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Flash Mob

In Poznan City Poland at Stary Browar yesterday there was a flash mob. Lots of people. The video is great. I love the idea of a bunch of strangers meeting at a building to have a finger gun shootout. Just awesome!

A Number I Own

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Dug

Wow, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. Did digg just die or what?

Best SPAM of the Day

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Whiners

Wow this woman Maryscott O'Connor whines! These last few weeks it seems every single time I notice her it is in the context of some extended whine. She really should have more self respect. I have read some great stuff by her over the time I have been aware of her writing. But lately she just grates with this huge pitiful whine abut how she's being mistreated by the linking actions of others.

If I were Atrios, and I'm not, I'd likely remove all of the links from my blogroll just out of spite for the nonsense spewed by the likes of Maryscott O'Connor. Course he's never linked to me, even back in the day when I had more traffic than he did. (Back before the implosion) And of course I've never cared in any way shape or form. Maybe I should. Maybe I can be a part of the kool kids if someone links to me. Oh screw it.

The Martyr Malkin on Blogging

"You have to accept that you'll never have many friends," Michelle Malkin says. "It's a lonely existence."

The RocketBoom Effect

After watching this video I realized that the editor behind LonelyGirl15 is the same editor behind Rocketboom. Hence the skeptical articles.

Posting Troubles

It's rather amusing that over the last year or so my perfectionism, my desire for a seamless and easy to use way to manage the various channels in which I want to publish, has proven to be so much of my undoing. It seems as though at every turn I am thwarted by some bug, glitch, or incompatibility. I want ownership of my words in way that 3rd party platforms don't allow. Typepad is great as far as it goes but what happens when SixApart is bought by AOL next week and they shut down the entire system. Do I get to beg to have my words back, do I have to use the Google cache function to try and piece things back together? In some ways I continue to pay for Typepad because I don't want to lose access to all of the work I put into it. I know I know I can simply export my posts. But that holds it's own travails. For instance I found that my posting history is so extensive that I cannot find a tool which will import them seamlessly. So one of my MT installs has a batch of duped posts through out the middle time period. I spent months editing these dupes, which arose when the importing stalled over and over due to the size of the file, only to have the entire shebang ending up as part of a failed hard drive. I read recently that Nick Denton is working on just such a problem. How does one commodify the pieces and parts of blogs so that they are easily managed, moved, and edited, without getting bogged down into coding issues or incompatibility across platforms. Now sure if I had the time I could build my own system. But I have a day job. I keep myself very busy and I want to spend my time writing in english not perl on my days off. It's gotten so bad that every time some new toy or development comes along I gleefully check it out hoping it will solve my issues. But at the first sniff of a problem or glitch I simply blow it off.

The History of NSFW

NSFW means "Not Safe For Work" and is used in internet conversations or posts in which one points to a website or other online content which contains titties, penises, or otherwise salacious imagery or words. IMHO it's an absolutely hilarious construction. If someone is wandering around the web while at work isn't every single piece of content they visit NSFW since they are supposed to be "working." I have searched for a history of this term but can find nothing. Interestingly enough though it seems as though every page on the web, that I have encountered, which purports to explain the history of NSFW is actually search engine SPAM designed to raise the Google juice for gambling and viagara sites. Very ironic me thinks.

DRM Protest

I have to admit I think this DRM protest against Apple is one of the stupidest things I've seen. In practice I am always in favor of ridiculing DRM as it's morninc from my perspective. But Apple's DRM is no problem at all. Seriously if I had to have a choice between Apple's schema and pretty much any other I'd definiately choose the Apple version. I saw one guy standing in front of the Apple store this weekend as part of this protest and had to start laughing at the stupidity.