by Jim Stitzel | Sep 11, 2008 | General
I love how every time I turn around, there’s a new “1,000,000 for/against [some random cause].” The latest I’ve seen is “1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout[1].” Why is one million always the magic number for these groups? In...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 20, 2008 | General
I was one of those chess geeks in high school that people like to make jokes about. We would meet once a week as a team for a little instruction and to scrimmage for an hour or two, and we went to half a dozen tournaments a year to compare brains with other chess...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 11, 2008 | General
The problem with the beta version of Facebook 2.0 (3.0?) is that the site’s behavior changes at least once an hour so that you think something’s broken until you realize that the coding gurus simply toggled a feature. It’s just a little bit maddening...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 5, 2007 | Asides
Ok, this is amusing. I just noticed on my Facebook news feed that someone joined a group called “I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head.” What’s amusing about this is that once you join a group, it shows up in your...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 22, 2007 | Technology
A little Reclaimer fun I’ve had in Photoshop today: I’ve been toying with the idea of taking advantage of the new Facebook feature of pages, and I whipped up this little screenshot with title and URL for that purpose. A smaller version of the above, with...