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Hiding Facebook’s Trending Articles with AdBlock

Robin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:36:42 +0000

Add this line to your custom filters (click the AdBlock button, go to Options, and select the Customize tab):

facebook.com##DIV[class="ogAggregation"]

Refresh Facebook, and it’s gone forever.

Similar to Jesus Christ

Robin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:57:59 +0000

Conan O’Brien: Similar to Jesus Christ.

Domain Moved to NearlyFreeSpeech

Robin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:25:16 +0000

Just moved the domain away from GoDaddy to NearlyFreeSpeech, largely due to GoDaddy’s support for SOPA. Despite them saying they have withdrawn support for SOPA, this appears to merely be a PR move, and they have not actually withdrawn support for SOPA.

Read more about SOPA on Wikipedia, and find out why it’s not a good thing. Also, here’s NFS.net’s official stance on SOPA.

Denver International Airport Internet

Robin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:32:23 +0000

So, not only do they:

Make me watch a 30 second commercial in order to connect to the Internet; I can deal with this.
They stick an advertising frame on every single fucking page. Of course, they can’t even get this right; half the pages have it, half of them don’t. Seems like if you go to a site from a bookmark, you can avoid this.

How about you just suck it up and give out free, ad-free internet access? Even the Seattle-Tacoma Airport does this, and they’re beyond broke. This isn’t even fast internet, either.

Meanwhile in Egypt

Robin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:16:44 +0000

Click the image for the large version.

Credit: latenightcabdriving on reddit.

FoxTrot RSS Feed Works Again

Robin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:18:41 +0000

My FoxTrot RSS feed works again.

Incidentally, I’m the #1 result for “foxtrot rss feed”.

ZIP Codes

Robin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:36:31 +0000

Wikipedia had it right…

Tweeting Comments

Robin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:54:49 +0000

Happy Cog just launched their blog, smartly titled Cognition. A key difference from most blogs, however, is that in order to comment, you must reply via Twitter.

Kids today are more likely to respond to a blog post on Twitter than in the article’s comments section; so we’ve collocated our comments on Twitter. Share a tweet-length response here, and, with your permission, it will go there.

Here’s the thing, though: I don’t have a Twitter. I don’t want a Twitter. I will never, ever, fucking want a Twitter. Please understand this, and realize that there’s still 0.1% of the world, myself included, that don’t use Twitter, and would prefer not to be forced to signing up for one just to comment on a blog.

I don’t see why Happy Cog didn’t just offer regular comments instead of a tweet — you can even keep the length requirement, but just post it directly to the site. Their only other alternative is writing on your own site, which I’ve been forced to do.

So here’s my original comment:

I can’t find a link back to the blog from the Happy Cog website… I’ve tried and tried but even the sitemap has nothing. An oversight, perhaps?

I lost the exact wording since I hit “don’t,” which I thought meant it would just post to the site as opposed to tweeting it. As it happens, the original comment was exactly 140 characters…

God damn, I hate using the word “tweeting.”

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