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Monthly Archives: October 2005

Dismal and Excellent

Monday, October 31, 2005

Speaking of Goth Girls, be sure to check out Accordion Guy’s scans of Goth-themed Archie comics: “She’s Goth to Have It” (an actual Archie comic), and “Anarchie,” which seems to be an unofficial anarchist parody.
When you’re ready to put on the black clothes and mascara, you can “Go Goth!” and then learn to Dance Goth.

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The New Testament For *.*

Monday, October 31, 2005

The New Testament for New Believers.
The New Testament for Men.
The New Testament for Teens.
The New Testament for Kids.
The New Testament for Punks.
The New Testament for Goth Girls.
What other “New Testaments for ___” have you seen?
Update: Pyromaniac has a few more here and here and elswehere, I suppose. Thanks to Valerie for pointing those out. Indeed, [...]

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Blood Spatter

Monday, October 31, 2005

Happy Halloween or Reformation Day! The blood spatter on my site can speak to you of zombies and vampires out for brains or blood respectively, or of the spilled blood of the martyrs for the faith. Read some of Holy Office’s history on the mixed, mostly non-pagan origins of Halloween, and then check out The [...]

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Stop Hiding Login!

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Update: I <3 SideJobTrack. That’s all.

To my dearest SideJobTrack, Livejournal, Ning, Commission Junction, and a few other websites out there:
You are valuable services, and I love you all from the bottom of my heart, but I have an urgent request: please stop hiding your login forms behind javascript show/hide links! I’m very keyboard-oriented, so my [...]

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eBay “Notification Preferences”

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Has anyone else noticed a lot more incoming spam “marketing” email from eBay which turns out to be authentic and not just more phishing attempts? Yeah, me too. Here’s how to kill the spam:

Go to your My eBay page and click on “Preferences” under “My Account.”
Click on “Notification Preferences,” which should take you to a [...]

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Buzz

Thursday, October 27, 2005

So I was wondering what to do with my old whyblog.org domain, which has sat idle and ignored since I used it for my digital art thesis on weblogs and RSS feeds over two years ago.
Then I saw the big-sans-serif-on-white design of Flock, and Mathowie’s parody of it, and I thought about all the wide-eyed [...]

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Del.icio.us Support and SEO

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

I seem to have become the de facto go-to guy for support on del.icio.us daily blog posting, such that even del.icio.us staff in the mailing list have pointed to me when asked about the feature. Me, I got my info on it from the list (how very meta). Later, that entry somehow beat everyone else [...]

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Cheap and Tiny and Problogging

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Cheap And Tiny is a weblog about cheap and tiny gadgets, exploring the lower boundaries of size and cost in the world of personal electronics. Your writer: Raffy. Your enterprising administrator: me. Check it out. Raffy has started it off with a look at Apple’s new iPod versus the Sony Playstation Portable.
I’ve had “problogging” on [...]

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Whither MyPhilippines?

Friday, October 21, 2005

From Yuga’s “What Happened To” series: What happened to MyPhilippines.com?
Those were the days, eh? Tobi Reyes, the founder of MyPhilippines — and of Impact Internet, a dialup ISP which has since disappeared — was building what should have become the ultimate Filipino search engine, content portal, and social hub: driven by its community (founded on [...]

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Dharma, Hanso, Hits, Virals, Smartdust, and More Lost Stuff

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Some spoilers may follow, but first, a look at my stats for the month so far:

See those spikes in my hits? Those are from people searching for “Dharma Initiative” and “Hanso Foundation” while those entries were at or near the top of popular search engine listings. They’ve dropped off the first page of results now, [...]

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