Archive for July, 2008
Stupid Browser Tricks
Published July 22nd, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: audio, browser, business meetings, conference calls, fluid, Humor, rimshot, sad trombone, ssb.Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs, are a relatively new concept in which you basically create an application which is designed just to browse to a particular website. It gets its own icon, memory space, set of cookies, and the like, so you can treat it just like an application.
The best SSB creator, at the moment, [...]
Obama Family Dog petition
Published July 17th, 2008 in pets. 1 Comment Tags: adoption, dogs, obama, Politics, shelters.I don’t normally push online petitions, the theory being that the ease with which a petition is generated, circulated, and signed is inversely proportional to the influence it has on those addressed (online petitions are too easy to do and therefore less meaningful).
But this one I think has a chance:
If Sen. Barack Obama becomes [...]
Online Insecurity
Published July 17th, 2008 in blog. 2 Comments Tags: blogging, comparison, insecurity, Online.Ann Handley is what we north-of-Boston folks call wicked smart. Further evidence of that is found in her recent blog post: “I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest).”
Her point is that this “comparing myself to others” schtick is not new [...]
More than Salad
Published July 15th, 2008 in travel and veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: Guide, happycow, international, morethansalad, Restaurant, travel, vegan, vegetarian, VegGuide.A new entry in the “global vegan restaurant directory” category came to my attention late last week: More than Salad.
While I appreciate the humor in the Terms of Service:
I’m not sure I’d spend a ton of time entering reviews here over my favorite VegGuide, which clearly licenses its content for others to use under a [...]
Vegan Pizza comes to Jamaica Plain
Published July 14th, 2008 in veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: Boston, Jamaica Plain, JP, pizza, pizzeria, T.J. Scallywaggle's, vegan.(via Maynard, the MARC mailing list, and originally the Jamaica Plain Gazzette)
Steve Carian from T.J. Scallywaggle’s, one of (so far as I can tell) two all-vegan pizzarias in the US (the other is Pizza Pi in Seattle) is opening another place in JP, on the site of the former Felix Pizzaria. It will be [...]
