Megalomania.me

Article about Limited Run in CNET:

“we started to experiment with Facebook ads… Facebook was charging us for clicks, yet we could only verify about 20% of them actually showing up on our site… We built our own analytic software… only about 1-2 percent of people coming to us have JavaScript disabled, not 80% like these clicks coming from Facebook… We built a page logger… The 80 percent of clicks we were paying for were from bots. That’s correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up our advertising costs.”

Funny how this apparent error on the Facebook benefits Facebook a lot by driving up advertising revenue, which is a crucial mission for them right now.

I wonder if there are any concurrent errors that benefit the advertisers.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA

Sometimes it’s cold and foggy when I’d like it to be warm and sunny.

And sometimes people shit all over the place. Yeah, literally. People. Shit. All over the place.

SFGate:

When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco’s Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team. While the sheer volume of human waste was surprising, its presence was not… All those biological excretions can gum up the wheels and gears of BART’s escalators, shutting them down for long periods of extended repairs, increasing station cleaning costs and creating an unpleasant aroma for morning commuters… Officers have to witness someone in the act to issue a citation…

But don’t worry, the city is going to clean this up for us:

BART officials have recently begun meeting with San Francisco authorities to explore ways of cleaning up the 16th Street plaza. Those conversations could easily evolve to encompass the downtown stairwells… [emphasis added]

Sometimes I love living in San Francisco, and sometimes it seems a little bit like what I’d expect from a place like Brazzaville.

I used to think that a person hadn’t really watched The Ten Commandments until he’d watched it backwards (yes, this was a favorite Easter activity from my childhood).

But now I know that you’ve never really watched The Ten Commandments until you’ve watched it as a teen romantic comedy:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs

I blew an electrical fuse in my apartment and had five very harrowing minutes as I worried that I’d have to spend the entire evening without internet access because I couldn’t be bothered to move my router to a different room.

Then I remembered that I know how to open a fuse box and flip the switch. Because I lived in Israel for seven years.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyHI

More awesomeness here.

But no sign of an updated Mac Mini.

You were good while you lasted.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kfPPZ50R_Q

Brilliant.