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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
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| 2003-08-09 |
| Okay, Rantburgers, here’s a chance to participate in one of those Blog Polls. The categories are better than most I’ve seen, else I wouldn’t post it. It’s on a site I’ve never visited, before. Hat Tip goes to Rita’s Res Ipsa Loquitor (http://res-ipsa.the-blinding-white-light.com/) site. Let’s make sure Rantburg gets a good showing! Just follow the link and be a Rantburg Patriot! For the long run, however, Fred, Frank G, Steve, Steve White, et al - want to design the "perfect" Blog Poll and make Rantburg it’s home for an Annual event? All of them I’ve seen, thus far, are often weak and not well-designed. Youze Guyz can do better, methinks. Mebbe we have submissions to Short Attn Span Theatre for awhile, accumulate the better ideas, questions, categories, etc, and then yall take over, apply the polish, and make it real... Whadday say? |
| Posted by:·com |
| #10 And yes, .com I have donated to the cause--I love this website! |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-8-9 10:32:58 PM |
| #9 Rantburg rules--how do you vote? |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-8-9 10:31:53 PM |
| #8 For #17, don't forget the photo of the Liberian girlie-boy soldier. And the one of the ArchDruid. Also for #17, most of PD's (dot-com for you newbies, but we old-timers remember way back when! :-) posts qualify. I'm all for the perfect Blog Poll but my knowledge of html, etc is less than that of the average Pakistani engineer/web designer. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-8-9 10:25:47 PM |
| #7 that's not a bug Fred, it's a feature! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-9 10:18:55 PM |
| #6 The sad part is that so many of those very posts satisfy criteria for both 17) and 18) |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-8-9 9:43:56 PM |
| #5 The Indonesian goat rapist... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-8-9 9:41:25 PM |
| #4 And the Bugtis... Ein el-Hellhole... Blasphemy laws... Pirates... Janeane... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-8-9 9:37:24 PM |
| #3 To add more grief for Fred, I'd like to see a real Poll app, too - not some silly-assed email thing. A simple table that records IP address, item #, choice or input - last vote is the one that stands (overwrite choice or input if IP match hit found) - would make this pretty easy and maintain anonymity. I had to write polls for Aramco and it reached the point where everything was in the DB and going thru the setup was the whole show. I don't have a copy of the code anymore, damnit, but there are tons of apps (in source script) available, such as here: http://www.planetsourcecode.com/ to relieve the strain on Fred. Anyway, why not? Nobody has this sewn up, so why not Rantburg? Might be the easiest route to Universal Acclaim & Blog Stardom for Fred! I know, from: http://www.technorati.com/ that Rantburg is in the big leagues, but it can always get bigger! |
| Posted by: ·com 2003-8-9 9:36:33 PM |
| #2 Great links - some predate my discovery of Rantburg - I'll be checking them out! Thx! I think you're right. Rantburg is unique and creates opportunities for #18 that others don't where that's the normal genre of posted article (e.g. IndyMedia). Re: #17 - I haven't laughed any harder, ever, than I have at some of the comments by the sharpies in Rantburg - else I would've already had that heart attack. A "classics" page sounds good, too - as if Fred doesn't already have enough on his plate... ;-) |
| Posted by: ·com 2003-8-9 9:33:24 PM |
| #1 I think we've got a good chance at 17.) Blog Post That Made You Laugh So Hard You Shot A Beverage Out Your Nose Onto the Monitor 18.) Blog Post That Made You So Mad You Thought You Were Going to Have the Big One and Visit Elizabeth A few off-the-top-of-my-heads... Mukhtaran Mai... Let's have a procession... Human Shields without Busfare... Iraqis to Sacrifice for Sammy... Yvonne Ridley... Most things from Rodong Sinmun... Scooter and Photoshop... Pashtun Hatfield and McCoy stories... Most postings involving doinkers and/or titties... Hmmm... I think we've got those two categories wrapped up. Maybe we should add a "Rantburg Classics" page. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-8-9 9:12:02 PM |