Category Archives: Teh Interwebz
RSS with no Google Reader
I found out today that my RSS reading interface of choice, Reeder, is going to be using feedbin.me as its backend service. Feedbin.me currently costs $2 a month, $20 a year. That seems cheap enough and since Ben Ubois, the … Continue reading
Gun Blogging is Dead
When that bottom feeding content thief Farago can win a “major award” from the SAF you know gun blogging has jumped the shark. Pack it in folks, no one is listening.
Meme evolution
Paraphrasing Capital one, Sebastion asks, “What’s on your desktop?” because he didn’t have anything in iTunes. So to bring it full circle, my desktop is blank. I’ve tried using pictures before but they’re just too distracting.
The Internet: You’re doing it wrong.
I always thought Robert Farago was a slimy bottom feeder, stealing content from people and using it to make money. It turns out he’s just ignorant and doesn’t know how to make a link in HTML! Here Robert, let me … Continue reading
Sleazy is as sleazy does
TTAG stealing content and implying permission again? Why yes they are!
5 Years
Earlier in the week, this blog turned 5. That’s like 1000 in Internet years.
This is interesting…
Based on a comment at SayUncle I made a screen recording of this: Here is a .mov if you want to see it bigger: smokeandthunder.com redirects to vpc.org I can’t think of a legitimate reason that a bad virtual directory … Continue reading
Smoking Blunder
One thing I really like about the Internet is the way it has of hauling douchebags out into the sunlight where everyone can mock them. UPDATE: The douchebag in question just doubled down by calling Breda a “cranky female blogger”. … Continue reading
On Strike
Tomorrow this blog will join a lot of the Internet in strike against SOPA. If you happen by on the 18th, you will be automatically redirected to the SOPA Strike site. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight … Continue reading
SOPA Shelved
The House has shelved SOPA. Unless they sneak it in some other way, that’s it for SOPA this year. I guess someone finally heard the “This idiocy will break the Internet” message.