iPowerWeb, if you receive enough complaints about your website that the top feature for logged-in customers assumes they’re frustrated, why not redesign?

1. Accept every friend request.
2. Leave profile and status blank.
3. Disable wall.
4. Block applications.
5. But don’t quit—then you’d just be plain boring.

You simply can’t pay committed employees commensurately.

So treat them like they’re doing you a favor, not like they owe you something.

College shouldn’t be considered a take-it-or-leave-it decision. Nowadays, deciding against college is like deciding to not graduate from high school.

Your thoughts?

My post on squirrel trapping didn’t address the propriety of exterminating domiciliary vermin.

So to that desperate Googler, I say—Heavens, yes!

1. I love you.
2. Let me get that for you.
3. I don’t know.
4. Thank you.
5. No problem.
6. I see.
7. Tell me more.
8. I agree.
9. Are you sure you want to do that?
10. See you soon.
11. Good job.
12. I’m sorry.
13. Hey, babe.
14. Good to see you.
15. Don’t jump.
16. I’ll take care of it.
17. Sure.
18. My fault.
19. Whatever you want.
20. I have an idea.
21. You’re right.
22. I wonder.

(via Friendly Atheist)

Check the veracity of an email forward before you pass it on.

No. Wait. Stop.

Just delete it.

This isn’t the 90’s.

I just leaped out of a shaking bed. No killer was in the room. I checked.

Apparently, I experienced my first earthquake.

6:02 AM Update: It was 5.4 on Richter scale.

6:12 AM Update: Epicenter was over a major fault line near West Salem, IL, 130 miles west of Louisville.

6:33 AM Update: The newsroom is perseverating about the “first reported damage,” some broken ornamental concrete in downtown Louisville.

6:40 AM Update: This is fun. I should be a meteorologist or something. But to get a job, I think I’d need to get better at mongering fear.

6:55 AM Update: Here’s the area that felt tremors as best as I can figure:

7:31 AM Update: OK, all good things must come to an end. I have to go do real work now.

I’d get a cell phone if no one expected me to check messages. Better yet, if no one called me on it.

One’s intelligence can be so low that one is stupid, but one’s stupidity can never get high enough to make one intelligent.

-Edward Sapir, Quoted in Far from the Madding Gerund, 98

The blustery manager almost came unhinged when an off-kilter homeless fellow kept telling him, “Betcha $500 I’d beat ya round the block.”

My inability to imagine that something unlikely is real is not reason enough for me to believe that it’s actually not real.

Super Value Black Cavendish: Wonderful for a summer evening’s lunt.

Smooth, rich, cheap.

Some company I keep (if I need any defense):

Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Now you.

1. Go to bed earlier.
2. Make your alarm terrible music.
3. Plan something exciting for morning.
4. Pre-set coffee.
5. Drink several waters before bed.

More?

If the dust-up surrounding Enns’s suspension from WTS motivated me to buy his book, his Amazon sales must be through the roof.

Seth Godin:

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely it would be worth the journey.

Friendly Atheist asks what Christians you admire. A commenter wonders if a Christian blog would ask a corresponding question. So I’m asking.