Tech Central Station (Re: WordPress, Et Al.)
Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Gavin M.
We’ve had some WordPress issues this evening, such that the spamulator has been telling everyone (including us) that they’re banned from the site.
Well, nobody is banned from the site (not even a certain fake rabbi of tireless aspect), and in fact we banned the spamulator!
Um, I suppose if anyone reading this actually is spam, please go away and do not be spam here.
Otherwise, this is totally everyone’s chance to be all ‘XXX Cialis’ and ‘Free Ringtones’ in comments, if you’ve been wanting to express something of that nature — or to post nine links in a row with no text but “Heh,” or “Indeed,” as certain people seem so successfully to do elsewhere.
Ah ha. Soon as I posted something @ Fire Megan McArdle about your troubles, it cleared up. No, don’t thank me.
testing testing, i am not the enemy, just a lame commenter (who has imbibed port and beer this evening due to extensive infliction on self by human shitheads of enormous proportions. plus FDL SUCKS HARDBOILED EGGZ and I refuse to go there.
Second!!
yay!!!!!!!! a lefty blog that works + no bureaucracy.
I hate George Bush and “frist” commenters.
Speaking of FDL, what is the consensus (if any, & really, “we” are all such free thinkers I’d be disappointed were there one) about TBogg defecting there? I mean, I hope he’s getting some money, ’cause they sho nuff have a lot of adverts there, but…
Looks like the left coast, both Her Majesty’s & King George’s, are the only ones awake. Hello, Antipodeans? Euros?
Hi Jane!
Oh no! The spam filter is off? I shudder to think about all the trolls who will show up and ruin the usual weighty discourse we find here.
Oh, for any of you trolls and spammers who don’t usually frequent this site, a regular visitor here who used to be the Nigerian Oli Minister has in his possession THE SUM OF $210,000,000 (TWO HUNDERED AND TEM MILLION) DOLLAES AMERICAN CURRENCEY). If anyone is willing to aloow him to transfer said sum into there account you will be allowed to keep a 10 percent commission (19 MILLION DOLLARS) for you kind support for this currency transaction. Just post your bank, account number, and any passwords and codes needed to access said account, and we commentators here at Sadly, No! will take care of the rest!
Actually for the moment, tbogg.firedoglake.com seems to be out of commission (though my RSS feed indicates that he had posted a couple items).
PRESIDENT
FAX 234-1-7596216
DEAR SIR,
PRESIDENT/CEOREQUEST FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION/ASSISTANCE
MAY I CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE TO OPEN THIS BUSINESS DISCUSSION BY A
FORMAL MISSIVE OF THIS GENRE. IT IS PERTINENT THAT BUSINESS OF THIS
SOLEMN MAGNITUDE SHOULD HAVE COMMENCED PROPERLY WITH A FORMAL MEETING OF
YOU AND US TO ENABLE US “KNOW” OURSELVES, IYKWIM, HAVE A FORE KNOWLEDGE
OF THE NATURE OF THE BUSINESS, DISCUSS AND ACQUAINT OURSELVES WITH
THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF PARTIES CONCERNED, AND
APPROPRIATE SHARES ACCORDINGLY AND STUFF. HOWEVER, FOR TIME FACTOR,
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PERSONALITY OF PEOPLE INVOLVED HERE IN KIBONIA,
WE CHOSE THIS APPROACH FOR THE REMITTANCE OF FIFTEEN MILLION, FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS (US$15.5M), PLEASE BEAR WITH US FOR
MAKING THE INITIAL CONTACT THROUGH E-MAIL. BUT MY PARTNERS ARE
INSISTING FOR A MEETING INORDER NOT TO FALL INTO A WRONG HAND AGAIN.
WE ARE TOTALLY NOT CROOKS, HONEST, ASIDE FROM HOW WE EMBEZZELED ALL
THAT MONEY, BUT WE ASSURE YOU MOST SOLEMNLY AND CONFIDENTIALLY THAT
WE WILL BE HONEST AND OVERBOARD IN ALL OUR DEALINGS CONCERNING YOUR
OWN AUGUST PERSONAGE, HONEST INJUN.
WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL PARTY FOR ANALYSIS AND MATERIAL
OF THE MINISTRY OF BACON.B THIS COMMITTEE IS PRINCIPALLY CONCERNED
WITH CONTRACT APPRAISAL AND THE APPROVAL OF CONTRACTS IN ORDER OF
PRIORITIES AS REGARDS CAPITAL PROJECTS OF THE PAST MILITARY
GOVERNMENT OF KIBONIA WITH OUR POSITIONS WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY
SECURED FOR OURSELVES THE SUM OF TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND CANADIAN “DOLLARS” (CND$20.5M). THE AMOUNT WAS ACCUMULATED
THROUGH UNDECLARED WINDFALL SALES OF CRUDE LARD DURING THE GULF WAR,
AND ALSO EMBEZZLED SORT OF.
HENCE TOGETHER WITH SOME OF THE TOP OFFICIALS OF THE KIBONIAN
NATIONAL BACON CORPORATION, THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF SKIMMING AND
THE CENTRAL BANK OF KIBONIA. WE PLAN TO TRANSFER THIS AMOUNT OF
MONEY FIFTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND CANUCKISTANI PESOS (CND@50.5M)
INTO AN OVERSEAS ACCOUNT BY AWARDING A NON EXISTING CONTRACT FROM MY
MINISTRY. TO THIS EFFECT I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR
YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS MATTER WHICH I AM NOW DISCUSSING AT THIS TIME.
SORRY ABOUT THE ALL CAPS IT DOES IT AUTOMATICALLY.
