Sunday Link Roundup
More of the links that shape my little world.
- As everyone knows, I was meant to be an engineer. Fewer people know that I've wanted to build robots since I saw Star Wars back in 1977 -- big surprise. And now, as my birthday (too) rapidly approaches, Radio Shack chooses to distribute this awesome robotics system. The fools -- ultimate world-conquering power will soon be within my grasp! (link)
- Remember Bob McDonald from CBC's Wonderstruck? He was always outstanding as a science guy -- better than that Bill Nye poser, and more Canadian. Bob's been hosting Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio for almost 15 years, and now CBC has archived episodes of Quirks and Quarks as MP3s; so you can search through the shows for your favourite science questions! (link)
- Take this quiz to see how grammatically correct you are. I'm a Grammar God! (link)
- There are a ton of legal issues associated with blogging these days, mostly because the legal status of electronic communication is largely undefined. To help people be able to blog without fear of repercussions, the EFF has issued some instructions on how to blog anonymously. (link)
- Progressive Boink has issued a list of the 25 best Sesame Street moments. It's a fairly good list overall, with only a couple of things I disagree with. I do think they omitted one of the seminal Sesame Street moments, however -- where's Buffy St. Marie breastfeeding? (link)
- With Google Sightseeing you can take a trip without leaving the comfort of your computer chair. I believe it's limited to North America only, right now. I even found my house! (link)
- Kingdom of Loathing is this great online game that a friend hooked me up with. It's hilarious and has terrible graphics, two things that I look for in an online game. I'm Three Thumb Jake, if you decide you want to say hello. (link)
- Freecycle is a community built on the idea that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Unlike eBay, the items listed here are for free or for trade only -- no cash sales allowed. Regina's Freecycle community has over 500 registered members! (link)
- This video of basketball shots literally had my jaw pasted to the floor. (link)
- storTroopers are doll-like avatars you can dress up with different hairstyles, clothing, and accessories. I normally don't traffic in these sorts of sites, but they do have a large fan following, and Tamara and I spent at least an hour building people, fighting at some points as to whose turn it was. It was more fun that I'd like to admit. (link)
- Hitachi has combined a lesson in hard drive storage with the look and feel of Schoolhouse Rock to bring you Get Perpendicular. It's not only interesting and fun to watch, but it's pretty catchy, too! (link)
- Yes, you can now get Cliff's Notes online. I kinda scanned through it, just in case it was on the exam, but I didn't have time to read the whole thing. (link)
- Skype is free internet telephony. This means that the Skype software will allow you to send and receive voice calls over the internet to anyone also using Skype. Unfortunately, with our free evenings and weekends long distance calling plan, it's not really all that effective in my house, but I suppose we could use it for daytime calls -- if we had anyone to phone. (link)
6 comments:
Deronnnn... do you have instant messaging of some sort? Surely yes. My old hotmail account is my MSN, if you still have that... I do miss speaking with you.
---ML
A massive cult freecycle is taking over the recycling world and making it's members believe that it is totally free. What they do not freely show you upon joining is that they have a budget of $150,000 and counting which they receive from individual and corporate donations .
This group is for former members who have escaped and want to share their experiences of how they were brainwashed and subsequently taken advantage of one gift at a time.
After all it was your items that you offered up and not theirs. Why are you not making anything out of it? Because you have a big heart and want to give. So why should Freecycle be making anything? Please use an email address that you do not or have never used on Freecycle. Remember they have a Freecycle Mod Squad where they secretively pass around information about members and black ball them. So now that you are here.
There is no need to fear here. It is time to recover from this addiction and discover other people like yourself who have felt cheated with caring words about items not ending up in a landfill. Too bad your items are generating money for Freecycle.
Tell us your experiences about Freecycle so that others around the world will not get caught up in this scheme and end up regretting it.
Moderated to keep those freecycle cult members from posting.
Please feel free to post and reply.
Take the above banner link to us and support our recovering members thanks.
Once you join the freecycle.orgy it is hard to stop because after all you are getting done good one gift at a time. Now it is time to turn on over and assume another position.
http://freecycleanonymous.blogspot.com
Deron, post an update.
and delete this freecycle shit.
That basketball video was truly amazing. When are you coming for your shirt?
1. Build a robot. Everyone needs one.
2. You can call me. I am in Europe, so you can call me during the day and wake me up. I will curse. It may make the conversation more exciting.
Ignorant people that think they know what they're talking about annoys me. And I know that's a redundant sentence so don't any of you english critics start harping at me for being hypocritical!
But I digress. Freecycle bad my foot. Freecycle takes one full-time person and a few part-time workers run it. Want a Source for that? Balderdash! Go look it up so you become informed during the process. But once again, I digress. That is why Freecycle needs money. What do you want the now-working-full-time-for-it guy who started Freecycle to do? Get a freecycled apartment (oh wait, landlords are not usually generous) and freecycled food (mmm...sour milk and package of Cheetos left in the back cupboard for ten years)? Freecycled underwear? Oh, come on, I doubt you'd wear that...
The "corporate sponsors" you speak of? Waste Managment and other like-minded organizations that are directly related to Freecycle's goals? The ones that the nearly-starving guy who started Freecycle morally debated whether to allow on the site? Just how far do you think that $150,000 goes? All the expenses for site hosting, memory, trademarks, technical help and graphic consultation? For a sight as large as Freecycle, it's peanuts. Peanuts, my friend! Free peanuts at that. And if they are elephant-grade and extra-salted, all the better.
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