Today's Links
It should surprise no one that, through the power of teh intarweb, persistant vegetable Terry Schiavo has her own blog. This is wrong on various levels but it is also damn funny.
StumbleUpon is an extension for Firefox and other browsers that becomes part of the toolbar - click on "Stumble", and you are taken to a site - where you then give the site a thumbs-up or down - SU remembers your choices and starts to stumble you to sites that match your interests as it learns over time what you like. Sort of like amazon's recommendations, and also a very good marketing engine for the Stumble people should they want to track the stumbles... at the moment the site says "no adware or spyware" but if this thing takes off, you just never know. Right. Cynicism aside, I've been using it for a couple of days now and it's tremendous fun. If you want to really get into the social networking angle of SU, you can even review the sites you stumble, and each user has their own SU webpage where the reviews are posted. People can see what you like and what you don't. My stumble page, which is of course a work in progress, is http://hamedotca.stumbleupon.com/ - see under contacts on the sidebar for a direct link.