Mar 09, 2004

No More Stingy RSS!

I've just made a minor hack to the "Seemore" plugin I'm running to allow RSS feeds to be the full text of the article, rather than resorting to the "see more" link that the rest of my site uses.

"See more" is useful for keeping the index clean and letting casual browsers see the headlines, but for those reading via aggregators, having to click for the full text sorta defeats the purpose.

Let me know if my rambles are too long for your aggregators and/or friends pages, and I'll consider turning the seemore links back on.

2:19 pm | permalink | /technology/web/blog | 0 writebacks |

Since When Does LJ Syndicate?

Awesome - you can now add me as an LiveJournal friend:

Add glitchnyc.com to your friends list on LiveJournal.

Looks like they picked up my RSS feed somehow. Cool. Thanks to whomever did the grunt work!

3:53 am | permalink | /technology/web/blog | 3 writebacks |

Invader Zim Goodies of DOOM!

Ok - I swear this is the last link for tonight. While looking for the Zim quote in the last article (deja vu?), I found this awesome site, which has this neato mini-comic by Jhonen himself, and announces that the Invader Zim DVD is out on May 11th. Whoo!!!

I love the moose on the first page, with the arrow pointing to it that just says "FLOATIN'!!".

3:29 am | permalink | /technology/tv | 0 writebacks |

Temporal Anomalies in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

As seems to be the pattern lately, I've stumbled upon one of the diamonds in the rough of the net while searching for something completely different. All I wanted was the correct quote for my last article, and ended at a site which, apparently, takes apart every sci-fi movie dealing with time travel and discusses the temporal implications of it's characters.

The fact that it tackles Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is simply awesome. This is one of the movies that's so far out of whack that it's obviously meant to be tongue in cheek, but I certainly spent many an adolescent night giving myself headaches thinking about the infinite time loop represented by Rufus coming back to make sure they succeed in the first movie.

Gir, from Invader Zim wraps it up pretty nicely:

"Wait, if you destroyed Dib in the past, then he won't ever be your enemy, then you won't have to send a robot back to destroy him, and then he will be your enemy so you will have to send a robot back-" *GIR's head explodes*

2:06 am | permalink | /technology/web | 0 writebacks |

The 16 Weeks: One Down.

If there's one thing most people can agree upon, it's the general perception that time speeds up as you grow older. When you're 15 and have 2 years left of high school, that feels like an eternity; like something insurmountable. 8 years later, you're out of college, settled into your job, and it feels like the blink of an eye.

Aside from finding this accelerating spiral of time terrifying due to my irrationally intense fear of being old and out of touch, I have, occasionally, found the time-acceleration trick very useful. It's like that final scene in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," where they don't yet know how to play guitar. I'll explain.

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1:29 am | permalink | /life | 0 writebacks |