A comment spammer left this comment on an earlier blog post Finally, an issue that I am passionate about. I have looked for information of this caliber for the last several hours. Your site is greatly appreciated. Glad I could procure something for him/her to finally be passionate about.
For what seems like forever, a certain list-serv list on a topic of academic research interest has been a mere dribble of traffic in my Inbox. Most of the traffic being the monthly “you’re subscribed to List-FOO” and occasional position postings, most of which are in the UK. I know I stopped monitoring the list…
So Facebook doesn’t want to play nice and just give you RSS feeds for a user’s status updates. Used to be you could do that, but not so much any longer. It appears you may be able to generate a status feed using the Graph API, but that’s seriously overkill for my needs. Besides, who…
I’ve been tinkering with pulling all of my generated content on other sites into a single, browsable, About Me kind of page here on SRT. On the flip side, I’ve been toying with how to create a nice portal that collects all of the various bits of content people I like create on various social…
The fabulous Santastic mix series has released this years compilation: Santastic V: Snow, Man!. Haven’t listened yet, but based on past experience, it will be good.
Listened with whatever word it is that describes amusement crossed with shock and dismay to this NPR story about phosphate-free dishwasher detergent on my way in to work this morning. One Mrs. Sue Wright of Austin, Texas, single-handedly made my day when she flexed her reasoning prowess thusly: I’m angry at the people who decided…
In which our humble narrator lays out an ambitious web portal plan under the guise of a paltry review of PandoraJam.
If I had an unlimited number of $5 bills for purposes of creating sock puppet accounts on Metafilter, here are some that I would buy: Lurking Wedgie Shit Threader SuckPoppet Eponymous Police Ooo’er. I already have the last two. More to come, I’m sure…
The best marketing gimmick the folks at Pandora Radio have for Pandora One? Regular old vanilla Pandora radio. Bought my subscription just a bit over a year ago and in a cost cutting move elected to not renew the subscription. How bad could it possibly be? Dumb question. Really bad. I renewed.
Reading this thread, I came across an exchange that amused me for some reason. After back-and-forthing for a bit we get to the endgame: valkyryn: All I can really say is “I object to just about everything about the way that you see the world” and leave it at that. VikingSword Agreed. Not sure if…