Category: Internet (Page 8 of 40)

Yup

"over the past 25 years, average college tuition and fees have risen by 440 percent — more than four times the rate of inflation"

Interesting (and dangerous!)

This is kind of ridiculous, but also a little bit awesome

Great observations by Alex on social networking and how unclear the waters can be. When is it really appropriate to friend someone?

Great, great concise summary of today's big news

No more @replies if I don't know both people? I don't get this at all. Suddenly it's much harder to bounce into things, find new people, etc

Delicious: "Ticket prices at the new Yankee Stadium are so high that if a New Yorker wants to watch a Mariners/Yankees game from the best seats, it would be a lot cheaper to fly to Seattle, stay in a nice hotel, eat fancy dinners, and see two games."

I should sue

Great, evil writeup of the grub at the new Yankee Stadium. I keep telling people: IT'S STILL JUST A BASEBALL STADIUM.

At the end of the day, you're attending a ball game, with all the wonderful lowbrow treats that implies: outdoor seating, weather variances, sticky floors, people yelling. No amount of haute cuisine, good or bad, will change that fact, nor can it justify huge ticket price increases.
As Mitch Albom said a few weeks back, "I don't know anyone who ever came home from a sports event talking about the food."

Pandora's definition of Janet Jackson's music includes "extensive vamping." From the Pandora FAQ: "Vamping is a term that refers to extended improvisation over a repeated chord change." I never knew vamping was a technical term. Fascinated (and wiser)

"If you were a child in the '70s or the '80s and were allowed to go visit your friend down the block, or ride your bike to the library, or play in the park without your parents accompanying you, your children are no less safe than you were." I am so heavily in favor of letting my boy be a child on his own terms.

Simple little Greasemonkey script made my Twitter site visits much more tolerable (although it's now prompting me for API logins too often, but I'll take it)

Great rundown of fragrances from someone who really knows. Appreciating Chandler Burr's nose may be the most lasting pleasantry I acquired from my days selling beauty products

There's "my friend wrote a good book," and then there's "President Obama is name-dropping my friend's book"

Great story of the history of WebRing (and the ridiculous amounts of money that surrounded it)