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU SIR, IS TO PROVIDE A VERY VITAL ACCOUNT IN WHICH
THE FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFERED. MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE AGREED TO
COMPENSATE THE OWNER OF THE ACCOUNT USED FOR THIS TRANSACTION WITH
30% OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT REMITTED. WE SHALL KEEP 80% AND REMAINING 10%
RESERVED FOR BRIBES, GRAFT, BOOZE, WHORES AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THIS ADDS UP TO 120%. YOU DON’T NEED TO WORRY
ABOUT THAT, AS WE ARE USING GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES
AS ASSURED BY OUR INDEPENDENT AUDITORS AT THE KIBONIAN MINISTRY OF FRAUD.
IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT LAST TWO YEARS A SIMILAR TRANSACTION
WAS CARRIED OUT WITH ONE MR. BEABLE VAN POLASM, THE PRESIDENT OF
BEABLE INDUSTRIES MIND CONTROL AND TRADING CORPORATION AT NUMBER 123
FAKE STREET, 28TH FLQQR, NEW YORK 10022 WITH TELEPHONE NUMBER (212)
555-7788 AND EMAIL ADDRESS ANONYMOUS AT NOSPAM.ORG. AFTER THE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN BOTH PARTNERS IN WHICH HE WAS TO TAKE 40% OF THE MONEY WHILE
THE REMAINING 80% FOR US. WITH ALL THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS SIGNED THE
MONEY WAS DULY TRANSFERRED INTO HIS ACOCUNT ONLY TO BE DISAPPOINTED
ON OUR ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK, THAT “CATS” WAS NO LONGER RUNNING, AND PLUS
WE WERE RELIABLY INFORMED THAT MR. BEABLE VAN POLASM WAS NO LONGER ON
THAT ADDRESS WHILE HIS TELEPHONE AND EMAIL THINGIES HAVE BEEN REALLOCATED
TO SOMEBODY ELSE THAT IS HOW WE LOST US$9M TO BEABLE VAN POLASM.
THAT FUCKER.
THIS TIME AROUND WE NEED A MORE RELIABE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON, A
REPUTABLE COMPANY TO DO BUSINESS WITH HENCE THIS LETTER TO YOU, SO,
IF YOU CAN PROVE YOURSELF TO BE TRUSTED AND INTERESTED IN THIS DEAL
THEN WE ARE PREPARED TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU. WHAT WE WANT FROM YOU
IS THE ASSURANCE THAT YOU WILL LET US HAVE OUR SHARE IF THE INFLATED
AMOUNT OF SEVENTY BAZILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND CONFEDERATE QUATLQQS
(Q70.5BZ) IS TRANSFERRED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. IF THIS PROPOSAL SATISFIES
YOU, THEN REPLY TO THIS MAIL URGENTLY SO THAT WE CAN NEGOTIATE THE
STUFF AND JUNK INVOLVED.
PLEASE SIR, KINDLY TREAT AS VERY URGENT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL,
I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE. FOR US.
I LQQK FORWARD TO YOUR URGENT REPLY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPECTED
URGENT CO-OPERATION AND GOD BLESS YOU.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW URGENTLY IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED, SO THAT WE CAN
URGENTLY BEGIN TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER PARTNER.
YOURS TRULY,
MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY OLUSEGUN
DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY OF WIRE FRAUD
LAGOS, NIGERIA
MB, if I can type without slurring me words, I’m disappointed in the move and wish TBogg had “consulted” his readership – or polled us or whatever- in advance of the move. I believe that’s called “customer service” – something the Bogg is intimately familiar with.
FDL is a technical nightmare. The login works intermittently – hasn’t worked for me at all yet – the pages load slowly and sometimes not at all, the “read more” for every post, no matter how brief, is lame, and the “gated community” suburban feel sux. Certainly FDL is going to profit with Bogg on board, but he could have made money on his own independent domain if he’d wanted to. He’s got the hits. He’s famous. Wolcott links to him for Christ sakes.
It’s just not the same. (not that it has to be the same, eggzactly, but surely the move could have and should have been a step up in design and functionality. Instead he picked lowest common denominator. Incredibly, I have some FDL tech person asking me if I have cookies turned on and querying me about my client, my box, my cable, etc. In other words, it’s not their site, it’s me. I’m behind the times. Fuck that.
I’ve loved the Bogg, think he’s brilliant and more than deserving of income for blogging but he’d be better suited in a domain like SN where democracy lives and breathes. If anyone could charge admission it’s the SN writers. (I would pay a subscription fee if I had to) – and not in that liberal suburban wasteland where people shout “Frist!” in comments.
I’m disappointed in TBogg lite. I won’t be visiting much anymore.
HELLO, my name is AURLA SHUB* and I’m the wife of the current president of the United states.
Due certain, unexplainable circumstances my husband and I will be forced to flee to a country which has no extradition treaty with the United States (and a large army to protect us from legal kidnapping attempts) in the near future.
We are in dire need of a friend who can help us transfer some of our ammassed wealth (OVER 2 TRILLION DOLLARS IS US CURRENCY( to that country – an associate recommended you.
As reward for your cooperation we would give you 10% of the transfer – however, the CIA is conspiring against us (they dare to leak NIEs which contain actual, CORRECT information, imagine that!), so extreme caution is necessary.
My freidns reocmmended me to ask your for money to determine your trustworthyness, however, we decided that asking you to swear that my husband is the greatest president ever would be a far better test.
Sincerly awaiting your replay,
AURLA SHUB*
*Name changed to protect the guilty.
Viagra, N1g3r14.
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[Shit, forget it. It’s too hard to remember what spam I get].
Speaking of FDL, what is the consensus (if any, & really, “we” are all such free thinkers I’d be disappointed were there one) about TBogg defecting there?
