Apparently there are some Christians not all too happy with those GoDaddy Super Bowl ads. No surprise. I don’t mean to offend, offer a little commentary to the story posted on Wired.com. It seems there’s this dude who uses GoDaddy for his clients, and then they communicated to him they weren’t happy with GoDaddy because of the “racy” ads during the Super Bowl. You can read all the blah blah blahs in the article, but what I really wanted to point out from that article is what that guy said to GoDaddy:

“(GoDaddy is) going to lose customers like us and every other church we come in contact with,” he says.

Boo-hoo. GoDaddy.com is a popular domain registrar (I use them), and get a ton of business. Just as the writer for the article noted, it’s a small amount of business that could be lost. At the same time, it’s all made up, because after those “racy” ads, basically, the horny guys that love them became new customers to GoDaddy.com after the Super Bowl (there was an increase of 110% over the numbers from the previous Super Bowl ads). These previous ads for 2009 were actually the most viewed spot of the Super Bowl itself (according to TiVo), and the court room/breast size ad was 4th-most watched ad on Hulu.com, and the #15 belonged to the other ad, Danica Patrick and the shower. So, I don’t think GoDaddy.com has anything to worry about, and in fact, if they changed their ways, I might be more inclined to leave myself, since I’m a firm believer in freedom of expression, whatever that expression is.

If they want to argue the Super Bowl being a family event, so those kinds of ads shouldn’t be shown, go ahead. But when it all comes down to it, this is a new era. Kids learn things younger and younger, and trying to hide them from it doesn’t seem to be working. And, I also bet that most of these Christians that took offense, were probably women (and again, don’t mean to offend, but in my opinion, they probably just aren’t getting any attention from their husbands), and if any man argued against it, he’s more likely whipped. I do have to wonder, how does their methods for getting new customers, matter to who the Christians turn to for a host. Just, how picky are there when it comes to Internet services. If GoDaddy isn’t doing it, somebody else will.

Now, I’ve seen the enhanced ad (online, which is the extended one). True, it’s stupid, but that doesn’t matter to men, apparently.

Sure it seems like the thing most people may have nowadays. All the cool kids have them, and all that blah, blah, blah. But you see, my main beef with MySpace, stems from bands now using them as the go-to place for information. It’s a hassle, since lots of people (average joes included), tend to bulk their pages with a shitload of crap. All these dumb widgets that clog up the screen, most very useless, and others downright annoying. I know most official sites to bands and artists tend to have music automatically play, so that’s not the main issue, but all these flash gadgets and hooplah, I guess you could say, makes it harder to find relevant information sometimes. It’s becomes highly congested, and a big waste of space and bandwidth, and my time.

I am forced to check out some from time to time, such as Tantric’s, only because that is their official “site” (the quotes is because anyone that uses MySpace and calls their little “space” a site, is completely misinformed. It, as far as I’m concerned, is nothing more than a page, part of a network of other pages. I site is a singular section on one subject. What I mean by this, you go to a MySpace page, there are links at the top to check other features and such of MySpace, meaning going away from the current subject you are on. I don’t define it as a site.

Anyway, it’s terrible more with non-technical groups. Average people who are most guilty with clogging their page with junk. Also, color schemes become huge problems, as I’m reminded of one from someone I’ve met that has light text and light background. It’s very tacky people. I don’t expect everyone to understand the basic concept of design, but I would like to think people could at least be smart enough to know that contrast is key. Afterall, don’t you want people to be able to, I don’t know, read the damn thing.

My sister-in-law actually signed up for an account, practically against her will, as her little brother and sister have their own and practically begged her to. She’s like me, finds it to be complete nonsense (plus, she’s one of the non-technical people).

Back to the idea of kids all pretty much having their own, this is where real problems occur. They mainly use them in communication with friends, and as long as they don’t allow it to be found to the public, then it’s not all too bad, I guess, but if they don’t know no better, what’s to stop a slip of information to their location. It’s also bad even if they are non-public. Their friends could easily crack their passwords (because it is like totally the hottest guy’s name, or whatever), and put very bad stuff on there. I’m talking nasty stuff that can ruin reputations. So kids, just because everyone else has one, doesn’t mean you need to too.

I went to school in web design, so I don’t need these kinds of services anyway. They were a quick and easy way to put a page up and have this little piece of the world wide web. MySpace is more on social networking, but also getting out there. Like I said, not everyone would or should buy a web host and install something like WordPress (awesome, BTW), and blog their troubles away, but MySpace is also a terrible way to go. When it comes down to it, not everyone should be out there on the Internet, as it is most definitely not for everybody.

I was just surfing through some of the YouTube clips available for the Athiest Experience (lot of good stuff out there).  From arguments of the whole banana thing (and there are other banana thing (for some reason Mike Seaver (sorry, Kirk Cameron) and this Ray Comfort guy thing the banana is proof of a god because it’s shaped so nicely in the hand (it’s also shaped nicely to be shoved in certain places, if you know what I mean), there are even spoofs of this idea, that are hilarious).  But one clip from a past episode (I think maybe a year ago, I don’t know.  It’s based in Austin, TX, so I’m limited to checking out past eps on Google video and a few clips on YouTube.

