October 2008
Watchnickmcglynn: Guineasaurus Rex This was my favorite moment of this week’s South Park second only to “Guinea Pirate!”
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Tumblr Strategy Part Two
Offensive content on Tumblr does not work. As “out there” as you think your sense of humor is, there is a great chance that it isn’t shared by your followers. 9/11 Jokes, Dead Baby Jokes, misogyny, racism or any content that secludes and demeans another group will do more harm than good. Drifting through services, website and forums throughout the Internet it’s easy to...
Ex-Washington Redskin wants to bring sports to... →
The game would be called Float Ball. It would combine elements of basketball, football and the Lionel Richie video for “Dancing on the Ceiling” into a sort of free-for-all, compelling weightless players to bounce off walls, obstacles and one another while herding weightless balls of various colors to either end of the playing space, which would be placed inside the cabin of a zero-gravity plane...
“With the exception of Woodie Guthrie and Dick Cheney there are not many people...”
– David Simon Stainless - Version 0.3.5 →
New in Stainless: find-in-page feature, fixed login issues, a new icon, and other internal changes.
“Your great-grandfather is his own man. He changes his principles as often as his...”
– Rick Reilly in a column talking to the great-grandson of 98-year-old former UCLA coach John Wooden who has cheated death twice, won ten national championships and has never asked for a raise once. “Senator McCain, you need to endorse Barack Obama. That, could really make you...”
– Stephen Colbert 
Undefeated
Your favorite baseball team is now undefeated. It’s time to start talking a big game for next season. Let’s go O’s!
A Bad Joke
Two antennae are getting married. The ceremony was horrible but the reception was great. I’m sorry
Pokemon
Do people who don’t believe in evolution still like Pokemon?
Tony Womo Out Three To Four Weeks With Bwoken... →
DAWWAS—Cowboys medical personnel confirm that quawterback Tony Womo injured his thwowing hand in last week’s 30-24 loss to the Arizona Cardinals and is expected to miss the next month after suffewing a sevewy bwoken wight pinkie-winkie. (via The Onion)
Annoying things about Tumblr
There should definitely be a humor section. With the amount of funny people on Tumblr like the CollegeHumor staff and Aziz from Human Giant you’d almost assume that there would be a comedy section. Not true, apparently. Come on Tumblr staff, get a funnies section going for people who like to smile. kami: 1. Why isn’t there an “Explore” for humour? There is music and art, but no catagory...
No Negativity November
In a few days I’m going to be taking part in an experiment on awareness. The idea behind the experiment is that every time someone says a negative thing or complains, they take a bracelet that’s on their right wrist and switch it to their left wrist. The hypothesis by the group running the experiment is that this creates an awareness about someone is doing and urges them to stop. The...
Likes
From what I’ve seen over the past few days, when one of Tumblr’s founders mark on one of your posts that they “Like” it, it seems to be a way of bookmarking your post for later discussion or reblogging. Likes will probably be rolled out in the next month or two as they get all of the odds and ends straightened out but for now, Likes seem to be a simple bookmarking tool for...
Tumblr Strategy
I began using Tumblr back in April and since then I’ve noticed some obvious strategies if you’re a tumblr trying to get reblogs, make the Radar/Tumblr Explore, and gain the maximum amount of followers. There is obviously the Obama/Chuck Palahniuk/Cute Animal/Anti-Palin strategy where every user and their mother jumps on your post for a reblog because you’re just that cool....
iPhone firmware 2.2 will download podcasts right... →
A tipster shared with us some screenshots of the new firmware, including what appears to be the ability to download podcasts directly to your iPhone (and presumably your iPod touch).
Monday Night Scary Movies
On the reel tonight: 1. The Strangers 2. The Orphanage
Pete Yorn - Dancing In The Dark (Acoustic) This... 
State Radio - Gunship Politico ‘Cause he... 1 tag
RetroInternet 15
I’m in favor of a tech throw-back day. Just for one day everyone has to switch to a cell phone with a black and white screen with no camera, possibly no text messaging too. We’ll have to downgrade to dial-up Internet and shut off our DVRs and our iPods. Our parents would be right at home, back in the dark and we would be in tech-hell for 24 hours. It would be a fun experiment just to...
Meme - Weirdest thing that has been in your pocket...
This is a little bit tougher than the usual meme, you’ve gotta think backwards and you’ve gotta think hard. Weirdest thing that’s been in my pocket? An orange. Have at it, Tumblr.
danhacker: [DeVotchKa -How it ends] I heard about... 
Rolling Stone
I picked up the new, smaller version of Rolling Stone yesterday at a convenience store and boy was it disappointing. My heart dropped a little. The big Rolling Stone was iconic. It was the welcomed misfit in any magazine stack. Now it fits right in. You don’t mess with a 40+ year old cultural icon. Rolling Stone has always been oversized, why change that now?
Gary Jules - Mad World Such a depressing but... Birthday
It’s my 19th birthday today and I’m going to celebrate by going to see Ben Harper play, a concert hosted by Zach Braff.
I Just Voted
Hey Tumblr, guess who I voted for? (Hint: It wasn’t the guy running with the chick played by Tina Fey on SNL) I’m proud to cast my first ever vote for President in such an historic election. gObama!
Upper Melinda
It’s almost Halloween and I haven’t seen any scary stories on Tumblr. Here’s a local one: Back in Maryland a few minutes from my house is the grave if Upper Melinda. Melinda was a witch that taunted the people of Reisterstown in the 1800’s. She was deemed a witch and after she was hanged, she was cut in two. Before she was hanged though she placed a curse on Reisterstown...
Who's hotter? Adriana Lima or Marisa Miller?... →
We had this debate today throughout the whole floor. Adriana Lima won but I think that’s absolute blasphemy. Muppetpants will agree with me, Marisa Miller is just plain ballin’.
Tom Petty - American Girl You love it. 
The right man for the job
If the past few days have taught me one thing, it’s that Senator Obama is the right man for the job. It has nothing to do with policies or experience, white or black, old or young. It has to do with the fact that Barack Obama pays attention to the world outside of politics. Obama plays fantasy football and pays attention of Saturday Night Live. A politician being connected to the real...
Meme - One song to last you forever
If you had to pick one song and only one song to listen to listen to for the rest of your life, what would it be? Mine would be Less Than Jake’s “Look What Happened” Your go.
Less Than Jake - Overrated (Everything Is)...