The consensus in the last regular tbogg thread seems to be grudging acceptance of the change, congratulations and plans to register over at FDL. But a waaahmbulance was also seen pulling up to collect the most traumatized commenters. How dare he?
lawnguylander, here is what i get
# The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
# If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
connection. [my connection is fine]
# If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. [uhuh……….]
At least one antipodean back from the pub now and pleased to see that the podeans are working again.
Members of the Mid North Freemasons Lodge are accepting applications!
gmail spam
I was a bit disappointed that Jane didn’t ask one of us to do it, just for the sake of being asked to do things and so forth, but I did a couple of posts there awhile back, and the readership is really focused on its own interests. They’re not snark-hostile, but kind of indifferent to the thing that I’m really into, which is how rudeness and insight can sometimes blend into kritik, can sometimes reveal things in a sentence or two that straight prose might need pages to explain.
I mean, it’s not that I think every post, or every third or fifth post, accomplishes something like that, but I think every now and then things will accidentally-on-purpose come together, and there’ll be something that’s really worth reading.
But they’re too literal for that at FDL — they don’t want to be surprised or astonished, per se. I don’t know how TBogg will work out over there, but if he does the same great, light-handed stuff he’s been doing, some FDLers will get it and some will just be like, “Why are you making fun of people?”
Which, you know, is one of those questions that, if you have to ask, no answer will explain it…
jeezus, gavin, i hope she never asks and you never accept.
i’m heading straight to paypal now to make a donation to sadlyno. please please please…never go there. we’ll donate.
Yeah, just to weigh in here for eternity, FDL doth truly suck. I mean, who the fuck did Trex insult? That mattered?
And that site design is moronic. Such terrible judgment makes me vaguely uneasy. These are the brains of the progressive blogospere, right?
I had a snarky post all done up about the “Dems hate the military”, thread, too. It involved the British Navy taking back Massachusetts’s.
Well, I’ve had no trouble w/ FugginDonkeyLibs, other than their preview not working, but the new set-up is ugly, & harder to navigate. I s’pect/hope that the usual gang of idiots there will not be relating their gardening experiences & wishing each other “g’morning, nighty-night,” etc., on Bogg’s comments.
Apparently TRex has struck out on his own (Izzat why they took Bogg on?) & can be reached here. I provide that only because he commented a few back & had an invalid URL.
And now I must go to sleep. Good night, all.
Dear Tech Central Station WordPress Et. Al. Folk:
I am unable to register for commenting. I think my browser is defective. Can someone from tech support contact me. Thanks.
Where’s all the spam? My favorite spam came from Neil Diamond.
Also: But they’re too literal for that at FDL.
Exactly. And literalmindedness (real word?) is the problem w/ so many of the authoritarian mind set, as well.
Where’s my Surber photo dammitt !!!!
My Cheeto stained hand and Jenna are NOT gettin’ it done !
lately i’ve been getting so much dirt – as an insider – on the canuckistanian federal gov’t i’m tempted to report finds to the auditor-general but don’t trust the whistleblower legislation to protect me. (in fact, i know it wouldn’t.)
if the taxpayer knew how their money was being abused by willfully incomptetent asswipes they’d scream blue murder.
it boggles the mind…and to think the bush administration is a hundred times worse makes me want to throw up.
ack, being drunk is dangerous.
.deednI !heH
Ok, Ok, I got one…
Don Lapre, Carelton Sheets and Kevin Trudeau walk into a bar…
heh heh heh indeed
the planet is spiralling
species are dying
mediocre unconscious fucked up humans continue to “manage” things
i find myself rebelling at work. my boss throws up her hands at my inability to compromise.
my boss is a fucked up inadequately trained bitch looking at ladder rungs above where she stands.
i find myself sipping a glass or two of wine after work to cope.
i see abuses of federal funds. what to do? report and risk losing my job…because whistleblowers aren’t protected. geezus, doctors aren’t supported, what chance do i have?
i’m increasingly disillusioned by the sellouts.
wanna do what’s in my heart and wonder how i would survive. maybe i should take the risk.
hate humanity. depend on it. weep. i no longer believe in god.
Oh, and re: Tbogg/FDL – to me it’s more Van Hagar than Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. It works, I guess, but it’s not an improvement, in my view.
It’s a bit like finding out that a great local restaurant has been purchased by General Mills and will be relocating the the Mall. I hope he does well there but it won’t be the same.
I was the first journalist to receive that 304 message.
You were ‘this close’ to reading an insightful post about your twisted liberal censorship on some other third rate blog.
Oh, and Tbogg and that Hamersh chick? Had ’em both, they ain’t that great.
They’re not snark-hostile, but kind of indifferent to the thing that I’m really into, which is how rudeness and insight can sometimes blend into kritik, can sometimes reveal things in a sentence or two that straight prose might need pages to explain.
Is it really rudeness, though? The posts with the maximum zaz, IMO, are the ones where you take some fatuous argument or self-serving delusion and stip it all the way down to the bare metal– the moral flaw, the logical fallacy– then present it back with a childlike “gee whiz” delivery that renders absurd every idea and argument built upon that flaw. When it works, its weapons-grade ridicule; hilarious and utterly withering without seeming mean-spirited.
FireDogLake ?
Is it a blog or a haiku?
FDL’s new incarnation is bollocks, and TBogg’s departure there is to be regretted, at least while they’re still dealing with a hacked-up backend that pisses over a lot of the good stuff (but, y’know, ADS! ADS!)
Funny how teh Sadly! can be (I think) on WP and not teh suckass.
Anyway, I always thought that Gavin, Roy and TBogg had lots in common, just in terms of their take on pol-crit-funny. And HTML Mencken needs a frigging book deal already.
