httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8OEuj6-pVg

http://malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/

I wouldn’t be surprised if Malcolm Gladwell himself is behind this.

My favorite one:

Zappos gives me these four shipping options:

1-Business Day Shipping – FREE!

Standard Shipping (4-5 business days) – FREE!

Priority Mail (3 or more business days) – $7.00

2-Business Day Shipping – $15.00

So if I want to pay nothing, I can get it in one day. Or I could pay nothing and wait four or five days for it. And for those people who insist on paying for something that’s free, there’s the option to pay $15 for it to take twice as long, or $7 for at least three times as long.

I want to be a fly on the wall in the conference room where they come up with this.

Is it normal for a song written in 1967 and recorded in 1970 to have a music video?

Because this is one of my absolute favorites, and apparently it does, and it’s trippy and weird.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKvg2IBjbBY

A year ago, I signed up for a revolutionary service that crowdsources credit card fraud identification and reporting. It’s called Billguard.

You should sign up for it. Stop what you’re doing right now and go to https://www.billguard.com/. It’s free and it’s a fantastic product.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82kF8sidYas

You know how some of your more gullible facebook friends have been posting a status that they think will protect their data from being accessed now that facebook is a publicly-traded company? Your friends are kind of being idiots. Elinor Mills on CNET:

If you’ve been on Facebook this week, you may have seen a status update now making the rounds that purports to explain how to safeguard your privacy on the service. Which sounds great, but for one thing: It’s pretty much bogus… Pretty much everything about the message is inaccurate or misleading… Facebook users — like those of any other site — can’t simply override the site’s Terms of Use agreement with an after-the-fact disclaimer like this one.

Summary: this status is a chain letter, and if you don’t like Facebook’s terms of service, go vote to have them changed or stop using the site.

The iPad will get Siri in iOS 6, according to CNET:

Citing “trusted sources,” Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac says the voice assistant will land on the tablet this fall with nearly all the features currently found on the iPhone 4S, short of making phone calls.

“Music playback, iMessaging, Calendar managing, Reminders, Weather, Maps integration, E-mailing, Notes, Contacts searching, Safari integration, Wolfram-Alpha searching, and more are all present,” the report claims.

Not so fast. Siri requires an internet connection to be useful. For the iPhone, Siri makes sense because, in theory, an iPhone always has an internet connection available – preferably wifi if it’s an option, but a cellular connection if not – 4G, 3G, EDGE. iPads aren’t like that. Many iPads are only wifi-capable. Of those that have cellular data capabilities, many of them don’t have data plans in any given month.

How do you think an old person who doesn’t know a lot about computers would feel if he took his wifi iPad to a public place and then tried to use it to ask Siri for directions, but Siri told him to fuck off because she couldn’t access the maps information online?

Siri on an iPad would have to address the reality that many iPads are not connected to the internet much of the time. By including Siri on iPads in iOS 6, Apple would be sending the message that you shouldn’t buy a wifi iPad, or a cellular data iPad without a data plan. But then, why make wifi-only iPads available at all?