Mr. T’s Pity Brings Sick Child Out Of Deep Coma
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | News, Random, Unusual | No Comments
No april fools joke here, this was posted yesterday, march 29th in the UK. Mr. T pity’s a kid out of a deep coma while visiting hospital.
taken from http://uk.news.yahoo.com:
Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child’s family by bringing him out of a coma – after doctors begged the actor for help.
The poorly kid fell unconscious in Detroit, Michigan in the mid-1980s – and the only physical movement he made was in response to hearing Mr. T’s name.
And when the mohawked star was in town, he stopped by the hospital to visit the ill boy – with miraculous results.
He tells Empire magazine, “His family put toys around him and one of them was a Mr. T doll. And whenever my name came up, the boy moved his arm.
“Somebody told the doctors I was in town, so they called me down there. I closed the curtains and prayed. Then, as I was walking down the hall, the kid suddenly came out of the coma and hollered out.
“That was my supernatural moment.”
Mr. T can pity a sick child out of a coma – that’s almost as cool as if Chuck Norris were to round-house kick cancer out of a dying 5 year old….. only this actually happened… That’s one kid Mr. T doesn’t pity. Although I do feel sorry for the coma…. apparently Mr. T hates coma’s as much as he hates planes.
New Media Douchebags – In Plain English
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | Funny, Video | No Comments
Looks like there’s another clip out in the “In Plain English” series, just this time explaining social media. More specifically, those that use/over-use it. After watching, please refrain from looking at the sidebar to the right showing links to each of the sites I have a profile on. Those are for research purposes only, it’s part of my job! :)
I’ve become a big fan of this series. They’re produced by Kelly Stewart and they can all be found on her video blog – CinnamonPants.com.
The last one was Twitter – In Plain English, but after visiting her site, I noticed that apparently there’s an even better one called Technology In South Carolina Plain English (a rip on the now infamous Ms. Teen South Carolina 2007). It’s a pretty funny video, if you haven’t seen it I recommend checking it out.
Happy Tuesday.
This Site Design = FAIL – Tell Me How Much It Sucks
Monday, March 24th, 2008 | New Beginnings | No Comments
I’ve been fooling around with a bunch of different blogging options for this new site, from using a completely different platform to converting projects that I’ve done in the past into pseudo-WP themes….. but have looked at my various homespun designs long enough to realize I can’t make my mind up on what Addicted to 1s and 0s should look like…. so I’ve done what every frustrated 5 year old does…. throw my hands up and pout. I’ve reverted the stylesheet and template back to an old hack job (and not in the good sense of ‘hack’) of one I came across a while ago…fonts mis-matched and all.
That’s where you come in –
What font family would you like to see on here, any particular header font (gotta love sifr)…. layout – 2 column, newspaper style, 3??…..features….? You give the opinion, I’ll code it. If the idea’s good enough, i’ll even scrap the whole template that it currently is doing a disservice to and start from scratch (which i’ve done about 4 times yet never could settle on a design). What do you get in return? Linkage from here and my advertising blog – www.brentter.com, a solid review from me on your own services/site as well as a permanent place on the “designed by” byline in the footer and depending on the suggestion, i’ll even name the sucker after something representative of you and your design prowess.
Rip this place to shreds, pile on the suggestions, tell me how much it sucks, send me death-threats because of its’ hideousness, bring it on!
Let me know how bad this site really is.
You can reach me via twitter at www.twitter.com/brentter
You can reach me via email at brent (at) addto10.com
Or the easiest way is by just using the contact form I’ve placed on the site.
There’s also linkage to just about every other way of reaching me in the sidebar to the right, use whatever way you feel most comfortable to reach me.
I’m suffering from designers block, so I want to hear what you have to say about it. What direction should I take the site-design in?
What should I add, remove, burn?
Pew Pew Pew – The next Lolcats?
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | Funny, Random | No Comments
Sorry, I was just sent this one and couldn’t resist – could Pew Pew Pew be the next Lolcats? Lolchurch perhaps?
Sent from friend, but obviously from the Lolcats HQ itself – icanhascheezburger.com.
For those who are really confused, it’s an internet phenomenon similar to stuffonmycat.com, where users submit photos of literally just stuff placed on their cat. Here’s the definition (thanks to Wikipedia) of what constitutes as a lolcat (and yes, there’s also a Loldog version out there called ihasahotdog.com):
A Lolcat is an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English referred to as Kitty Pidgin, or lolspeak.
Enjoy.
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SocialThing – An Interactive Social-Site Aggregator
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | Beta, Mashup, RSS, Tools, WebApps | No Comments
Introducing SocialThing, the latest in social-media site aggregators.
It’s still in beta mode, but as of 12:45pm EST the invite code: “techcrunch” still worked.
Interesting site. Instead of just asking for the location of all of your public feeds like FriendFeed does, it actually has you enter in your login and password to each of the social sites it pulls information from. This is what makes SocialThing different than FriendFeed (and other similar services) – It uses the various API’s, including OAuth with each site so that you can interact with the various feeds as if you were on the site itself. For example, If someone were to send me a message via twitter, I wouldn’t have to leave SocialThing’s site in order to respond. The same goes for the rest of the sites they currently aggregate (Facebook, Pownce, Twitter, Flickr, LiveJournal, and Vimeo).
The purpose of the site is to “Get your digital life together.” And once they start adding more social sites, this should kick services like friendfeed in the rear as it will allow you to actually use this site as a one-stop-shop for your social-networking needs, whereas other social aggregators tend to be just pretty representations of all your RSS feeds. Needless to say this could turn out to be a very useful tool, especially if they were to create some sort of application that could interactive with it (perhaps using Adobe AIR?), a la what twitter + pownce have done.
Taken from their site, it allows you to:
“See everything that’s going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you’re missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!
Socialthing! makes it easy to see all the things your friends are doing. It’s a news feed for every site that you use in one place.”
Now lets just see if this thing can actually take off, it seems like every day a new social-feed aggregator is released….I guess that goes to show you how its never good to be first in the sandbox… all it means is that the next killer app to come out in your genre will just incorporate all your positive innovations and most likely learn from your mistakes.
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