The posts with the maximum zaz, IMO, are the ones where you take some fatuous argument or self-serving delusion and stip it all the way down to the bare metal
I think the essence of S,N! is the fundamental truism that the heart of conservatism isn’t to be found in the polish but in the spit. It isn’t just that you can find atrocious columnists on TownHall and RenewAmerica and so on; it’s that TownHall and RenewAmerica exist to publish these people as columnists.
Oh, and the church sign lyrics are just perfect. A perfect pop song, too.
FDL isn’t bad, they’re just different. They’ve done some fabulous blow-by-blow coverage on some of the juicier scandals to have plagued this administration.
Some people are just more serious. I guess it’s natural for parts of humanity to outgrow the ability to laugh at the occasional fart joke. I’m just glad I’m not one of them.
That having to click to read each post aspect of the new tbogg sucks sweaty, hairy donkey balls. I cannot emphasize this enough. I liked the almost retro, stripped down feel of his old place.
I don’t mind FDL, I just…. one of the things I like about that type so common here, that uses humor to survive knowing too well the injustice at the heart of our system, is that it’s the sign of a big, fast moving brain. And I like those. FDL types get to the right place, but it takes them a while and there’s lots of detours and antiquing and genteel humor that elicits the occasional mild chuckle while helping your digestion. It’s what NPR was a decade ago, sort of.
Now I stop letting the cold mess with my sleep patterns and go to bed.
*the type so common here
nite/morning
Blow by blow coverage on the administration…how hard is that to do? The Daily Show has proven time and time again that the Bush administration writes the scripts.
a blog that is technically deficient (pages don’t load, can’t log in, have to log in to comment) isn’t worth bothering with and downgrading my standards gets harder the older i get.
whatever floats your boat i guess.
i see abuses of federal funds. what to do? report and risk losing my job…because whistleblowers aren’t protected. geezus, doctors aren’t supported, what chance do i have?
Jeez, Lesley. I’m really sorry to hear that you are in that kind of position at work. I hate having conflict with my bosses- the last time I did, the only way it was ever resolved was when the boss in question left.
I don’t know that I can say what you should do. Is there someone else in the power structure over there that you could talk with and who would not rat you out?
Damn, Gavin. That ‘Principia Wingnuttia’ post was fucking awesome!
Lesley:
a google of “qui tam Canada” came up with some directories, so there concept of qui tam (whistleblowers getting cut of a settlement – a way to compensate whistleblowers for becoming unemployable) exists there.
It is probably not a good idea to make a martyr of yourself. However, you may want to call your province’s bar association so you can can have a privileged conversation with a lawyer. It may be informative, and is cheaper than therapy.
And for whoever came up with the Laura Bush 401 letter: Brilliant! I am so stealing that…
atheist, the abuse is pervasive and systemic. it’s very difficult to fight. people who are outspoken/ask questions are shunned.
my boss, like many others, is a brown noser. she tends to favour and reward people who never question decisions. two of the people she favours do virtually no work and somehow manage to maintain a full time income. One of them should be on disability because he achieves, maybe, ten minutes of work a week. The rest of the time he farts around doing dick all.
There are three of us who are fed up with the bullshit but unsure of what to do.
One possibility is to write anonymously to the auditor-general of canada who operates independently of the gov’t. (She’s experienced her fair share of being tarred and feathered for taking higher ups on. In every case the public has backed her but you can imagine the strain.)
I know of two senior people who have had their jobs threatened. One – a medical doctor who exposed corruption by a pharmaceutical company – lost her job for not “co-operating” in a health experiment that irreparably harmed patients, and a senior environmental scientist was fired by a cabinet minister and then reinstated after he went public.
It’s like early days with the Bush administration up here.
Sounds like a case for leaving a packet of papers in a REAL GOOD reporter’s mailbox to me.
ahem…get a load of this example
just as you folks are – sensibly – ready to send Bush to the trashbin where he belongs, we’re electing and being lead by similar idiots.
Jillian said,
December 6, 2007 at 12:36
FDL isn’t bad, they’re just different. They’ve done some fabulous blow-by-blow coverage on some of the juicier scandals to have plagued this administration.
I’m with Jillian (and a long time FDL and S,N! common tater, as well).
P.S. FDL seems to be working fine this A.M.
The fact is, everything liberals post is spam because it is identicle talking points from DNC headquarters about hating America. This will not fly here in the Heartland. We support Bush, Our Troops, USA and God.
Oh, thank goodness! I promised to apologize for having worked on “Atlas Shrugs” again even. I mean, I know I’m “mischievous”, but the “illegal acts” thing? I’m so retarded about computers, that was giving me WAY too much credit.
“Lesley said,
December 6, 2007 at 10:52
the planet is spiralling
species are dying”
Aww, don’t get so down yet, Lesley, I bet you haven’t even read about any of this yet;) Yes, I am this much of a geek. Tried to warn everyone.
(and no, I don’t know how to quote in here, so sorry)
The posts with the maximum zaz
Zaz! Kapowza! Zork!
However you say it, it’s mazzoula in the bank . . .
I badly needed to run SpyBot anyway.
FDL? I read ’em when I was stumping for Lamont. A more earnest group of Lieberman-haters you will not find on the intertron. I also go there everytime one of the national women’s rights organization endorses a knuckle-dragging neandrethal. But the idignation wears off quickly. Jane’s a cute as a button, too, but, yes, the seriousity does get to be a bit of bludgeon.
Hey, if you guys are broke, you should open up a South American blog — Tristamente, No! You could probably pull some urban sarcasm out of Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
That’s what I was going to post last night. “Tristamente, No!” has been giving me the giggles for 12 hours now.
Spaceman Spiff has a blog? And a cross-license with Infocom?
