Join the cult of bad jokes.- June 30, 2003 I tried and tried, but I just couldn't resist linking to this parody: "Confirming their intent to battle Google's new Blogger service, MT then announced on its TypePad site that the it would be rendering all of its users' posts in image format- meaning that any blog hosted by the TypePad service would be immune to Google's awesome searching reach, because the blog entries would actually be images, rather than text ... Taking the incredible step to block your users' access to and from Google,..http://www.dollarshort.org/archives/000897.html The Ship Shape- June 10, 2003 Up on The New Yorker site, you can find Our Perfect Summer, a new story by David Sedaris. We actually heard Sedaris read this story back in April when he made a stop at the San Francisco Opera House during his last book tour. Then, the story was called "The Ship Shape," (I think this is a better name) and immediately after hearing it, it rose to the very top of my Sedaris personal favorites lists. I, of course, have been anxiously awaited the print version since then. It was especially great.http://www.dollarshort.org/archives/000896.html Mash is back- June 5, 2003 This MetaFilter thread about someone's version of the game of MASH reminded me of the version that Ben and I whipped together about two years ago. Because it became pretty popular and because there are a lot of images, the game became a bit of a bandwidth hog and we were constantly going over our transfer allotment. So, I took it down and -- though I promised it would return -- never put it back up. Well, tonight, after playing around with the game again and thinking it was pretty neat, I...http://www.dollarshort.org/archives/000892.html |