facebook is down. I noticed because I'm in the midst of polishing up the new version of iWant (my killer popular facebok app) just because a site is popular doesn't make it invulnerable to Murphy's law

when you're feeling grumpy, watch some laughing babies. there. feeling better now?

I had this funny kind of subversive idea. I think captchas should, randomly, every million times or so, say something really rude. Recaptcha could put together a couple of words like "Buck Futter" or "Suck Horses" or "Eat Miballs" Those random character captchas could inject a little "urawhore" or "i8urmom" I think it would ...

No, I don't mean one of those. I've been crowned moderator of the XML forum at WebmasterWorld.com. Timbits are in the kitchen, go help yourself.

My dutiful alarm clock wakes me weekday mornings with the local news radio station. Every day, I'm roused from groggy slumber by voices telling me what's going on in the world, and it's not uncommon for the alarm to go off and rant the news for a few minutes (sometimes ...

Has anyone noticed that most of my recent blog posts have been these stupid YouTube embeds, mostly written on Wednesday nights? It's true... most of my really good material has been going into an IGLOO-based intranet blog. Sorry. I'll remedy that as time allows. This one made me give back my ...

I thought Lou Reed was cool... until I saw this performance. It's bad enough Lou showed up to participate in this utter disaster, but then he starts in with this contrived Joe Cocker shit? Honestly! Can't musicians just get older gracefully ...

ianring.com is compiling a list of the WORLD's GREATEST BLOGS. Every few months, I will publish a list of the TOP BLOGS According to ianring.com. This is not a list according to biased industry experts or meaningless traffic statistics! No, this is TOP BLOGS according to the readers of ...

This is... wow. Just go watch the video, then come back and read the rest of my ravings. http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=933742930 Of course the people in the video are a little too stupidly ambitious - envisioning these on "every surface"? give me a break. But it would be pretty cool to have one ...

Hi everyone! As you probably noticed I made some changes to the design last night. No more right-hand column, no more blogroll, no more random haiku. I've tucked all the extra page fluff and navigation into a bar at the top. Click on "archive" and you'll see. (warning: unlike the ...