How To: A Guide for Living
By b • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Ouch!I have iGoogle as my homepage on my browser. Every day when I come into work I am greeted by a beautifully designed google page with widgets of my choice. My choice of widgets include a clock, the meZine RSS feed (what do you mean you don’t have that on your iGoogle?), the weather, and a “How To” wiki.
The “How To” wiki is a feed to articles that explain how to do some things that are helpful like how to get rid of fruit flies; strange, like how to be a scene kid; disturbing, like how to practice nudity in your family; and superfluous, like how to buy nothing. Pshaw on that last one. As if you’d want to.
I don’t know who comes up with this stuff. But it’s really interesting. Yes, I would love to know how to hack a coke machine (though I promise I won’t use my powers for evil). And some things would have really helped me in high school, like how to get rid of a hickey and how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. But the best part of this wiki thing is knowing somewhere, in the darkest corners of our country, someone has printed out directions and is now attempting to run up a wall and flip.
b lives in New York, she is single, hip, and sharp as a tack. She's Barbara Crawford. Her self-deprecating wit and keen observation of pop culture will keep you coming back for more abuse. Just remember: she's much cooler than you.
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My apologies on the lack of site updates. The day job is crazy busy.
By the way, my igoogle changes throughout the day based on my timezone. I have the design by Mark Frauenfelder and it now the cartoons are in a night scene.
If you haven’t already, pick a design out for yourself. And no, I don’t get commission. I just think it’s cool.
That’s weird. The link should be this:
http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/gallery.html
Not a redirect to this article.
Also, my apologies for lack of Out There (you know you want it, people). My day job is being Edie’s mom. And while I’ve got it going on, not much of it lately is suitable for print.
I would like to propose the following. MeZiners, give me a six word sentence that may or may not mean anything in particular and let me see what I can do with it. That way, maybe I can project or incorporate and get a column without naming names. In short, ask not what Out There can do for you, but what you can do for Out There.
Just an experiment. I love experimenting.
Free piano: never used, you pick-up.
This was an add in the local paper.
There is a story in there someplace.
This could work. Thanks!