Hi. Need any Viagra? Pain meds? Wanna make lots of money with no effort?
I’m here if you need me – just holler, OK?
Thx
PS – Yeah, I’ve registered my disappointment re: TBogg’s move as well. I did manage to move a few bottles of Viagra there, though.
Phew! I was hoping a too-enthusiastic firewall was the problem. I got the message and thought WTF? The only thing we don’t do to keep cooties off this computer is make it wear a condom.
Sorry, I had you confused with John Cole for a minute. We’re straight now and you shouldn’t have any further “technical difficulties” until the next Eagles game. Which clearly won’t be this season. Bwahahahahaha!
Wah, Lesley, I’m sorry about your job situation. I’m having job anxiety, too, but different – my boss is so detached and incompetent that I think the Powers That Be are going to sideline her and bring in someone else over her. Which is fine, but what does that do to the rest of us who report to her?
Oh, well. At least I could get my penis enlarged.
I know I’m going to get elfed myself and all, but I just can’t stop elfing people all of the sudden. See what happens when I can’t comment here for just a few short hours? I end up doing this.
I also highly recommend doing this yourselves to others. It’s time to make your favorite web personalities get down and boogie, baby.
Ih. Hendeed.
Wait–how does it go again?
I’ll put in a plug for a story about the “real” Santa. The psychedelic mushroom usin’, shaman, ex-Viking:
http://www.beforesanta.blogspot.com/
Damn, I reformated for nothing.
BUY NEW SWISS RINGTONE PENIS! MEN WITH TINY WATCHES ARE BARGAIN DRUGS! GUARANTE! NO GLOT CLOM FLIDAY!
I don’t comment a lot at TBogg’s site, so the change really doesn’t bother me. I’ll still go to read his posts. Probably won’t read the comments as much.
Seems to me like FDL is much more of an activist website. They do fundraising. They liveblog Congressional hearings. They wage phone campaigns to plead with Democrats to not allow the most unpopular President ever to come in our collective mouths again. In a lot of ways it’s like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, but they actually do good things. They probably have bake sales for earnest, well-intentioned, progressive candidates.
FDL may talk snark, but they don’t really live it, while the snark sites I follow (SN!, TBogg, WhiskeyFire, Alicublog) don’t do activism. It’s a different mindset. They’re a “gated community”, we’re more of a “meth lab”.
As far as the FDL “comment culture”, SamFromUtah pretty much nails it.
I also highly recommend doing this yourselves to others. It’s time to make your favorite web personalities get down and boogie, baby.
Yes, I already elfed Christopher Hitchens and Pat Condell.
Wow, glad to hear that’s cleared up.
I mean, I might not leave the most intelligent comments all the time, but I really didn’t consider them multiple malicious assaults.
Except for the ones concerning Ruppert and the Moran. Wankers.
Incontentia Buttocks–
So how is ol’ Biggus Dickus?
Has he still got that terrible lisp?
I loved FDL for very different reasons than I love SN. Their new design truly blows in so very many ways that I find myself not going there anymore. Not a boycott, just that it’s difficult and unpleasant to use now. I couldn’t get TBogg’s new digs there to work at all, but if he’s following the same layout, I’ll very much miss him, too.
*sigh*
As far as the FDL “comment culture”, SamFromUtah pretty much nails it.
Aw, shucks. ‘Twarn’t nothin’.
Ventured back into the murky waters of FDL after Tbogg split there for the first time in a while.
Yikes.
That new site design sucks.
Those people have no sense of humor.
Even the snarky threads turn all moralistic and judgemental.
How’s a guy whose stock-in-trade is snark gonna survive?
FDL–For Dreary Lugubriousness.
comsympinko – megadittoes, pretty much.
Though it looks like the TBogg threads after that big long one have settled down into something more like at the old site. We’ll see what happens.
Plus Mrs. Bogg has been in the comments sections for his stuff, and that’s some kind of plus. I didn’t read the comments at his old site too heavily, but I don’t remember seeing her there.
I’m cautiously optimistic.
Assuming the problem was on my end, last night I updated my virus definitions and ran a check on my hard drive. After that finished, I checked the Sadly, No! Facebook page, saw mikey’s message, and realized the problem wasn’t on my end. Rather, it appears the Sadly, No! hamsters had ran off to Firedoglake.
For all you TBogg readers annoyed by “Read more”: Ignore this if you’ve already done it, but the TBogg at FDL RSS feed gives the entire posts. At least it does in Google Reader. And to those who do make the pilgrimage from TB Haloscan to the TB at Firedoglake comments land, maybe you could put a Saul-like, “Nature calls” variation on the “I’m off to boil water”/”Back after a cup of coffee” line.
Like Lesley, I would happily pay a subscription for this site.
I just watched a leading candidate for the nation’s highest elected office spray a national audience with a disjointed stream of vaguely related, focus-grouped religious platitudes the sum of which was “the separation of church and state has a quaint appeal but you ain’t even really an American unless you believe in (my) god.”
If you all will excuse me, I’m off to put a cold rag on my forehead and lie down for a year or two.
We support Bush, Our Troops, USA and God.
Not that God needs your support, but shouldn’t the list be reversed?
Heartland was cancelled a couple of months ago. Not a minute too soon if you ask me.
Did someone post a photo of W Thomas Smith Jr again?
They wage phone campaigns to plead with Democrats
One must imagine Sisyphos happy. – Albert Camus
Seems to me like FDL is much more of an activist website.
Thank God Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson weren’t bloggers.
