On the Internet

Someone on the OC Transpo community on LiveJournal is reporting a new Web site for OC Transpo in the works.  Accessible at www.octranspo1.com, it is probably still under construction.  It was about time the site got a makeover.

It’s all over the Web.  From CBC to Boing Boing, with 30% of all posts on Twitter about it, the news is out: Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest at 50.

I really like the way he brought his spirit to pop music during the 80’s.  I was born early in the decade, and some of my music preference has been shaped by famous artists like him.  Then again, I wouldn’t say I was a huge fan of him, but I have to admit some of his songs were quite catchy and had a new sound nobody has heard before.  The beat, the rhythm, the dance, the lyrics…  Everything was there for the world to enjoy.

It’s too bad he went through rough times at the end.

The City of Bozeman in Montana requires all job applicants to write down all their Web sites usernames and passwords, including their own personal site, Facebook, Twitter, etc., for background checks.  At that point, the City might as well just ask for the applicant’s house and car keys for inspection!

See “Bozeman City job requirement raises privacy concerns”.  (Story via Boing Boing.)

The United States Postal Service now has a new tool to let people decide which box is the perfect fit for their shipment, the Virtual Box Simulator.  They simple need to print a special icon and show it to their Web cam.  When the Flash application detects the special icon, it will draw a shipping box on the screen.  The user can then “put” the objects to be shipped in the box to see if they’ll fit.  If not, the user can always change the size of the box.

See the video on how it works.  (Story via TrendsNow.)

I was reading about the new upcoming Search feature on Facebook when I noticed a comment in the appended thread that somehow got on my nerves.

Tried to figure a way to ask you a question, so here it is… Can we get 200 pictures to 1 photo book? If so I can merge a few books that would save me a lot of separate photo books. Can you e-mail me if I can merge some books to hold 200 pictures. Thanks Zdanax aka Sharilyn and you have my e-mail address I think lol If not it is [snip]@[snip] and let me know your e-mail address so if I have a few question’s I can e-mail it to you rather than post it here.

My dear Sharilyn, you really think the great workers at Facebook will bother to check any thread to see if there are support requests?  They’ve done enough work already, and now it’s your turn.  You go ahead and merge those photo albums and leave them alone.  Also, stop pestering them to get their e-mail address just in case you have a few “question’s”.  If you need help on using Facebook, go to their Help Centre, like everybody else.

After having seen the overly judgemental IE6 splash pages and this more light-hearted error page for IE6 users at Momentile, I’m considering making a directory of all IE6 error pages I can find on my upcoming portfolio site.  I wonder if I should, however, considering the original poster and creator of the judgemental splash pages took down the original post off his site.

(Thanks to my friends for the reference to Momentile’s error page and the screen shot.)

That’s how your face looks like when you jerk off. Thanks, Boing Boing!

The video is interesting. Sure, you can just skip forward to all the weird faces people make, and their eyes rolling up, but I do recommend you watch the video in full. People tell about their first encounter with porn and their opinion about it.  The ecstasy faces are more of a comic relief, if you ask me.

I do agree with the statements by the third person in the video.  She says that porn is too easily accessible and always “in our face”.  I tend to concur.

My reply was, “Congratulations, jackass! You made it on Rémino!”.  Not only the ad banner looks stupid, merely removing “dude” would have helped their case a lot.

I’m so glad when search engines keep me and my children away from porn. (I don’t have kids.) Searching for “bing” on Bing — or rather “binging for ‘bing’”? — reassures me that Bing is here to protect my virgin eyes from ever seeing a piece of posterior again.

Here’s one thing that pisses me off: services or software only available in a certain country.  Boing Boing just posted a video hosted on Hulu.  Guess what!  I can’t watch it because I’m not in the States.

I thought the Internet was supposed to get rid of those borders!  Why is it so hard for good things to be released in Canada?  No Hulu, no Pandora, no Skype for iPhone.  Remember how long it took for Apple to finally open their iTunes Store in Canada after having opened in the US and Europe?

I have the same problem with Japanese services sometimes.  I can’t buy music from the Japanese iTunes Store using my credit card, for example, and I can’t listen to the music offered by Mixi Radio or watch videos on Gyao.  I’m glad two of my friends invited me to Mixi a few years ago, because today, even with an invitation to sign up for an account on their social networking site, I would need to provide a Japanese cellphone number.  Now, how many people outside of Japan have a Japanese cellphone number?

There are ways to go around all the restrictions I’ve mentioned above, but really, why make it so hard for us?