A colleague from my past had a bike accident yesterday and went to hospital. He got roughed up real bad and needed surgery, so that happened today, and he's now improving rapidly. I know this through frequent updates that his wife's been making to a carepages.com page ( Read more... )

I used the word "disinterested" in a blog comment last night, and despite its tiny probable readership I find myself worried that people who do read it will read it incorrectly, that I meant it to mean "uninterested" instead of "taking a neutral stance". I bet dollars to donuts that most users of the English language think it has only the former ( Read more... )

doctor_atomic links to an hilarious SNL ad that illustrates the utterly lame approach that mainstream game publishers take when they try to market universally fun things to girls specifically.

jadelennox discusses a recent XKCD which is, as always, spot-on. (And makes me feel bad that I am invariably too lazy to bother reading the alt text. I'd suggest that the ( Read more... )

I don't feel like working today so I'm doing some money stuff, including putting some PS2 games I haven't played in years (or DS games I haven't played in a year, or Wii games I just don't like) up on eBay ( Read more... )

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I declare the YouTube craziness I spotted yesterday to be an accident on their part. Those video-switching controls went away entirely last night, and now they're back - but only at the end of the video, where they make much more sense. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that that's where they were supposed to be all along, but ( Read more... )

"Don't watch this video! Here watch one of these instead!" On every single video. I mean, literally on it. Nice.

Edit, one day later: the stuff I was complaining about seems to be gone now.

Ouch. Zipcar has changed their interface and made it into crap ( Read more... )

I finally used cash to buy a Charlie Card last night, since they're finally converting Porter Square. (In the past, I've just traded tokens for single-use tickets ( Read more... )

Youtube is correct to stick a big fat ">"-shaped play button in the middle of their embedded player, and then make the entire player clickable on top of that - no matter where you click, it plays the video. Which is fine, since what else would you want to do with it ( Read more... )