Modern Whaling

I'll be in southern Delaware for the feast day, being sociable with the extended McAvoy (them's my mama's kin) clan.  I hope that you're fortunate enough to be around just the right amount of relatives today, wherever that falls on the following continuum (click for biggering):

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Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook ad that lifted my spirit with tacit promises of existential mystery, surrounded by ethereal whispers of strange love made stranger still by the tenebrous membrane between sanity and madness.  For what is love, if not that gossamer curtain separating the real from the imagined?

Turns out she's a whore.  A lying, filthy, manipulative whore who probably has all the whore crabs in the whole whore world. Because another ad appeared to me today. Read the rest of this entry »

I've added a new page, where you can follow the other doings I partake in around this, our most inter of nets.  I'll be updating it periodically with links to other crap I do, so if you want to catch up/argue with me in areas of the web over which I don't have COMPLETE EDITORIAL CONTROL, this would be the place to do it.  Also, if you've ever wanted to shoot me in the face/chest/groin, there's at least 2 ways to simulate such a thing listed on said page.  You can click this link, or follow the link at the top of the page.  Or you could do neither of those things, because YOU'RE YOUR OWN DAMN PERSON FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Damn it, Facebook.  First the assumptions about me and Asian girls, then your rude, but not entirely off-base questioning of Conor's hetero-sity, and now this.  Read the rest of this entry »

My "friend" and "band"-mate, Conor found this today, when he was making God cry looking at my facebook pictures.  For an explanation of why this ad appeared, please see this post.  For an explanation why it appeared while Conor was browsing my facebook pics, please go to his house with pitchforks and torches.

This is the edited version he sent me.  I had NOTHING to do with this.  Here's a larger version of the picture in question.

Kay Hagan and Elizabeth "the reason Bob takes Viagra" Dole are competing for a Senate seat in North Carolina.  Senator Dole's campaign recently launched a campaign ad that accuses Hagan of associating with atheists, and even being an atheist herself.    You can see most of Dole's attack, and Hagan's subsequent defense here:

Hagan got it wrong, just like Obama got it wrong, when he was accused of being Muslim.  There's only one right answer to this question:   Read the rest of this entry »

I was worried for a while that the much-maligned New Facebook would spell the end of my world-famous and much-beloved Facebook Finds.  In many ways, it has.   However, today, I found this multi-faceted gem, at once erotic, horrifying, hilarious, and possibly racist (the 4 Pillars of The Internet).  

Facebook uses targeted advertising.  So the ads you see are directly related to what's in your profile.  This is why I see ads for Chuck Palahniuk books, Comic- Con, and Gamefly.  WTF then, is this doing on my page?  You're welcome to look through my profile and look for that section where I say such fantastically sensitive things as: "OMG, I Can't Wait 2 Totally Tokyo Drift Some Asian Hottiez!!!1!!! L0LZ!!!!!!111!"  But I can't find it.

Here's what my fevered brain came up, trying to explain this to itself.

1.) Goofy programming mixup
2.) I do use the term "Pandas" pretty whorishly throughout my profile.
3.) Facebook knows more about my college years than it probably should.

[with apologies to Alyssa]

If you're using RSS, you'll want to update your feed URL tomorrow at noon Eastern time.  I'm switching away from Feedburner, in hopes of doing some interesting things in the future.  If this is the last post you've seen in your RSS reader for a while, it's because you didn't switch.

Don't use RSS?  Move along, jerk.

iNap is a new iPhone applicaion that I think is genius in it's simplicity.  iPhones are relatively location-aware via a combination of GPS, wi-fi, and cell tower triangulation.  Even the older models (like your humble correspondent's) can get it within a few blocks.

iNap combines that location awareness with Google Maps and an alarm to make the life of anyone who travels by public transportation a little bit easier.  You simply pick a location, and when the iPhone gets near enough, it sounds the alarm.  

It's like saying "wake me up when we get there" to a friend, except this time your friend is tiny and shiny and fits in your pocket and has 3 Arsis albums on it.

via Lifehacker

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