December 2007
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“[Chris] Rock, never one to shy away from blunt language, told the crowd that he...”
– Fox News :: Cameron’s Corner (tumbled from rickr)
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FollowOnTumblr
Did I mention how far behind I am? I did? Okay, I won’t bring it up again. But this whole FollowOnTumblr meme started by joelaz (I caught it from Rod’s post originally) is so last month by now. I feel like a kid turning in his homework a few weeks late. Of course it doesn’t help that I decided I just had to organize and comment it before posting. That’s the big disadvantage...
“Joshua Abraham Norton (c. 1819[2] – January 8, 1880), also known as His Imperial...”
– Wikipedia :: Joshua A. Norton
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“Whatever monetization means the blogger in the long tail settled on, be it...”
– Read/Write Web :: There’s No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere (tumbled from montoya)
Two years ago at this time, I was playing online poker for a living, and during this time I was writing a poker blog. Not a very popular poker blog, even in what would seem like (but really...
“Now imagine that the network is the blogosphere where new blogs spring into...”
– Read/Write Web :: There’s No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere (tumbled from montoya)
This article kind of pissed me off. Dude, not all of us are in it for the money, y’know?
“On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a...”
– BHendrix :: Claude Lelouch’s Rendezvous Map/Video Mashup
I posted a YouTube link to this video a few months ago, but this is even cooler. Not only is the Google Video better quality, but the map adds another layer of meaning to a 30-year-old video. I think I liked it best with the map in...
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“[…] New York’s latest nobodies who have people repeating their names as...”
– New York Press :: The Faming Assholes (tumbled from jakoblodwick)
Wow. I mean really, wow. I’d like to say I’ve never met anyone so angered by someone they don’t even know getting the spotlight, but of course I have. Several of my friends have young children, after all.
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“The combined effect was like being tortured for information that you do not...”
– Vanity Fair :: Of Cigs and Fangs and Searing Wax by Christopher Hitchens (tumbled from peteashton)
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Comment Commentary
I’m not big on commenting my code. I’d far prefer to use eight zillion functions and paragraph-long variable names than type a single //, but y’know that’s just me. I understand that some people prefer to keep their code concise and comment the hell out of it. Fine. Personal preference or whatever. But seriously people, if you’re the type of person that comments your...
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Markdown Testup
Thanks to Rod Knowlton I’m using the spare processor cycles in my brain to learn Markdown instead of working, reading my Tumblr backlog, or playing Rock Band. It does seem like a much quicker method of writing blog entries though.
Hmm… I wonder if I can enter Markdown from my BlackBerry. Have to check that out later.
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Tumblr Feature Suggestion
from Told Or Known: It’s not exactly what you asked for, but Tumblr v3 Customize Reblog now supports translation of Tumblr usernames into user defined strings (as seen above).Okay Rod, you officially rock. And you are going to force me to get off my lazy ass, abandon the rich text editor and learn Markdown this week. Oh well, sounds more fun than work. I guess whatever reblogs I find in the...
“Web 2.0 managed to take every good programming concept from the last 25 years,...”
– uncov :: Wishlistr Breaks New Ground In Uselessness (tumbled from montoya)
“During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play “Fur...”
– Microsoft Support :: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (tumbled from montoya) “Oh crap. You remember that code I wrote to randomly play Beethoven on the PC speaker? I think I maybe forgot to take it out before we went to production.”
“Rose’s return will mean the Doctor has three assistants in next...”
– BBC News :: Billie Piper To Return To Doctor Who
“Well, then, that settles it. I mean, what possible motive could a hooker have...”
– The Brad Blog :: Larry Flynt Confirms That Trent Lott ‘Has Been a Target’ I’d like to echo rickr’s sentiment here: Larry Flynt is an American hero. Of course, I already thought that when I was just looking for jerk-off material in my teenage years, which were sadly...
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Browser Clean-Up
For the last week, my installation of Portable Firefox has been slowly growing in size and memory footprint. I’ve been keeping tabs, and eventually entire windows full of tabs, open in hopes that I’d soon have a chance to pay a proper amount of attention to the contents. When I’ve needed to close the browser for whatever reason, I’ve either been killing the process or...
“The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop...”
– Pompeu Fabra University :: Reactable (tumbled from Smashing Magazine to soxiam) Lots of great stuff in the Smashing Magazine article, which is on the “User Experience Of The Future.” Well worth checking out the entire article, I can only hope that one or two of these interfaces...
“With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at...”
– Slate Magazine :: Sleater-Kinney’s Guitarist Tests Out Rock Band Perhaps this explains my current obsession with the game. Or perhaps it’s because I’ve been working so much that I’ve only gotten to play for a few hours since we got it, while everyone I live with has been in...
“Rock Band uses the actual master recordings, so if you are hitting the right...”
– Slate Magazine :: Sleater-Kinney’s Guitarist Tests Out Rock Band
“Rock Band isn’t about music or about being in a band, it’s about...”
– Slate Magazine :: Sleater-Kinney’s Guitarist Tests Out Rock Band Highly amusing article, I recommend it even if you hate video games. Unless you also hate rock music, in which case it would probably be boring and stupid. But then what are you doing reading my tumblelog anyway? You’re...
“Now, if a guitar came with a bunch of electronic meters that tracked your...”
– The Ferrett :: The Appeal Of The Rock God