We've got a new look!

What do you think?

Yeah, I know, It's been like a zillion days since I posted last. Sorry, I just haven't seen a lot of good stuff lately. Also, I have not had the time to post stuff for the 2 people who actually read this blog.

And by 2 people, I mean my right and left eyes. Although, sometimes the right one is partially closed.

Blogger is full of fail

So, like most blogger users today, I had a few posts deleted/never quite made it to the front page. Unlike most other blogger users, it seems my posts were forever lost in the ether.


:(

The Raid on Bin Laden's compound and social media.

What does a raid on a terrorist compound and the ensuing social media commentary have to do with weird news? Actually, for once, everything.

First off, try to imagine your life 10 years ago. Most of you were still fooling around with beepers, forget cell phones, or any kind of smart phone. Now we live in a world where we people can unwittingly tweet about secret raids. $5 says someone in the neighborhood has cell phone video of it all too. I'll call that weird.

We also interact with our news in ways humans could never have dreamed of in the past. For better or for worse, take this article for example. We've found silly, yet ingenious ways to combine our news, or social media, or whole lives together on the internet. People are reviewing Bin-Laden's compound as if it was a restaurant.

The internet may not be new in the sense that it is a technology that brings us news faster than preceding technologies, but it sure does it in interesting ways.

Neat, it's like it knew

I signed up for Flick, just to check it out. I was greeted properly. 

POST NUMBER 800!!!!!

This post brought to you by.....

ZOMBIE LUNCH BAG!!  Special thanks to the kind reader who sent in this image.

BRAINS!

BIG SHOUT OUT TO FOOD AND INK MAGAZINE

A few days ago the editor of Food and Ink magazine contacted me regarding this post.

He's right, I didn't give proper credit to his web site. The NY Times didn't really either, but that's no excuse.

Ya'll should check out his stuff. It's pretty frikkin' awesome.

How to use my blog

A few of you have asked me questions about interacting with my blog. So I'm going to answer them. By a few of you, I mean really a few of the voices in my head, but I'll answer the questions anyway. Check it all out after the jump.

We are under construction

Sorry for any oddities that pop up on the blog today. I'm monkeying with the layout. I already see that a post made it to the feed with a typo in the title before I could correct it. Still working out the kinks.

BTW, anyone else out there using the new blogger templates, they apparently are not good friends with Firefox running noscript.

Over 9000

I have over 9000 hits. That's actually not a whole lot to brag about, but at least I get to use a badly photoshopped lolcat.

YAY! My first troll comment!!

Thank you internet for spawning masses of people with nothing better to do than comment on posts that are almost a year old. Much appreciated. Check out my post at this link, and see the new comment by "pewp sauce".

Joy!

Coming up on our 1 year anniversary!!

It's hard to believe, but this blog is almost 1 year old. For our first birthday, I'm taking suggestions for anniversary posts. Leave a comment with a topic or something or other you'd like to see me post about, and I'll try to make it happen. The anniversary posts will appear on the 10th, so you've got 7 days to submit ideas. 

WORD!

German Teens Hospitalized After Drinking Hot Chili Sauce - Slashfood

German Teens Hospitalized After Drinking Hot Chili Sauce - Slashfood

Can you say WIIIIIIIIIMP~!  I bet I could eat that stuff on ice cream!

Anyhow, the stars must be aligned corretly because I LOVE hot sauce, I sort of like this blog and... THIS IS POST NUMBER 666!!!

Haha, see, get it, I found a picture of "Satan's Blood" hot sauce, post 666, spicy, hot...

Wow, I need a life.

A little tip for those who read this blog via e-mail

I'm sure no one actually reads this blog on the internet or through e-mail but here goes:

If you do read this blog via e-mail, you might want to visit the actual web blog once in a while. A lot of stories that are good, but not really quite good enough to have their own feature can be found in a little news feed at the top left corner of the blog. See big red square in picture above.

A Few Random Stats About This Blog

(I just found out about this book tonight. You can buy it from Amazon.com. No, I did not write this book, nor do I have anything to do with the author or any related entities. I'll probably buy a copy though.)

Number of posts to date (including this one):  574
Probably number of readers : -34
Most posts in one week: 53

Least number in a week: 3
Number of Twitter followers: 125
Number of time I've "tweeted": 274
Pounds of bacon you should send me as payment for writing this blog: ∞ + 3

A Thousand Appologies for the Lack of Posts

I have no idea what went wrong. There should have been posts all week, but when I checked today, it looks like they were all stuck in "draft" mode. Sorry. You'll be getting a huge flood of them today.

:)

Enjoy.