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Eight Year Old Son
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I'm so glad that my son is eight,
because now he's more emotionally mature than I am......and has been for four years.
Chris Harrington
my brother
Give Plasma
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I gave plasma earlier today. It made me sleepy later, but I was OK over all. I encourage you to contact your local community blood center and make a donation, especially plasma or platelets. Chemotherapy patients especially need platelets.
Update: Here's the link for Community Blood Center of South Florida. There's a link on there to the America's Blood Centers too.
You can dooo eeet!
A Service Agreement is Better Than a Terms of Service
A woman named Ariel Waldman was harassed on Twitter, and complained about it for two years. She asked them to take action because the harassment was in violation of Twitter's terms of service. Ariel sounded off about it on her blog and other people have posted about it too, like Violet Blue.
In response, after two years, Twitter has decided the best course of action is to modify their terms of service. Thomas Hawk says it's like changing the law after the fact of a crime, which doesn't help the victim.
My thought is that by having a terms of service, Twitter's stance is self-protection from the get-go. Changing the terms of service to further wash their hands of the situation is actually keeping in character with a "terms of service", if you think about it.
"Terms of service" feels like: "Here are our terms for your use of our service." Get my drift?
What's really needed for online "tools" that are going to support a community is a service agreement. In major technology contracts or services a consumer can expect what's called "service level agreement". A service agreement would have more the feel of: "Here's what you will agree to abide by with your use of the service, and in return, here's what we will do for you if there are problems."
I think more sites should adopt a service agreement instead of, or in addition to a terms of service.
Matt Is Blogging (again): It's a Songful Life
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Matt (of Matt & Phil's Band fame) is blogging (again). This time, he's at: It's a Songful Life. Matt will be discussing why he got into songwriting, talking about important and inspirational songs, and interviewing songwriters. Your truly is mentioned, and may be interviewed, who knows?!
Check out Matt's It's a Songful Life and subscribe to his feed.
Changing Comment Approval
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The people who comment around here are typically the people who comment most around here, if that makes any sense. It's infrequent I get a comment from a new visitor.
Therefore, I'm going to make a change to the comment approval process:
- I'm making an "approved commenters" table. If you're in this table (by email addy) then your comments always go live no matter what. This will be a short list of my family and friends. Use it, don't abuse it!
- I'm going to add something where a commenter who has been approved on one post can continue to comment on that post w/o needing to be approved.
It's custom software. I can do that. I'm not a web nerd for nothing.
I still reserve the right to delete anything people put on my site with prejudice.
When will this be implemented? What do you get when you cross and elephant with a rhinoceros?
Softball Player Carried Around Bases By Opponents
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This video was emailed to me by mom. This restores my faith in humanity, and gives me hope for the future of baseball:
Way to be, team!
D20
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My friend Matt said I was like a "dungeons and dragons dice" today, because he never knows what I'm going to say.
He didn't know what the highest side dice was. "I think I'd have to invent the 50 sided die for you man." Personally, I take it as being called d20... That's a good compliment.
Thanks, buddy.
Doeo
Here's a fun game called Doeo. It's been described as "whack-a-mole with Katamari Damacy’s aesthetics". (Via)
Pope Palpatine?
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With apologies to Catholics everywhere... Is it just me, or does Pope Benedict XVI look an awful lot like Emperor Palpatine? For me, it's the sunken eyes that cinch it.
Apparently it's not just me, because this image was in the first page of results for Pope Benedict XVI on Google Images:
Sincerely, no disrespect meant at all. Maybe the guy needs some Cleansing Raspberry Scrub?
And of course, we have to link to Benedict Says..., a fun online generator that let me make this image.
I'm going straight to hell now, I just know it.
Ghostly Swim Album
Record label Ghostly International and modern cult classic programmers Adult Swim have paired up for a compilation of new music and art.
The entire album can be downloaded for free here. The compilation includes a live version of a track from Tycho's upcoming release. I really enjoy his music and art. Check it out!
