Should You Quit Facebook?

Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook – Facebook – Gizmodo. Facebook’s privacy problems are no secret by now. It seems like the powers behind the social networking platform are always changing things, modifying user privacy settings without ever...

One Million

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...

Lessons In Playing Better Chess

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...

Shifting Seas

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...

Public Secret

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...