Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Facebook just added a new feature they’re calling “Link Sharing.” Basically, after installing the following bookmarklet into your taskbar, you can share links on facebook with your friends:

javascript:
var d = document;
var f = 'http://www.facebook.com/share';
var l = d.location;
var e = encodeURIComponent;
var p = '.php?src=bm&v=3&u=' + e(l.href) + '&t=' + e(d.title);
try {
    if(!/^(.*\.)?facebook\.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))
       throw(0);
    share_internal_bookmarklet()
} catch(z){
    a = function(){
    if(!window.open(f+'r'+p,'sharer', 'toolbar=0, status=0, resizable=0, width=626, height=436'))
        l.href=f+p;
    };
    if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
        setTimeout(a,0);
    } else {
        a();
    }
}
void(0);


Clicking on this link will popup a Facebook “sharing” window which looks like this:

Once you actually share the media, they appear on your wall, and the walls and link inboxes of the people you choose to share with:

You can read more at the official facebook blog or from TechCrunch’s Facebook Beta Testing Social Bookmarking.

Google is no longer requiring a minimum 3.0 GPA to work for their sales department. IT had a minimum of 3.5, as I remember.

Since I’ve been spending mad time with some Londoners, I sympathize with British Spoken Here @ Penny Arcade.

According to the MTA and my own personal experience, the N/W trains to queens are dead:

To allow for NYC Department of Transportation work on the Queensboro Bridge, the following changes will be in effect: Shuttle buses serve N stations between Ditmars Blvd and 39 Av, then connect to the Queens Plaza E station, where E and N service to Manhattan is available. Transfer between the shuttle bus and the N at Queens Plaza.

This has made me mildly more reliant on taxi transportation over the past few days–hopefully they’ll be running trains again Monday for work.

Statcounter, that popular web statistics and usage tracking site, threw me some of their SQL code last night:

66.98.208.5#Resource id #17 account: select pk_user_id, username, firstname, lastname, companyname, country, email, code, name, date_type, clock_type, timezone, show_results from user,user_type where fk_user_type_id=pk_user_type_id and fk_account_id=’305813′ AND user_type.code <> ‘admin’ AND user_type.code <> ’site_admin’ AND user_type.code <> ’site_support’

66.98.208.5#Resource id #17 account: SELECT timezone FROM timezone WHERE country=’United States’

Of course, the code is relatively boring, and we can’t learn much about their internals from it.