squoogy.com

oy vey

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This is probably interesting only to hard-core bloggers (whatever that means)/Movable Type followers, but Anil Dash is leaving New York and moving to the Bay Area be closer to the Six Apart team. He also has interesting things to say about the licensing debacle (which he was somewhat responsible for).

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Woman Allegedly Hits Boyfriend With Fish

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - A woman was arrested on accusations she used a mounted fish with a pointy nose to assault her live-in boyfriend, police said.

Microsoft says, “Sure you can spam… but you have to pay us for the priviledge.”

In a shocking term of events, the Senate snub’s Bush’s overtime plan with one that guarantees overtime for everyone who currently qualifies.

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And you know what that means, right?

It is the two year anniversary of the squoogy.com blog.

Here is the first post ever (kind of. you get the point). Somewhat anticlimactic, but there ya go.

Whee!

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Dear snookums …

[via Presurfer]

Update:

Heeeh! Speaking of 404 pages. The MeFi gang pointed out that the Khaaan link has a funny one too.

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Her blog did anyway. It looks very fancy.

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“By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials.”

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“I won’t read this article, but what I will hate about it is that it will ignore the one thing that I love most about weblogs — that somewhere out there someone with a little html is blogging about the funeral of his goldfish…”*

Very nice, especially after the big hissyfit I posted about earlier.

*don’t bother to click the post he links to (unless you want to of course). It’s the really snotty people at the gothamist being all cool and opiniony about what blogging means and how people are doing it wrong, etc.

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And maybe some quality time with a blankie.

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So I’m reading this and I knew it was going to be bad from the title, but then the story goes on and I think it’s going to be your average dmv story and then she starts taunting the happy fun dmv ball and as I read there was a growing sense of dread surrounding my internal organs as every fiber of my being wanted to scream “Noooo!!! Don’t Do It!!!” but it was a futile urge because she didn’t stop. And it’s only part one.

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About blogs and such. And I was thinking about a couple of blogs that I would like to read, but can’t. And then I was wondering why, if their content and style were interesting to me, I couldn’t just read them.

That’s when I realized (As I realize this is going to be obvious, but not for the reasons you think, ok maybe they will be the reasons you think. You’re probably smarter than I am. And prettier. And have nicer teeth. I can accept that. Even though when I see that the blog “Always Right” comes up on the Recently Updated list the first thing that pops into my head is, “No, I’m always right.” and then I laugh because I am that way, but I’m not and it’s possible probable that not only will you not care what this post is about, but that you’ve already stopped reading because the whole “stream of consciousness” thing has been done like last month’s laundry (hopefully) but I’m going to stop right now so where were we? Oh yes:) that blogs that require foreknowledge and are best read from beginning to end rather than somewhere in the middle are going to be challenging for the average reader because most people don’t have the patience to pick up in the middle when it comes to the internet and blogs in particular.

There are exceptions, of course, but if I can’t keep up or can’t clue in within five or ten minutes, I generally stop trying. So if you’re going to be telling a story in a progression of posts, it might be better to order your blog first to last rather than last to first if you want people you don’t know to actually read it. Of course, feel free not to tailor your blog to my preferences. See if I care.

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Isn’t this what’s been mucking around with MetaFilter all along? I cannot even tell you how many times I’ve read “this post is NOT WORTHY” posts and the ensuing 100 comments to argue about the intrinsic value of a single post. It started on MeFi and then moved to MetaTalk and now they’ve already begun the discussion for AskMetafilter.

This is one of the reasons why I’m having such a goodtime at MonkeyFilter. We don’t crap all over people for an “unworthy” post. We just ignore it and move on. That way, we focus on the good stuff and stay nice.

Or as quonsar said:

OMG! WE PUT UP A SITE WHERE PEOPLE CAN ASK QUESTIONS, AND NOW THEY’RE FUCKING DOING IT!

HOW CAN WE FIX THIS?

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We’ve started a little community over at MonkeyFilter. It’s a blog, patterned off of MetaFilter for MeFi lurkers who have something to say. I think our new little community has a lot to offer and we’d love to have you.*

*Unless you want to be a jerk like “cock” and post spammy crap to the front page.

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Freeway signs for free speech

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Whew. I feel better.

(Note: This is an excellent example of a wiki if you’re curious.)

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