December Frappr Update

I seem to get a couple more pins in my map whenever I put it up, so here it is again. I'm up to 53, though there are a lot of unknown locations.

October Frappr Update

I've seen a little activity on the map since the last time I put it up, so I figured I'd throw it up again and see if I can get any more pins.

Not sure why I find a Google Earth map with a bunch of digital pins in it so fascinating, but I do.

Hee-Hee

You know, I'm not one who thinks that McCain meant anything by referring to Obama as "that one", but doesn't make this any less funny.

There's a site and merchandise and everything.

A Word From Our Sponsors

Well, not really. I don't actually have any sponsors. I wish I had sponsors. For that matter, I wish I had a large enough audience to justify a sponsor.

LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

Sigh.

At any rate, I do want to plug something. There's a site I've been using called BookMooch that I adore. Basically, the site facilitates the swapping of books between users. Here, I'll let the founder explain:



Cool, huh? So, why am I bringing it up here? Well, I've got a few credits burning a hole in my account, but despite the large selection of books already available, I'm having trouble finding books to mooch. The books I know I want to read are just too damn popular (and other users seem to be faster on the mooch than I am).

My hopes are two-fold. First, if I can get more people signing up and adding books, maybe I can catch one of the ones I've been looking for. Second, maybe some folks here will be good enough to recommend some books for me to look for over on BookMooch that I haven't thought of.

So, you've got your orders, now get to it.

Frappr Update

I've gotten a few pins in the map. Just throwing this up here to see if I can attract some more.

The Director Who Films Your Life Test

I'm usually not one for online personality tests (or offline ones, for that matter), but this one was mentioned over on Occasional Superheroine and decided to check it out. Disturbingly accurate.

Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test...

Kevin Smith

Kevin will take your slacker life and turn it into the cult classic it deserves to be --- like Mallrats (just kidding). If you can handle the menacing presence of Jay and Silent Bob all throughout your film, then Kevin is willing to oblige. Basically, he can take the lives of people who don't have much of a life and make it entertaining, so you're in good hands. Go watch your copy of Clerks, now.

Take The Director Who Films Your Life Test at HelloQuizzy

Technical Notes

I've been playing around with different blogging tools to see if any one of them have features that would make them worth using over bloggers native editor. One interesting feature is the ability to post to more than one blog. I'm not sure that my thoughts are really interesting enough to be posted in multiple places, but I do have that LiveJournal account sitting all empty and lonely, so I'll at least test out the cross-posting ability. At any rate, this is the last of the programs I'm going to play with (this one's called w.bloggar), the others were far to frustrating for me to want to use. Okay, posting now, let's see how it goes.

Oh, and it probably goes without saying, but this was a test . . . this was only a test . . . were this an actual blog post it would have contained marginally interesting content. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.

Secret Invasion of the Internet

So, the Skrulls have apparently taken to the Web in support of "Secret Invasion." There's even a Twitter feed. Interestingly, the Skrulls seem to be following John Edwards' Twitter feed for some reason. Wonder what that's about.

I love viral marketing.

The Links

I usually don't do the link collection thing, but I'm a little bored. So, without further ado: Things of interest I've stumbled upon around the net.

-A Matter of Opinion, by John Ostrander: I already loved John Ostrander for his comics work (Suicide Squad most of all), but I love him even more now that he's managed to relate the Doctor Who season finale to political punditry.

-Harry Knowles' review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Okay, guess I definitely will be skipping it then.

-NBC's Latest Olympic-themed Office Promo: Murder checkers indeed.

-National Geographic's Map of the day for last Tuesday? The Land of OZ

Dr. Horrible

The last part of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog is up. They'll only be up until midnight tomorrow, so I encourage everyone to check it out. It's really fun, though I'm not sure what to make of the ending. Whatever it means, it's certainly a major tonal shift in the piece.

Anyway, check it out. It's a supervillain musical, so what's not to like?

Frappr Map

I just wanted to play around with this a little bit. I encourage anyone who visits to put a pin in the map.

Rampant Hypocrisy

So I was mentioning my humble blog here to a couple of friends, in a shameless bid for attention, and it got me to thinking. I've decided that the fact that someone like me can freely and easily publish a blog is a prime example of what is wrong with the internet.

I don't so much have a problem with the idea that anyone anywhere can post whatever's on their mind at anytime. On paper (or electrons as it were) that seems like a wonderfully democratic idea. Power to the people and all that. And I'm not particularly interested in the reporting vs. rumor-mongering conflict; I'll leave that one to actual journalists. No, the problem as I see it is this: Here I sit sending the floatsam and jetsam of my mind off into the world but there's no obligation on my part to justify my blog's existance by, oh I don't know, attracting readers. I'm all for self-indulgence, but all I'm really doing here is making the signal to noise ratio of the internet worse. And let's face it, the internet is already 50% noise (along with 49% porn and 1% useful information (hmm, should porn be counted as useful information?)).

This of course does not mean I plan to delete my blog and retreat back into the aether (that would be the hypocrisy part of the title). While I love the net, I also hate it a little bit, so making it worse doesn't really bother me all that much. So I guess I'll continue to sporadically strike a blow for my inner Luddite by continuing to waste bandwidth.