Bits & Pieces (Tuesday Night Open Mic)

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Kevin S. Willis

You probably won’t want to watch the whole thing. It lasts over 2 hours.

In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

The 5 Online Petitions that Prove Democracy is Broken. Like that was really necessary.

Coming up with stuff to link to would be a lot easier if the Net Nanny here didn’t block The Onion. Someone link to something from The Onion.

Will this be Apple’s First $40 Billion Quarter?

I miss Bloom County.

For you physicists and metaphysicists in the audience . . .

Click on it to actually see the whole thing. All right. That’s it for tonight. Just somebody link to something in The Onion.

— KW

And, by the way, the FAQ page is up. Look it over and let me know what you think–and feel free to add (or just leave it in a comment and I’ll add it either tonight or [more likely] tomorrow)!
— Michigoose

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Wednesday Admin Open Thread

Posted on January 18, 2012 by lmsinca

Ask your questions and discuss problems in this thread today.  I don’t want to disrupt another thread and the conversation going on there.  Hopefully, we won’t need these threads much longer.  At some point we’ll put up a FAQ tab but it may take a little time.  Michi did the last one and did a fantastic job but I don’t expect her to do it again without some help.  Maybe if she starts it, we could all add to it and then edit each others q & a’s.  Unless of course she wants to do it again….. 🙂

Update:  After reading comments from last night it appears there are issues with various mobile devices and your ipad.  Any suggestions or has anyone found a work around these issues they’d like to share?

Also, in thinking about the FAQ page, perhaps we could all just write a brief paragraph regarding a feature or use of the format and then michi could just edit and put into the q & a form.  I’m trying to think of a way we can all contribute to the process so it’s not so much work for one person.

Update II: 

Internet to Shut Down Wednesday to Protest SOPA and PIPA

Less than 24 hours after I noted that we’ve won a brief respite from SOPA, the bill’s chief sponsor said it’s back on track for mark up in February.

But a number of the world’s most popular websites – including Wikipedia, Twitpic, Reddit, Imgur, Mozilla and WordPress – are “going dark” on Wednesday January 18th to protest the censorship bills (SOPA and PIPA).

In addition, Google and other web titans will place prominent messages on their front pages urging their readers to oppose the draconian bills.

This could affect us today so don’t panic…..it’s only one day.

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Bits & Pieces (Tues. Evening Open Thread)

Posted on September 21, 2011 by lmsinca

Admiral Ackbar Cereal: Your taste buds can’t repel flavor of this magnitude!

QB: You can do real dashes by dropping into HTML and typing — where you want the m-dash to appear. See below.

I also occasionally do music. If you can’t come up with something better to do, then you have to listen to it. Tonight’s selection: I Love You. Although I did it in 2008, the vocal samples are from 1990 or before, and it has a background (it’s like a prequel to I Hate You, a similar-ish song I did at least 3 versions of back in the late 1980s). While I included the link to I Hate You, I might mention that it’s at least 3 minutes too long, and that, perhaps, is charitable.

For the fellas: remembering Bettie Page.

Do you like Daryll Hall and John Oates? Well, I can’t stop listening to this. The Bird and the Bee did a whole album of covers of Hall & Oates. Brilliant! I’m listening on Spotify, rather than YouTube, but . . . worth listening to, if you like your Hall and Oates.

Some people are cynical about the future of Social Security because of the Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment. Well, that’s one reason to be, I guess. — KW


Our fancy dancy new FAQ page is now up and operational. Thanks to all for looking it over and adding to/editting it!
Fairlington Blade, if you show up, I need you to go take a look at it; I need some input from you specifically still. Thanks!

— — Michigoose (OK, Kevin, could you check the HTML and tell me what I did wrong there?)(Nope, still having the same problem. May be the different browsers issue [although shouldn’t HTML code be HTML code no matter what?][and where your mdash is inserted I don’t see the code. Hmmmmmmmmm])

[It apparently converts the code, so I guess you can just copy and paste an M-Dash if you want to, or type one . . . alt 0151 on the PC, option-shift dash on the Mac. Typing format for HTML entities includes the semi-colon: “—” or “–” or “©” (that’s a © symbol) and so on . . . Here’s a list! —KW]

[Yo-ho!! Got it that time! Michi]

Okie, a link to your video (how it would be formatted when writing it in a comment):

<a href=”http://youtu.be/W86jlvrG54o”&gt;This is a tear-jerking video, why am I trying to make people cry before work, I should be ashamed of myself</a>

 Like that. Start with a <a href=”link”>Put something in the middle, then end it with a </a> . . .

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