Archives for March, 2007

Recent Links

• How Much Has This Meeting Cost?
  Hilarious meeting cost ticker. Thinking about leaving this running the background of the next meeting I'm in.
• Are You Going to San Francisco
  Advice about how to get the most out of living in San Francisco - which is equally true for Portland and Seattle.
• The Variant, a $1 short story by John August
  "After 35 years working at the Central Library, Vincent Lewis has perfected the art of unremarkability. But when a terrified woman falls through his bathroom ceiling, he’s forced back into a life of gunfights, double agents and paranormal research. The secret he’s been keeping for nearly four decades might reunite him with his lost love, or kill millions."
• How to Teach a Child to Argue
  This is brilliant - "Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony."
• Video: Shatner Can't Pull Off The Vulcan Salute, Gives Conan The Bird Instead
  "I don't know what's more adorable: Shatner trying to do the Vulcan salute, or Conan getting so angry that Kirk can't do it, he jumps up on his desk."
• Video: Dramatic Reenactment of Our Son, Eating a Cookie
  "I don't like this part."
• Video: Comcast Support Incident (tracking number #c3494a)
  Hilarious video where Rob learns to not borrow the Comcast guy's vest to make fun of him.
• Let's Panic About Babies!
  "LET’S PANIC ABOUT BABIES will serve as a salve to the mystery and degradation of this most female of challenges. Its authors may not have 'science' on their side, but what they do have is far more valuable: a heady mélange of female intuition, sentence-forming know-how, and the achingly vivid memories of their own gestational journeys and unending motherhoods.”
• A Toxic Paradox
  "I’m not going to walk you through strategies for dealing with toxic people because you’re past that. This person is infecting the team with their toxicity and you’re vastly underestimating the daily damage this person is doing to the group. This article is here to convince you it’s time to make a change."
• How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study
  "The way the @HabitatUK page looks now, is typical of a traditional, push marketing, corporate PR approach. Admit nothing, apologize for nothing, do not engage in conversation, advertise, advertise, advertise. You have to wonder why they’re even bothering being on Twitter in the first place."