Favstar.fm bookmarklet

[EDIT: The original post appears below, but @timhaines updated the bookmarklet code and published it right on Favstar.fm, so the version below is outdated and less functional than this one.]

Favrd‘s great. It’s put me in touch with hundreds of funny, intelligent people who primarily want to make your day better through comedy. It’s missing some features, though. [EDIT: see below...]

Favstar.fm provides one important feature that Favrd’s missing: the ability to see a person’s Hall of Fame: their all-time most-favored tweets. (example: my Favstar page) When I’m vetting a new person to see if they’re making attempts at comedy, I like to check out their best material (so far) right away by going to their Favstar page.

[EDIT: As @ucmike and @davegorum pointed out, the URL http://favrd.textism.com/person/username/top does the same thing. Sorry, @textism! I don't feel that bad, though, since that feature isn't really documented anywhere.]

This bookmarklet: Twitter -> Favstar (drag it to your bookmark toolbar) lets you conveniently switch from someone’s Twitter page to their Favstar page. @lionelster did all the heavy lifting on this. All I did was a search-and-replace on the Javascript code he wrote. Please forward all appreciation to him.

One side effect of this unceremonious bastardization of his code is that it won’t switch back to Twitter from Favstar the way his original bookmarklet will switch back to Twitter from Favrd. Sorry, I don’t know Javascript well enough to fix that (yet).

Louis CK on being spoiled by modern technology

“You’re sitting on a chair in the sky.”

[via kimproper]

teaser for The Girls

I’m an extra in Rob Matsushita‘s new film The Girls. You may recognize the male voice in this teaser trailer.

Can you protect me now?

To demonstrate how poorly cellphone companies protect our privacy, John Hargrave got the home address of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg (it wasn’t difficult), grabbed his bullhorn, and paid him a visit.

To give you an idea about how easy it was to get this information, the only thing that John did was sign up for one of those “free cell phone records” listings and scan it for the cells and home addresses of the CEOs from the big three: Randall Stephenson of AT&T, Dan Hesse of Sprint Nextel, and Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon.

[Zug.com via Consumerist via @sblaufuss]

World Market: “We’ll get around to being responsible eventually.”

Apparently it's backordered.