As Italian as apple pie Chrysler UK, the people who brought us the facelifted Hillman Avenger and other memorable products, is trying to sell a rebadged Lancia Delta in the UK. This is a screen shot which shows that Chrysler does not care enough to proofread its copy, with the apostrophe used for both a pronoun and a plural. Good luck getting the educated premium buyer, folks.
Meh, frost From yesterday, frost on the deck. Still kind of a sissy snowstorm, as snowstorms go. Unprecedented, yes. Blizzard, no.
Gratuitous K-Gill post Catching up, because I realize I missed a couple of days of these.
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Generation f*cked
“The first stirrings of major intergenerational conflict are already being noted. The basic rights of the recent past – a safe job, free education and healthcare, secure homes to raise a family, a modest but comfortable old age – have slipped quietly away, all to be replaced by a myriad of vapid lifestyle choices and glittery consumer trinkets.”
Article: Generation F*cked
Fascinating article about Britain’s youth.
Great article from Adbusters, in some ways reflecting my own thoughts on the subject, which I had put on my old mayoral campaign fan page on Facebook.
JY&A Fonts are rupee sign-equipped
Nine of JY&A Fonts’ families now have the rupee symbol. We’re not quite the first—an open source family beat us to it—but we’re among the first. The Unicode folks only announced the keyboard shortcut for Indian users last month, so I look forward to seeing my rupee symbols in action soon!
Thank goodness, no Marky Mark I only got as far as Escape from the Planet of the Apes in the original series, so while this doesn’t fit into the originals’ continuity, Rise of the Planet of the Apes kind of continues where I had left off. I have to admit it looks pretty good.
BMW i8 This has to be my favourite of BMW’s released i8 Concept shots today. It looks the proper sports car here.
Diane Lane on The Late Late Show Man, I used to have a crush on Diane Lane. Probably still do.
Global Map of Social Networking 2011 by Global Web Index
Social networking’s 2011 state of play An impressive map on social networking.
Facebook and Twitter are broadcast design models; Google Plus is a sharing design model
John Tropea takes a pass at explaining how sharing works on Google+ (Google Plus):
John Tropea
How is it different to Facebook and Twitter?
As an online relationship model; Facebook is symmetric, Twitter is asymmetric, and Google Plus is asymmetric
- Follow (asymmetric) - enables you to follow people (those people don’t have to follow you back in order for you to see their content in your stream…you are basically their fan)
- Public - your posts are shared in the public
Google Plus
- Friend (symmetric) - you cannot read and send each other updates unless you both follow each other (this is called “friend”)
- Private - you posts are not shared in the public, instead they are shared with all your friends only (this is called a “walled garden”)
- Selective Reading & Sharing - you can also read and share with just a selection of people (this is called “Lists”…this isn’t a primary design feature and isn’t used that much as far as sharing goes)
- Follow (asymmetric) - enables you to follow people, just like Twitter, where those people don’t have to follow you back
- Public and/or Private - your posts can be shared in the Public, or just shared with All Circles or a selection of Circles
- Selective Reading - you can also read posts in a stream from just a selection of people you follow (this is called “Circles”)
- Selective Sharing - you can also share posts with just a selection of people (this is called “Circles”)…BUT unlike Facebook, unless “those people you follow in your circle” follow you back, they won’t see your post in their stream, instead they will see it in an alternative stream called “Incoming”.
This is the sort of bias I see when people talk about Google Plus positively. Read it closely, and you’ll see Google Plus’s two last bullet points are condensed into one under the Facebook listing. I admit I like the way Circles works and it’s a lot more human, but I’ve always had that functionality on Facebook. It’s not as well designed but to claim that it wasn’t a ‘primary design feature’ is not altogether true. I remember a Limited Profile class in Facebook since I joined (2006).
You can say the Google design is better, and few would disagree, but I would argue that Facebook has made this part of its offering from nearly the start. And soon after that, it allowed you to create more than one class, or circle, of friends—just like Google has—and publicized it quite widely. I still see it as a primary design feature, and use my different Facebook circles regularly.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
