This morning, I received what looks like a robo-response email from Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in response to a letter I sent two days ago urging her to vote NO on SOPA and NO on PIPA. I appreciate the prompt reply from her staff (and the robot responder in her office), but unfortunately it appears … Continue reading »
Posted in January 2012 …
Want to STOP SOPA / STOP PIPA? Use these tools and be involved.
The STOP SOPA / NO on SOPA / NO on PIPA movement has become an unprecedented online show of solidarity, demonstrating to Congress that individuals working together are just as influential as well-funded corporate interests when we put our minds to it. If you know about SOPA or PIPA but don’t know how you can make … Continue reading »
The Internet in 2011 by the numbers [Royal Pingdom]
So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube? The website Royal Pingdom has posted answers to these questions … Continue reading »
STOP SOPA: An Open Letter to Senator Al Franken
This is a letter I sent to Senator Al Franken on 12 January 2012. I live in Minnesota, the state for which Franken is a senator. In 2008, I was a campaign activist for Al Franken’s senate campaign, operating volunteer call operations on behalf of his campaign and canvassing door-to-door to solicit votes on his … Continue reading »
Getting Your Google+ Profile and WordPress blogs linked and +1′d
This is a solution I came up with for WordPress bloggers who are looking to improve their page rank in Google search results, integrate their Google Plus profiles with their WordPress blogs and improve visitor traffic from their blog to their Google+ posts and from Google+ back to their their WordPress blogs. This solution does … Continue reading »
Poor People Not Paying Enough Taxes: A GOP Obsession
“Republicans complaining about the households not paying enough who also want to cut taxes overall are asking the poor to subsidize a tax cut for the rich…” Here’s a fresh quote from the latest non-Romney front-runner in the GOP presidential race: “This dividing of America [between] 99-1,” Rick Santorum said this morning in New Hampshire, “It’s anybody that … Continue reading »
Want your kids to be better liars? Punish them. [Jezebel]
Punishment Just Teaches Kids To Be Better Liars Screaming at your toddler for finger-painting your computer won’t deter future acts of deviant self-expression, but it will probably help her tell a more convincing lie in ten years about the missing vodka in your liquor cabinet. In a study most likely funded by crafty, far-sighted children hoping to … Continue reading »
Is Lady Gaga a Satanist Illuminati Slave?
Pop-music’s strangest conspiracy theories I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati—the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power—but I know he’s been trying very hard. Numerous people online tell me so. There is, for starters, a … Continue reading »
Marketing 101: Will Boring Package Design Make Teens Stop Smoking?
According to the British Heart Foundation, more than a quarter of teenagers make assumptions about the harm of cigarettes from the wrapping. Heart health campaigners urged the British government Thursday to follow Australia’s lead and ban all eye-catching designs and branding from cigarette packs to stop young people being lured into smoking. Australia is preparing to … Continue reading »
