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Whenever I visit my parents, I make sure to visit Target before returning to stupid target-less NYC.  I mean, targets exist here, but not in the wonderful, stocked, convenient glory of the suburbs.  Last weekend, my mom bought me this great lime/mustard green sweater dress with a drawstring.  I secretly suspect that my mom bought it for me because the dress was her favorite color.  BUT I can wear it over tees and in general it’s really cute.   The other best thing about Target, is their designer lines.  I own two things from two lines. [Read more →]

Just read this story about a modern day case of slavery.  This woman “employed” two Indonesian woman.  And by employed I mean she beat them and abused them while they worked for her; after she had confiscated their passports and visas.  The family paid the “housekeepers’” families 100 dollars a month.  Besides, doesn’t she just LOOK like an evil bitch? [Read more →]

Now that Obama is the general election candidate, the media has been focusing on a McCain vs Obama deathmatch; the Huffington Post is featuring “FearWatch ‘08″ and the Washington Post just published this op-ed, calling Obama an “opportunist”.  So the knife is definitely sharp on both sides, as they say.  It is funny, to me, to read the stories in the media about these two media darlings.  The press famously loves McCain, and I think the press was falling in love with Obama during the primary.  But now, those loves duke it on on respective newspapers and newsblogs, resulting in some funny shit.  [Read more →]

7up is the best of the clear liquid sodas.  Not only is it refreshing and bubbly, but it’s not too sweet like sierra mist and sprite are.  Sierra mist and sprite are clear but go down like a syrupy sweet cola whereas 7up tastes like lemony seltzer.  I love 7up. [Read more →]

There are a few things in my childhood that stand out to me now.  One is Sunday nights and Ghostwriter, but even more clearly I remember waiting for my father to finish reading his newpapers so I could read the comics.  And in the comics section was a character that remains and inspiration to me to this day: Calvin.  Hobbes was cool too, but Calvin possessed this unearthly charisma for me- even though he was pen and ink on newspaper.  There are some individual strips that just seem to handily and simply explain the meaning of life, and I’m not kidding. [Read more →]

My two favorite characters on MTV’s The Hills are Lo and Lauren.  I have recently become addcited to this qausi-reality show; hopping on the train late in its third season.  I was late to Laguna Beach and now I’m late to the Hills, but that means I get to watch a whole day’s worth of banalities; effectively wasting my time and making new friends.  Becuase that’s what MTV wants, right?  To make you feel like you KNOW the characters in this series. [Read more →]

Tim Russert died today of a heart attack.   And while I know this is a sad thing and that heart disease is horrible, I just can’t believe how quick the internet is.  I found out like half an hour ago, and look-

Wikipedia already has his death on his page.  Russert was born in Buffalo, and went to Canisius High School like my sister’s high school boyfriend.  I always like to know famous people come from Buffalo sometimes.  RIP.

I love this picture.  John McCain is hugging President Bush.  Former rivals, this picture shows their reconcilation- and Bush even ran a horribly negative campaign against McCain in 2000!  But whatever, bygones!

If you know someone who is deciding who to vote for in November, don’t get mad when HE says he might vote for John McCain.  That whole “war hero” thing can be a heavy influencer for some voters.  Instead of letting your mind go blank and spluttering “but.. but!” when SOMEONE says “I think I might vote for John McCain” use these reasons to reason against that vote.  [Read more →]

Last night a tweet came through my twitterstream that grabbed my attention.It was sent by Ted Rheingold, the founder of dogster:

“Why doesn’t Apple’s MobileMe have social features?  Apple gets A LOT right, but it’s as if they want to skip the social revolution“

This is definitely a thought-provoking question, and one you could easily imagine coming from the founder of a social network for pets.  So I responded quickly and slept on it.

“@tedr I sometimes just need a place to store and back up my files. I don’t need friend requests or comments on every piece of data.“

(Please appreciate these links, as they were found in between many a fail whale.)

His point, on the most basic level, is a valid one.  It wouldn’t take much for Apple’s new MobileMe (which essentially is a file storage drive in the cloud to back up and sync your data to and from all of your devices) to add features we typically see in social networks:  sharing, commenting, stuff like that.

But what he–and a whole lot of other people I meet regularly–is ignoring are two very important facts of the web.

First:  Sometimes I just need to zip my files from my phone to my computer to my external hard drive to my ipod back to my phone.  It’s a convenience.  The service is there so I don’t lose my data.  I don’t necessarily want to worry about checkboxes to enable or disable sharing and people sifting through all of my files.  Emphasis on “necessarily.”

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