lucire: Welcome home And here’s our redesigned home page, as of today. Big slideshow, bigger fonts, easier sharing, and, we hope, it plains looks nicer. Explained in a bit more depth here. Clean Party like it’s 2003! (See above link—I wrote the small piece outlining the redesign.)
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lucire:

Welcome home And here’s our redesigned home page, as of today. Big slideshow, bigger fonts, easier sharing, and, we hope, it plains looks nicer. Explained in a bit more depth here.

Clean Party like it’s 2003! (See above link—I wrote the small piece outlining the redesign.)

No record I’ve always said that Facebook is buggy and here’s another one. I uploaded a photo two hours ago. It doesn’t appear in my Timeline. That’s not an uncommon bug—but in the past I haven’t encountered something not appearing in the Facebook journal. The journal is meant to be a complete log of everything you have done in Facebook, but look down two hours: there’s no record of this upload. Just like the disappearing map locations, Facebook does not acknowledge such an error.

Auckland is behind Wow, I had no idea Auckland did not have Facebook yet. Coming soon! Look forward to seeing my Auckland friends join!
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Auckland is behind Wow, I had no idea Auckland did not have Facebook yet. Coming soon! Look forward to seeing my Auckland friends join!

Ruining a design Why does Facebook persist in ruining Timeline? I’ve had digs about the superfluous boxes before, ever since the first unnecessary one appeared in December 2011—and now I’ll do it again. The new boxes plainly don’t work. The extra “likes” don’t even line up, with it either displaying seven or, in this case, eight in the space of twelve. My map, meanwhile, has decreased from over 500 locations to 193 in a week, with no rhyme or reason on which ones vanish.
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Ruining a design Why does Facebook persist in ruining Timeline? I’ve had digs about the superfluous boxes before, ever since the first unnecessary one appeared in December 2011—and now I’ll do it again. The new boxes plainly don’t work. The extra “likes” don’t even line up, with it either displaying seven or, in this case, eight in the space of twelve. My map, meanwhile, has decreased from over 500 locations to 193 in a week, with no rhyme or reason on which ones vanish.

rubbishcorp: Privacyfix is a simple little Chrome & Firefox Add-On that enables anyone (with one of those browsers) to monitor and adjust Facebook and Google privacy settings. The add-on gives you instant warning signs on the settings that you’ll want to take a look at and enables you go directly to the place where you can change those settings.If you are in anyway worried about your online privacy (which you probably should be) this is well worth installing. Here. Browser privacy check Not a bad idea. When I think about it, it’s actually surprising it’s taken this long for something like this to come out.
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rubbishcorp:

Privacyfix is a simple little Chrome & Firefox Add-On that enables anyone (with one of those browsers) to monitor and adjust Facebook and Google privacy settings. The add-on gives you instant warning signs on the settings that you’ll want to take a look at and enables you go directly to the place where you can change those settings.

If you are in anyway worried about your online privacy (which you probably should be) this is well worth installing.

Here.

Browser privacy check Not a bad idea. When I think about it, it’s actually surprising it’s taken this long for something like this to come out.

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“Candy cabbie” Mansoor Khalid gives passengers as much candy as they want.

Now that’s one sweet ride.

Taxi driver Mansoor Khalid is on a one-man mission to cheer up New Yorkers with a daily dose of candy.

“The New York life is not the easy life,” Khalid, 36, told the Daily News. “People are depressed. I see a lot of people stressed sitting back there.”

Khalid is no stranger to stress. He dubbed his taxi the NYC Candy Cab after his 2-year-old son died in April from a long battle with heart disease.

“I learned a lot of things,” he said of the trauma of losing his child, who underwent two heart transplants and lost a kidney before he passed away. “Life is too short.”

Khalid, who moved to New York from Pakistan in 1993 and has been driving a cab since 1997, had already seen the impact of small acts of generosity. During the two years he spent in the hospital with his son, he routinely brought coffee and desserts to the doctors and nurses when he got off his shift at 1 a.m.

“They got so happy when in the middle of the night I gave every person coffee,” he said. “I was so nice to them and they were so nice to me.”

After his son died, Khalid decided to bring his routine to the people he interacted with every day in his cab.

Khalid said he was inspired to do something sweet after the death of his 2-year-old son.

“I was very depressed, losing my little boy,” he said. “Somehow, God gave me this idea. Now (I’m) chit-chatting and time is flying by!”

Though he doesn’t eat much candy himself — “Skittles, only” — Khalid offers a wide variety of sweets, and has started cataloguing his collection on Instagram. Fans can also follow him on Twitter (@CandyCabNYC), and he may even start a blog for his growing following.

One such fan was thrilled to discover the cab on a late night out last weekend, and quickly spread the word about him through social media.

“We all started freaking out,” said David Weiner, 27. “You don’t see piles of candy like that in adulthood. It’s just one of those things that reminds you you’re in New York and anything can happen.”

And Khalid’s unusual project has the full support of the city.

“We encourage drivers to go the extra mile in the name of customer service, and Mr. Khalid certainly does this,” said Taxi and Limousine Commission boss David Yassky. “We appreciate the loyalty he inspires in his passengers.”

Loyalty isn’t the goal, considering that Khalid responds to every hail, candy or no candy. His mission is to spread warmth.

“It’s a little thing,” he said, “but people get happy.”

The Candy Cab man I just started following this fellow on Twitter.

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Source: New York Daily News

The Pub Very clever. Call your establishment ‘The Pub’ so when people talk about going to the pub, your place comes up. Free marketing—even if you don’t actually have the custom.
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The Pub Very clever. Call your establishment ‘The Pub’ so when people talk about going to the pub, your place comes up. Free marketing—even if you don’t actually have the custom.

The common touch Aston Martin wants you to spend over $300,000 on a DB9. Yet its Facebook update makes you wonder if it appeals to an educated customer. It’s? And automotive what? It makes no sense. Astons still irk me in the strangest ways. The typeface on the Start button, for example. Naff. And the ‘Power Beauty Soul’ start-up sequence. Naff. Even the typeface on the digital display. Audi and BMW get these sorts of details right, whereas the Aston Martin feels a bit, well, off-the-shelf. A bit Ford-like. It reminds you that the snobbery of James Bond is not even the snobbery of a real snob. It’s all a bit common. I know we’ve come a long way from seeing Scorpio switchgear on the old Virage but traces remain.
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The common touch Aston Martin wants you to spend over $300,000 on a DB9. Yet its Facebook update makes you wonder if it appeals to an educated customer. It’s? And automotive what? It makes no sense.

Astons still irk me in the strangest ways. The typeface on the Start button, for example. Naff. And the ‘Power Beauty Soul’ start-up sequence. Naff. Even the typeface on the digital display. Audi and BMW get these sorts of details right, whereas the Aston Martin feels a bit, well, off-the-shelf. A bit Ford-like. It reminds you that the snobbery of James Bond is not even the snobbery of a real snob. It’s all a bit common.

I know we’ve come a long way from seeing Scorpio switchgear on the old Virage but traces remain.

Not Weibo? I thought Twitter was blocked in China?

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Tweet, Tweet Twitter is for the birds.

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