tikistitch

He's back from Spain and already causing trouble.

"I'm on Flickr! I'm on Twitter!"

This is weirdly addictive.

'Mental risk' of Facebook teens

Social networking sites may be harmful, an expert says

Just one expert? Why not a panel of experts? Gy.

Children growing up alongside the rise of social networking websites may have a "potentially dangerous" view of the world, says a leading psychiatrist.

Dr Himanshu Tyagi said sites such as Facebook and MySpace may be harmful.

He told the Royal College of Psychiatrists annual meeting people with active online identities might place less value on their real lives.

Dunno about Dr. Tyagi's qualifications to make sweeping generalizations on the matter. (We've googled him to try to find other evidence that he is indeed a "leading psychiatrist," and found no references other than the current news item, which does seem to have been widely disseminated.) However. Even though tiki is Ancient, we do actually recall being a teen. And, our so-called "real life" as such. We would've been really really REALLY grateful for an outlet - even a semi-stupid one - like Facebook.

Also: teens didn't need Facebook to become stupid. Teens have always been stupid.

Everyone's got one in their address book - the contact who forwards along all of the current internet memes, whether it's pleas for a lost child who was actually found 5 years ago and has now graduated from college, or just that damned cookie recipe. Anyways, in tiki's case, it's currently our FIL. Who today managed to pull out a pony and sent us this....



Maybe you've seen 'em, the pix of the Beijing Olympics garden? We found 'em on the Intarwubs here. Anyways, for whatever reason, tiki is a sucker for cute topiary, and we're currently in love with these prancing fu doggies.

WWDC is crashing Twitter.