http://ldopa.net in perpetual beta Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:33:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been seeing a lot of 'Google Money Master' ads on various sites. You click through and you get a page explaining how you can 'work at home' (the American Dream, apparently) and a pitch: Step 1: Get Google Money Master, only pay the $1.95 for shipping. Step 2: Follow the directions ... http://ldopa.net/2009/06/13/google-money-master-is-a-huge-scam/ What I love about this is how human it is. The tank commander doesn't want to just run this guy over. Don't think of it as a man facing down a machine. Think of it as a very brave, very scared man facing a very scared kid inside a machine. ... http://ldopa.net/2009/06/04/the-most-beautiful-human-moment-of-my-life/ If you haven't signed up for the free (free!) and amazing file synchronization service Dropbox, here's a free invite that will help me out too. Enjoy! http://ldopa.net/2009/06/02/dropbox-is-amazing/ Almost four years ago, I posted this Real, Actual Photo of Steve Perry. The real miracle that keeps on miracling is that people keep showing up to discover it for the first time, get in fights about what they think it is, and then lie low for another couple of ... http://ldopa.net/2009/05/15/man-i-love-the-internet-part-series-that-contains-itself-of-a-series/ I would love to adopt that TEACUP YORKIES MALTESE PUPPIES whatever for sell! How about it, what!? Looking forward to hearing back from you in timely fashion ideally yes, ~Jeff Hello , Thanks for your interest in my puppy.I just relocated From Massachusetts to fort wayne,indiana. Love ... http://ldopa.net/2009/05/06/re-omg-maltese-puppies1/ So a CEO, a web programmer and an SEO expert are on a desert island. And the SEO expert says, "You guys, I'm so thirsty. Is there anything to drink?" And the CEO says, "I just drank the last of my water 30 minutes ago." And the web programmer says, "I have plenty ... http://ldopa.net/2009/05/06/seo-joke-seo-joke-search-engine-optimized-joke-funny-funny-joke/ Step 1: Drag the v0rtex bookmarklet to your bookmark bar. Step 2: When you are reading about a cool album or movie that oh maybe you might be interested in, highlight the name and click the v0rtex bookmarklet. Step 3: Prophet ~Jeff http://ldopa.net/2009/04/04/v0rtex-bookmarklet/ So if I have this right, my Airport Express/iTunes combo: Takes a compressed music file from iTunes and converts whatever music file format that is into Apple Lossless. iTunes then discovers and connects via Bonjour mDNS autodiscovery to the IP address of the wireless router. iTunes streams that Apple Lossless file from the ... http://ldopa.net/2009/04/04/how-the-airport-express-works/ So, a dude at AIG refuses to give back is $700,000 bonus and says that he's going to give it all to "charity" (read: Heritage Foundation, Project for a New American Century, and the Republican Party). Please note these perfectly preserved leavings of a specimen of Homo Perapluo Internetica: I wish that ... http://ldopa.net/2009/03/25/man-i-love-the-internet-part-3-in-a-series/ From the comments ona blog post about Creationists that don't quite understand what science is but are claiming to use it comes this shining Internet gem: BIG MACK Says: May 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 am THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EGOTISTICAL PERSON’S BLOG… HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT LIFE…………. BUT CONTENDS THAT HE KNOWS EVERYTHING. ... http://ldopa.net/2009/03/22/man-i-love-the-internet-part-2-in-a-series/ I love the Internet. I really do. It's full of creative things that people have made, it's given me some really amazing real life relationships, and it's changed the way we all think about information and knowledge. But none of that is in evidence below. The following is a complete response ... http://ldopa.net/2009/03/12/man-i-love-the-internet-part-1-in-a-series/ http://ldopa.net/2009/03/06/obama-americas-undo/ My hope is that the Democratic Party will use its newfound media savvy for good and not for evil. See, they know that Rush Limbaugh is a political clown. He throws dogshit from the peanut gallery where he knows he has no responsibility, where his hypocricy is irrelevant. The Republican party, ... http://ldopa.net/2009/03/03/rush-limbaugh-balks-when-he-gets-what-he-wanted-and-finally-some-democrats-figure-out-media/ OK. Here's for you. And you, and you. From April Winchell, bless her little heart. Our President swearing a blue streak. Technically, he's reading someone else's swearing from his autobiography, but don't worry, we can decontexualize it in 4 seconds flat. Perhaps the most shocking is hearing him say "ain't"-- ... http://ldopa.net/2009/02/17/i-aint-your-b-m-buy-your-own-damn-fries/ Evoloopr (iTMS link) is a new iPhone/iPod Touch app by ldopa's own Jon Klein. It's a generative music app that creates eight loops and allows the listener to 'mate' two of the loops to create eight new offspring loops. Also, it's got a single muted electric guitar note by ... http://ldopa.net/2009/02/16/evoloopr/