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Category: Of Interest
Those miscellaneous things that just must be published.
You call this news?!
With the current state of paywalls and news organizations, I am pretty sure I could grab a handful of journalist students from a university and put a hurt on the Boston Globe or Scripps Newspapers such as the Knoxnews. Yes, you read that correctly. I believe am amateur hack like me plus a handful of inexperienced young journalists could take on the major publishers and win.
Why? Because they have forgotten their core business is delivering news! And don’t whine to me about monetization. Or that I don’t understand the challenges of funding a news business because from the looks of it the big organizations don’t know how either! I’ll rest my case with this screen capture of Boston.com. Look closely for the story. There is none! Why? Probably because I’m not logged in. All it shows is a tabloidish title "Builders of Obama’s health website saw red flags" designed to drawn in pageviews then a webpage full of links to social networks, unrelated articles, and a couple of ads. This is not news:
Meanwhile, not in America…
2016 is going to be weird
Walt Gives Hank the Wrong CD
How to sell paper books? Give away the digital edition!
. Brilliant move!The Real Reason Jessie Pinkman Sold Drugs
He’s Batman!
Breaking Bad’s Newest Druglord
RIP Google Latitude
I loved the concept of a mapping service that would show me where my friends and family were in real time. In use though, it never really worked so I’m not surprised to see Google shutdown Latitude. I’m still disappointed. I saw such opportunity. Perhaps Waze will make up for it.
Google Latitude was retired on August 9th, 2013. Products retired include Google Latitude in Google Maps for Android, Latitude for iPhone, the Latitude API, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude.
Gyroscopically stable beer device
Ever been at a club and wondered, "Man, how can that white dude keep from spilling his beer?"
Bryan Cranston Chats with Walter White
I love Breaking Bad. And Bryan Cranston and Jimmy Fallon are brilliant.
Computers are magic
And this is why non-techie people think I can do anything.
A disturbance in the force
As if millions of teenage boys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a preventive double mastectomy, she revealed Tuesday in The New York Times.
[Source, Huffington Post, Double Mastectomy: Why Angelina Jolie Had Breast Removal Surgery]
Help Me Internet, You’re Our Only Hope
An American Seating Envoy school desk sits in our dining room. Our children used to study here. As an authentic school desk, it had seen its fair amount of usage. Years of students leaning on the desk stressed the weld and bent the support. As Cathy refinished the wood and re-painted the metal, I searched for someone to straighten or replace the support and spot weld the broken joint. A friend stepped up, and offered to handle it for me. 
And then I never saw the desktop again…
His job changed. He quit coming to the coffee house where we shared more conversations. Then he quit answering my calls and text messages. 
I suspect that the desktop is history. So I turn to you, the people of the Internet!
Can you help me find a replacement desktop for an American Seating Co. Envoy desk from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I do not know the year of manufacture. The only identifying mark beside the manufacturer stamp is the number 17 stamped on the back. Do you know this desk? Do you have a resource to help me replace the top? Thank you Internet!
