What I incorrectly knew as the Mo Movie Measure is apparently more appropriate to call the Bechdel test. It still gives a great hint to how developed the female characters are. I’m glad my current TV series obsession Battlestar Galactica (2004) passes the test.
So, if you want your propaganda to be effective get it in early, repeat it, give people reasons to be believe it (however irrelevant), and make yourself seem trustworthy.
(Mind Hacks: Infowar: strike early, strike often)
I’m interested in social bookmarking sites, both to use and to provide services for. They’ve been around for some time and some are obviously better than others.
There’s Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Technorati and so on. Which of them are you using? Some other service? At Jonas dagar I provide Technorati tags for each entry, as you can see. I’m not sure how many people find their way here by using them, but I could check it up.
I provide feeds for new entries, for categories, for comments and for specific entries. But I don’t have any “Favourite this blog on Technorati” links or chicklets to Digg and del.icio.us. I ping Autopinger, nyligen.se (Swedish) and Twingly (Swedish).
Are you missing something you use in other places? Or is it liberating you don’t have to see small colorful images linking to weird places?
My site will look strange for the next couple of days, as I work on the design. The old design was table based, but I’m switching to a css-driven layout. Expect stuff to move around at random, change size or disappear completely.
I work in two steps. First I make sure it works in Firefox. Then I take a look at Helena’s computer’s Internet Explorer, stifle a cry, and try to make it look at least decent in IE. Everything would be much easier if browsers actually followed set standards.
I don’t need any bug reports now. I’ll let you know when I’m done so you can say how the page looks in your operating system/browser.
The feeds in this entry are no longer valid. I wrote the post before moving my blog. New feeds are available in the menu to the right.
Two years back I didn’t know much about web feeds. I didn’t know how to use them. Then I installed the Firefox extension Sage and was hooked. I hear Google reader is good, if you don’t use Firefox or if you want to reach your feeds from any computer. I think about migrating.
When I started using feeds I quickly realized I wanted to provide the same service for my own website. The first feed was for all entries, then a comments feed. Shortly after I added feeds for roleplaying game entries, film entries and entries on comics. Some people are only interested in my thoughts on roleplaying, and shouldn’t have to be notified of new film reviews.
That was it, until yesterday. You might notice a new link at the top of each entry called “Subscribe”. If you add that feed to your feed reader you’ll be notified of new comments to the entry. That’s a great way to keep in touch with posts you have commented. You’ll know if someone is talking to you, right away.
Please let me know if I can help you into the wonderful world of web feeds, or if something isn’t working on my page.
Some of the most popular Firefox extensions are ad blockers. I’ve never used one before, but instead developed surfing habits where I mostly didn’t notice ads.
Still, I wanted to try one to see if there’s any difference. I’ve chosen CustomizeGoogle, which does a whole lot of things, if you want it to. One feature is that all its features are optional.
If you’re interested in net privacy, CustomizeGoogle might be something for you. You can hide yourself from Google Analytics and from having clicks on ads count as actual clicks.
When you image search on Google, it links the results directly to the image, instead of that strange “half page” where you have to click the image once more to reach it.
Another interesting thing is that it allows you to “stream” the result page on Google searches. Instead of having results divided into pages, it adds results at the bottom as you scroll down. You have one long result page instead of many short ones. I used to guess pages’ importance by which result page they were on. I’ll have to see if I like the new way or switch back.
If you have children or for some reason or other is into lullaby covers of famous songs: check out Baby Rock Records. On their product page you’ll find preview samples from Nirvana, Radiohead and Metallica, among others.
Google keeps releasing new search facilities and other information management systems without big announcements. I usually find stuff by accident, and the latest thing was Google’s film review search.
Try writing “movie: wild strawberries” or “film: wild strawberries”, or some other film, in the Google search field and hit enter. You’re presented with reviews for that film and can if you want select only positive, neutral or, for worse films than Bergman’s, negative reviews. There’s also the possibility of further searching for terms within the reviews. Neat stuff. It’s nice to find reviews in such an easy manner and have them presented in such clear fashion.
I’ve just added a neat Google search box on my archives page, with the search result page styled to look more like this site. There’s no good explanation to why I haven’t added this before, since I’m usually annoyed with blog services without a search facility.
