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2003-08-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Blogger Awards (Voting open til Aug 18th)

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Posted by Â·com 2003-08-09 7:10:18 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2003-8-9 9:12:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#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 Â·com 2003-8-9 9:33:24 PM|| 2003-8-9 9:33:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#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 Â·com 2003-8-9 9:36:33 PM|| 2003-8-9 9:36:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 And the Bugtis... Ein el-Hellhole... Blasphemy laws... Pirates... Janeane...

Posted by Fred 2003-8-9 9:37:24 PM|| 2003-8-9 9:37:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The Indonesian goat rapist...

Posted by Fred 2003-8-9 9:41:25 PM|| 2003-8-9 9:41:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-8-9 9:43:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 that's not a bug Fred, it's a feature!

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-9 10:18:55 PM|| 2003-8-9 10:18:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-8-9 10:25:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Rantburg rules--how do you vote?

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-9 10:31:53 PM|| 2003-8-9 10:31:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-8-9 10:32:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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