Ads for Radio Shack on BestBuy's website
The Life of a DanielIt's not as interesting as it sounds...
Friday humor+musicCatchy...
Upside down ice fishingAwesome.
Hammerhead's Birthday
$2.50 Hammerhead pints!
Sent from my iPhone Rolling in...Dirt Roads
Much as I love Portland, I definitely miss the dirt roads of Montana from time to time. Sure, there are plenty of dirt roads in Oregon, but for some reason they're not the same. Grab entire web pages with Skitch for MacMucho thanks to Lifehacker for pointing out a Skitch feature of which I was unaware... Just drag a url from your browser to the Skitch window to capture the entire page. Read the article on Lifehacker. Or, you know, just scroll down this page to see the Skitch-captured image of the page. :) 
SOPA Is Dead: Smith Pulls Bill
via mashable.com
“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” For the people, by the people... Right? Pretty sure the people spoke up loud and clear. Find a better way. Facebook for iPhone #fail
The Facebook app is switching up peoples' icons again. Keeps me on my toes.
SOPA and the Student
Several sites went black today in protest of SOPA. The idea is to demonstrate what we could lose if the bill passes.
Tonight, my daughter was working on her art paper. She's writing about a current pop artist, and doing her research on the web. Unfortunately, her Google search pointed towards a page on Wikipedia, and was replaced by the black out page.
It was a perfect example of who will suffer if SOPA passes. The web changed the way people acquire information. When I was in school, if I wanted to write a paper about someone, I'd hit the library and try to find some books about that person. I was limited to what was physically present in the library. Now, a global library is available to anyone who knows how to Google. Granted, it requires a bit more fact checking, (What? You mean the Pacific Tree Octopus isn't real?!) but the information is out there.
More information about SOPA can actually be found on Wikipedia, and there's a petition to sign on Google.
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