Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
To manage your privacy on Facebook, you’ll need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. It’s a mess of options. There’s a bookmarklet you can run on your profile that will lock down a bunch of this for you.
After you adjust your Facebook settings, just make sure you don’t Facebook and drive.
First off, for a few more days, you can get Portal for free. I started playing it a couple days ago (when they first released it for free, as I’d never played it), and it’s a stupidly innovative and fun game. Can’t wait until the sequel.
Secondly, if you’d rather just kill some time at work in your browser, Death vs. Monsters is a good way to do it.
Pretty simple (in theory): Just blow up the building, but don’t hurt anybody. Play it after the jump.
Personally, I think their new design is a helluva lot better than their old one. I’m glad they replaced the front page story rotation Flash and replaced it with DHTML, and it appears their RSS feed actually includes all the stories now. However, all the KTVZ.com stories I’ve linked to are now dead. Unfortunately it appears that all links to their old site went dead because of the new CMS. I personally think this is more of a big deal than most people believe, and did express that to Barney when he was talking to me about the new site last week. The 404 error page is mostly worthless, too, as it doesn’t include anything remotely useful to help folks get back to the front page now that every link to a non-front page from prior to today is now dead. When a CMS is changed on a major content site, I know not all URLs can be saved, but the 404 page should at least be useful to find the new site or old content. That’s probably my biggest gripe, as I typically use Google to find past news content usually linked to from blogs and such, and now I won’t be able to find anything on KTVZ.com without using their search engine. And since their search engine doesn’t include past stories (at least right now), then what happens? A good 404 with built-in search could help alleviate this problem.
Otherwise, the site is much faster loading and a much cleaner design. It doesn’t have a favicon in place like the last one did, and it could use some code tweaks here and there, but otherwise much better than before.
Their mobile URL doesn’t appear to work anymore (again, lack of useful 404), and mobile.ktvz.com is…well … weird. It looks like a default subdomain setup for the company’s clients, not something personalized for KTVZ. I did like their simple mobile news site for news updates on the go, so hopefully something useful will be implemented in the future.
What do you think? Likes, dislikes, gripes, etc…?
Kyle was loser of the latest UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Pick ’em, and in what has become a tradition among the losers he sent pictures of him wearing the shirt to some random places (two-time loser Dren took it to Wrigley Field and to the pool). Here’s Kyle…
From the loser:
The Mt Everest picture was taken just outside of Base Camp after four days of hiking through the mountains with altitude sickness, thus the happy look on my face
Thanks for joining in the fun, Kyle. If anybody else wants to buy an utterlyboring.com shirt and take a random picture in some random place, go ahead (you can buy the NCAA loser shirt, if you want, but only The Dren and Kyle are officially losers).
The game play mechanic in Hue Shift is pretty straightforward and simple, but it’s bound to aggravate you pretty quickly — yet you won’t be able to quit playing.
OK, there is nothing here related to Mother’s Day (except for maybe this Calvin and Hobbes classic or these psycho movie moms), but here’s wishing all you moms out there a great day of well-deserved spoiling.
And this time, they’re not going to play nice…
If you haven’t been to Google today (you haven’t?), you’ve missed a major redesign in their search results that appears to be showing up more commonly today (I’m starting to see it on most of my searches, but not on 100% of them). I don’t know if I’m a fan of the left-hand navigation, but it’s probably one of those things that will grow on me. What are your thoughts?
