Animal Photobombing

All of these are just awesome.

Help Haiti with a Twenty Spot

The horrible earthquake in Haiti is more unfortunate than I can even venture to imagine.  It’s no secret that they are already a poor country and need all the support they can get, anywhere they can get it. The twitter/social communities have already been buzzing about it, and I’ve seen some pretty amazing celebrity endorsements too, talk about social responsibility in action.

I wanted to give to the cause but just hand’t had the chance for the past couple days, however being a T-Shirt guy, myself, I found this as an awesome way to give a little and promote the best of it.  Doubletake Clothing (in a matter of hours) put this together and as of today they’ve already collected over $1000 for the cause.  It’s $20 flat, and they will even ship it to you for free.

Doubletake Clothing — Help Haiti $20.

Given the catastrophic events that occurred in Haiti, Doubletake Clothing wants to do something to help the 3 million people affected by the earthquake. No words can describe what the Haitian population is going through right now.

All proceeds will go to several Haiti Earthquake Relief Organizations including the UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, and CSI Ministries. Doubletake Clothing is taking care of all domestic shipping costs (free shipping!) and reduced international shipping to $5. We’re working with suppliers to reduce the costs of materials to maximize the donation to Haiti. We will periodically update our total estimated donation.

This is a pre-order item, so we will get the shirts to you as fast as possible (typically 2 weeks after sales close). At this time, we plan on closing sales Jan. 22, 2010.

Our prayers are with Haiti.

Well done guys, you’ve got my order, and my support.

There’s nothing like a little K THX BYE to lighten the mood, but seeing as this is just perfect it’s totally share-worthy.  I wish it came with a video clip I could add to all youtube videos as a pre-roll add.

Hat Tip -> deep

We would prefer to do Option 1, as that would require the least amount of effort on our end and we could ensure an on time launch. Please let us know what you think is best and we can proceed from there.

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Hmm, what option should I choose.

via Facebook Just Got Its Own VitaminWater Flavor: “Connect”. Seriously..

Here’s a first. VitaminWater has just announced that its newest flavor will be called “Connect”, complete with a Facebook logo and a full paragraph description loaded with references to untagging, friend requests, and photo stalking. It’s black cherry-lime flavored, with caffeine and “eight key nutrients”. And it’s coming to stores nationwide in March.

The new flavor and label were a result of a contest VitaminWater has been conducting on its Facebook page over the last few months that invited fans to design their own flavors check out the video below featuring Steve Nash for an intro. Here’s the message VitaminWater used to announce the news on its Facebook page. You can blame them for the lack of capitalization:

“unlike the never-ending debate over whether it’s rock-paper-scissors or paper-rock-scissors, based on your votes and your designs, the latest flavor of vitaminwater has FINALLY been decided… introducing the black cherry-lime flavored vitaminwater named… connect! check out this new package- flavor & ingredients, name & label design- all inspired by you- our fans. it’s got 8 key nutrients plus caffeine. thanks for all your help- especially to the grand prize winner Sarah from Illinois and the four other finalist http://budurl.com/q27w. vitaminwater connect will be available in stores nationwide in march this year- so until then, stay hydrated- and keep your eyes here for news, updates and special offers for connect, including a possible sneak tasting opportunity. and btw… it’s rochambeau!”

One amusing thing worth pointing out: the bottle’s label prominently features a fingerprint on it, which isn’t really something you’d normally associate with sharing or a safe online environment. And it will look especially odd if Facebook’s privacy fiasco ever comes to a head.

I Can Haz Credit?

Ahh this just made my night.

First year of marriage to my beautiful wife

Moved in with my inlaws

Had the worst tax year ever

My Grandmother passed away

Started shopping for a home

Decided to re-define my business and take a huge risk

Dad had open heart surgery

Bought a home

Rebuilt a home

Father-in-law diagnosed with cancer

My Father diagnosed with cancer

Moved into our home

Incorporated my business

Hired 4 employees

Father passed away

Wife’s grandmother passes away

Father-in-law made it through chemo, now in remission

Grandfather (88 years old) falls and breaks hip

Grandfather makes it through surgery against all odds

I’m still working 18 hour days, but getting better each day.

The working process can be found here:
How to Enable MMS & 3G Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 GM Build 7A341

The above blog mentions this is for Windows machines, however I’m running the following version of iTunes and it worked just fine with the GM Developer Release.

I have not yet tried the process on windows, however on mac, I simply downloaded this file, renamed the file to remove the .zip extension, and did an Option + Restore click to select and apply the new carrier file.  After a quick reboot, teathering works flawlessly and MMS is still spotty, but all the features are there.  Note I also tried this on a 2G phone and it did not work, the phone still works fine but the features are missing.  I plan on doing this with my new 3GS when it comes in the mail tomorrow as well.  Here are some screenshots below.

Tethering Active over 3G

Notice under carrier: AT&T 5.0 (vs the normal 4.0)

Error sending, but all the features are in place.

Enjoy this at your own risk, I’m not responsible if you create an Apple Paperweight or rack up 5 grand in fees, but as far as I can tell, this seems like a harmless tweak.

I can’t be the only one that is getting sick of these.. Now Facebook & Google are the worst.  My favorite is when FB asks me to go through 2-3 of these before it accepts my link, and then half the time ends up having an AJAX error and not posting it anyhow.

I miss the days of webcrawler when the whole internet was spam, but at least we didn’t have to be challenged before clicking submit.

As a rule, I follow everyone back who follows me, I’m not an Internets rockstar and feel like I have to be an idiot to the world like, most, everyone, else, does. That is, of course, excluding Colbert.  However in my book, the minute i get these, that constitutes a swift reply mentioning how annoyed I am with people who abuse twitter for that, followed by a block. It’s not much but, hey, why not make a point.

With great popularity, comes great abuse online.