August 2008
43 posts
The Point of No Return [Chicago Carless] →
Well fuck, fuel my sporadic homesickness for Chicago, why don’t ya.
iheartdraco:
Dolly Parton doing Jolene live. Her...
“Don’t say some shit like ‘No offense, but I’m straight.’ Thanks for your Mother...”
– Sage advice from The Straight Man’s Guide to Getting Hit On By Gays (via ernie)
Go vote for my friend Scott Free! →
His video for his song “Free” is on Logo’s The Click List at #10, so he could possibly drop off. Just go and vote, you don’t even have to give any personal info unless you really want to, and you can vote multiple times.
I just inadvertently solved a minor Tumblr-related...
But I can’t go into the details and it doesn’t involve you anyway. But still, yay!
All roads lead to...
Jason: Hmm.
Jason: I've been doing a lot of thinking about this sort of thing over the last two years
Jason: well
Jason: okay, not a LOT but some
Ernie: no, sounds like you have
Jason: I'm wondering if the age of personal blogs that have any meaning are over. It seems that a) you can do your own thing, but be obscure because instead of being one of 200 or 2000, you're now one of 20,000,000 because the barrier to entry is a lot lower and everyone has an opinion, b) if you do become popular you get a community of commenters and suddenly you have a relationship with your readers and that steers your site overtly because it's not all about you anymore, or even subtly because you want to keep the readers you have, and unless you have a personality strong enough to go "fuck you, this is my site" and have people love you for it, you have to deal with that. c) we're in the age of mega-blogs, like Gawker and Perez and newsblogs and et cetera, and personal blogs are seen as quaint at best, ridiculously egotistic at worst, and that's filtered down that d) some personal blogs have become personal brands and all about selling the writer as an expert, and all the politics that that engenders that gets obnoxious for people like you and me who just want to write something funny occasionally, or make a point from our respective perspectives on culture as it affects us.
Jason: It's like.... if television had started as all cable-access programming, and then suddenly got all professional, and then got cable.
Jason: so those who were around for the cable-access stage are all, "Hey, this used to be a laugh, what the fuck happened?"
Jason: That's how I've felt pretty much ever since I stopped writing in Over Queersville.
Jason: I've just had trouble articulating it. :)
Ernie: That sounds pretty damn well articulated.
Jason: Well thanks! I just managed to articulate it just now! :D
Ernie: AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! TUMBLR! SOAK IN THE IRONY
Ernie: ;)
Watchdeplorableword:
Introducing Ubiquity
One day, Aza Raskin will rule the world.
Sorry to make a “it’s the _____ of ______” type of comparison, but my initial reaction was that this feels a lot like Quicksilver but for your browser. Which is to say, pretty sweet. I can dig it.
A representative for John McCain closes a post by... →
The follow-up apology is pretty funny though.
WatchThe Olympic Opening Ceremonies in a minute
WatchGet Your War On: The Race Card
I should probably admit this will become my XKCD or Garfield Minus Garfield and I’ma post it all. Sorry.
WatchGet Your War On: You Are Loved
Faulty logic
I figured if I switched to this theme, I’d start thinking it was too flat and get off my ass and into Photoshop and finally do up the theme I’ve had in my mind for months. Hahahahahahaha, yeah. We’ll see. It’s been a busy summer.
WatchExplaining the 10th dimension. (via Kitsunenoir)
08
Jason: Oh god
Jason: it's 08/08/08
Ernie: it is
Ernie: that is why the olympics are today
Ernie: 8 is a feng shui number
Ernie: chinese people everywhere are getting married
Ernie: yada yada yada
Jason: WHOA
Jason: You're right!
Jason: Wow
Jason: That's kinda awesome.
Ernie: technically the time the open ceremonies start?
Ernie: 8:08pm
Ernie: it's to bring good luck and prosperity
Ernie: i should call my mom and wonder if she cares
Jason: XD
jcksn →
A simple layout (specifically the watercolor-esque background) that made me say, “huh, damn, wish I’d thought of that.”
WatchGet Your War On: the Watch List
California state computers can't handle pay cut,... →
Governor Schwarzenegger’s decree that certain state government employee’s paychecks be reduced to the federal minimum wage cannot be enacted in the time alloted because the paycheck system is written in COBOL.
is:unread
That’s what you search for using Gmail’s search to see just your unread messages. Which you probably don’t need. That is, if you’re not ruthlessly archiving emails, like I don’t.
“To me, the 1980s were full of all sorts of great things. Video games, D&D,...”
– LHOOQtius ov Blog: The Greighties (via cygnoir)
