Shave For A Cure. No, I’m not doing it. I’ve already shaved my head before, and I don’t think any of us would be surprised if I did it again. Someone far braver and awesome is doing it instead.

If you’re a friend of mine, chances are you already know of this creature. She has been dealing with a problem called Trichotillomania, which is the compulsion to pull one’s hair out. It’s triggers include factors like stress.
It’s been a major problem for her, and she’s decided to take the plunge and shave her entire head of hair in the name of therapy. Since she’s already going to do it, it makes sense to do it for charity, and participate in Shave For A Cure.

So, this is where you fine upstanding gentlemen (and Monnie) come in. If you can spare just five dollars for Britt’s cause, you’ll put her one step closer to her goal of $500. The lady has already made $150 for charity, and anything more to help her reach the big five double-o would be appreciated.

HERE IS HER PAGE WHERE SHE EXPLAINS THIS BETTER THAN ME, AND WITHOUT A SENTENCE FULL OF MAJUSCULES.

I’m none too happy about the news that this new feature will be rolled out without choice over all Facebook profiles, but when I see people make hilarious use out of it, I feel a lot better.

Thank you Reddit.

My housemate and good friend Hugepedlar (That is his real name) has been creating music specifically tailored to ears. He has made lots of great songs which I’ve had the pleasure of hearing when he’s performed them live.

Now the man has decided to bless the entire world with his array of chiptune music, and is now selling them through Bandcamp. Right now there’s only one track on the page (A mix of multiple tracks the man played at a recent gig), but it’s nearly half an hour long, and definitely worth the cheap $2.50 price tag. But don’t take my word for it, read this one sentence review from another listener:

I need to poo.

There you have it. I’m sure you’re convinced now. If not, you can click on the cool art above, and give the track a free listen to see if you like it (You will.).

It stares into your soul.

I got bored and thought it’d be fun to redo my little collection of links again, and change them up just a little.
Now, if you go to /links on here, you’ll end up at a page full of even tinier avatars, each linking to something I like. The idea behind it is they could be mundane little things, or websites I visit all the time. Every so often I’ll add a few to the list, and eventually it should become a page of hundreds of links (my goal is a thousand).
I’m mainly doing this because I think it’ll look really cool, and I love doing little tweaks now and again. By doing this as well, I’ll be able to clean up the main page a little as there won’t be so much in the sidebar afterwards.
For now, the sidebar links will remain until I can be bothered porting all of them over to the links page, as I’m lazy like that.

Onto another topic, I’m considering getting rid of Disqus on this site. I like the system, but I want something that doesn’t feel so out of place in my blog theme. If you’re reading this (Mr. Nunn?) What’s your opinion on the matter? Is there a better alternative? Should I keep it? Should I just stop typing this and get ready for work?

Today I decided to look at the “What’s Hot” stream on Google+, where you see the most popular things people have posted lately. Apparently there is an uproar because some people are reposting other people’s public images without properly crediting them.
The claims are that it messes up ripples and “post stealing” is unethical.

While I don’t argue against the points Carter Gibson and other people are bringing up, I have to ask; why the fuck should it matter?

Look at me, not crediting the original poster of this image. I am a rebel.

From what I’ve seen, the main person accused of this issue is a Mr. Jason Calacanis. I really don’t see the issue. The gentleman in question did not claim the images as his own work, he merely reposted them. He didn’t share them via the “share” button supplied by Google, but does that really matter?
To me, it doesn’t matter as long as I see it. I’d rather see the image than miss it entirely. Half of the things that get posted are things found on Reddit or elsewhere on the Internet anyway. I feel that claiming that because you posted it first everyone should just share your post is just narcissistic, or something like that.

Tumblr is a good example of a community based purely around reposting other peoples works. If someone makes something new and original that is loved by the community, it is reposted a billion times to the point that the original author is forgotten. Do they yell at the top of their lungs about post stealing? No, they don’t.

To me, it doesn’t matter if someone posts the same thing as another person does, as long as people can see it. I’m willing to bet that most of the time the person who originally posted the item didn’t even make the item themselves, but rather found it on another site and thought it was worth sharing.
Even in the event that the item is 100% original, they’re sharing it on a social network site like Google+ or Tumblr because they want other people to see it. If someone else posts it themselves, that just means more people are seeing it. As long as said re-poster doesn’t take credit for the image/post, there really shouldn’t be a problem.

Well for those people who read the lame things I post here, ZombieSkittles has it’s own Google+ Page! Why? Because. What will it be used for? Not much beyond having another way to spam you.
Where’s the link? I suggest you click on that rather sexy logo on the left.

The only two things I dislike about the new Brand Pages on Google+ is the lack of a badge similar to the one I use for Facebook in the sidebar, and analytics. Lucky, both have been promised in the future, but how far away these features are is not certain. Hopefully it’s not a long wait.

Coincidentally, Rubenerd.com and Rex Havoc (An epic blog site and awesome story respectively) both have Google+ pages you should add to your circles while you’re there.

Looking for something to do to kill some time on your journey through this wide open space we call the Internet? Well, might I make a suggestion? Yes? No? Get to the point? Okay.

Over at The Geekorium, my friend is writing a daily story called Space Flight 704. The story feels very much like a comic book, and daily chapters are bite sized, so it only takes a few minutes to read.
It’s a fun and enjoyable read, and I suggest you give it a look¹ if you have a few spare minutes. Right now. Seriously.

1. Though I assume most people who read this are friends of both of us, and therefore will already be reading the story, or at least know of it. Oh well.

Well thanks to an awesome person on Twitter, I’ve been having a fiddle with Google+. Suffice to say, I’m quite enjoying it’s simplicity over Facebook’s bloated feeling. There’s no applications, and everything seems rather simple. Furthermore, the site has some nice features.

I could go on and on, and talk about the various things in Google+ that set it apart and make it good, but I’ll leave that to other people who do it better. This is a much simpler post, targeting a single feature.

Plus One.

The +1 button is a simple idea that has seen many different versions with slightly different purposes. Facebook like buttons, Tweet This buttons and the like all have the same idea, but Google’s does a little bit more. The button can be used as a simple way of liking posts made inside of Google+ itself, but the best part is it’s use outside of the social network.
When you find an article you enjoyed reading, or a video on YouTube you thought was especially good, you can click a corresponding +1 button on the page, and that item will be shared. If enabled, it will show up on your Google+ Profile under the +1 tab, so other people can see what you liked. This makes it relatively simple to spread the word about something, and I really think it’s quite neat, as it doesn’t spam up anyone.

This is basically a vanity post, because if you can’t see it by now, I suggest you scroll down just a little bit. Yes, I’ve added a +1 button to this site, allowing you to +1 singular posts if you so feel inclined. I don’t expect there’ll be many things worthy of a +1 on here, but I figured I like the system, and it couldn’t hurt to incorporate it.

Is anyone else incorporating the button into their blogs or websites?

I’ve known about the Slender Man for a while now courtesy of this thing, but started watching Marble Hornets, and now I’m fucking terrified. Even though this shit is fake, it’s messing with me.

The internet has invented some fucked up shit, but this is the first thing that completely and utterly unnerves me.