February 2010
18 posts
“In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of...”
– Andrea Fay Friedman—an actress with Down syndrome—voiced a character with the same condition in Family Guy. There was a gag about being the daughter of the former Governor of Alaska. Sarah Palin continued her selective indignation about retard jokes on Facebook, roping in one of her other daughters...
“Well, yeah, of course it’s extreme. You don’t know anything about...”
– Scott Brown (R-Mass)
Viva la difference. Apparently the occupation of ‘terrorist suicide bomber flying an aeroplane into a building’ provokes sympathy and calm, psychological consideration if you just do it in the name of Republican economics.
Self parody is long gone. This is genuinely...
“Across Britain thousands of people took to their computers and mobile phones to...”
– The Daily Mash - Twitter Filled With People Being Wrong About Jan Moir Again
The Daily Mash straying dangerously close to posting straight up actual-factual news analysis. Bonus points for captioning a picture of Twitter with “The power of wrongness”.
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Watch“Into Dust” — Mazzy Star
Oh, God.
Using Twitter as a Fever° Spark
I seem to reference Fever° every day at the moment (usually in the context of reading Tumblr…), but this evening I was hacking in aid of a different service; Twitter.
Fever has fabulous highlights feature called ‘Hot’, an aggregate view of articles and sites blogs you are subscribed to are linking to. The output is a ranked list of the most talked about things on the internet, sourced...
Song of the Day: ‘Romance is Boring’ by Los... →
Best chorus of the year so far.
Rich Feeds for Tumblr Blogs
If you’re reading this in the Tumblr Dashboard, there’s a good chance this is irrelevant. Bear with me, though.
I’ve written before that I use a feedreader in place of the Dashboard. Tumblr offers RSS feeds for everyone’s blog, and I subscribe to these in Fever°, but, to be blunt, the RSS output from Tumblr stinks. I assume it’s an evil incentive to use the...