I once got a request from a Nigerian spammer for my phone number. I gave him the White House Switchboard. Figured he’d get better help there.
kingubu–
It’s all quaint to them:
Separation of church and state
Checks and balances
The Geneva conventions
Congressional authorization for war
Disaster relief
Bridge maintenance
Oversight on petty things like predatory lending and food safety
That’s why it feels like the 1800’s again.
In Tsarist Russia.
kingubu–
It’s all quaint when you’re a winger:
Separation of church and state
Freely elected heads of state
Checks and balances
Congressional authorization for war
The Geneva conventions
Disaster relief
Bridge maintenance
Oversight on trifles like predatory lending and food safety
That’s why it feels like the 1800’s again.
In Tsarist Russia.
Thank God Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson weren’t bloggers.
Ah, but would they have been if they could have been? Discuss.
FGFM, hard to resist, eh?
I should elf this guy Rob Zins who runs an anti-Catholic ministry and likes to fight with me in email. He just asked for my real address so he could send me a free book (yeah, right), so I gave him my blog address instead. Now he’s REALLY going to condemn me to hell….LOL….this is going to be funny.
As for everyone else, that’s just going to be my saying of the month, “Go elf yourself!”
P.S. FDL seems to be working fine this A.M.
the site’s not working for me at all. I can read Tbogg intermittently but can’t log in. no other blogs on that site load for me. their “press secretary” emailed me asking about my box, my ISP, and whether I had cookies turned on. *snort*. I tried to re-register but that page won’t load either. everything else on the net works for me so it can’t be my client. i even tried turning off my firewall for two minutes. it made no difference.
also, numerous people are over at the old TBogg voicing similar complaints with the site.
I like pie
I’m having job anxiety, too, but different – my boss is so detached and incompetent that I think the Powers That Be are going to sideline her and bring in someone else over her.
I call you lucky. My boss’s bosses are even more idiotic than she is.
Shit rises to the top in my org. The managers of economists and scientists used to be economists and scientists. Now they are MBAs. I once contemplated a career in management and quickly changed my mind when I realized the extent to which I’d have to compromise my integrity (and spout Dilbert slogans).
I’m seriously hung over this morning. Time for some eggs and veggie sausage! 🙂
their “press secretary” emailed me
Who says Firedoglake doesn’t get the funny? A press secretary for a blog—now that’s funny. What other positions do they have there?
Seems to me like FDL is much more of an activist website. They do fundraising. They liveblog Congressional hearings. They wage phone campaigns to plead with Democrats to not allow the most unpopular President ever to come in our collective mouths again. In a lot of ways it’s like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, but they actually do good things. They probably have bake sales for earnest, well-intentioned, progressive candidates.
This holds no appeal to me whatsoever. I have about as much respect for the gormless Dems as I do the Republicans.
Joseph OLUSEGUN: that sounds legit, you should send them your bank pin number.
I think this place is worth paying for but I’d hate to see a subscription fee because I think that would drive away regular commenters I’d miss and prevent new funny people from discovering the joint. I’d rather just hit the tip jar and hope I’m subsidizing some people who can’t spare the dough.
And that first tbogg comment section at FDL is an interesting study in internet tribalism. A bunch of firepups welcome tbogg but pretty soon tbogg’s commenters start trashing the site and the firepup community for being inane and cliquish. It looks like an effort to maintain their own clique and tell the firepups to stay the fuck out of the tbogg threads which I bet has tbogg feeling psyched. They’re afraid of losing their subculture which is how I’ll feel when Sadly, No gets sucked up by HuffPo one day.
Well, nobody is banned from the site (not even a certain fake rabbi of tireless aspect), and in fact we banned the spamulator!
But then someone’s banned from the site! But no one is banned from the site! But spamulator is banned from the…ERROR! ERROR! FAULTY! FAULTY!
Glenn Greenwald finds the next SN! Boston social event.
(3) The College Republicans at the University of Massachusetts are hosting an event called “All I am Saying is Give War a Chance.” It is devoted to the “costs, necessities, consequences, and benefits of war.” The speaker is grizzled warrior Jonah Goldberg. Is there anything more outright ludicrous than a bunch of combat-avoiding, prime-fighting-age College Republicans and Jonah Goldberg sitting around in Amherst chatting with each other about the Glories and “benefits of war”?
I’m thinking the full Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo treatment, fake beards soaked in ether, mescaline, pineal glands.
..this time our very presence would be an outrage. We would be attending the conference under false pretenses and dealing, from the start, with a crowd that was convened for the stated purpose of putting people like us in jail. We were the Menace—not in disguise, but stone-obvious drug abusers, with a flagrantly cranked-up act that we intended to push all the way to the limit….not to provoke any final, sociological point, and not even a concious mockery*: It was mainly a matter of life-style, a sense of obligation and even duty…
think this place is worth paying for but I’d hate to see a subscription fee because I think that would drive away regular commenters
i agree with this. ads here – in the way dooce.com uses them – wouldn’t bother me. (she’s making six figures from her site with a sprinkling of unobtrusive google ads.)
i donated some money last night. will try to do this regularly.
a different brad nails it: FDL today is NPR 10 years ago. That is, generally reliable information couched in a sort of comfortable Yuppie Liberalism; worthy of Douglas Adam’s damning indictment: “mostly harmless”.
That said, Jane is a smart organizer with an eye for talent who is doing her best to build up a long-term progressive/liberal infrastructure to compete with the Wingnut Welfare patronage system. For that alone she deserves much props.
Oh, and did I miss a memo? TRex isn’t there, anymore? What gives?
I think this place is worth paying for but I’d hate to see a subscription fee because I think that would drive away regular commenters I’d miss and prevent new funny people from discovering the joint.
You’re right about this. I guess the thing to do is put myself on a regular contribution schedule. I am a small-scale internet citizen philanthropist. Hear me transfer funds electronically and anonymously!
