The Smug Baldy Speaks

It’s a reasonable question, isn’t it? Does who you are and why you use social media really impact how important it is to you? I think the answer is obviously yes, but when you try to capture something so complex, so organic as social media, you really exit the realm of deterministic thinking and enter [...]

After nearly 4 days of back and forth with tech support, my servers are finally back on line. The first thing on my list was to make a couple updates to the SmugBaldy blog. I often check the site on my iPhone, and with the amount of content that I have there, the tiny iPhone [...]

On the seventh anniversary 9/11, Keith Olbermann has the courage to speak out against Republican Party for using it as a political tool.

If YouTube views were votes, then we’d be talking about President Barak Obama, and how he beat John McCain by a whopping 50 million votes. Below is a screenshot of the YouTube politician channel, and as you can see, Obama has over 1100 videos with over 54 million views to McCain’s 216 videos with just [...]

I saw this comment on a religious blog, and thought I’d give it some more room here. This was made in response to a favorable review of Ben Stein’s movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed: ID isn’t really scientific and its detractors are correct to say so. However, evolution is completely neutered by LOGIC, which needs [...]

ABC News is reporting that the section titled “Family Recipes” on John McCain’s official campaign site also appeared verbatim on the FoodNetwork.com website. The recipes in question – including Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw, Passion Fruit Mousse, and Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms — were all credited on the website to [...]

Experimenting is cool, and when we’re talking about experiments in social media, the results can sometimes be extremely cool as well as pleasantly surprising. Take for instance Mark Laymon’s recent experiment on the Collective Thoughts blog. In a fairly short post about how dandelions evoke fond memories of his childhood, Mark also does his bit [...]

Poise. Style. Polish. Class. Selflessness. Sacrifice. Grace. Tactfulness. Decency. Humility. Hillary Clinton? Got you, didn’t I. These aren’t the adjectives that immediately come to mind when I think of Hillary Clinton, and chances are they aren’t the first that pop into your head either. These are, however, some of the words that we’d all be [...]

You’re surrounded by Ghost Whisperers, Allison DuBuois, and freaky kids seeing dead people, so it’s only (super)natural to ask yourself, “Hey, could I be psychic?” Take our little test and find out if you have a hidden psychic ability. Have any of these things ever happened to you?

So I took a touch typing test on my new iMac, and what do you know: 8,789 words BAM – top that luhoo-zuhers. No wait, that’s my XBOX gamer score. Shit, at least I can edit html to make it look as if I broke the mythical 35 wpm barrier.