Anyway, this particular clip features a caller that’s, I don’t want to sound rude or mean, but is just a moron, okay.

If you have issues with YouTube or aren’t too fond of watching video online, or have audio issues, basically, the converstation leads to that if the sun is a source of energy, then why don’t we die.  Then it gets to the fact that we, as humans, well, animals in general, produce our own electricity (powers our muscles, this is basic knowledge).  Well, this caller, let’s just say the neurons weren’t firing in science class, because he follows up with the dumbest question: “then why don’t we get electrocuted when we take showers.”

So, the host just points great little sites and such this person and anyone like it to check out, because, honestly, if I were him, I would’ve hung up with the “why don’t we die when the sun goes down.”  Brave to the hosts from the Athiest Experience who have more patience than me.

If you are like this guy, check out this link:
How the Brain Works

You know more studios should do these things more often. With the age of the Internet, just having episodes over the airwaves just isn’t enough anymore. The folks over at FOX TV have made a little video, narrated by John Noble (Walter Bishop on Fringe), that recaps the season so far so that while it (just like every other TV show) is off on a Winter hiatus, people won’t forget it.

BTW, I just think this is awesome, especially with the ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas narration style.

I’m just bored and love this show, and in light of why all the once highly rated shows (such as Heroes) have taken a plunge in ratings, well, at least this show is up (probably b/c old people watch CBS and old people tend to be scared of new technologies, such as the TiVO, but anyway), Enjoy…

Oh, and have I mentioned my hate of the outdated Nielsen system, others feel the same way, read article from the SCI-FI WIRE

You know the one thing I hate: Chain letters. Really, anything that tends to get forward, but I remember years ago when my cousin and some of my friends would send me those chain letters. Now, if I were a spammer and those things got to me, I would be the happiest person ever. Whenever things get forward, majority of people nicely stick those 10-15 names in the To: field, and forwards, always retain every email header of the previous lines of sent mail. Let me see if I can do a rough outline:

Alright, Person A gets a chain letter from her friend, which has been sent about 10 times before (the amount of email addresses would then build up), so something like this (I shortened it, but imagine about eight more Headers, and you’ll understand the idea of all those email addresses for the taking, and BTW, these are NOT real addresses, obviously (At least I hope it’s obvious).:

—Header—
To: xxxxg@xxxx.net, xxxx1g@xxxx.com, xxxxg@xxxx.biz, xxxx45g@xxxx.net, xxxx2g@xxxx.net, xxxx12g@xxxx.com, xxxx2g@xxxx.biz, xxxx3g@xxxx.net, xxxx4g@xxxx.net, xxxx3g@xxxx.com
From: xxxx@xxxx.net
Subject: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: Read this, it’s important!
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Dude, check this out

Later dummy,
xxxx
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Yo, I have a signature
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Original Message–
To: xxxx@xxxx.net, xxxx1@xxxx.com, xxxx@xxxx.biz, xxxx45@xxxx.net, xxxx2@xxxx.net, xxxx12@xxxx.com, xxxx2@xxxx.biz, xxxx3@xxxx.net, xxxx4@xxxx.net, xxxx3@xxxx.com
From: xxxHAHA@xxxx.com
Subject: Read this, it’s important!

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Read this whole story, and then sent to 10 people in 24 hrs or you’ll die, BLAH BLAH BLAH!

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
You’re a stupid person BTW if you get this far, I would’ve deleted just with the FWD: in the subject (actually, I have an email filter that send FWDS to trash, I don’t care if it’s legit, I find it just a horrible and lazy way to send mail.)

Now send to 10 people!!!

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Get the best email package known to man. Have a cool blahblah.whatever address, blah blah.

See, it can get pretty ridiculous, and also a note, the message is generally REALLY long, I’m just trying to keep things short. So, if you get these, just DELETE them. Because, it really makes sense that most of these were probably started by spammers knowing that eventually it’ll get back to them (and in terms of original chain letters of the paper mail system, just a person who played on peoples mind and convinced them to waste a stamp).

Here’s a good link on more on the subject, and how to continue a chain without feeding a spammer, if you’re just so superstitious and HAVE to hit the forward. Protect E-Mail Addresses from Spammers.

And if you’re lazy, and don’t want to click the link, I will do society a favor and at least mention one good way to do this, add addresses to the BCC: field, and just stick a dummy address in the regular To: field. If you got a forward, you can hit forward, but delete all the headers, well, everything, except the dumb message.

And I now leave you with more articles related to spam:
WKYT: Don’t forward my email address (dated Oct 2008)
Net Manners: 5 Rules for Forwarding Email (dated Oct 2008)
Slashdot: Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go (dated 2004)