Unconventional Wisdom

This can only give some the excuse to never ever join Facebook. The ones who refuse to join in the first place definitely won’t if they get wind of this story:

Within days, all of Facebook’s 800 million users’ profile pages will change. And with it, every photo, status update, wall posting, since your Facebook birth will be much more easily visible.

Facebook claims Timeline will make profiles more comprehensive.

Consumer advocacy groups say it violates users privacy.

“We want people to decide if they want to post the old stuff on the wall, says Marc Rotenberg, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “We want people to decide whether the stuff Facebook wants to post, is the stuff they want. It really should be up to the user, not Facebook.”

But for now it’ll be up to Facebook to decide, and users to try to hide the stuff they’d like to keep private.

I found this story via Instapundit who noted:

FACEBOOK IS DOOMED BECAUSE OF TIMELINE. Not due to privacy concerns, but because the new Timelined pages look like nothing so much as old MySpace pages.

There is a reason why I and many other never use MySpace anymore. I’ve always liked FB better, but if MySpace could just become a place for bands to promote themselves then who knows what FB will be. That being said FB could be just another dead social network. There are many online too, for example I used to be on BlackPlanet and sadly I haven’t thought about that place in years.

BTW, so that I don’t contribute over any hyperventilation FB is doing what it can to inform people about the new timelines. There are some things I would like to keep private although I don’t plan to go back and delete every single item that I never want to see the light of day again. Just have to cross the bridge when that time comes.

[VIDEO] Stephen Green of PJ Media’s Vodkapundit gives us a 5 and a half minute week in review via Instapundit

Happy Holidays from Stephen Green. See a cool Christmas Starship Enterprise, and some very uncool Nancy Pelosi footage. Should the Democrats dump Joe Biden? Should the Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) get a new tailor? Find out on this week’s show as Steve discusses President Obama, Joe Biden, Eric Holder and Whoopi Goldberg, all on the Week in Blogs.

He led the nation of Czechoslovakia out of Communism and after its dissoluation led the Czech Republic. He was previously a playright who was jailed and monitored by the Communist dictatorship of Czechoslovakia. This article from the NY Times offers an interest portrait. Although Americans elected a former Hollywood actor President 30 years ago, for some reason being a playright is an odd occupation for a politician. Still he played an important role in the end of the Cold War.

[VIDEO] I saw this on Neil Cavuto’s show this afternoon. The protesters who are protesting the Occupy Wall Street protests are business owners. They consider themselves part of the taxpaying 53%.

I wonder if they’ve ever heard of the group who are “liberating Wall Street“?

[VIDEO] I found out just yesterday that Apple Inc. founder and former CEO Steve Jobs had passed away. At that time I was no where near a PC or a TV when the news broke. In fact, I found out through an IM courtesy of my non-iPhone

This video looks at the future of Apple without their visionary founder and leader. In August he stepped down from his CEO position at Apple Inc. He had been fighting cancer and already had a leave of absense since January, but returned to the public eye to unveil the iPad2.

There was another unveiling of products at least a day before his death when Apple had revealed the newest version of the iPhone. I understand that he wasn’t there to even show support.

As you see in this video people are talking about him. In the beginning he had a rough start. He may well have revolutionized the personal computer, but before the 80s was over he was out of the company he formed building computers in his parent’s garage. Then he came back by the late 1990s and then a string of products with the iPod, iPhone and then the iPad. Of course let’s not forget about those Macs.

As was the quote in that AP video, there is hope that Jobs’ vision will continue even though he has passed away. Perhaps we’ll continue to deal with the Macs, iPods, iPhones & iPads for the foreseeable future!

With motion sickness today. Well the Tribune suggested he join the club:

The ancients got sick on boats — the word nausea comes from the ancient Greek naus, for ship. Nineteenth-century artists depicted nauseous passengers on boat decks.  Mid-20th-century tourists suffered dizziness as the travel industry boomed and they rode in cars and planes (and roller coasters!) in unprecedented numbers.

Even your dog gets queasy when he rides in the backseat, The Times recently reported. Shaky camera work in movies can bring on nausea, too.

Symptoms of motion sickness — no matter how it’s brought on — include queasiness, cold sweats, dizziness and sometimes vomiting.  While there’s some question about what causes the churning feeling to come on, most believe it’s related to a disconnect between the visual signals coming in through your eyes and the motion signals perceived by your inner ear, muscles and joints.

Barf bags on airplanes exist for a reason — this malady is common. A 2006 study in the journal International Maritime Health reported that motion sickness rates hovered around 30% in normal seas, and that “ninety percent of the general population have experienced motion sickness at some point in their lives.”

One good way to deal with air sickness — or any kind of motion sickness — is to sit in a place that will minimize the disconnect between what you see and what you feel.  In a car, this means riding in the front seat and looking ahead.  Over-the-counter medications such as Bonine, Antivert and Dramamine can help ward off motion sickness’s effects; doctors also prescribe a patch for serious cases.

I found out about this news watching a TV at a downtown Chicago Mickey D’s today. I was thinking it was more serious than that. Well hopefully it’s only morning sickness.

A story about Andrew Breitbart from the Chicago Tribune. I haven’t actually had a chance to read it yet. The story is from Sept. 2nd and most likely was published in the LA Times. Breitbart is from LA.

To be sure I’m somewhat familiar with this story because if it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t know about this US Dept. of Agriculture official.