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StumbleUpon.com: Personalized Recommendations to Help You Discover the Best of the Web

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:14:34 -0700

StumbleUpon is not what it used to be. Once, it was a search engine with an option to make comments for other users. That was nice, even though it has always been badly designed.

People used this option to post comments in various ways. It was a nice environment for some social networking, depending on

Now, it's nothing nice any more, and the page design went from bad to worse. Now, whatever you say is open to anybody on the Net, and so called "your page" is full of crap you haven't put there.

SU, as it is now, is not a place where I want to be any more. I did meet some nice people here, and I even invited some to join SU. My sincere apologies to them all.

I'll stay here a bit longer just to give enough time so that people can contact me before I clear "my" page. I believe we can do better without what we can find here.

What about the SU search? No idea. At the moment StumbleUpon looks worse than Facebook, even though "you" still have no wall people can piss on. Coming up soon, it seems.

http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Bib/REPORT/PhD/part1.pdf

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:04:38 -0800

This s a historical document. I guess we should know where we are, and how it happened...

http://www.physorg.com/news108714824.html

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:12:59 -0700

--> "Social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace are unlikely to help users build close new friendships, a British researcher said Tuesday."

<-- Bogus networking websites don't work, as some would want them to. Hummm... Bogus research confirms it... Interesting. Not that anything is clear about the 'research,' like the objectives, methods or whatever, but the conclusions do resemble the Internet experience held and shared by numerous newbies who usually become IT experts soon after they get connected the first time.

In case some of them have some formal education and a position to abuse, they'll do it with yet another inane research, to support their comrades in stupidity, aimed to prove some of their popular beliefs, fears or whatever related to majority's inability to actually enjoy, develop or explore some bad new technological development.

As it were years ago when they wasted enormous amounts of money trying to prove how computer screens were causing headaches, damaging eyesight, or worse, now the same people and/or their children don't have headaches any more, but they do have new problems with the same technology. How surprising!

(to be continued...)

gotnames blog - StumbleUpon

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:56:53 -0700

--> "Welcome Gotname... Likes 679 pages, 12 videos, 38 photos, 14 fans, Received 2 reviews "

<-- Wow, what information! Stumbleupon has changed since I came here last time. Wysiwyg is one thing you can't get here, and whatever you get is a surprise of a sort. How I missed saying 'hi' to some rather pretty girls that seem to like 'this stumbler' is a mystery, but it wouldn't be a mystery to my young Swedish friend. For some reason, she does not expect me to behave like other men, or even have a relevant opinion about the issue.

The truth is, regardless of what I think, that too many men are making it hard for too many women to feel comfortable online. This has recently become an important usual topic in chat rooms we frequent. Some categories of women seem to be affected more than others, especially in voice chat environments, even Skype. Is the stumbleupon community safer and friendlier than others remains to be seen. Tell me, tell me...

Mindfulness & Mindlessness in Persuasion

Sun, 20 May 2007 07:41:37 -0700

--> "Considerable evidence has amassed showing that humans don't like to think."
<-- Considerable evidence has amassed showing that MOST humans are quite incapable of thinking. The psychologist here proves it. His inability to think is so obvious that he doesn't need any proof. Assuming that he and many others like him represent everybody is wrong, however. So, his statement above is just an erroneous generalization.

The Awkwardness Survival Guide

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:53:13 -0700

--> "This error is not confined solely to waiters; you may say "you too" when an usher tells you to enjoy the film, when an airline employee tells you to enjoy your trip, or even when a friend says "happy birthday." The "you too" is one of the most common errors in human discourse."

<-- Human discourse? The author is not aware that there are other languages spoken by humans? Maybe he thinks all languages are the same. Maybe he doesn't think. Is it something cultural? What is it? Is it an evolutionary error?

Cat Fan - 2flashgames.com Link for http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-164.htm

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:21:10 -0800

I love cats. These little ultimate predators are so much more than most people think, way beyond their elegance and beauty. They definitely know how to play the evolutionary game, too. They are wonderful companions, but only if you can earn their respect. You can't train them, but they can be told, and they can learn things. They are often funny, and entertaining...

Control or Joy?

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:06:02 -0800

--> "Ultimately, of course, it is absolutely impossible to understand and appreciate our natural universe unless you know when to stop investigating."

<-- Sure, we should stop investigating, or start investigating unnatural worlds. Obviously nobody ever told Alan Watts when to stop disseminating stupidity. Well, he may be a natural obstacle for Westerners to understand Tao. However, the Internet will change that. Talking to different people, like traditional taoists is possible (not that it's easy to find them ;).

It's all about the art of asking, it seems, or the lack of it. Anyway, after a few years of talking to a Chinese girl, on the Net, she told me that, traditionally, she was a Buddhist.

Very soon, I learned things not contained in any western book written about Buddhism. I hope to learn more, but there were more important things to discuss than Buddhism.

the internet black holes - information aesthetics

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:31:45 -0800

--> that is right... free the world - suction style ... a joke, you would think ... and calling themselves reporters without the borders ... ... wow, must be the age of no borders ... and check out the term they invented "internet black holes" ... how catchy ...

go RWB, liberators of humanity ... free those poor b....rds ... teach them the languge of us, free thinking people ...

how the hell are we going to deal with our own problems once we run out of those black hole, evil-x etc. countries...
ps. please help

<-- There's too much free world crap for this guy, it seems. I often make such comments myself. It's not about what people say, but what lies behind it, and what makes them say it. Besides, the map is not exactly accurate... Even though there are problems with the Internet access in China, some of my closest friends on the Net are Chinese, and I met them in various voice chat rooms, years ago.

Let me explain it, below, with an example...

No Boeing at the Pentagon

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:27:39 -0800

--> The best approach for any 9/11 researcher with honest intentions is to, if possible, wipe from their minds the official version of events and take the attitude of someone who has just returned from a 5 year trip to the outer reaches of the solar system, during which time they had no communication with planet earth.

<-- Let's ignore what happened, and think about how this guy thinks about it. He thinks that somebody's been doing things to his brain, and that somebody (who could that be?) has been manipulating Americans. He's probably right, but he's so wrong that some official American truth is considered true in the rest of the world.

Actually, 9/11 event stopped being the news few days after that date in Europe, and most people here have relatives in America. In other words, speaking globally, most people on this earth haven't even heard about it. There is no need to expel everybody to Pluto. There has never been. American truths are not being taken seriously outside America, not any more.

America is not what it used to be some 50 years ago. Too many Americans still think it is, but other people don't seem to. A dreamland, once, became a global problem, badly polluting the rest of the world (and their own, their own first), causing unnecessary military conflicts, involving other countries in it...

Is America really a military power out of control? Are there really Americans capable of sacrificing thousands of their own people out of greed? Should anybody ever ask these questions? So many questions...

As for 9/11, it's up to Americans to expose it for what it really was. It looked like an inside job soon after it happened. E.g., why would some Islamic terrorist group take trouble to ram planes into some towers when they were practically empty? Since when terrorists want to cause less damage than possible? I overheard this argument few hours later, the same day.

The example I had in mind is about the fact that the guy trying to prove to his fellow Americans that their own government killed their own people actually seems to think that America equals the planet Earth. It would be arrogant, the American way, if it weren't so silly. This guy could enjoy some time on Pluto. He can come to Europe as well. Same distance, more fun (I hope ;)).