Last looks at Yahoo Adult Profiles …
jss @ April 2, 2008 # 3 Comments
Links in this post are NSW … but I can’t resist poking around a little to see just what Yahoo is going to be deleting when they blow away all the Adult Profile pictures.
You see, there is no actual site for Yahoo adult profiles, and they don’t show up in search engines. They’re just … [...]
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Potpourri (curmudgeonly thoughts for breakfast)
jss @ February 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yes, I had to look that word up, which is a little shameful to someone who has done hard toime as a newspaper columnist. Because every once in a while, you don’t have that big, delicious idea in time for deadline, and you do a “potpourri” column, blended from all the ideas that weren’t quite [...]
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Translation Tool
jss @ February 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
OK — I write this small article very carefully.
WordPress has a translation plugin. I am trying it.
Look to the right and you can see where you can choose your language.
I speak only English and a little bit of German and Spanish. Please let me know if the translations are horrible and I will remove the [...]
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Launched Prisma Dental Blog … Yay! :-)
jss @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Prisma Dental Blog is up and running. It’s a site that I think, over time, will do a lot to inform people who need major dental work about the option of having it done in Costa Rica. I do not often get directly involved with recommending specific overseas medical facilities but I make an [...]
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No More Porn Reports …
jss @ February 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well, there’ll be no more hard-hitting journalistic reports on porno sites like RedTube.com for this blog, Nosiree. Enough pandering to prurient interests. At least until the next time I feel like getting 10,000 page views in 36 hours.
Let’s move along to a fascinating web search factoid I just gleaned, which is that, amazingly, if you [...]
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RedTube Hacked?
jss @ February 4, 2008 # 35 Comments
RedTube.com, one of the most trafficked porn sites on the web (Ranked 67th of ALL web sites by Alexa, as of right now) has allegedly been hacked by “Turkish Cyber Terrorists.” At least, take a look at the accompanying screenshot I took at a little before 5 p.m. today, Massachusetts time. (Screenshot)
Update 2: They’re back [...]
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My So-Called Life, in Six Words
jss @ February 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yep. There I am on page 127 of “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.”
Smith Magazine got the idea, see, from Hemingway, that one can say quite a lot in six words, which of course, one can, whether one is famous or obscure. Most of us would be the [...]
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Caring About Pro Football …
jss @ February 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
… is irrational. And I’ve got my irrationality firmly in check, yessir I do. I have rules about how much I let myself care.
1) I only really care about the Pittsburgh Steelers, and that’s because I went to high school in Upper St. Clair, Pa., way back in the 1970s.
2) But I try to care [...]
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the writing thing …
jss @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I haven’t written much about writing and I don’t think I will. Every once in a while, though, I get a glimmer of insight into how and why I do what I do.
I have a book to write, I am pretty sure of that right now. And so there is writing to do.
And there is [...]
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Big stupid media … and little smart media
jss @ January 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I can get far more revved up about the subject of the news media than most people, though I’m not like most people who really pop their buttons about it — you know, like the ones who think that the news media is all part of a big, lib-er-uhl conspiracy (except for Fox) and also [...]
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