1 credit each, while full, down­load­able, and dig­i­tal rights management-free (DRM) MP3s are 9 cred­its each.” Cool.

“You know what pisses me off? Get­ting a PR email from one of my favorite online retail­ers show­cas­ing a buy­ers guide for “great gift ideas to pam­per the women in your life,” includ­ing a pots and pans set, a hair dryer, and tons of gad­gets in hot pink.” Pink is not mar­ket­ing to women.

“The Patriot Act does make “inter­fer­ring with flight crews” a felony offense car­ry­ing a max­i­mum 20-year sen­tence. How­ever, using this law as a blud­geon to beat up a cit­i­zen who might sim­ply have had a dis­agree­ment with a flight atten­dant over a glass of wine, is a mon­strous abuse of fed­eral law and fed­eral power. It rep­re­sents “overcim­i­nal­iza­tion” with a cap­i­tal “O.””

“Spring­field, Vir­ginia res­i­dent Eric Williamson was arrested and charged with inde­cent expo­sure yes­ter­day for fail­ing to put on any clothes after get­ting up at 5:30 am to make some cof­fee. A woman and her 7-year-old daugh­ter had cut across Williamson’s front yard and saw him through his kitchen window.”

“I believe this is a first: The Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer of the City of Lub­bock, Texas wrote to the Shire of Toodyay, an area in West­ern Aus­tralia and asked for per­mis­sion to repur­pose the Shire’s logo for Lub­bock. The Shire of Toodyay agreed to the use and at no charge either. The City of Lub­bock then pro­ceeded to lop off a water-like appendage from the icon to now sym­bol­ize a wind­mill — as Lub­bock has a strong wind­mill tra­di­tion and is home to the Wind­mill Museum — and then typed in their name.” WTF is appro­pri­ate here.

“At this early date, these num­bers tell us about as much what we’ll see from the GOP in 2012 as a Vari­ety story about a stu­dio option­ing the rights to a novel tells us about the even­tual movie that may or may not get made from it. But it’s inter­est­ing to me in that it sug­gests that, despite talk of the Repub­li­can party pri­or­i­tiz­ing eco­nomic con­cerns over social pol­icy, their cur­rent top can­di­date is the one who’s most squishy on eco­nomic pol­icy and most known for his social con­ser­vatism.” Indeed.