Oh right, like that makes this any better.

An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of
its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been
"tagged" electronically as a way of identifying them.

CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it
was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room
where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the
police.

Something tells me this isn’t going to end, either well or at all. Ah, the good old days where you didn’t need a something *implanted* in you to get the job. Yikes.

Funny comics from my grandma…here’s my favorite:

Part of the SXSW swag was a promotional card from iTunes - "over 300 bands, over 300 free songs" it proclaims on the front.

Well, not if you’re outside of the U.S. Here’s the screen I saw when I gave it a try:

Let’s zoom in.

Yuck. Not only for us up in Canada, but also for the many, many attendees from farther flung parts of the world. You’d think they would have factored that in…

On 43 folders they offered this helpful iTunes tip…

So, open up your iTunes Preferences and go to the “Playback� tab, where
you can set a “Crossfade playback� of “0.� This effectively negates the
blank spot by adding an almost imperceptible crossfade between songs.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a damn sight better than the big blank spot.

Yay!

So lets say you like Facebook. You look at your profile, your friend’s profiles, post some photos and have a chuckle at witty wall comments.

Let’s also say that from time to time when you have nothing else to do, you take a peek at profiles of other people. Friends of friends, classmates you don’t talk to, and random individuals that you’ve never even seen (that you know of).

That’s really as far as it should go.

Now the people, places and specifics of the situation upon which this post is about shall remain anonymous, but the basic premise could be (and should be!) applied across the board. I mean the website. No one is expected to be some award winning actor here, or to lie. Okay, that’s wrong, definitely lie. Let’s say it goes down like this:

Person A - Hey you’re ’so-and-so’…right?
Person B - Yeah, do I know…
Person A - Oh, I’m a friend of T-
Person B - You’re friends with Tanya, right of course, you’re Kimmie Carmichael who’s friends with studies Architecture, watches Grey’s Anatomy and has a 905 phone number. Didn’t you just get back from Spain?
Kimmie - uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum……

Okay, maybe the actual situation didn’t quite go down like that. But the net effect is the same - Person B has blatantly crossed the line that divides social networking websites and "real life". He/she is also treading near full out stalker territory. Alright, maybe more "swimming/splashing around in" than "treading near".

So, if you’re a facebook-ite, be careful. This aaaaaawkwardness could be you. And rest assured that if this situation sounds familiar, a whole gaggle of girls had a really great laugh, followed by a deep sense of satisfaction that someone, somewhere out there, is a worse addict than themselves. Merely because said individual couldn’t maneuver around some already well hidden footsteps.