I’ve read a few articles recently about self-promotional app reviews. On first glance, I have no problem with this. When I make a kick-ass app I want all my friends, family, in-laws, and people I meet on the subway to download and review it. So maybe they give me a glowing review because I know them, that’s okay. You have to start getting your app out there somehow. I start having a problem with this is when companies “sell” reviews as part of their promotional package.
I’m not going to rant on the topic. I’m interested in your opinions.
Booth, a religious person, talks to Temperance, a scientist, on the topic of faith:
Booth: You know what it feels like to get your faith back?
Temperance: When I see effects and I am unable to discern the cause, my faith in reason and consequences is shaken.
Booth: Then what happens?
Temperance: 2 + 2 = 4. I put sugar in my coffee and it tastes sweet. The sun comes up because the world turns. These things are beautiful to me. There are mysteries I will never understand, but everywhere I look I see proof that for every effect there is a corresponding cause, even if I can’t see it. I find that reassuring.
Booth: And life is good again.
Temperance: Life is very good.
I CANNOT BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW ANGRY THIS MAKES ME (using all caps is a start) (via katykelley)
There’s photoshop and then there’s this …
A Florida judge awarded custody of a 1-year-old boy to the foster family he’d been living with, saying the boy was “happy and thriving.”
The adoptive parents, however, happen to be gay.
And that didn’t sit well with the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando, who sent out an alert to its members about the judge’s “arrogant judicial activism.”
On the left is the picture that the Policy Council used to illustrate the gay couple that was awarded custody. On the right is the actual couple.
(from The Orlando Sentinel)
Absolutely brilliant. Waiting for American implementation. (via chrispetescia)