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http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/04/13/google-calendar-all-your-appointments-belong-to-us/

Let’s think about this:

Google knows where you live and work. (local + maps)

Google knows what you search for. (suggest)

Google knows what’s on your computer. (toolbar)

Google only gives you what your government thinks you should have. (hello, China)

Google knows what you sell and how much of it (adwords + analytics)

Google reads your email. (Gmail)

Google knows who you’re meeting with when. (calendar)

Google at some point may have to bend over and give …

Every now and then I get a seriously major craving for cookies. But, not being a big baker, I don’t usually have all the accoutrements you need to make fantastic cookies. Plus there’s the limited attention span and steadfast refusal to use measuring tools … etc.

So here you go. Seven ingredients even I had lying around. 15 minutes total. Boop helped. Yum.

2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
dash of salt
handful of nuts …

I don’t watch many movies. A friend of mine absolutely insisted that I watch Tsotsi, and so I did. Simply unbelievably beautiful. The power of human decency in unlikely circumstances. The main character begins as a wild-eyed monster and ends up a human being. A must-watch. Go see it.

or is it??

In-Sleep Advertising - the marketer’s “dream”

This past Sunday, I went to Soul Sanctuary, which is a family-friendly dance jam over at Ashkenaz, a Berkeley institution. It was a lovely experience. It felt like Church in the best sense of the word: community, openness, joy. Nice music, nice Berkeley hippie folk, no rules, just music and moving and grooving. Cool. So after the dance, we had a little circle time. The DJ told us that his …

Hurray! The day has finally arrived! The boop, Gramma, Aunt Sweetie and I are heading off to the Big Island for a week of fun in the sun. I am completely and totally unavailable to all of you people by email and by phone. In essence, I am going to pretend that none of you exist for 7 days. You can own me body and soul again when I step …

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

Rumor has it that Apple is working with this technology and trying to make it a reality. I found my mouth literally watering several times during this video. Bye-bye carpal tunnel. Bye-bye ridiculously outdated input devices that (mis)interpret your every gesture. Hello Minority Report interfacing.

It’s good to be alive at this point in time.

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Hey! There’s a name for what I am! Those darn demographickers… leave it to them to finally find a pigeonhole to put me into.

From

who looks at everyday items and thinks, “dangit, this wasn’t designed correctly!”

This is Broken!

and

Bad Designs

and of course there’s

Worst Web Design

Look at all these things and you will realize why I am often so cranky. Other than not having enough coffee, I mean. People glop products together like they are mud pies without sufficient thought to a) how it will be used b) common sense c) the laws …