http://ignorantium.com More reactive than flourine. Funnier than boron. Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:50:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/17/the-best-fake-girlfriend-story-of-all-time/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/17/the-best-fake-girlfriend-story-of-all-time/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:55:55 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/17/the-best-fake-girlfriend-story-of-all-time/ http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/17/the-best-fake-girlfriend-story-of-all-time/feed/ 2 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/which-side-am-i-supposed-to-be-on/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/which-side-am-i-supposed-to-be-on/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:34:21 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/which-side-am-i-supposed-to-be-on/ I suspect this post may not be everyone's cup of tea, so let me state as clearly as I can: I think the Westboro Baptist Church is a nasty bunch. They are evil — and I really mean that in the sense of good v. evil. Misguided, corrosive and bad. But here's the thing: they [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/which-side-am-i-supposed-to-be-on/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/welcome-to-your-world-your-pre-selected-and-carefully-screened-world/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/welcome-to-your-world-your-pre-selected-and-carefully-screened-world/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:59:29 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/welcome-to-your-world-your-pre-selected-and-carefully-screened-world/ I was working on my post about my break from social media, and how I think it's maybe not so good for us, when Facebook decided to take everything I was fretting about and turn it into a product: Graph Search. Remember when the Internet was going to open up brave new worlds to us [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/16/welcome-to-your-world-your-pre-selected-and-carefully-screened-world/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/good-article-from-siliconangle-on-mits-reaction-to-aaron-swartzs-su/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/good-article-from-siliconangle-on-mits-reaction-to-aaron-swartzs-su/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:06:11 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/good-article-from-siliconangle-on-mits-reaction-to-aaron-swartzs-su/ Good article from +SiliconANGLE  on MIT's reaction to Aaron Swartz's suicide. I had wanted to post something about the Aaron Swartz news this weekend but decided my two cents were worth less than two cents. Seemed wrong to opine about a kid committing suicide so soon after the news broke. Suffice it to say that [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/good-article-from-siliconangle-on-mits-reaction-to-aaron-swartzs-su/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/when-puppies-are-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-have-puppies/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/when-puppies-are-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-have-puppies/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:04:07 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/when-puppies-are-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-have-puppies/ The best line from the story: "What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear," a police spokesman said. Looking for a motive for a drive-by puppy throwing may be a fruitless search. #ignorantium   Embedded Link Puppy thrown at German biker gang A German student “mooned” a group of [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/14/when-puppies-are-outlawed-only-outlaws-will-have-puppies/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/ginned-up-controversy-is-controversial/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/ginned-up-controversy-is-controversial/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:53:16 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/ginned-up-controversy-is-controversial/ Google says you need to sign in to an account to use their services and that's now considered "controversial." Who knew AOL was ahead of the curve when it did the same thing 20 years ago.  Such a dumb article.  #ignorantium Embedded Link There’s No Avoiding Google+ Google Inc. is challenging Facebook Inc. by using [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/ginned-up-controversy-is-controversial/feed/ 1 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/the-social-media-vacation/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/the-social-media-vacation/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:54:50 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/the-social-media-vacation/ http://ignorantium.com/2013/01/03/the-social-media-vacation/feed/ 1 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/20/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-vc-gap/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/20/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-vc-gap/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:50:15 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/20/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-vc-gap/ I've seen a couple of posts on the dearth of VC. One, from a tech writer who shall remain nameless, made some comments about the whys and hows of this that were staggeringly dumb. This one from +John Furrier is all you need to know about it. Good post. #ignorantium   Reshared post from +John Furrier [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/20/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-vc-gap/feed/ 1 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/19/the-ever-popular-year-end-look-back/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/19/the-ever-popular-year-end-look-back/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:16:20 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/19/the-ever-popular-year-end-look-back/ Stories for this article were selected mostly due to traffic and discussion on social media. I've already had a few people tell me it's too U.S.-centric and missed a couple of big stories. Probably true. My hindsight is only 20/20 for my, uh, "hind." Still, it's a good list stories that show the market is [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/19/the-ever-popular-year-end-look-back/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/pop-mind-blown/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/pop-mind-blown/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:17:50 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/pop-mind-blown/ If you go far enough with this, somewhere in the simulation there's a guy running a simulation containing another guy running a simulation….and on and on. This would explain a lot about some of the people I know: they're bugs in the software.  #ignorantium   Embedded Link Whoa: Physicists testing to see if universe is [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/pop-mind-blown/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/a-ghost-town-that-makes-civic-improvements/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/a-ghost-town-that-makes-civic-improvements/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:09:02 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/a-ghost-town-that-makes-civic-improvements/ If G+ is the 'ghost town' some once accused it of being, it sure does spend a lot of time doing the equivalent of building parks and sweeping the streets. Those are the types of activities most ghost towns don't really do.  #ignorantium   Embedded Link Google+: ‘Tis the Season for Shipping While it was [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/14/a-ghost-town-that-makes-civic-improvements/feed/ 0 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/13/the-future-is-always-just-around-the-corner/?source=rss http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/13/the-future-is-always-just-around-the-corner/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:37:26 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/13/the-future-is-always-just-around-the-corner/ Interesting poll from Harris Interactive on mobile payments. Seems like everyone knows they're going to happen, but sometime down the road — like five years down the road. Still, when you parse the data a bit you see that people actually are using their phones for coupons, mPOS, etc.  #ignorantium Embedded Link Will m-payments replace [...]]]> http://ignorantium.com/2012/12/13/the-future-is-always-just-around-the-corner/feed/ 0