From: Sodindo Malinga
Date: Wed Nov 13, 2002 8:54:38 PM US/Eastern
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
Reply-To: sodindo1@netscape.net
0031613777023
HARLEM,
THE NETHERLANDS.
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
(MST’ed by MacTech)
You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally.
(Joel) What? Spam, from a *STRANGER*, nahhh, that *never* happens….
I am Sodindo Malinga,
(Crow) You killed my father, prepare to die…
(Servo) i love that movie, wonder when mr. Malinga will be eaten by R.O.U.S.’s…
the first son of Tawanda Malinga, the most popular black farmer in Zimbabwe who was murdered in the land dispute in my country.
(Joel) [spooky voice] and i an spamming you from beyond the grave…
I got your contact through network online hence I decided to write you. Before the death of my father, he had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US8.6 million (Eight million, Six Hundred thousand United States dollars)
(Joel) [Dr. Evil] Eight MEEELLLIIIOON Dollars….
(Servo) after taxes, a grand total of .25¢…..
in one of the private security company, as he foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe
(Crow) yet he didn’t forsee his own death, hmmmm……
this money was deposited in a box as gem stones to avoid much demurrage from security company.
(Crow) [dopey voice] me like shiny things…..
This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the Farms and establishment of new farms in Swaziland
(Servo) because Switzerland was too far away….
This land problem came when Zimbabwean President Mr. Robert Mugabe introduced a new Land Act Reform, wholly affecting the rich white farmers and some few black farmers,
(Joel) in other words, everyone…
and this resulted to the killing and mob action by Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the society
(Servo) like me, eep epp eep, ack, ecky ecky p’tang…..
In fact a lot of people were killed because of this Land reform Act for which my father was one of the victims.
(Joel) it’s a ghost town now….
It is against this background that, I and my family fled Zimbabwe for fear of our lives and are currently staying in the Netherlands where we are seeking political asylum
(Joel) …and stylish wooden shoes….
and more so have decided to transfer my father’s money to a more reliable foreign account.
(Crow) You know of any?
since the law of Netherlands prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any bank account or to be involved in any financial transaction throughout the territorial zone of Netherlands,
(Crow) as most refugees have no money to speak of anyway….
As the eldest son of my father, I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign account where this money could be transferred without the knowledge of my government who are bent on taking everything we have got. The South African government seems to be playing along with them.
(Joel) ….and the M.I.B., the Reverse Vampires, Major league baseball, the knights who say Ni, and the aliens who are spying on us with their sattelites….
I am faced with the dilemma of moving this amount of money out of South Africa for fear of going through the same experience in future, both countries have similar political history.
(Joel) figures, all politicians are evil anyway….
As a businessman, I am Seeking for a partner who I have to entrust my Future and that of my family in his hands, I must let you know that this transaction is risk free.
(Crow) yeah, totally risk free …. yes it’s riskfree…..
(Servo) and if you believe this, i’ve got some alligator-free swampland in florida for sale, as well as the London Bridge…..
If you accept to assist me and my family, all I want you to do for me, is to make an arrangements with the security company to clear the consignment (funds) from their affiliate office here in the Netherlands
(Joel) as well as clear out the funds in your account…
as i have already given directives for the consignment to be brought to the Netherlands from South Africa. But before then all modalities will have to be put in place like change of ownership to the consignment, And more importantly this money I intend to use for Investment.
(Joel) but…but…you said you were going to *share* it with me…..
(Servo) Joel, do you humans actually *believe* this sort of thing?….
I have two options for you. Firstly you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction. Or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country.
(Crow) or, thirdly, you can ignore this entire message and dump it in the trash, personally i reccomend this route…
Whichever the option you want, feel free to notify me. I have also mapped out 5% of this money for all kinds of expenses incurred in the process of this transaction.
If you do not prefer a partnership I am willing to give you 10% of the money while the remaining 85% will be for my investment in your country.
Contact me with the above telephone number or my E-mail address while I implore you to maintain the absolute secrecy required in this transaction.
(Crow) which is why i’m sending it to *everyone*…
Thanks, GOD BLESS YOU
(Joel) but i didn’t sneeze….
Yours Faithfully,
Sodindo Malinga.
(Crow) You killed my father, prepare to die…
Jane is a smart organizer with an eye for talent who is doing her best to build up a long-term progressive/liberal infrastructure to compete with the Wingnut Welfare patronage system.
Agreed, and that’s what I admire about FDL. I can’t decide if its success is because or in spite of the Zed!-Frist!-Go-Ned-Go!-Jane!-Hope-The-Kid’s-Diarrhea-Is-Better! kaffee klatschitude. I’m an asocial, introverted nerd, so I’m unqualified to judge why socially-motivated things work. I have this sinking feeling that the warm fuzzy (but snarly to the heretics) comment culture is the key to its success.
ENLARGE YOUR PENIS!!!!
I’ve always wanted to post that.
As for FDL, I have nothing against them but also don’t have much in common with them. It’s just generally too fervent and cliqueish for my tastes. TBogg + FDL does seem like an odd fit.
I’m at the point where I’m old enough to see that that’s never going to happen to me. I’ll still be making fart jokes as they’re nailing down the coffin lid.
OT (If there is such a thing in this thread), but does no one monitor wingnut biographies over at wiki?
ENLARGE YOUR PENIS!!!!
Ummm, maybe I’m doing something wrong here, but that just sorta happens on it’s own every now and then…
mikey
I’ll still be making fart jokes as they’re nailing down the coffin lid.
While they’re nailing it down? You know, the first step is recognizing you have a problem.
As for everyone else, that’s just going to be my saying of the month, “Go elf yourself!”
Ann Elfhouse might be coming your way shortly.
