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Unicorn-Butterfly Soup.
--Kyle
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OneSwirl (http://www.oneswirl.com) has been released to the public as version 0.5!
As a “lifestream aggregator” (from Intuitive Industries LLC, my company), current service integration includes:
There’ll be more service integrations, and a few surprises, in the coming weeks and months… signup and check it out!
Here’s part 2 of 2 for the massive link dump. This one isn’t light and fluffy like last night’s…
That’s it. News to come tomorrow!
Ok, I haven’t gotten it yet, but I finished designing it. This is what it will look like (click for full size):
Details:
I haven’t posted in awhile, and so I have about a million links to share… I’m going to do it in two huge batches. This… is… THE COMEDY EDITION!
I warned you I had alot. More coming soon.
I’ve “frozen” the development of service integration for my new project, OneSwirl, as of just now.
Version 0.5 will be lifestream aggregating all of the following:
There’s some cool features, especially on the UI end, that I can’t put into words… you’ll have to wait and see for yourself. Plus, there’s a whole slew of of integrations planned over every new release, and it will continue to be like that… until we lifestream aggregate the whole internet!
The title is just a fancy way to say “Kyle found a way to put everything about Valentine’s Day into one box, a metal box, and classify it in a way that he can believe and understand… unlike real Valentine’s Day”. Or maybe just “Kyle found some cool lyrics that he thinks fits how he feels about today”.
Now, to be fair, Soilwork is not the most metal band around. But I do like them. And lyrics like this really catch me.
This is actually singing (not screaming) during the chorus of “Exile” from Soilwork’s latest album “Sworn To A Great Divide”:
Faithless
On my way
Defenseless
From my heart, won’t you be
Heartless, here with me
Breathless, from this night’s misery
(From this night’s misery)
One more endless night…To notice all the things I have to be…
Happy Valentine’s Day, I hope you have a killer day.
I’ve recently discovered “Cyanide and Happiness” (a web comic), and have been slowly churning through the archives (I’m up to January 2008!). Here’s some of my favorites:
What would you consider “essential” services to your Lifestreaming? My list of “most important” looks like:
Leave your comments here, or email me.
CNN reported awhile ago that Exxon had a record-breaking quarter ($11.7b), which set the record for the highest amount of profit a single company’s posted per quarter and per year.
Nobody sees anything wrong with this? Anybody?
In the article, after praising the company for it’s astounding efforts, they go on to say that Exxon, along with a yet-more-profitable competitor at Chevron, raised the attention of the government and consumer advocates, who are clamoring for an investigation and the removal of the massive tax breaks these companies receive.
They’re just noticing that something’s wrong? Gas prices have been raising absurdly for the past few years, always being blamed on the cost of oil per barrel… but Exxon has been having massive profits for at least a year. Doesn’t that seem a little like, I don’t know, lying?
Remember how Microsoft got in alot of trouble for being a monopoly, and got that anti-trust suit against them? Well, there’s another thing in America called “price fixing“, and it’s illegal. Let’s do some math.
See, that was a simple equation. The result? Price fixing.
This is not a new problem in America when it comes to gas prices, or energy in general (Ever broken down you gas/electricity bill? Ever noticed how many taxes, fees, and “government standard rates” there are?). But it needs to be fixed. An oil company should not be posting massive profits when some families can barely afford to heat their homes or fill their tanks. Exxon, and companies like it, are providing a public service, and should do business accordingly.
