- @BeaucoupKevin says:
I’m not crazy about DailyKOS, but this short piece about the Texans who want to secede is dead on
- Irony: normally I walk to lunch on Fridays, but time crunch had me driving today. Apparently it’s “car-free Friday.” Oops.
Tag: Tweets
Geocities Fading Away
Farewell, Geocities. It was nice knowing you. (Wait, no it wasn’t!)
In a message on Yahoo!’s help site, the company said that it would be shuttering Geocities, a free web-hosting service, later this year and will not be accepting any new customers.
Update: I wrote a bit more on the fandom side of things over at Speed Force:
I can’t say I’ll miss GeoCities itself — but there are still a lot of sites connected to comics fandom hosted there. Some are kept current, some are old but still contain useful information, and some are snapshots of an earlier era of online fandom
Social Bots
Amazing how many “people” are sending Facebook messages to the postmaster account, offering helpful links to resources for *ahem* improving uptime.
On a related note:
Google’s Social Graph thinks I own Cute Overload. It seems to treat all LiveJournal syndication feeds as one profile, and I linked to K2R’s LJ feed with XFN.
NASA and Aliens
If NASA really knew about aliens, wouldn’t publicizing it be the best way to solve their chronic budget problems?
We’re Here For You!
A Washington Mutual with a gigantic “Welcome to Chase” banner. Californians, remember those “Elvis Schmiedekamp Is Here For You” ads from ~2001?
Coffeechocolatea
I’m trying to make 8-hour old coffee palatable by adding both chai tea and hot chocolate mix. It’s…palatable.
Does That Have a Hyphen?
Why is it that Firefox consistently truncates the title “Google Analytics” at the worst possible spot?