The Deets

Hilton Suites Winnipeg TP, originally uploaded by edkohler. Whoever mounted the TP dispenser in this room clearly didn’t consider the challenges it would pose for housekeeping.

As MeganG pointed out in the comments of my post earlier today, Don Allen’s contract with the Minneapolis Public Schools is starting to get the attention it deserves. Apparently, Mr. Allen’s marketing pieces play up the successes of notable alums, but contain serious factual errors that could be easily verified at Wikipedia. (ex. which high [...]

Over the past month, I’ve written three times about Don Allen, and why I don’t think the Minneapolis Public Schools should be spending $15,000 with him for video production services related to marketing the public school system to North Minneapolis residents. In previous posts, I’ve focused on the fact that he’s published a blog post [...]

Squashed wrote an interesting post comparing blog comments to graffiti, suggesting that there are similarities between the two, and that having high hopes for quality comments on blogs is an exercise in frustration: The part that sometimes surprises me is that a lot of people get quite upset about the nastiness of comments on other [...]

I’ve found a few positive things to say about the blogging wing of the MN GOP, Minnesota Democrats Exposed: 1. Ryan Lyk seems to have retired. Or, a least he’s blogging at a rate that makes me wonder whether he’s given up the gig. He’s posted only once in the past month (Jan 27th). 2. [...]

Back on February 6th, I wrote a post here on The Deets about the ridiculous accusation Don Allen made on his blog, IBNNNews.org, where he claimed that a local blogger and community activist, Eric Johnson, paid a prostitute $20 to defecate on a house for a photo. This ridiculous accusation earned the ridiculous term: Poopgate. [...]

Here are two services that make life on the road slightly better for frequent travelers. They do for me. 1. Tripit.com – This service has a couple of key features. First, it helps build complete itineraries. Travel is often booked in stages (ex. I know the hotel where the conference is going to be, but [...]

Below are five more movies that I’ve given 5 star ratings on Netflix. Dexter Seasons 1 & 2 – A dark comedy. I dig it. Deliver Us From Evil – A documentary looking at the trail of pain a Catholic priest pedophile left in his wake, with the help of leadership in the Catholic church [...]

I’ve noticed an incredible spike in blog spam from two websites: SeoMarketingServicesOnline.com and WhereToBuyBacklinks.com Both sites are peppering this blog with ridiculous amounts of spam (thankfully, all of it is caught by the spam filters). Here is an example of what they’ve spammed this site with over the past 2-3 days: If you’re looking for [...]

If you compare the carbon cost of print yellow pages spam to time spent using laptops for search, yellow pages appear to produce 9X more pollution than laptops. Here’s the lowdown: One of the stranger used by the Yellow Pages industry as a defense of their wasteful product is to claim that it’s less wasteful [...]