By Jeff on Aug 27, 2010 in Daily Distractions, Lists, Office Humor, Twitter | 1 Comment

“What do you see yourself Tweeting five years from now?” “Please use harness in a sentence about social media. Great, now pretend I’m a client and use it five different times in one short conversation.”
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By Jeff on Feb 22, 2010 in Podcast | 0 Comments

Topics: Winter Olympics, We Are The World Part II: Who Is 2010′s Dan Aykroyd?, Lionel Richie’s Giant Hand, Olympic Sex & Giant Bag of Olympic Condoms, Discontinued Dumb Olympic Sports, Bad Mascots, McDonald’s Grimace and Man Babies Playlist: The Soft Pack, Magnetic Fields, Half Acre Day, The Holy Mess and Rocky Votolato Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast72.mp3 [...]
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By Jeff on Feb 8, 2010 in Daily Distractions, News, Office Humor, Tech | 5 Comments

Commental Error- This is when a Facebook rookie or clueless user makes a completely off-topic comment on your post thread instead of posting directly on your wall or sending you a message. Misguided Missive – The king of newbie mistakes, inadvertently “posting” (publicly) on someone’s wall instead of sending them a “message” (privately).
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By SM Shrake on Feb 8, 2010 in SM Shrake, Television | 5 Comments

Det. Benson: “Captain, we’ve got a situation. A lady in the Bronx just patty-caked an S.O.S. to Pitter-Patter from her handheld! She is being attacked by a sex criminal. She asked her Pitter-Patter followers to contact SVU for her, and we’ve been getting dozens of frantic patty-cakes at @sexyvictims.”
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By Jeff on Aug 11, 2009 in Music, Unearthed Videos, Videos | 2 Comments

Remember videos played on TV, mostly the MTV? Mike and Jeff sure do. Together, they have over 70 years of hands-on experience watching and remembering awesome music videos, and by “awesome,” we’re not talking quality. Using mind-blowing technology, Mike and Jeff watch a video at the same time in two different states (think NASA) and discuss the awesomeness in great detail harnessing the power of Facebook Chat. First Up, Aldo Nova!
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By SM Shrake on May 16, 2009 in Feature, SM Shrake | 19 Comments

What are the necessary aims of a good topical Facebook status update? It should entertain, delight, challenge, blow a mind or two. This is all about realizing and fully accepting that Facebook is a stage, and we’re all players.
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By Jeff on Apr 2, 2009 in Daily Distractions | 0 Comments

Big Phoot: Wildlife photographer Todd Marrone took a Polaroid of a phanatic in its unnatural habitat. Perspective: infoMania’s Ben Hoffman chimes in on the new Facebook: F*ck My Facebook! Top-notch Time Waster: “The 10 Best Aqua Teen Hunger Force Episodes” selected by the show’s creators. This American Life – Live! Our pal Dave Hill will [...]
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By Jeff on Feb 8, 2009 in Comedy, Videos | 0 Comments

You’ve probably seen this video before based on the close to 2 million views it has gotten, but like most things viral, I just got clued in to it (thanks Ali B.). Enjoy a very inventive take on the Facebook experience by some funny Brits. (I know, right, I didn’t think they had Facebook either.)
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By Jeff on Dec 11, 2008 in Daily Distractions, Tech | 4 Comments

Sorry Ladies, This Hunk is Taken: Inventor Le Trung has made himself a robotic wife and it looks like he plans to have sex with it. Way to go Trung! Thanks for smashing to bits all those creepy Japanese scientist stereotypes. His next invention: a high-powered robotic douche. [via Gizmodo] Man, I Love That Cars [...]
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By SM Shrake on Dec 4, 2008 in Feature, SM Shrake | 12 Comments

Oh-hey-look I’m writing about Facebook again. Instead of getting rich off a similar pyramid scheme, or “marketing myself” off-Facebook, where it count$, I’m sitting around in the dingy Facebook Fascination bathwater we all seem to be wrinkling up in. Neverandnonetheless, I started a group late last month on The ’Book (as I call it), called [...]
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