What if the Facebook (Un)Privacy Revolution Is a Good Thing? →
Scary 'cause I'm not exactly sure he's wrong about Facebook continuously changing the definition of online privacy.
414. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.
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Self-Portrait
- Nikon D90
- 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S VR DX Nikkor zoom lens
- ISO 200, f10, 0.5 second exposure, 18mm zoom
- Vibration reduction
- No flash
- 6 second timer
- Adobe Photoshop CS 3 crop, noise reduction postprocessing
We all used to be younger. Except Richard Alpert. Gotta love that man.Jack, Ben, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, Desmond, and Richard from Lost. Large version here.
Strategies for Winning Consumer Disputes →
And I'll add: just keep at it. They'll get annoyed eventually.
erik:
HOLY SHIT! I had forgotten a lot of these. ENJOY!
A few of these were actually explained, but as to the others? "It's a story about the characters."
CSS/HTML5 Star Wars Intro Crawl Text →
Be sure to read about the Webkit CSS used in the Ajaxian link and view it in Safari.
Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order →
The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Petraeus, authorizes the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly and hostile nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to gather intelligence and build ties with local forces.I'm not sure why this is news, other than the military's increasing independence from other intelligence agencies.
No Longer 'Lost,' But Fans Are Still Searching →
But when the entire island story line we had been following for six seasons turned out not to matter very much within the internal organization of the show's narrative — to be largely disconnected from that final quasi-religious resolution of the plot — it was deflating, despite the warm feelings the finale otherwise inspired.
Rendered insignificant, in this scenario, were the particulars of what they had done on the island. Pushing buttons, building rafts, blowing up hatches, living, dying — all the churning action and melodrama that made "Lost" so addictive in its early seasons — none of it was directly connected to this final outcome, beyond the fact that it constituted "the most important part" of all their lives.