I’ve been cleaning up The Sh17 today and last night. The sidebar is less cluttered, and the little grey-red bullet things are cleaned up so they don’t look so out of place. I added the striped background h2 titles to separate more of the sidebar.
I removed the adsense bar at the top, and put one at the bottom of the sidebar instead. I installed Popularity Contest to show which posts are the most popular. You can see it on the sidebar between the Archives and Meta sections. It’s at the bottom of every post too(until I take it out)
There’s also one less post showing on the front page. I’m about to create a new page showing the best articles/posts and clean up the categories and whatnot. If anybody has any suggestions, now’s the time to tell me!
The number of the day is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Digg got told by HD DVD to remove a story about hd-dvd’s processing key from doom9’s forums and now the internet’s basically pissed at them for choosing a sponsor over their users. Digg users are revolting by digging only stories with the key to the front page of digg.
There’s t-shirts, songs, videos, domains, and lots of other creative things containing the key now. ThePirateBay is embracing the numbers.
I’ll wait til andy watches the next episode of diggnation and see if they say anything about it.
I stumbled on this today. Apparently the multi-service and multi-platform im client Gaim changed it’s name to Pidgin a few days ago. They’ve been having legal troubles with AOL since they patented AIM.
It’s still the same program, but now the developers are going to start releasing real versions and not just beta versions. Their new web page is http://www.pidgin.im/
“After a long, and unfortunately secret debate (as we could not say why we were looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), we settled on the name “Pidgin” for gaim itself, “libpurple” for libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and “Finch” for gaim-text.”
Edit: Wtf. I had a long post typed out and wordpress auto-saved it a few times. But after I hit publish, it was all gone except the title/tags/categories. I’ll retype it tomorrow :\
Remember back in 2002 when 28 Days Later came out? It was a badass zombie movie with rage infected monkeys and everything.
“His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn’t.”
There’s a sequel coming May 11th called 28 Weeks Later. It has a new director and as far as I can tell, the star of the first movie isn’t in this one, or at least isn’t a star again. It takes place 28 weeks later(after the Rage Virus), and the United States thinks it’d be fun to claim they’ve won the war against infection, so begin rebuilding Britain. I can’t wait ’til it comes out. Watch the trailer below, or click here for a better quality version.
“Britain has been emptied. There’s nobody there. It’s completely dead. And six months later the Americans arrive to reboot it back up again. But, of course, something goes wrong…”
I’ve been listening to the background music on their website for a while; it’s pretty neat.
AGLOCO sounds a lot like those old toolbars you could download and make money while you surf. It’s not released yet, but you can still build your network.
Their pitch for the service seems to be “Everything you do on the internet makes money for someone else. Every time you do a search, buy something, download something, or join a community, you help others make money while you make nothing. Its now time for you to re-claim some of that money.”
So join my AGLOCO network, learn about it, and eventually make some money.