TRex has his own place now. Made references to having been too controversial, or offending some humorless, cat-hording commenter or something.
that’s an excellent question, simba…but i’m even more curious why the link tells me that there is no article for “wingnut welfare.” so sad!
Here’s TRex, back in August, commenting on Firedoglake’s comment culture:
But TRex don’t work there no more.
Made references to having been too controversial, or offending some humorless, cat-hording commenter or something.
Would you happen to have a specific link for this, Humor Me?
Sadly, many liberal have no sense of humor. Or, as Frank Zappa said in a Guitar Player interview about guitar playing: “Is it possible to laugh while fucking? I say yes.”
Frist!
Y’know, I keep telling myself to donate regularly here (and at Digby’s and a few other choice sites). A couple of times, I’ve even remembered to do so.
But mostly, the coins fall through the cracks, which is a shame because the aforementioned, plus TBogg and a few others, really do deserve to get enough spare change to pay for cigs, malt liquor, and the occassional treat.
So, I heretofor and as of now do solemly swear to try to do better at remembering to pay for the good stuff, on a regular basis, in an amount that is both reasonable and prudent. You are my witnesses.
Thank you.
I’d give you fuckers money but I’m broke as fuck.
I’m wet and I’m on the net.
The comment threads at FDL used to be much better than they are now. And the belief that TRex drove away more people than he brought is a mistake on the order of New Coke.
SHRINK YOUR PENIS!!!!
I’ve always wanted to post that, too.
Again with the penises. Penis, penis, penis…what’s wrong with you people? There are other naughty things besides the tired old penis.
I remembered it as Richie Reardon from Revere… But it’s been, um, 20 years or so.
ENLARGE YOUR OTHER NAUGHTY THINGS!!!!
I don’t know… it doesn’t have the same zing.
I’m NOT tired. I could go again.
Umm, pretty soon.
Just let me get a sammich first…
ENLARGE YOUR OTHER NAUGHTY THINGS!
sounds like advertising copy written by that Nigerian finance minister guy.
ENLARGE YOUR OTHER NAUGHTY THINGS!!!!
I don’t know… it doesn’t have the same zing.
How about… EMBIGGEN YOUR NAUGHTY BITS!(!!!)
ENLARGE YOUR LIVER!!!!
I’d click on that…
mikey
ENLARGE YOUR SAMMICH!!!
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Heh, indeed.
Frist!
Firsty, firsty, firsty!
Me!
I don’t think the point was that TRex was driving away commenters at FDL, but that he was afraid his commentary would impede Jane’s ability to be taken seriously by teh mainstream. There’s a link at FDL, but bedamned if I’m going to schlep through that shit site design to find it.
EnlaRGE y0ur EARS and make them HAIR1ER! !1
See with me, I replace my FDL link with the new TRex link and there’s no reason to go back to FDL again…
But Jurrasic Pork at Welcome to Pottersville is my alltime favorite blogger.
I started reading FDL daily a while back. they were really good during the whole Plame thing.
Then one time I decided to comment, on the Michael Vick thread.
I mentioned how funny it was that they were appalled, APPALLED I TELL YOU!, about Vick’s treatment of dogs, yet were they vegetarians? They didn’t like that, not one bit. I said something to the effect that this seemed hypocritical, because meat animals are treated much worse, and they called me a troll. It was a full on dogpile, with T4 being the turd on the bottom.
I would still go back for T-Rex occasionally. And Jane is quite the fireplug. But now they’ve gone all HuffPo with the cutesy little pictures, and the wack layout, and NO T-REX? ( I only check HuffPo to see if Jermaine Dupree has posted lately.)
weak, dude, weak.
The TBogg thing will be a good test to see how they handle Teh Fringes.
or offending some humorless, cat-hording commenter
I find that extremely offensive.
Anyway four cats are not a ‘hoard’. Or a horde. More of a strategic reserve.
ENLARGE YOUR PENS!
My pen is already the right size, thank you.
TBogg + FDL does seem like an odd fit.
That one long thread on the TBogg side is fascinating, though. It’s like watching a sparring match between Agatha Christie and Ambrose Bierce.
In jello.
There’s a link at FDL
” a sparring match between Agatha Christie and Ambrose Bierce.
In jello.”
I was going to say I’d hit Agatha Christie, but I misread it as Christina Aguillera, so I guess I’ve changed my mind.
I’d listen to Ambrose Bierce.
I’d eat the jello – any color.
Sadly, No! is like cheesecake when it’s good. And Goll, do I love cheesecake, and not with any kind strawberry or blueberry “compote” on the top. Just a good, strong cup coffee.
Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam, or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Fried Spam.
Nice and crusty on the outside…
mikey
D. Sidhe, isn’t it about time for another sadistic-cuisine column?
Lesley said,
December 6, 2007 at 10:52
the planet is spiralling
Um, Lesley? Yeah, sorry if somebody already mentioned this, but….
it’s supposed to do that. If it didn’t, we’d all fall off.
#
Gary Ruppert said,
December 6, 2007 at 14:41
The fact is, everything liberals post is spam because it is identicle talking points from DNC headquarters about hating America. This will not fly here in the Heartland. We support Bush, Our Troops, USA and God.
The Heartland? Is that near where some asshat shot up a mall yesterday?
Terrorism begins at home, I guess, huh, Gary?
Merry fucking Christmas.
90th !!!!
people at FDL are zombeez. they worship authority, celebrity and power and eat their own.
Years ago i was a fan of Atrio’s site but stopped going there because the comments section turned into exactly that. That and i once questioned the authenticity of some agitprop connecting depleted uranium ammunition and birth defects, and was forever after treated like an invading Freeper even when i was posting comments agreeing with their own.
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