These will be terribly boring to anyone not in the journalism industry, specifically the online journalism industry. But for me, this is my bread and butter.
Even my employer is running a gag for April Fools’ Day.
Welcome to the new and improved, ZellCoMediaEnterprises Inc.!11!1!
Google introduces, custom time!
This still makes me laugh. Just some random amusement. (Make sure the sound is on, ‘The audience is listening.’)
The mechanized tree harvester! Now I’m not into deforestation, but these things are awesome.
It’s vulgar, but hilarious.
Jerry O’Connell shows huge cahones in this video where he mocks Jerry MacGuire co-star Tom Cruise’s recently released Scientology video. It doesn’t make much sense unless you’ve seen the original video, so go and watch it now.
Too funny. The point, however, is that Scientologists are stark raving mad and need to be watched closely. I see a Kool-Aid party in their future.
By now everyone has seen that the Library of Congress release a ton of photos into the public domain via Flickr. In order to tag and caption them they are using crowdsourcing techniques from Flickr users and the rest of the web. It’s an awesome project and I could spend hours poring over the photos. Here are a few of my initial favorites:
Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-, photographer.
Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on “Jockey St.,” near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.
1940 Sept.
[Man in bill cap and dungaree coat, possibly a farmer]
[between 1941 and 1942]
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work.
1942 June.
Bain News Service, publisher.
Trainer Hayes; Warnes; Allen; Sec’y Calver; Spenceley; Parks; Erksine; Murray Trainer
[between 1910 and 1915]
Bain News Service, publisher.
Capt. Felix of Army Aero. Corps.
[between 1910 and 1915]
Like I said, I could look at these all day.
Two more spots from the top search return for “Steve Mullis.” It’s not this blog sure, but at least it is a link to me. My Orlando Sentinel identity is always going to get a higher ranking but that’s OK, it links here anyway.
Now if only I could find a way to get that Mesa, Ariz. real estate agent to retire. Another odd thing is that I can’t get this blog to show up properly in search results. Blogger nixes all of my meta-data tags so that it doesn’t get read correctly by search bots.
Back to work.
SHUT THE HELL UP!
Here, use this: How to Disable Facebook Beacon. Oof, that took two seconds of Google searching and a quick Firefox add-on install. No one could manage that on their own? Maybe you should get off the intarwebs and quit clogging up the tubes with your idiocy. It’s not a truck!
Yes, it’s a foolish feature for Facebook, but boycotting the site is just as stupid. Instead, why not boycott the site that has put the Facebook code into their sites. If no one uses it, Facebook has no incentive to keep supporting it. Just like companies and illegal immigrant workers, but that’s a different story.
Also, there is the whining that Facebook should make it an “opt-in” feature. You know where the opt-in happens people? When you sign up for Facebook! If you don’t like it, don’t sign up.
Yes, Facebook is fun and everyone is having a blast seeing that their friends wrote on each other’s walls and sending zombies after one another, but now it is to the point where it needs to make money. It began in that Harvard kid’s dorm room but has moved beyond it and now needs the infrastructure for over a million users and to pay 300+ employees.
Zuckerberg is trying to build up the profitability of the site so he can sell it for more. It’s business folks, deal with it. Sorry.
