Let me tell you what I really want for my web site. I suspect there are others out there who want this same thing, but they don’t know how to go about it either. These are people who, like me, love books and music, and would love to have offsite links to them, but don’t want to turn every page of their site into a shill for Earth’s Biggest BookEverythingstore.
I’m not a camgirl or a professional columnist, and the miniscule amount of money I could potentially make if someone clicked the links is not worth as much as this space being devoid of commericals or shilling apart from the occasional Mac freeware.
Maybe you know where I’m going with this. I want to be able to code a link that I can code that takes the clicker of that link to a listing not for a store, but for a library of their choosing, whether it be nearby, down the highway, across the plains, or in, well, ??stfold County, Norway.
I have thought a bit about how this would work. Although it seems clear to me that there are more than one but fewer than a billion ways for libraries to make their catalogs available and accessible, I don’t see them suddenly standardizing their URI methodology — not because of bpdw.commentary demanding it be so — I think some sort of server would have to be put in place to do the translating. I fear that it would take lots more work than I have time or brainpower for, to make this a useful technology, so I would like to put An Evening of Drinking up as the prize for such a technology. [Winner can not have already been working on such an infrastructure; bpdw.commentary reserves the right to use the evening as blog fodder.]
Okay, now that I’ve gotten all that onto a page, time for bed.
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People need to give Howard Dean a rest about his little howl the other night. You know what happens to presidential types who don’t howl once in a while? They wind up making statements like this in a perfectly modulated voice.
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So I got the new Spin yesterday and there on the back cover, a full-page ad for the
Pepsi iTunes thing. I was pretty sure it was for real, but then I was really really sure. Almost as interesting as that was an ad for the surprise return of Courtney Love, with what appeared to be a perfect knockoff of the Olivia pinup style. Wait a second — “artwork by Olivia” at the bottom of the ad. I didn’t know she was still working. I guess I’m reading the wrong magazines.
Also very exciting is that, per MacCentral, the promotion is going to extend to Big Gulp cups too. Just what I needed, an excuse to go to 7-Eleven more. At least I’m not going to have to switch entirely to Pepsi to meet my maximum 200 free songs. Personally, I’m a Coke guy, but I do like the Sierra Mist, so I’ll be picking up the multipacks of that.
Anyway, bring on the music. I wonder if I can collect 16 codes and cash them all in to get the unabridged version of “The Kid Stays In The Picture.”
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Oh, my stars. Highs approaching 31 expected this weekend! Time to break out the swim trunks! This is the dog days of winter. At least, that’s what I’m expecting the weatherfolks to say over the next couple of days.
Really now, I’m not asking for much. I’m not asking them to be relentlessly negative, just a little realistic. Don’t try to label this as the warm weather. Call this cold. If the temperature gets lower, call it “damn cold,” “freakin’ cold,” and “Minneapolis.”
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I’ve never been to Australia, and I’ve only ever vomited upon myself once,
and it was at Burning Man, but I still found myself appreciating
href="http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSupplement/Lyrics/Smallchange/Tomtraubertsblues-ub.htm">this song, and this page explaining its lyrics.
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It’s fine if you don’t update for a few days — that’s one of the
central tenets here — but it’s bad when your blog-engine lists entries
by date and time. Mine lists, like, the last ten or something.
href="http://www.soundbitten.com">Is G’s up? Are hoes down?
…man, that was contrived even by my standards.
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Spymac is offering their own version of .Mac — a 25MB POP mail account, 100MB of WebDAV accessible webspace, iCal publishing, and apparently some kind of blog publishing software. They say it was the result of “More than a year of planning, development and sleepless nights.” I am guessing it was “how do we pay for this with banner ads?” I know server space is getting cheaper and cheaper, but really now.
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The referers list is gone. I suspect the shark had long been leap`d on these things, though I liked to check it out sometimes to see who was looking at me and from where. But the referer spam was getting to be a bit much. Ah well.
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Now that you’ve kicked the carbs, we need you to
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3408931.stm">cut out everything
you took this scheme up for. In a couple of months, we’ll have you cut out
the last couple of food groups, and you’ll really start to drop the
weight!
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Sometime shortly after Pioneer, the well-regarded laser and DVD
manufacturer, exited from the DVD media business, a different company
began marketing their media
href="http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/archive/t164912.html">under the name
PioData to confuse consumers into thinking they were getting some
primo shtuff. Note particularly the hilarious reassurance provided on
the part of “Shop4Tech Customer Service Guy,” who was very pleased, once
he gave it a try, with the performance of his “Chervolet®
Kovrette™” three-cylinder four-door hatchback.
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