The Simian Downtime Analyst

On a day associated with fear, more robot overlords:

to finish her sentence…creepy.

Happy Birthday to Hulu! Although there have been some detractors since day one and there is still a bit of an issue with content making its way out of the country, Hulu is still kicking. Not only that, even with all the doubters they have managed to shake many hands and snag tons of content.

Congrats guys, hope you last quite a long time.

If you have access to the site…go watch something now.

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Technology is wonderful. Only technology could bring together tons of people who don’t mind throwing a few back, without them having to leave their house. Drinkolic brings the drinking expertise of many and presents it in a big list of recipes.

While it is not a social network (unlike most of the new guys lately) it is a nice portal to login, rate and make comments on just about any drink thats not bound by a trademark. The entries for the drinks are sorted by recipe, glassware served in, or ingredients involved so you could stumble over your favorite recipe at random.

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One thing I could never get to work the way I wanted in WordPress for a long time was a good plugin for polls and surveys. Had to give up on the available set and writing the code out myself–which was not pretty. Then PollDaddy showed up to save the day.

If you ever tried to do either of these things and are not a coder, you may have run into the same roadblocks. The folks at Automattic have swooped in to make this easier for us all. Automattic has just acquired PollDaddy, facilitating an easier to integrate (if not already included) system of polling/surveying.
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This post exists so that there is another link to Kiva.org.

If you didn’t know Kiva lets you loan money to an entrepreneur in a less fortunate country.

Feel free.