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Now that I’m browsing without Adblock, I’ve noticed the ads that Last.fm sprinkles on its pages, and I thought of something:

What if the ads were targeted specifically for your music tastes?

It probably wouldn’t be too hard — Last.fm already taps into its database of your music taste to calibrate the “Taste-o-Meter” comparing your “musical compatibility” with your friends. So why wouldn’t it be a reasonably simple task to pick from different genres of ads and …

A long, long time ago, I made an RSS feed for FoxTrot by Bill Amend, but it had since fallen through a crack in the pipes. Not to mention Bill Amend stopped doing dailies, and is now only doing a strip every Sunday, which made the feed even more obsolete.

That said, I’ve figured out the new URL’s Gocomics is using, and I’ve adjusted the script to display only strips from every Sunday. Here’s the URL:…

Here’s a (probably ever-growing) list of reasons why I hate MySpace:

1. User-defined CSS — it might be cool to have a bit of customization, but this takes it too far. Most of the profile pages are either hideous and unusable, or both.
2. Advertising — I don’t mind ads. But MySpace just plasters them everywhere. And they’re the annoying type — dating services and such.
3. UI — the user interface is horrendous. Sure, they’ve upgraded the …

Although I first heard of the show with zefrank when it started, mostly thanks to Kottke, I never really watched any of it. So, I’m starting with the very first show, from March 17, 2006, and I’m planning on working my way through the entire year of “episodes” (mini-episodes?), all the way to the very last one, posted exactly one year later.

zefrank also made a special video (I think it was a special video) about …

It appears the previous design is still considered by some to be a ‘clone’ of Gruber’s Daring Fireball, despite sharing absolutely no similarities under the hood.

Whilst flattering, it is none-the-less a distraction that cannot possibly end up on a positive note.

Design regressed, the topic is now closed. Thank you. #

It’s not really so much what’s under the hood than what it looks like. I could make an Expression Engine or …

Ars Technica has an article up comparing the feature sets of Miro and Joost. The reason for this is because Miro has recently begun a campaign comparing Joost and Miro, but the Ars article seemed to have missed the biggest point.

But Joost’s partnerships with the big boys pick up where Miro leaves off—Joost carries a number of current broadcast shows such as CBS’s fall season of Kid Nation (which several Ars staffers are huge …