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Re: Track Short URLs Clicks from Twitter with Google Analytics

Sean O — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:15:52 -0000

URLs.

Re: Was Hasbro right to kill Scrabulous?

Sean O — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:32:58 -0000

The game was copyright infringement, plain and simple. How it even saw the light of day to begin with is a mystery. Forget the "positive" consequences -- people buying more Scrabble board games -- those are irrelevant, when the work at hand is _an exact clone_ of Scrabble. There is no promotion involved when the original copyright holder's name is never mentioned.

Also, the fact that the brothers Agarwalla didn't charge for the game works against them, as now they are providing a copyrighted work that previously required compensation (board games, software apps, etc.) for free.

I think some of the recent attempts by the RIAA and MPAA have gone too far, but this is one exception of clear IP violation, and the boys should have the book thrown at them. Maybe... a Scrabble dictionary.

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Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

Sean O — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:34:25 -0000

Two words: fan fiction.

Re: Political Poker Proclivities

Sean O — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:48:42 -0000

I have a slight inclination towards poker.

Aside: how does this relate to "food"?

Re: And Baby Makes … Confusion

Sean O — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:08:13 -0000

I guess the _decision_ at stake here is whether to keep her baby after it is born, versus putting it up for adoption. Actually, a clever use of the word by the Republican spin doctors. One that could be interpreted either way.

Re: And Baby Makes … Confusion

Sean O — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:56:26 -0000

Mmm... well that phrase certainly refers to the abortion decision directly. They, perhaps, want to give the impression that she _did_ have a choice -- seeing as how it's, you know, legal. But who knows what was really said behind closed doors...

Re: 2007/10/11/25-tutorials-web-minded/

Sean O — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:55:08 -0000

Good list.

W3Schools, WebmasterWorld and A List Apart are perma-bookmarks. "999 Tutorials" and most of the AdSense-laden Photoshop Tutorial sites, however, are not.

Re: 2008/05/14/twitter-is-down-i-blame-the-democrats/

Sean O — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:59:27 -0000

Ummm... vacillates?

Re: A Picture is Worth... Gasoline Consumption Per Day [Updated]

Sean O — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:59:43 -0000

Yet another use of "shock statistics."

Per-capita data (as linked previously) is more telling if you're asking the implied question: "How much do we (the American gluttons) use?"

Also, comparisons of the sq. mi/km of popular roads in the U.S. versus the rest of the countries featured paints a clearer picture. It's simply a (relative to most others) large country, with a fairly large population. Of course we're going to use more oil.

A picture is worth... not so much.