No, I'm not talking about ordering take-out.

Have you ever wanted to get to the hidden parts of your phone?  You know, those secret commands that technicians use to get your phone to give up its deepest, darkest secrets?  Well, if you're an iPhone user, you're in luck!  Yahoo recently shared all those with the world, and, now, I'm sharing that same information with you, dear readers:  How to Access the Hidden Menus on your iPhone, at Yahoo Tech.

If you're an...
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I have two for you this week.

Yes, that's right, two independent sci-fi movies. One is a short that you can watch in it's entirety on your coffee break. The other is really just a trailer for the longer movie. Both come to us via IO9.com

First, I'll give you the shorter of the two, but with the greater potential.  The movie is called "Dust" and it's about a very unpleasant evolutionary explosion and the ramifications of that in a science-fictional future. ...
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Or do we make our own luck?

Opinions vary.  But, I don't think that it's complete coincidence that just after Friday the Thirteenth, when I shared with my few, loyal blog readers the origins of that unluckiest day, an email newsletter I subscribe to brings me an article about luck and people who have studied luck.

The article, titled "Does Lady Luck exist or do you make your own?", brought to us by Aeon, speculates on that very thing.  Since luck is...
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That's right, today is Friday the Thirteenth.

As I've said before, I'm not really a superstitious kind of guy. Not really. But, I've known a lot of people who are. When I worked in the hotel industry, I actually had sold room 666 to someone not from a Judeo-Christian background, until a co-worker saw it and made a face. Then, I had to explain to the nice gentleman that some people found 666 to be an "unlucky" number. But, man, if...
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Well, trivia about one of my many pursuits, anyway.

It's been another one of those weeks, so I'm throwing something together at the last minute.  But, at least this is a fun one.  It was recycled recently on Facebook, but the original post is from last year about this time.
I love trivia almost as much as I love photography, so trivia about photography is definitely a little extra special for me.  So, how would you like to be able to surprise...
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His best investment was his studio.

No, seriously, Jay Maisel bought a 6-storey, 35,000-square-foot, 72-room building at 190 Bowery in Manhattan for $102,000 in 1966 and it was the best investment he could have made. Why? Because he sold it late last year for $55 million. Not a bad profit.
Personally, I think his setup is every photographer's dream come true.  I mean, who wouldn't want a large, multi-storey, live-in photography studio, complete with enough room to showcase your work?

Or, a reasonable facsimile thereof.

No, seriously, Valentine's Day is tomorrow, in case you'd forgotten, but you still have time to do something romantic for your special someone. Of course, there's always the last minute flowers. (My personal preference on flowers has been Rose Gallery Florist for more than 15 years.)  Or dinner.  Dinner is always a good choice.  Or, you could do something else more fun, like one of the suggestions from Esquire's 15 Fun Last Minute Date Ideas.

No, this isn't a plea for a political prisoner.

Rather, I'm offering a free book, which you can download from a link at the end of this post, by Søren Kierkegaard, considered by many to be one of the earliest existential writers. He was also a Christian, and a radical Christian thinker, at that.
I don't normally talk about my religious beliefs, because I'm not out to convince anyone of anything.  I'm not one of those people who are into prosthelytizing.  Sales...
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I'm completely out of fucking ideas this week.

Good thing I found this post on Lifehacker from 2012 that will tell me what the fuck to do!
Of course, since they're a big, mainstream site, they shy away from the cursing, but I figure the keywords won't hurt my site's rankings, so I'm just going for it.  Their article was titled Seven Helpful Sites That Tell You What The F**K To Do.
They've got everything from The Fucking Weather to What The Fuck...
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Of course, I'm talking about your reputation on-line.

Look, I'm a little pressed for time this week, so I'm going to get right down to it.  On-line, where no one knows all that much about you, really, reputation is everything.  Two weeks ago, I had a link for you with information about beating a polygraph, in case you got caught doing things that embarrassed you.  This week, I've got a link to an article by Jack Wallen at TechRepublic with reviews...
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