Did anyone else read "Diary of an Interesting Year"
By Helen Simpson (fiction piece) in this week’s New Yorker? I thought it was horribly upsetting, and so I googled it to see what other people thought, and someone else said it was a comedic piece. I didn’t find it comedic at all. It’s one of those things I wish I hadn’t read, because I’ll be thinking about it for weeks. I am simultaneously drawn to and freaked out by dystopic fiction.
WTF is this crappy playlist! Basically, it’s everything in Spanish or Portuguese in my iTunes. Gloria Estefan? Baha Men?!
I hate iTunes Genius. It never has results for any of the songs I want to make playlists for, and it takes forever to update.
When Tumblr first came out I started an account and posted little things on the side but didn’t link to it anywhere. After a month or two I realized I had posted loads of content there and nothing to my primary site. So it seemed logical to switch.
Garrett Murray, interviewed by Chris Bowler. This is why I switched completely to Tumblr, too, despite having run my own homebrew CMS for years prior. (via marco)
We do this too, at TBG. We have a homebrew CMS, but a bunch of us now just use Tumblr, and import our entries into the TBG CMS via RSS. It’s so much easier to Tumbleblog. (via rickwebb)
I still don’t get Tumblr. I like to read it because it’s quick and easy, but the whole reblog thing doesn’t really click with me. I mean, why would I want to make all of my followers read a comment that I want to make on someone else’s post? And this adding on to the “Source” of a quote to add my two-cents. Messy. I get that they’re trying to “fix” comments, and that it seems like a lot of people can work with it, but so far it hasn’t made me want to really do much more than reload my dashboard and [love - had to convert because the bracket was screwing the HTML] things.
(via bustr)
Buster brings up a good point and I should be clear: It annoys the shit out of me that tumblr doesn’t have comments, I think Reblogging is fun but not a replacement and I think far, far more feel this way than Tumblr believes. The lack of commenting is Tumblr’s equivalent of AT&T’s shitty network - everyone puts up with it because they have to, but are kind of annoyed by it.
(via rickwebb)
– Agreed! See, none of you would have to read that entire thread if I could just have commented on Rick’s post. As an old school LJer (as Rick and Buster both are too), the comments on LJ allow for the most interesting, elaborate, ongoing conversations, something that Tumblr isn’t very good at. Tumblr seems to mostly encourage sniping. Via rickwebb's tumblrmajig
amazing fan made vid to Britney’s ‘Piece of Me’ by obsessive24. it made me cry (yes really) and also made me want to find brit and give her a big hug. and ban paparazzi.
I’m a huge Britney fan and this video (to one of my favorite songs of hers) made me feel the exact same way. I could go on, but I’m supposed to be working right now. Ironically on a study of children and privacy.
Via think on this.
I’m in a CRAPPY mood right now because someone stole my debit card # and racked up $1200 in charges at Radio Shack, Bose, 6pm.com, some church (?!) and Dell. Therefore I am focusing instead on things I like: baby animals, pop singers, miniature gadgets, fabulosity, and these rococo nails.
I missed this on Thanksgiving day because I was in the bathroom and now I finally get to see it!!
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alicetiara's less private than LJ, less formal than tiara.org, blog, mostly about feminism, fashion, tech and pop culture (what else do I care about?).
