Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

New Phishing Attack Spreading On Facebook. This Time From FBstarter (Updated).

The Bilerico Project | Rick Warren operatives trying to whitewash his anti-gay positions from Wikipedia entry.

Gmail: Google’s approach to email.

I would love to be the person whose job it is to come up with Google’s April 1 project releases…

Viral: Omegle! This Teenager Wants You to Chat with a Stranger.

Weird, and yet… so very AOL circa 1997-1998, after the golden years and before random IMs from strangers were completely supplanted by porn bots.

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand.

Wow. I think I might actually have nightmares after listening to this.

Facebook changes coming in response to user complaints – CNN.com.

FINALLY.

Testing Google’s Drunk E-Mail Protector – TIME.

I love it! It’s an amusing article.

I LOVE it. So funny.

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret:

Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can’t always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we’re launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.

Official Google Blog: Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign.

Sticking to their corporate motto: Don’t Be Evil.

Thanks, Google!

Found this great and useful article on Hubpages, entitled “How to Make Money WRITING Online.” The nice thing is that it’s actually a pretty honest and accurate assessment of making online writing your career; it’s not a “set up a single page loaded with keywords and watch the money tumble into your Adsense account” deal like many of the articles I come across – ’cause I think for the most part, those are bogus. This is not. Check it out!

Use this link to get your ING Direct Orange Savings account now!

I would like, once again, to extoll the virtues of ING Direct, my FAVORITE BANK EVER. And that’s saying a LOT!

My favorite ING Direct services:

Orange Savings: Get 4.5% APY with NO minimum! This account is KILLER, and simply cannot be matched anywhere else! If you use this with your Electric Orange checking account, the transfers are immediate; you don’t even have to wait a few days.

Electric Orange Checking: FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL electronic checking account. You can get paper checks if you need them, on a check by check basis, but most transactions are completed entirely online, which is how many of us already do our banking. Better still, you get about 4% interest on it, and overdraft fees are charged more like finance charges on credit cards, so you don’t get an obscenely high bank fee for a $3 overdraft! This has got to be my FAVORITE feature.

Orange CDs: High interest CDs ranging from a few months to a few years, with no minimum balance. You can get a rate over 5%!

In general, ING has some of the highest interest rates around, especially those Orange savings accounts with no minimum balance. Right now it’s at about 4.5%, but it goes up fairly frequently.

Use this link to get your ING Direct Orange Savings account now!

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I’ve probably already talked about Raining Jane and how very wonderful they are, but now I have a new reason to yammer on about them! My friend was searching on YouTube and found a series of Raining Jane videos from a Fender show, so now you can see how fantabulous these ladies are, even if they’re not coming to your town!

(However, if they are playing locally, GO SEE THEM. No matter how terrific these videos are, Raining Jane is a thousand times better when they’re standing right in front of you. This is pretty mellow as their performances go, and the sound quality is crystal clear but doesn’t really capture their essence.) 😀

Convinced? Buy Raining Jane’s most recent album, Diamond Lane, on iTunes, at Amazon.com, or even better, through Raining Jane’s website.

Desperate Sails:

More Raining Jane awesomeness behind the cut:

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