Star Wars Trilogy (as described by someone who didn’t see it)
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
Drugs Should be Legalized
An article from CNBC.com that I agree with whole-heatedly :
“It’s time to legalize, or at least decriminalize, drugs.”
“The war on drugs does two things: it makes the business of drugs more profitable and more violent, and it sends lots and lots of people to prison.”
“Wouldn’t it be better if we could bring this business out into the open, slap some taxes on it, and keep people from shooting each other? Of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in this country, more than half are in prison for drug-related offenses. That’s unconscionable…”
“No one believes that illegal drugs are anything but harmful, but Americans, or at least our leaders, use that fact to stop any discussion of a rational policy to deal with the problem.”
Online Advertisers – Listen Up
You know when you browse to a Web page, and for some reason the page takes forever to load even though it’s not that complicated of a site? Well, more times than not, that lag is caused by an ad on the site taking forever to load. For example, you might go to coolstuff.com, but there’s an add on the site that’s hosted at annoyingad.com. Before coolstuff.com can be displayed, all the appropriate demographic, and statistical data used for specialized advertising must be sent to annoyingad.com along with simply loading the ad itself.
So here’s my message to online advertisers and the websites that use them. Do you know what that lag makes me do? Hit the “Stop” button in my browser, and browse somewhere else. If your ads make the end user experience annoying, your site’s not going to get the number of page views you’re hoping for. So, the thing on your site who’s sole purpose is to make money is actually costing you money and readership. Don’t load your pages down with ads. Too many sites out there don’t know where the advertisement/site responsiveness tipping point is, and many of them have crossed it.
Performance testing would be a good idea, BTW – and I happen to know a guy who could do that for you. 
