Via Gawker.com, this just in: a “facebook tipster” (aka facebook programmer) reports that from one’s facebook page, the tables can easily be turned on the five people who stalk you most!
Simply click in the search area on the lefthand column and press the down arrow. Et voila, there it is: five people who previously thought they could watch you from a-far. Wah wah wah.
Post Script: Gawker also notes that this fact is something to share with nerds. Consider yourselves shared-with. I certainly did.
(via Aly)
UPDATE: Somewhat mysteriously, the ‘cheat’ requirements have been modified. Interested parties will now need to hit the spacebar followed by the down arrow. Mr. Zuckerberg, you are one TRICKY TRICKY man.
Oh man . . . my creativity gland is sore from spending the day at the 2008 Maker Faire. I don’t even have the energy to make a video of it; below are some photo highlights.
If you live in the Bay Area: GO!
It’s happening tomorrow (Sunday) also.
GO! . . . and be crafty.
With the new Indiana Jones movie less than a month away (24 days left), it was only a matter of time until the marketing tie-ins cropped up.
M&Ms offers Indiana Jones M&M candies - like regular M&Ms, but with skulls, pyramids, compass roses, Indy hats, and Precolombian masks printed on them.
LEGO managed to produce cool Indiana Jones sets months ago (though I still can’t find them in stores).
[LINK to their nice LEGO Indiana Jones wallpapers].
Here are two photos from the Digg front page that were too irresistible to pass up. Say what you will about Microsoft, Apple, and the people who use them, but no one can argue that this is simply not smart business!
Blogadilla co-author Allison and I decided that we can make better “tiki bar” drinks than most Tiki Bar franchises. Here’s the first installment of what we’ve dubbed “The Boozadilla Project” - behold “Noah’s Ark”:
Noah’s Ark ingredients:
• 1 watermelon
• plastic animals
• 2 shots vodka
• 2 shots white rum
• 2 shots coconut rum
• 2 shots gin Get it? “Noah’s Ark” - 2 of everything
• 2 shots fruity-flavored schnapps
• 2 shots lime juice
• 2 shots grenadine
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 1 cup grape soda or strawberry soda
• 1 tray of ice cubes
• 1 sharp knife
• 1 large spoon
• 2-4 straws
Step 1: Cut the top of the watermelon into the ‘ark’ shape above, remove the inside of the watermelon with the large spoon. Cut windows into the side (near the top) of the watermelon, place animals in the windows.
Step 2: Pour all of the ingredients into the hollowed-out watermelon. Garnish with tiny umbrellas.
Serves 2 to 4 people.
And when you’re done drinking, the watermelon also makes a great helmet!
[Note: this is a post from Rebecca, but she's too busy shepherding right now and asked me to post it for her.]
A birthday party last weekend.
The bakery was closed, but the deli was open = meat birthday cake.
Some vegetarians were offended.
That made it funnier.
Last Fall, someone tried repeatedly to break into a neighbor’s apartment - windowscreens torn or pulled off, and attempts to pry open the window locks. I helped her to better fortify her windows and I decided it would be wise to protect my own.
I went with minor antipersonnel gardening: planter boxes beneath all of the windows, each filled with cacti. The project itself cost around $25 for each antipersonnel planter box, and it took an afternoon to do. IKEA (at the time) had sets of 3 small cacti for ~$5.00 and single large cacti for ~$5.00 each.
Some points to consider:
• This won’t prevent anyone from breaking in if they are hellbent on doing so. It provides ‘disincentive’ - making it uncomfortable or more difficult to casually approach and open windows from the outside. They provide a visual threat (I’ve considered adding poison oak to some of the planter boxes, also).
• The cost is relatively low.
• It is easy to do - Screw the planter box into the bottom of the window sill. I suggest you use BBQ tongs or pliers to handle the cacti when you’re planting them.
• It is easy to maintain - Cacti are low-maintenance and often only need watering on a monthly basis.
• It looks cool - every time I look out the window, it looks like I’m in Arizona.
Head over to BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com for randomly generated, positive sentences (often with a geeky tinge) about Barack Obama that are amusing even if at times non sequitur. A few amusing ones that were just generated for me:
“Barack Obama wanted you to have some cupcakes.”
“Barack Obama followed you on Twitter.”
“Barack Obama picked you up at the airport.”
“Barack Obama carries a picture of you in his wallet.”
OK, OK, moderately funny and definitely bizarre, but like so many other web phenomenons, this site’s success has brought along its fair share of copycats, my favorite of which has got to be HillaryIsMomJeans.com. The site’s format is nearly identical to Barack…Bicycle.com, but instead of Pro-Obama phrases, HillaryIsMomJeans contains non-sensical negative Hillary-phrases.
It’s not that I hate Hillary, or even that I think what makes this site funny is about being negative to Hillary, but rather, identifying with the things other people seem hate. Hillary Clinton just happens to be a vehicle for this hillarity. A few choice phrases I’ve come across so far are:
“Hillary folded the map wrong.”
“Hillary always says ‘Knock, Knock’ when she enters your office.”
“Hillary asked you to pick up her drycleaning.”
“Hillary did not make lemonade out of lemons.”
So, the question is whether these are subliminally effective. I’d say very likely. It might be easy to just laugh at the ridiculousness of such a proposition, but at the same time, it’s so easy to click through the phrases on these sites, that one can’t help chuckling, and ultimately leaves the site with a slightly more positive feeling for Obama, or in the latter case, a negative sentiment toward for Hillary, for things she didn’t even do.
If you love pranks, or are just an a$$hole and want to piss off/lose your friends, you may or may not want to check out CalltheFuture.org, a unique service that until April Fools’ Day, I had never heard of. Sure, I’m a little late bringing to the site, but this is still worth addressing for all y’all Dillas out there.
Before I get started, however, let me state that CalltheFuture makes it clear that their service is not to be used for pranks. I personally would never do this, nor advocate it, but that doesn’t mean my buddy (who will remain nameless) wouldn’t… So again, I’m not advocating this– just bringing some interesting knowledge I happened across to the Dillasphere.
CalltheFuture’s service is marketed as a tool to help people remind themselves about important future engagements, from meetings and appointments to other responsibilities, allowing users to schedule “courtesy” calls in the future to any phone number they choose at any given time. In theory, this could be very useful, such as if I have to pick up my buddy from the airport at 3pm a week from now and I’m worried I might forget– I can just schedule a call for 12 noon that day to remind me. Sweet, right? Just type in a string of text you want read to you, plug in the phone number you want to call, type in the number you want to show up as the caller ID(!), and choose one of 7 voices (male or female, aged 30-55) you want to read your text. The rest, as they say, is magic.
Sure, CTF can be useful, but the possibility of tomfoolery is large. My advice is this: don’t not not pull pranks on your friends, such as setting up calls to your roommate at 5am daily, or programming nasty calls to your ex-girlfriend every hour on the hour.
Last week’s episode of NBC’s “30 Rock” featured a fictitious reality TV show called “MILF Island” (clip below).
“Holy Hot Mamas!
But who will be the final Mommy You’d Like to . . . you know . . . ?
Twenty MILFs, fifty eighth grade boys, and no rules!
And tonight . . . one winner!
Welcome to MILF Island!”
It seems everyone and their mother is on Facebook these days, but people use the site for a variety of different reasons… keeping in touch with friends, procrastinating, getting some random play, playing scrabble with loved ones, stalking secret crushes– the list goes on and on. But how do you use The ‘Book? This comedic ‘infomercial’ delves into the issue.
