stopfcc! - protect free speech. please?
why the spanish election turned out the way it did, by someone who has more time to type things out than me and also has better english skillz than myself. i link to this here just because someone's away message last night pissed me off a lot and i got all riled up. so read it, if you care about this sorta thing.
i spend entirely too much time reading silly things on the internet. this verdict was reached by geoff, and i guess i agree with it, and i really am not apologizing for it at all. i'm just saying, using rss made it a lot easier for me to get all these silly things as they are created. rss stands for "really simple syndication" (i think, hehe). what it lets me do:
- read posts from various websites within 15 minutes of them going up
- stay up on the news, again, pretty much instantaneously
- since geoff and i started using audioscrobbler, i can see what music he's listening to, which has led to a few fun exchanges, such as: niv - "orgy?", or geoff - "you should know i'm listening to static-x, and thus not sleeping" - you know, fun stuff like that.
so, in conclusion, rss rules.
the negative is that rss readers are generally new, and they generally suck. chris and i are in agreement over this. however, i've found one that is usable, and i now have it running both at home and at work. it's called feedreader, and it is in a strange alpha state that is hard to describe. i think i'd push it harder if it wasn't in this strange state, but for now, the link is there, and you all see it.
more fun to come!
update
yglesias has another article up. i'm pretty sure i'm going to have to put a link to this blog over on the right perm-style, cuz i fucking love it. that's ok, right?