March 2010

Libel: it’s what Martin’s cookin’

March 31, 2010

Tweet It’s never what you do wrong, it’s always the lie you get caught in. Always. In world where anyone can publish nearly anything in a fraction of the time it takes to print a real paper, libel laws get murky. Who is a journalist? Are they a journalist all the time? What is considered [...]

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Choice is what it takes

March 31, 2010

Tweet This is for all the people who whine about swearing, for all the oversensitive mothers, to every person who has deemed a piece of art pornography and in doing so somehow decreased its perceived value, this is for you. You don’t have a right not to be offended. No one is asking you to [...]

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New Workplace, New Rules: LaidOffCampPhoenix

March 30, 2010

Tweet Losing your job sucks. Your life is thrown into turmoil, your parents start asking worried questions and no matter how generous your friends are, you still feel like a mooch. Time to do something about it. Time to find out how other people coped with being laid off and finding a new job or, [...]

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The Passion(less) of the IgnitePhx (attendees)

March 29, 2010

Tweet Passion is not passive. It’s aggressive, direct and it takes what it needs. The problem with IgnitePhx has revealed itself. And I had it wrong. It’s not the hard-working organizers that border on zealotry and it’s not the somewhat safe topic choices. It’s the attendees. It’s the people who have attended more than once [...]

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The search for HTC EVO, starring Evo Terra

March 26, 2010

Tweet I’ll spare you the power of social media, the ease of networking and the importance of personality analysis for now, but you’ll be seeing smart people write case studies on this soon. How can you deny a guy like Evo an EVO?

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Share your art and become one of the #100ppl

March 25, 2010

Tweet Hugh Macleod’s Gaping Void series rocks. I’m a fan. #100ppl is an experiment to see what a group of highly-connected, highly-passionate art lovers can do with their appreciation. To find out how, simply follow the instructions on #100ppl and see the results start to populate on #100ppl. Let’s share our passions. We’re on Facebook, [...]

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Make a shirt for that

March 24, 2010

Tweet Clever tshirts are for boring people. Only some jackass hipster would walk around with “Blow Me” next to a Nintendo game cartridge. What kind of cool person buys some mass-produced shirt? Combine all the above thoughts into one rant and you have my feelings about clever tshirts. Sure, they’re funny, but if everyone is [...]

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Lose the excess baggage

March 23, 2010

Tweet We all have more than we need. Whether it’s clothes we seldom wear, trinkets and swag we just couldn’t pass up or some winter insulation around our gut or thighs, it’s time to let it go. One of the few things that all these brilliant speakers fail to mention is the importance of proper [...]

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Garage Sale! (by owner)

March 21, 2010

Tweet It’s garage sale time. Stuff is just wasteful. I know people who move their stuff from storage unit to storage unit and home to home. They seldom if ever use whatever is in the boxes and it ends up being a detriment. In an effort to streamline a bit, I’m selling some of MY [...]

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