I love it how Techcrunch sometimes misses the bigger picture story on the tech news they cover. Actually, scratch that, I don’t love it, I think it’s annoying. But maybe that’s their strategy totally miss something so other people (like me) will write something in response to it. Well it worked… Bookmark It Hide Sites [...]
So installed a plugin (firestats) on my blog that lets me track visitor statistics. What’s cool about it is you can see what websites are referring you traffic, which posts are the most popular, what country they are from, etc… However, the coolest part about these stats is tells you what people searched in google [...]
The latest internet rage is a video clip from reality show Britain’s Got Talent featuring the singing audition of Susan Boyle. I would embed the video here, but seems like most of the videos have disabled embedding so follow this link to watch the video. What’s the big deal? What makes this audition so much [...]
If you google “I hate Twitter” you’ll find a bunch of results with “I hate Twitter” in the title. However, if you actually go and read any of these articles they are all liars! These people don’t really hate Twitter. Most say stuff like this… “I hate Twitter because I’m so addicted to it!” “I [...]
On the radio: 1 in 5 teenagers have done “sexting” (the sending of sexually explicit text messages) teen preganacy is on the rise for the first time in 15 years my thoughts: is there a correlation between the two? At the gym: Is water good for you? my thoughts: no, vodka is better for you [...]
I’m having another crazy pill moment trying to figure out the number 1 movie in America this past weekend. I was on the movie website, Rotten Tomatoes, yesterday looking up movie times when I came across the top movies this weekend at the box office. With the Oscars being this past weekend I would have [...]
Above is a product picture for “Chocolate Erotic Penis Candies” from bachelorette.com, a bachelorette party supply company. The product itself is pretty self explanatory and somewhat interesting – it’s simply chocolate shaped to look like penises. What’s more interesting, however, is the product descrption you’ll find on their website. The first part is pretty standard [...]
Thanks to the Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT) a friend of mine sent me to take I have learned that I’m racist. Harvard doesn’t directly call me a racist, but say that my results “suggest a moderate automatic preference for European American compared to African American.” If European American = white and African American = [...]
You see this guy on left? You might be thinking he’s mugging it up for the camera, but he’s not. He tore out his eyeball and ate it. That’s right. Actually this is an old photo of Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas after he had plucked out one of his eyeballs in 2004 [...]
Hello. My name is Ben Tao. I have random thoughts throughout the day--some amusing, some ridiculous, most are lame. Rather than forget them I've decided to write them down like the other billion bloggers out there. Welcome.