All cell phones have horrible designs. They are ugly. They are far more complicated than they need to be. Have all the phone companies replaced their industrial design deparments with buzz-word laden salespeople? Does having MORE on a phone make it BETTER? More is never better. It’s just more.
Just create a phone that makes it simple to keep in contact with people and that I’m not embarrassed to carry.
This is apparently an easter egg on the new DVD.
If only they had spent this kind of time on dialog.
I’m currently getting the site ready for the big reboot, so there might be some weird looking items on the page.
Don’t worry, everything will soon be okay.
I finally got my invitation to Flock, and I couldn’t be happier.
What is Flock? It’s a new web browser built from Firefox. For the most part, it is very similar to Firefox — it still uses all its extensions, still has the nice ‘Find in page’ function — but it’s also a whole lot more. Flock could be considered the first ‘Web 2.0′ browser. This means that it brings you to the web community in a way no other browser has before.
From the start, Flock was designed to be different. The biggest change for me is its bookmarking system. Instead of keeping all your bookmarks to yourself, it uses online social bookmarks. By default, your bookmarks sychronize with your del.icio.us bookmarks. But it will support any online bookmarking site. This also means full support for tags. When making a bookmark (called ’starring’ and item), Flock brings up a dialog to enter tags and description, and sends it directly back to del.icio.us. Bookmarking into del.icio.us couldn’t be easier.
Flock also has full integration with Flickr. There is an option to open a ‘topbar’ that will display any Flickr account you choose. Adding photos is as simple as drag and drop. As if I needed another reason to buy a digital camera….
Flock has blogging support built in as well. To add a post to any blog of your choosing, simply choose the blog editor, or switch the topbar to blog mode.
There are still many, many features to Flock that I have yet to discover. Even though it is a developer preview, it is showing huge promise. One of the things I would like to see in the future is the ability to view as many different del.icio.us accounts as you want, or whatever del.icio.us tags you want.
You can get on their beta list by visiting www.flock.com. I encourage everyone to check it out.
I decided to give my thoughts regarding the difference between a conservative and a Republican, and more importantly, why this difference is so important.
I am proudly conservative, but what does that mean? Not proud, the other one. Are conservatives Republican? Are Republicans conservative? I would suppose the former is much more true than the latter, but that is not what is important here. What is critical to remember, is the difference.
Most people assume that conservative or liberal, otherwise know as left or right (the adverb not the adjective) indicate where you sit on the political spectrum. This is partially true. There are really two different political lines you have to plot yourself on when determining what you are. One is fiscal concerns (here is where conservative or liberal work) and social concerns (here is where authoritarian or libertarian come into play). If you place one line vertically and the other horizontally, effectively making an X and a Y axis, you can begin to see the four real quadrents a person call fall into, not just two as is the common thought. A great example of this including a quiz to plot yourself can be found at politicalcompass.org (be sure to scroll down to find your personal results at the end!!) The political party you vote for may fall any number of place on either of these two lines.
My point of all this is: SUPPORT A BELIEF SYSTEM, NOT A PARTY! You may find one party or the other fall more closely in line with your beliefs on a regular basis, and that’s fine. Just don’t get caught blindly supporting someone because of the party they run under. It may seem like the lesser of two evils at times, and honestly, I do not know what the answer is for that. I am a authoratative conservative that usually votes republican. I am not calling for the removal of the two party system, but that’s a discussion for another day.