Yet more fuel for thought…

Banks Quietly Ramp Up Consumer Fees - NYTimes.com.

And in other news, content producers still haven’t paid attention in high school English class.

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Owner Of Stolen Bike, Reclaims It On ‘Test Ride’ - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver.

Okay, let me just rant for a minute here. I have turned off ALL notifications from Facebook to my email. And when I say ALL, I mean ALL notifications. I don’t want to get a single email from Facebook saying I have to go to their site and read a message. I want to manually type “facebook.com” into my browser’s address bar and peruse messages, notifications, invites, pokes, picks, pukes, punks, plucks, pucks, and porks when it’s convenient for me. Which means maybe once a day or so.

At this point you may be thinking, “He’s pretty anti-Facebook. Why is he even on it?” I’m not anti-Facebook. I like keeping my friends in a tidy little relatively self-organizing corner of the Internet. And the “why is he even on it” thing? Are you serious? How can you not have a presence on Facebook nowadays?

Finally… the living room is DONE!

Matt Taibbi has written some excellent stuff. My favorite is his article, “The Great American Bubble Machine.” This article summarizes why Americans are angry and expressing it via protests.

Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.

Hooray for Google+! I just noticed the option to enable Google+ in my apps domain dashboard. Now I can play with it and set up my social network all over again. :)

I have just implemented a whitelist on my phone system. Those of you who are in my address book should notice no change, however those of you who are not will have to step through a hoop to get the call connected. I will say no more than that, but it’s a relatively painless one-time process in order to add another layer of convenience and privacy to my phone system.

Why is Whitelisting Absent from Telephones? :: TechMiso.

…People who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.

via Great Hackers.