This American Life did an in depth story about disability benefits that has been stuck in my head since I listened on Friday. The number of people collecting disability benefits has been increasing for years. Even during the last couple of economic boo…
This Slate article about the success of the Harvard basketball program seems to hinting at something classiest and elitist, without actually coming out and saying it. The whole tone of the article seems to be that if you are good enough to get a basketball scholarship to college you can’t be “Harvard material.” Now, Harvard […]
And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of my life. The Internet was buzzing yesterday with the news that Google is shutting down Reader on July 1. I predicted this last year. That does not make me particularly smart. When they killed Adsense for RSS Feeds it was […]
And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of my life.
The Internet was buzzing yesterday with the news that Google is shutting down Reader on July 1. I predicted this last year. That does not make me particularly smart. When they killed …
One advantage of unemployment is that I’ve been catching up on my reading. That will end next week when I go back to work. Click through for more detailed reviews. Homeland – Cory Doctorow: Disappointing. Almost Perfect – W.E. Peterson: Who knew one of the losers in the word processor wars had such an interesting […]
Google Glass has been in the tech news quite a bit in recent months. Honestly, I have not paid much attention because they idea of walking around wearing a pair of dorky looking glasses that are connected to the Internet doesn’t really appeal to me. However, this article raises a scary point that I had […]
Google Glass has been in the tech news quite a bit in recent months. Honestly, I have not paid much attention because they idea of walking around wearing a pair of dorky looking glasses that are connected to the Internet doesn’t really appeal to me. Ho…
I think we can all agree that the days of graduating from college, getting a job and working your way up the corporate ladder at one company are gone forever. In the present, and even more so for kids just getting to college now, they will probably have 20-30 jobs and 3 careers before they […]
Apparently Technorati is still an active site. Who knew? Also, I apparently have never claimed ODonnellWeb there. So I’m doing it now. I hear blogs are the next big thing on the Internet Seriously, I do think businesses are going to start to realize that neglecting their blogs in favor of Facebook was a mistake. […]
A LA based publication published a list of the top 20 hair metal albums a while ago. I just found this via an imaginary Internet friend. I had some issues with their list. 20. Junkyard Junkyard (1989) It’s not a bad album, but I can’t see how this makes a top 20 list. It was […]
