Megalomania.me

I just tried to use Google Offers to buy something ($100 massage for $50). Google Offers would only let me pay through Google Wallet. But I don’t use Google Wallet. So I went to turn Google Wallet on in my Google account, and it wouldn’t let me turn it on because it didn’t like the cookie settings in Google Chrome. I block cookies from third-party sites, which I believe is the default setting, but I added an exception to allow cookies from google.com, and it still didn’t work. No cookie settings approval means no Google Wallet, which means no Google Offers, which means no half-price massage.

This is not how a service works when its developers actually want it to succeed.

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.