In case you missed seeing the meteor that blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday, click on the video below. I just had to include it in DigiDame. It exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs. More than 1,000 people were injured as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city of one million.
Eliot is big on greeting cards. I am not. Of course I would feel terrible if I didn’t get one from Eliot on my birthday or Valentine’s Day. If you really think about it, you realize what a big waste of money they are. Five dollars for a card that gets read for exactly five seconds. You spend at least 15 minutes picking it out and the receiver reads it once and then displays it on a mantle for a few days or just throws it on the kitchen table. In either case, the card that meant so much looks like a dusty, faded piece of paper a few weeks later. Then it gets dumped or thrown in a drawer, never to be seen again.
Passengers aboard the fire-damaged Carnival Triumph cruise ship set up a makeshift tent city on the vessel’s deck
A gal who used to work for me (decades ago), Leeann Lavin, just posted this on Facebook. “Listening to the updates on the stranded Carnival Cruise Line, Triumph, gives a whole new meaning to the name ‘poop deck.’ “
Facebook has had to face the death question 30 million times since its inception. Yes, 30 million users have died worldwide. Closer to home, 580,000 users died last year in the United States as compared to three million worldwide. Those statistics are being given out by sources close to Facebook.
Unbeknownst to many of us, Facebook actually has guidelines for pages belonging to the deceased. There is a whole story about it that you will find fascinating if you just press here. The reason why this topic is so interesting is because a social media platform like Facebook has its own postmortem rituals much like real life. Wait a minute, did I say that? Facebook to many people is real life or to many better than the life they have to face every day when they are offline.
From Jay Leno’s monologue on The Tonight Show last night: “Samsung is introducing a new smart wristwatch but not copying Apple. It’s designed to wear on your other hand.”
There are times that I want to send a personal text to a friend but I don’t want others to see it. The subject can be about a job opportunity, a special gift for a love one, or just some trashy gossip. Just recently, I thought how nice it would be if I could send a text and then remove it after “the receiver” reads it.
A few days later I learned about “Silent Text.” The new technology was developed by former Navy Seals and is being introduced in an app for all platforms in the next few weeks. You are reading about this first in DigiDame.
It’s hard not to be talking about Twitter all the time — it’s where most of the action has been lately. Today the social media platform announced that it was entering the eCommerce arena for the first time, in partnership with American Express. I never imagined this would happen, and I couldn’t even picture how it would work. So I checked into it. Continue reading
My girlfriend Ruth sent this video to me this morning because I told her why I hate taking the subway. You get to a certain age and you say “Enough.”
At 65, I am still working. I want to work forever but I don’t want to put myself in harm’s way, twice a day on the subway. I am not saying that I can’t get hurt above ground but at least I can make a run for it.
I can’t remember if I found this cartoon on Facebook or someone sent it to me in an email. Either way, it applies to many of us.
Carrie Underwood at the Grammys.
If you watched the Grammys last night you had to be mesmerized by the special effects that appeared on Carrie Underwood’s silver gown. It was specifically made for her performance of “Blown Away,” which won the Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for 2012.
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