From the monthly archives:

October 2005

Yahoo! News now accepting TrackBacks

October 27, 2005

I just posted a link to this story (about Sulu coming out of the closet) and TypePad pinged Yahoo! News at the url: http://labs.news.yahoo.com/trackback/ap/people_george_takei
I’m guessing from the labs part of the url, this is still a newer function.  We’ll follow this one to see what they actually do with the TrackBacks.  After all, I noticed [...]

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Sulu comes out of the closet

October 27, 2005

Yeah I know…shocking.
George Takei Discloses His Homosexuality {Yahoo! News}

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SBC and Verizon = your ONLY phone company options

October 27, 2005

Smells like AT&T.

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Libby’s gonna get it

October 27, 2005

Or at least, that’s what the N.Y. Times says.  Rove apparently "remains under investigation."

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The White House Braces

October 26, 2005

Also known as, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Minding The Conversation Gap

October 26, 2005

My back is killing me right now, so I’ll have to come back and do a recap in a bit…but for now, please make sure to read Steve Rubel’s Mind The Conversation Gap.  Then talk amongst yourselves.  I’ll be back when I can sit and type without excruciating pain.

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Do you have BlackBerry thumb?

October 22, 2005

With how annoying a constant BlackBerry user can be, I have to think this may be the official "Least Sympathy-Generating Ailment of 2005":
“BlackBerry Thumb” is what people are calling sore thumbs from too much
texting. It’s actually a very real repetitive stress injury.

Is Texting Painful? You may have "BlackBerry Thumb" {Lifehacker}

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Must-have Apple toy of Christmas 2006

October 21, 2005

Since we know the iPod Video is now the defacto "MUST HAVE" from Apple for Christmas 2005, time to start the predictions for ‘06.  I got one, and one only….the Apple flatscreen TV.  They’ve basically already got one, remote control and all–it just doesn’t have a tuner built-in yet, and you’d have to remove stand [...]

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Google’s 2005 Q3

October 20, 2005

Mama mia…Google sure had a good third quarter.

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No According to Jim spoilers!

October 17, 2005

Funniest Belushi-related post of the day:
EVERYBODY PLEASE LISTEN UP TO THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
DO NOT spoil tonight’s episode of According to Jim
if you see me tomorrow. I did not watch it. In fact, I haven’t watched
any of the episodes for this season yet. I finally finished my season
four DVDs last night after staying up all night, [...]

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Blogebrity’s new threads

October 14, 2005

We launched the redesigned Blogebrity today.  Server/router/ISP issues have me too tired to talk about it in much detail.  But I did the design, and fine-tuned the programming and CSS, which was provided by Pinacol.  And the whole site is powered by Movable Type, in case you were wondering.

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Buy week

October 7, 2005

Big week in the blog world, as Weblogs, Inc. gets bought by AOL, NetNewsWire gets swallowed up by NewsGator, Andy Baio’s Upcoming.org gets bought by Yahoo, and Verisign buys Weblogs.com from Dave Winer.
And hey–it’s still Friday morning, you know what that means–we could have another 2 companies sold by 5pm.

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Arcade Fire at Stubbs

October 3, 2005

Fire in Red

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More ACL photos

October 3, 2005

Franz Ferdinand at the SBC Stage

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Coffee, Cigarettes, and Slimer

October 3, 2005

From Jim Jarmusch’s Notes for a Ghostbusters Sequel:
Bill Murray moves into haunted apartment. Sits in chair, impassive. What is he thinking? Possibly about dead friends. He almost gets up. He doesn’t. His face is blank, unreadable. Sounds offscreen. Flying plates? Bleeding walls? Ghosts? Perhaps. We never find out. Slow fade to black.

{from McSweeney’s}

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Josh Hallett on 8-Minute Abs/Web 2.0

October 3, 2005

I happened to see this over at Josh Hallett’s site today, in his post about Web 2.1/3.0, and I couldn’t resist reposting it here:
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs? Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video. Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen [...]

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