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Mother Jones! Again!

Holy Shit! Mother Jones [motherjones.com] finally realized Singapore is a country! For the past 4 years I’ve been without Mother Jones because whoever does the online ordering system did not include Singapore in the list of countries you could choose for your address. I tried a few times to do a fax order, but their fax number does not pick up outside of office hours… And it’s not worth my time to go somewhere to fax in an order in the middle of my night. Anyway, I just noticed the MoJo did a site overhaul so I thought I’d check and low-and-behold MoJo found out about Singapore! So 4-8 weeks till I get some “smart, fearless journalism.”

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Anomaly

beggs Flickr stats overview for Dec 14, 2009

873 views is, obviously, well above my daily average on Flickr [flickr.com]… I don’t know what happened. Detailed stats for the 10th don’t shed any more light:

beggs Flickr stats details for Dec 10, 2009

No photo had more than 10 views and 94% of views were referrals from Flickr. I thought maybe a photo got ‘explored’ or used by a sight like Yahoo for the front page. But no image had more than 10 views. My Paris set did have 106 views:

beggs Flickr stats referrers for Dec 10, 2009

It’s a mystery. Most likely, never to be solved.

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Dan Chung

Attending the Canon EOS Experience event. Dan Chung speaking this morning. check out his videos, made on SLRs over at Vimeo [vimeo.com].

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Don beggs or Farmer beggs?

Apparently FarmVille [facebook.com] is like crack [slashdot.org]. But beggs Facebook stream is more clogged with invites to Mafia Wars [facebook.com] than found black sheep. beggs thinks this says something about his friends… beggs will stop talking in the third person now.

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Goat Titty Beer

Or, why the Vikings were willing to die:

Goat Titty Beer

From the über useful “20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer” [theoatmeal.com]. I guess the Viking reign of terror in northern Europe can be lumped in with the crazy guys who think they are getting 72 virgins. Really, it’s too bad they can’t drink alcohol, ’cause they’re going to need an endless supply of beer to deal with 72 non-virgin girlfriends after they have their fun with them.