Hi lovely folks from the RSS world… I notice you are all still around. Just a quick howdy-doo to say that I’ve moved to http://www.mrspeaker.net/, so please update your feed readers to the new feed at http://www.mrspeaker.net/feed/ - you’ll be ever so glad you did. What fun you’ve been missing this past month: Atari 2600 madness, a pinball hacking round up and some WolframAlpha/jQuery fun… plus not much more! So head on over.
Well well! Are you reading this post from the old stinky URL http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/ or from the NEW stinky URL http://www.mrspeaker.net/?! ‘Cause the NEW stinky URL is the place to be!
That’s correct! The blog known as Mr Speaker has moved: same internet, new location! http://www.mrspeaker.net/!
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Well, it’s been a couple-a weeks since we got TurnTubelist out the door! Now that we’re starting to see a bunch of people making TurnTubelist a part of their getting-ready-to-go-out-on-a-Saturday-night routine, I thought it would be good to expose some of the advanced features that lurk under the covers.
Do note: these are current as of March, 2009… but much is set to change - so hopefully in the near future the “hidden” features will become “obvious” features.
Ok people of the internet - The last challenge I threw down to you was conquered with relative ease, so here’s a tougher one to ponder - from a local drinking establishment in Sydney’s inner-west:
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Well well well! You all thought that we was messing with you, didn’t you? You thought that the WebJam 8 win was nothing more than an elaborate hoax designed to bag some awesome prizes, didn’t you? No, friends, it wasn’t (though I’m totally going to do that for the next WebJam) for now the time has arrived…
You know, very special occasions - those of cultural and historic importance - demand certain graces: and I think it’s fair that an announcement as auspicious as this be marked with both the Blink AND Marquee tags:
The first 15 times I watched Revenge Of The Nerds I was transfixed with the symbolism of the persecuted nerd: Like present-day rednecks, the nerd of 1984 represented one of the few remaining demographics where intolerance and ridicule were not only acceptable, but encouraged.
Of course, today’s nerds are revered and adored (though our pompous self-promotion and narcissistic pretentiousness will ensure this will be short-lived) and the movie can be analysed on a more frivolous level: as the classic underdog-comes-good sexist flick that it is.
De-robed from its social significance, more subtle aspects of the film are able to flourish… like the suspect arrested for mopery - which they oddly defined as “exposing yourself to a blind person” when the actual definition is “walking down the street with no clear destination or purpose” (though sometimes expanded to “mopery with intent to creep” if it involves unsavoury characters).
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