Google, Social Media, and Progress: It’s Happening, Trolls. Deal With It.
Social media has changed the way we do business; unfortunately, it has also created new avenues of attack for liars and cheats. How does one achieve success in the face of malicious deception?
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Mastercard’s Securecode Kills E-Commerce
Want to see something disgusting? Try buying a Droid online. Verizon Wireless has thrown their lot in with Mastercard Securecode, a feature that requires you to input all your credit card information a second time--after the checkout process is all but completed. You can hit "Cancel" at the end of the process, but then Verizon's checkout goes ...
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ScribblerToo, Fall, And Man
Ze Frank's Twitter links delight me on a regular basis, but it's not every day that he offers upgrades of his own products. ScribblerToo, a Paint-like Flash application written by Mario Klingmann, takes doodling to the next level by connecting lines as you draw. It may not sound like much, but the effect lends an amazing depth to ...
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Joy From A Box
Disheveled, bleary-eyed, pajama-clad. I fumble with my glasses as I pad into the living room. I should work out. I should check my email. I should brush my teeth. Email wins, as always. I sit, click, read. Two new Twitter followers. A question from a client. Sale on Viagra. Lost! Time slips by like a beautiful stranger in a crowd. There's plenty, ...
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Relative Links Fix for Wordpress
My first plugin for public consumption--hope this helps out, fellow writers! A blogger I work with will sometimes copy headlines from his Wordpress-generated homepage and paste them into the post-editing window. In Firefox, this has the unfortunate result of converting absolute urls into relative ones. For example, copying the headline for this article would convert the permalink (khaotica.com) to a relative ...
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I’m All About All Hallow’s Eve
The bewitching time is nearly upon us, and yours truly couldn't be more excited. I love Halloween. I've loved Halloween for as long as I can remember. Even as a kid, it was my favorite holiday. It blew Christmas away. It wasn't about the candy, though--it was about pulling on that terrifying/awe-inspiring/bad-ass costume and becoming something incredible for a night. We ...
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The Brand
You may remember the lip service I paid toward getting a tattoo some time ago. After to talking to a few inked veterans, I headed over to Pop's Tattoo in Silver Spring to see firsthand if this was the place for me. So far, I've been very impressed with the service, cleanliness, talent, and laid-back atmosphere offered at Pop's. Craig, one ...
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Crowleygate(s) – First You Get Busted, Then You Get Blasted
Editorial note: Today's post comes to us from the analytical prowess of Caitlin Hill. Caitlin is the managing editor of The Writer's Center publication Poet Lore, a grad student at American University, and the love of my life for going on seven years. Undoubtedly we've all heard about this by now - a white Irish-American cop in Cambridge arrested an ...
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Reality’s Edge, or Why Brain-Washing Works
I'm outside, running through the woods at night. The trees echo with my brother's laughter, and I know it's because he can see me fumbling in the dark. I also know him well enough to expect the crack of a rifle shot at any moment. Ahead, through the trees, I can see the fence lining the compound. ...