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“Virtual Goods” a $1.6 billion/year industry

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]

Ahmadinejad and others claim that “capitalism” is dying

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

This Reuters article features different terrorist and communist leaders commenting on capitalism to the UN. However, their comments are not about capitalism at all. Iran’s terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states the following about capitalism: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty this week that capitalism is on the verge of [...]

Tutorial: How Webmasters and Blog Owners Can Weaken The Influence of Wikipedia

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The easiest way to do this is to remove all references and links to Wikipedia from your site. I myself have just deleted various blog posts and modified others that mention or link to Wikipedia, and intend to avoid discussing the site in the future. Mentioning or linking to Wikipedia (or Wikimedia Commons, or any [...]

“Blogs vs. Twitter & Facebook” Arguments, As Applied to the Bill of Rights

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

There have been a lot of posts (and political lobbying) within the past few years by a dying Media 1.0 establishment and a gullible public to discourage the creation and reading of blogs, this time by encouraging Twitter and Facebook as replacements for blogs. Examples: 1 2 3 4 Rather than go on a standard [...]

Deleted my Facebook account…

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

All of it. Photos, likes, “friends”, groups, info, even my name. Then I deleted (not deactivated) the account. In other words, everything I could get rid of, I did. Now it’s gone. I feel a sort of emptiness inside, though I’m sure it’ll pass as it didn’t make a damn difference. It’s like a new [...]

xcopfly.com: Censored In Pakistan!

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

When I heard that Pakistan had blocked access to 800+ sites as a reaction to the Everyone Draw Muhammad Day campaigns, I was just curious as to whether my site was affected, given the recent anti-Islam statements. So I decided to find a proxy server based in Pakistan, plug the settings into Firefox and check [...]

Muslim Dr. Evil

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

From a Facebook group (click for full picture):

Almost finished.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Got the domain name, one of the programs finished, one on the way, and one soon to come. I just deleted Mob Wars from my Facebook. There’s a Mob Wars and a Mafia Wars. The latter is more famous. And you just don’t have the time. I’ve been getting back to offline, single-player games lately. [...]