Apparently Kanye West and John Mayer did a song together? That’s a little weird, but this “behind the scenes” video is pretty hilarious.
Note: I’ll be on the East Coast, and mostly busy, from 7/30-8/12 - so I’ve arranged to have “Thought of the Days” beforehand for each day. Most of them are worthwhile YouTube videos. Deal with it. Or don’t.
I’m not a big rap/hip-hop guy (obviously), but this song is really haunting and funny at the same time. And it’s been stuck in my head for days…
“Cookie Jar” by Gym Class Heroes
I just noticed that somehow I forgot to change the meta tags to FeedBurner with this new theme…
So if you’ve subscribed to my feed (any version) in the last few months, and used the auto-discovery selector in the address bar (or any other auto-discovery method that didn’t involve you physically clicking the word “RSS” to the left)… please change your subscription to http://feeds.feedburner.com/kyle-brady.
Thanks, ‘preciate it.
I’ve decided to give the “uber-geek” TV shows a try… I’m talking about Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, and anything else that I might have missed (Dr. Who is intentionally left out… but if I missed any, let me know).
Why? I liked the Stargate movie and it popped up on Netflix… so I added Season 1 Disc 1 of Atlantis to my queue, and figure I’ll go backwards to the original series if I like this one.
Looks pretty cool, right?
The verdict so far is that it’s exactly what I’ve heard about the Stargate TV series’: like a better, higher budget, less campy version of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And cooler.
Let’s hope it stays that way.
I saw this article on RW/W just now that was asking “how did Cuil get so much press on Day 1?”, and commented on it.
I mention this because I think my comment is important to be seen from outside the RW/W readership, so you can either see it in the natural habitat, or read it below:
How?
Because it’s part of the echo-chamber.
If you mention “ex-Google”, “startup”, and “funded” in the same sentence (or even paragraph), certain blogs will just cover it automatically.
And then, of course, other blogs will cover it because those one-or-two blogs covered it first.
“As we walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death…”
–Kyle
Being the nerd that I am, I’ve quickly created two “Knols” on Google Knol to capture the market on these topics:
That should have been pretty obvious, right? Self promotion! 
This is another Jon Lajoie video… I especially like “The Weather, with Jesus Christ”.
“Then you’ll be able to do more things […] like peeing on little children and then yelling at their parents when they try to stop you.”
hahah another great Jon Lajoie video.
If you haven’t heard or noticed by now, Facebook is in the process (or is finished?) rolling out a redesign of … pretty much everything. Check out www.new.facebook.com to activate it. But I’m not here to analyze it like everyone else, even though I think it’s a pretty cool update.
I’m here because they screwed up.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the “applications” page, because I had a feeling that something was going to happen… and it did.
Click, because it’s relevant.
See all the things I’ve circled in red? Most of those are applications I’ve never added. Ever. And in the case of “Bumper Sticker”, “friendbinder”, and “Top Friends”… those are ones that were added and removed (before the design change) within a 24 hour period.
My first question is: what the hell?
Is Facebook just randomly letting applications access my data, and decide that I’m now a “user” of them? Because, if so, that’s not only stupid and wasting my time… but it’s also a huge privacy concern.
My second question is: what the hell?
I’ve tried to remove ALL of the ones that I circled in the screenshot… they won’t go away. They disappear from my profile, and from some of the settings pages… but remain on others. Which would lead me to believe they’re not really gone, they’re just pretending to be.
My third question is: what the hell?
There have long been rumors that Facebook doesn’t actually delete any data, they just “delete” it. Instead of removal, a field is changed to tell the rendering engine “Hey! Don’t show this!” - which might make sense in some cases, but not as an overall policy.
This is solid proof that they do exactly what people have been whispering about… besides the whole “delete my account” controversy, of course.
My fourth question is: what the hell?
I’m actually out of “Items for Hell” at this point.
Your Mission
This needs to be fixed immediately. Check your applications page, see if you’ve got anything weird going on. Send them feedback (using the “send feedback” button… obviously), regardless of whether or not you have this problem… they need to know that many people care about this, and it’s kind of a big deal.
p.s. Yes, I’m still using Vista on this computer. But that’s because I haven’t gotten Ubuntu running yet… the RAID-1 array and the supersexy, but “too new”, combo optical drive are creating major problems.
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Update (7/28/2008 2:30pm PST): SitePoint blogger Josh Catone (formerly of RW/W) picked this up, and wrote his own take on it.
Have you ever thought about the different (modern) Star Trek’s?
Consider this:
Not to say that they were bad (because they were awesome!), but just a thought.