Making the rounds:
Escribir corto, para concluir antes de hastiar.
Making the rounds:
I want to resign from the Facebook gift program.
Iām pondering the fate of a half-eaten jar of strawberry jam in my refrigerator. This jam, purchased by a houseguest, is not organic. I never ingest conventionally grown strawberries, as they contain higher levels of pesticides than I believe to be healthful. My quandary: If I throw the jam away, I will be wasting food; if I serve the jam to others, I will be offering something I consider dangerous. Which is the larger transgression?
The Ethicist, New York Times Sunday Magazine, 23 December 2012
The Ethicist column has taken a turn for the ridiculous since Klosterman took over.
Watching: The Box.
Listening to: Rancid’s Let’s Go.
For those instances when people want to connect but have no connections at all, Facebook is testing a way that lets them pay $1 to send messages directly into your inbox rather than your Other folder. Facebook said “several commentators and researchers” think a fee will keep unwanted messages out and encourage relevant messages…
Facebook to spammers: we have one billion users, pay us one dollar each to spam them.
Listening to: Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush.
How is it that when I search Amazon for “table salt,” the product they think I actually want to buy is Kirkland Signature USDA Organic No-Salt Seasoning 14.5 oz?
It’s been a wild month.
Great times with my Movember 2012 mustache, but I’m glad it’s over for this year.
It’s not unethical to give wine to the wino bums who plague your neighborhood. So writes Chuck Klosterman, who somehow got to be the New York Times ethicist. I guess refusing to indulge them would be “gentrification.”
Lifehacker’s introduction to Markdown. If you write a lot of stuff like notes, lists, plans, ideas, &c. try doing it in Markdown and see if it doesn’t make things smoother, cleaner, more logical and easier to understand, and see if you don’t save hours that you would have spent formatting.
Good thing San Francisco is so serious about eradicating crime.
Medical history for every US president. Some parts are highly speculative, but it’s a really cool way to look into the lives of historical figures, individually and as a group.