I just came accross a Newsweek article on Twitter, posted by Dr. Petra, that made my mouth drop open and remain agape for the entire duration of reading. It exposes a practice that's been going on at the Mt. Sinai medical center in NY that involves giving pregnant mothers sterroids for the purpose of preventing their daughters from being born with ambiguous genetalia, masculine features, inclinationsn to pursue masculine careers, or being lesbians.

From the article (hint: click the blue arrow to access the excerpt in subtext):

Seriously, WTF?

 7/2/2010; 9:41:10 PM.   .

If you've ever been to Best Buy before, you will probably have noticed that the so-called "Geek Squad" is pretty much the most incompetent group of tech poseur n00bs ever to walk to planet. It seems this is an image Best Buy wants to uphold, as the one Geek Squad employee to exhibit some competency level beyond that of a Comcast tech-support representative, is now being forced out of his job.

The offense: Making this amazing viral video illustrating the irrationality of Apple consumers:

From examiner.com:

>>>"Unless you live under a rock or donŐt enjoy funny things, you have probably seen the hilarious video called iPhone 4 versus HTC EVO that depicts a potential iPhone 4 customer dealing with a salesman trying to showcase the features the EVO has over the new iPhone.

Best Buy however, did not find it enjoyable, and they are now trying to fire the employee who made the video, 25 year old Brian Maupin from Kansas City, Missouri. He apparently has been selling phones for the company for three and a half years but is now suspended indefinitely because of the video and the attention itŐs gotten.

In his words:

They felt it disparaged a brand they carried (iPhone/Apple) as well as the store itself and were fearful of stockholders & customers being turned off to Best Buy Mobile."<<<

If Best Buy had any concept whatsoever of what it's present consumer base enjoys, they would have used this video to its advantage to enhance its image. Instead, it threw a public tantrum. If I was a Best Buy stockholder, I would realize this company is out-of-touch, at best, and pull out.

 7/2/2010; 9:29:48 PM.   .

I just came accross a Newsweek article on Twitter, posted by Dr. Petra, that made my mouth drop open and remain agape for the entire duration of reading. It exposes a practice that's been going on at the Mt. Sinai medical center in NY that involves giving pregnant mothers sterroids for the purpose of preventing their daughters from being born with ambiguous genetalia, masculine features, inclinationsn to pursue masculine careers, or being lesbians.

From the article:

Seriously, WTF?

 7/2/2010; 6:10:51 PM.   .

Infographic by PPC Blog

Via Lisa Hiatt

Update testing

 7/2/2010; 12:54:36 PM.   .

I don't think the "subtext" feature is working.

Also, I tried to insert an image from its source on Wikimedia Commons with HTML and it didn't render in the post.

Also, that bit I copied and pasted from Wikipedia apparently isn't rendering either...

 7/2/2010; 3:26:44 AM.   .

The idea for this online identity came about after reading Douglass Ruskoff's Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace last year. I like the idea of Cyberia as a place which one can inhabit. I spend the majority of my waking hours on the Internet, but you can't really exist in the Internet, and you merely swing through the Web. Cyberia is more of a mental place where Internet denizens like myself can say we "are."

Example: "Yo, where were you for the past 10 hours? I texted you like 5 times!" "Sorry man, I was in Cyberia with my headphones on."

So who am I in this Internet place?

Muse:

The Muses in Greek Mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths. (via Wikipedia)

All I really want to do is inspire people. I usually don't have the attention span to see projects through, and I'd rather share my ideas instead of hoarding them while they go to waste. Too bad there's not a place in today's economy for full-time muses. It's a good hobby to have I guess.

 7/2/2010; 3:21:09 AM.   .

To be able to load a banner and update the style sheet

To learn how to enter data into the sidebar: an avatar pic, info, my blogroll

Spell check in the workspace! Because I am a grammatical stickler and completely dependent on it. See, I probably just spelled grammatical wrong. I'm not sure but I'm doubting myself, which is detracting from the confidence I need to blog.

A master RSS feed for everyone who's pre-Alpha testing Dave's Scripting2 software.

 7/2/2010; 2:53:39 AM.   .

You can't pick me up.

 7/2/2010; 2:51:10 AM.   .

Uh oh. Now it seems the first "Hello world" post shows up, but my second post "Blogging wish list" doesn't. What's going on here?

 7/2/2010; 1:53:30 AM.   .

This is my third entry. While it seems that the first "Hello World" post exists here, it doesn't appear on my blog homepage.

This led me to thinking about whether or not it would be possible to edit the publish date, for if you wanted to back-date or posts for whatever reason or schedule posts to publish at a certain time in the future.

 7/2/2010; 1:52:27 AM.   .