Apple Releases OS X Lion USB Installer – Apple made me a liar. Here's another way to install Lion if you don't want to deal with the lengthy (and possibly costly) download.
Here are links I found interesting on August 10, 2011:
Why Groupon is Bad for Small Business – Some specific notes on what's wrong with Groupon from the small business owner's point of view. Excellent points.
Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme – Why Groupon can't work in the long run: "The vast majority of local merchants can’t discount more than 10 percent. Some can go maybe 25 percent in special situations. But 75 percent is a wholly unsustainable number. If all local merchants begin using Groupon then it can’t send loyal customers to anyone; Groupon can only send discount chasers to merchants. Which means that as Groupon grows, both local merchants and their competitors will find that Groupon’s main argument no longer works (if it ever did) — Groupon simply can’t send them loyal new business. So they all stop using Groupon in its current form." Read the rest of this interesting article on Knewton.com.
A Box You Want to Uncheck on LinkedIn – "Apparently, LinkedIn has recently done us the “favor” of having a default setting whereby our names and photos can be used for third-party advertising." Read more (and fix this) on BrandImpact.com.
How Could Anonymous "Destroy" Facebook? – Interesting look at Anonymous's threat to "destroy" Facebook and how such destruction could be accomplished. My opinion: I'd love to see Facebook go away.
Here are links I found interesting on August 8, 2011:
Police pontificate as Montrealer threatens to murder science journalists – "A Montreal man who uses the name David Mabus, and who has been identified as Dennis Markuze of Saint-Laurent, Qué., has been issuing death threats to American science journalists and bloggers over the course of the past three years, first by email and lately via twitter." I was one of the people contacted by this whack-job on Twitter.
Republicans on the Debt Ceiling: Screwing Over America – "Republicans say they want to save the country from Obama’s reckless spending. But as Paul Begala argues, it’s the GOP’s policies that have driven the nation into the ground." Read it (and weep).
Radiation Overdose at the Airport – Yes, TSA? What was that you were saying about the safety of your full-body scanners? No thanks. I'd rather be groped.
A Sobering Look At Apple – Holy crap! BYTE magazine comes back online, launches with a rant against Apple that's clearly designed to be link bait, and is roundly blasted by the Apple community. BYTE apologizes, takes back the rant via strikethru, and the comments keep coming. Frankly, I think the author of the rant should give up writing and get a day job, perhaps flipping burgers at McDonald's. What an idiot. And I really question BYTE's decision to publish and then (at first) defend it. Read the comments; they're better than the original post.
News and Its Critics – So incredibly sad to see Murdoch using the Wall Street Journal — of all newspapers! — as a platform to defend himself and his company against criticism.
How the Guardian Broke the News of the World Hacking Scandal – THIS is why quality newspapers with investigative journalists MUST NOT DIE. If it weren't for the hard work of real journalists, the truth would never be known. Bloggers and aggregators (think HuffPo) cannot replace real investigative journalists.
The real Rupert Murdoch exposed – This just keeps getting better and better. Sad, though, to see Murdoch using the Wall Street Journal to defend his slimy ways.
