Being someone who has softened up a bit since college due to a dramatic decrease in physical activity (I played on the men’s soccer team in college and therefore worked out at least 2 hours per day, now I work out maybe an hour per week), and increase in appetite and access to tasty foods, it struck me that twitter might make for a great way to keep a food diary. Easy and quick posting, right at the time of consumption, right to a chronologically sorted storage area online.

I’m sure someone has done this before, but now so am I. You can follow my progress (thrilling I know), and mock my food intake, at http://twitter.com/whatamieating

Svetlana Magee, 33, of 1 Ledgemere Road, Apt. 1, Brighton, was arrested on May 16 at her residence after allegedly standing on her porch, exposing her genitals while yelling “Everyone [expletive] me!” A witness reported that the suspect also allegedly exposed her genitals the day before. Magee was arrested for open and gross lewdness.(via here)

Search for Svetlana Magee.

Of some 850+ users that answered this poll earlier in the week, 93% don’t even know what twitter is.

This is one of the reasons I really enjoy Quibblo. We can throw polls up there on anything we want, and get some interesting quick data from our users. Now bear in mind that the users are heavily tween to teen, but it still is cause for pause the next time that you think “everyone uses twitter”.

However, Twitter has a lot of passionate and addicted users.

And of course MySpace and Facebook are battling it out for users and for social network supremacy.

And lastly, both MySpace and Facebook have “status” features that are essentially little Twitters within their respective networks.

Am I missing something here, or is this just too logical an acquisition to make sense? Seems like a no-brainer to me.

When one digger recently posted a link to Business Week, discussing a possible sale, the first comment was fitting, and seemed to sum up how those in the ad business view the average Digg user. IE, anti-web-commercialism, and ironically uninformed (Google is the web’s largest ad company, no?).

But, it is the new bubble, so someone will no doubt scoop up Digg, along with it’s jack-ass user base, for some nine-figure sum, and we’ll all see what happens from there.

Good luck to whomever buys this one, you’re gonna need it.

1. Gmail Manager – Gmail is the central unloading point for all incoming email to some of my dozen or so email addresses. This extension keeps a handy little inbox counter and icon down on the right bottom corner of my browser. It even displays little snippets of my messages, so I can see if it is anything worthwhile without logging into Gmail.
2. Google Preview – Google Preview is a nifty little extension that adds a small thumbnail screenshot to the left of your search results in Google. This is one of those extensions that you don’t think matters until you use it, and then you won’t ever want to use Google without it. Those little screenshots really allow you to scan search results more intelligently and more effectively, totally worth the install.
3. Search Status – Right from their description, “Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.”. For geeky web people like me that do a ton of media buying and other nerdy stuff, this is an awesome little extension.
4. FireBug – Firebug is something that I added recently, but use probably 10 times per day at least since bringing it into my extension family. This little plugin allows you to view all sorts of interesting information about the css/html/etc for any web page you are on. It’s like “view-source” on steroids and HGH at the same time. My favorite feature is being able to edit CSS live on any site as I am developing and messing around. Saves a TON of time.
5. FireShot – This one came via a friend of mine, and could be the coolest add-on I have installed yet, though I haven’t had to use it in a real situation yet. Fireshot is a super awesome screen grab and annotation tool. Download and try, it is awesome.

Any other good ones out there I should try (aside from Greasemonkey)?

Though it may seem otherwise, I am not mocking these sites. They will be a minor hit, I have no doubt. As I commented on his post, this sort of stuff freezes girls in their web tracks, they can’t consume enough of this content. Web porn for girls is videos and pictures of puppies, not of hunky dudes, so don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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So if you are a creative-minded, high energy, inquisitive, analytical, interesting, fun, smart, clever, and motivated person, we’d love to have you join us. Make sure to get in touch with me here, and let me know which position you might be interested in, and we can get you a full job description and do the resume thing.

Go forth, enjoy, and let me know when you get “Chocolate Rain” stuck in your head. Because you will.

Without further ado, here is the list of best viral videos.