Pardon the pun my friends, but the P2P VoIP application made by the same kids who gave us KaZaaAAaAAaa, or however you spell it, has finally come to OS X!
Getting bored of strangers IMing you asking you personal questions at all hours? Move up to the world of Skype, where strangers from ALL OVER THE WORLD cannot only ask you personal questions at all hours, but do it with their own voice.
Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t, but the new browser to use is Firefox, coming out of the Mozilla camp, which came out of Netscape, which was bought and then killed by AOL Time Warner.
Firefox is fantastic. Not only do they include some very helpful things like a magnificent in-page Find tool and tabbed browsing (once you use it, you can never go back, I promise), but they also have an added “Extension” feature where you can easily (it can’t be any easier than they make it really) download add-ons to the browser. Some of my favorites are theGmail Notifier, Mouse Gestures, and the Translation Panel. New extensions come every day almost, so you can really make the browser do whatever you need to it do to fit your personal web-usage style.
If you haven’t already, check it out, get to know it, because it’s already making the big boys scared!
Visit: Firefox
Sometimes I find stuff on the super information highway that makes me sad I don’t do more. My website has been coming soon for like 10 years, and my blog really isn’t that pretty.
dlanham.com is one of those things.
AND it’s best viewed with Safari or FIREFOX! What a guy! Check out his lovely illustrations and mac icons. “In A Pickle” as been my desktop for a while now.
Send your eyeballs here: David Lanham
So Bush an company are up to it again with another Astroturfing campaign, and I think this search string for this one is my favorites.
If you’re not aware, “astroturfing” is the practice of going to measures to give the appearance of FAKE GRASS-roots support, hence the name “astroturf”. I’m sure the cleverness makes you want to fall off the sidewalk!
Why CBS didn’t really mess up.
Ok, so CBS and Dan Rather aired those documents that bloggers the world over proved were false simply by comparing them to MS Word formatted copies thereby showing that these purportedly old documents matched the modern format, which didn’t exist on old typewriters back then. That’s ok.
Bush and friends were scared though, and they didn’t come forth with any light-shedding statements about this shady period in Dubbya’s service past anyway, but that’s ok too.
The most important reason why CBS didn’t screw up by airing this story, in my opinion, is that they were able to steal the light from the republican-made sideshow centering around Kerry’s Vietnam service.
For the past week or so, everyone’s been up in a tizzy about what the documents mean, where they came from, are they real? are they fake?, and in the world of popular opinion and media focus, a week is like a lifetime.
As we get closer to November, every day counts in the campaigns of both parties. As I’ve learned from study of campaigns past, those behind the scenes are constantly trying to either shine or steal the spotlight from the other, to define the topic and the tone of the discourse. And, like what they tell you on the first day of debate class, usually the person controlling the argument ends up winning.
It is my opinion that CBS may have done this on purpose, to do just that, take the spotlight from the Republicans for a little bit. So, before you go running around talking about how silly CBS is, think about this for a second. They’ve been around for a long, long time. They know what they’re doing.
I’m sure there’ll be another week of “I told you so” and hah!”s coming from all around, and that’s great, it’s perfect. Good job CBS. You did well.