First off, the exciting news. I will be heading to New York the evening of Nov. 7 for nearly 5 fun-filled days of shopping, eating and visiting. I’ve promised at least 5 people that I would make it out before I move to London and now the time has come. Icing on the cake is that I’ll be able to meet up with PR bloggy buddies Stephen and Paull. It’ll be Davies first trip to the States – He needs an American perspective on the city and I need to know how he was able to get the domain name PRBlogger.com (had no one honestly thought of it before?!).

On to the fluff…

The Crack Pro 2007

This one isn’t Internet-related, but I thought I would share it anyway. On my way to Target yesterday, I was driving behind some sort of cement mixer trailer that said “Crack Pro” on it. The 15-year-old boy in me thought this was impossibly funny.

 

Stop looking at p( )rn on your iPhone at work. Seriously.

From USA Today, an interesting story on looking at NSFW content while on the clock. While companies have taken steps to block or limit access on questionable web sites on company-owned desktops, apparently too many people are looking at p( )rn on their iPhones instead.

With wireless devices, close monitoring of workers is “impossible. There’s nothing you can do,” says Richard Laermer, CEO of the public relations firm RLM. “Liability is the thing that keeps me up at night, because we are liable for things people do on your premises. It’s serious. I’ll see somebody doing it, and I’ll peek over their shoulder, and they’ll say, ‘I don’t know how that happened.’ It’s like 10-year-olds. And it’s always on company time.”

Crazy. I can’t imagine anyone intentionally looking at p( )rn at work, iPhone or not. Obviously we don’t block any web sites at our office, and so everyone on our team has accidentally clicked on something less than virtuous, but usually we make gasp, cover our computer screens with our hands, and scream “Not what I meant to look at, not what I meant to look at.” That usually covers everything.

USAToday story found via GeekSugar.

And speaking of p( )rn….

via This Next

Dumbledore has been officially outed.

J.K. Rowling said on Friday that she always thought of Harry Potter’s father figure as gay.

Artwork by Makani

Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love with the charming wizard Gellert Grindelwald but when Grindelwald turned out to be more interested in the dark arts than good, Dumbledore was “terribly let down” and went on to destroy his rival.

That love, she said, was Dumbledore’s “great tragedy.”

“Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” she said.

I suppose that makes sense. Threw me for a loop, though. Wow.

Washington Post via Boing Boing

UPDATE: You know it didn’t even occur to me to spell a certain word in a creative way so as not to get slammed by icky spam. Ooops.