Contra Chrome
via Jason Kottke:
Back in 2008, Google commissioned comic artist Scott McCloud to create a comic book to celebrate/explain the launch of their Chrome web browser. Since then, Chrome has become a vital part of Google’s core business, an advertising juggernaut that works by tracking users and their interests across the entire web. To better reflect the reality that "Google’s browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself", comic artist and activist Leah Elliott has cheekily created an updated comic book in the style of the original. She calls it Contra Chrome.
Posted on May 4th, 2022
Welcome to Dystopia
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Protests erupt over report U.S. Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade abortion law
'We will be ready when any ruling is issued,' President Biden says in statement... A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico reported on Monday.
Posted on May 3rd, 2022
After "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" came "The 8th Habit"
In 2010 I tweeted a very long string of fake advice book titles and I actually love them all so I compiled them here in one list. (I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I love them, obviously I find myself very funny.)
- "3 Habits to a Better Bagel"
- "6 Ways to Enjoy Your Sudoku"
- "11 Steps to Feeling Great about Inactivity"
- "47 Easy and Effective Ways to Ride an Elevator"
- "11 Habits for Effectively Building Pillow Forts"
- "14 Habits of the Professional Bubble Bather: From Effectiveness to Greatness"
- "20 Good Habits to Have While Sleeping"
- "So You Think You Have Good Habits"
- "The 307 Steps to Effective Sponge Bathing: Loofas for Winners"
- "The Science Behind Progression: 11 Habits to Effectively Stand in a Fast Food Line"
- "7 Habits to Effectively Colouring In the Lines"
- "106 Ways To Utilize Zip Locks: Stay-fresh Advice"
- "7 Keys to Improving Your Life Through Basic Magic: Card Tricks for Beginners"
- "18 Ways To Activate Your Life By Watching Exercise Videos: The Key to Not-Doing"
- "Be the Glue: 21 Tips For Successful Scrapbookers"
- "400 Ways To Feel About Your Toes: A Guide for Adolescents"
- "Toasters, Frisbees, Juiceboxes: 14 Ways to Ruin Your Hats"
- "My Kitten Is a Nuclear Physicist: 180 Ways To Trick Your Local Firemen"
- "Soap, Spoons and You: A Guide to Prison Whittling"
- "Piggie, Fatty, Doughboy, and other Nicknames for Your Fat Child"
- "Forgetting Why You Came Here: A Guide to Standing Awkwardly In Front of the Fridge"
- "163 Ways to Type Your Feelings: A Guide to Online Dating"
- "Never Knowing How Far to Go: A Guide To Taking the Train While Blindfolded"
- "Up is Down: 63 Ways to Play Opposite Day"
- "11 Spin Cycles: Things to Count While Doing Your Laundry"
- "Sometimes When We Touch: Avoiding Song Lyrics that Make You Uncomfortable"
- "Reciting Entire Movies From Memory, and Other Ways To Make Your Party Successful"
- "You Were Adopted: 46 Tips to Make Christmas More Exciting"
- "Stop Eating: A Common Sense Guide to Dieting"
- "Fluffernutter: 18 Helpful Methods For Avoiding Real Food"
- "Tethered Running and 73 Other Ways To Reinvent Gym Class"
- "Eating Things You Find on the Ground: Inappropriate Advice for Toddlers"
- "The Dao of Poop: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Shitters"
Posted on May 2nd, 2022
Sailor Moon Museum??
New Sailor Moon Museum is coming to Tokyo starting this July. It will be running until Dec 2022 • Can not wait to see the merch they will have available ❤️ • #SailorMoon
OMFG.
Posted on May 2nd, 2022
I'm Crushing your Head!
Posted on April 30th, 2022
Chicken Fingers at the Ball Game
Last night at the baseball and I got chicken fingers
Posted on April 30th, 2022
Housekeeping Notes
Over the last few days, I moved the back end of my blog over to a different platform. Moving all the posts turned out to be quite more of a manual process than expected. It gave me an opportunity to read through e v e r y t h i n g in my archives, which was sometimes a good thing, and sometimes not so much.
Anyway, everything is now here, nice and tidy on the blog subdomain. I keep going back and forth as to whether I prefer the blog to be the top level domain, or to have a landing page. But as the landing page keeps everything nice and neat, I've "landed" there for now. Ha ha. Jokes.
A few notes about why I made the transition away from Blot.im, because as my host of the last few years they were really wonderful. Their customer service was excellent, and they did make the initial transition away from Tumblr really easy. But, in terms of my own style of blogging, there were a few flaws:
- The template system. For me, it never worked 100% the way I wanted it to. I tried to devote time to learning the way moustache themes work, but there were always some quirks/tweaks I couldn't get working, and I couldn't figure out why.
- Tagging. The tagging was never intuitive to me, particularly when I was just posting an image on its own, I couldn't actually figure out how to add tags at all.
- Hosting via Dropbox. It actually WORKED flawlessly, in terms of the Blot-Dropbox integration, but I kept worrying about running out of Dropbox space, and Dropbox storage plans are too pricey for my personal blog which is updated only occasionally.
- Updating via Markdown. I found a few good markdown editors, but creating a post using a markdown editor, figuring out how to insert an image (hosted elsewhere) into a post, and then formatting etc... it was all just slightly less easy than I want. Particularly because my main style of blogging never really moved away from the Tumblr style (ie, share content I didn't make, attribute it to the place I found it). Quick posts just don't happen easily when you have to copy an image, upload it to an image host, insert it using a markdown editor, and then drop that file into Dropbox. We're talking a matter of minutes, but I was used to reblogging in seconds on Tumblr, and I missed that ease.
I'm using Postach.io now as my hosting platform, and it uses Evernote as its base. So far it is as easy as running a blog on Tumblr was. There are some things it lacks (like an Archive page?) but so far the pluses outweigh the minuses. And now that everything is all in one place (again), I think it'll be smooth sailing from here.
As a bonus to this process, several things which were formatted terribly the last few years were fixed. A lot of dead links probably remain, but I did try to flag that links were dead where I saw them. I did not import a few things that had lived on my blog before - like some crossposts from twitter, or posts that were simply "listening to
Speaking of 2010 - that was a BANNER year for me blogging. I had 261 posts that year, more than any other year. And then a STEEP drop off in 2015, when I stopped using Tumblr as much. Interesting, although probably only to me.
Now, to figure out how to export my Twitter, and where to put it.
Posted on April 28th, 2022
