Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 14th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bot...

Hi Y'all.. We have some business to cover, so I'll be leaving this at the top of things for a while to make sure everybody sees it. First off, the good stuff - JoshuaPundit has gotten a lot more popular, and it seems to be maintaining the traffic in spite of the post-election doldrums. I thank each ...

Connexion Bizarre was updated on November 17th with a new release, piles of new reviews, an interview, webcasts and a couple of recommended links. A quick overview of this week's updates: Webcast: "Me and a Margarita" with music selection by Peter Lee of Force Of Nature Productions and "Cure Me, I H...

(The following message was sent to me via Facebook awhile back. I've edited nothing, and I apologize in advance for the homophobic slurs.) Subject: What's up man! Message: Just kidding, I do not know you, just looking up Mike Crain's name and saw all your wastefull writing about him and his album co...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1877, Ernst Siemens patents the first loudspeaker … 1952, the first British pop chart is published in the New Musical Express … the top six songs are all U.S. acts and are led by Al Martino’s “Here in My Heart” &he...

This Geek Scooter gets this month’s award for the most tech you can cram onto two wheels. We’re looking at a rolling Skype calling, GPS toting, 1GHz pulling, wifi, Bluetooth, webcam, TV PVR enabled nonsense of a machine. I mean, c’mon, who needs 3 mile wireless networking acce...

Ramit from the I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog (a favorite of mine) is holding a November-long 'save $1000 in 30 days' challenge.  An interesting proposition in that he's not just focusing on the cheesy normal suggestions (go to Sam's Club!  start a garden!  live i...

Prop A: San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center Earthquake Safety Bonds, 2008 NO I agree that it is critical to rebuild San Francisco’s lone trauma center and I want to support Prop A. However, the opposition argument raises serious concerns, first and foremost that the new hospital b...

This was a segment of my thirteenth [insert scary sounds here] entry, but it didn’t really fit that well and the entry was already getting pretty long.  I mainly wanted to include it to pre-empt a certain type of argument for believing in god (a type popular with some skeptics and scientists),...

Two interesting pieces on influence in the last few days. Firstly, at the Web Expo 2.0 in Berlin, Nate Elliot of Jupiter did an interesting session on who really influences you in his talk The Future of Influence, from whence comes this matrix wot I made: Varying types of Influence In essence, his a...