These days we see the selling of naming rights on sports venues, there are ads on the floors of supermarkets, athletes have fast food for their official restaurants, a computer geek can rent space on his chest, a film student can give away space on hers and people in London are apparently advertising on their foreheads.
Episula (Epistula?) Syndication Format. Hmm. Haven't figured this one out yet. Starting with "episula syndication format" at Google, I end up at Dylan Green dot Com, which offers up yet another acronym: Even Simpler Format.
Here we are, with the first edition of Geek Weakly. Perhaps it should be better named Geek Weekly, but hey. Let's perpetuate that stereotype. Geek Weakly will be delivered periodically (hopefully each week), bringing you all sorts of information and news most likely to appeal to those who have (or would like) a little geek in them.
Speaking of the latter category, my wife Denise brings us the first item, mostly because of the title. That's right folks, are you ready for little robots in your pants? The story, while amusing, is no match for the title.
So the other night, my stepson asks me about this fish he saw in Finding Nemo. Normally I might not share such a tale, because it's probably only memorable to our family - but the answers found from this innocent question were pretty impressive indeed.
You see, the alleged fish has a light on it's head and huge fangs. I don't know about you, but I'd never heard of such a beast. In fact, I thought it sounded like someone had been having a little fun in the animation room. I even made the mistake of mentioning that it might not be completely real!
Finally, some good news!
According to the BBC, it turns out that eating pizza is good for you. Naturally, they go on about the rest of the "Mediterranean diet" or something, but who cares about that? It's the pizza we want!
Bloglines has added some more button styles and a new subscription link generator to their site, making it even easier and more stylish to add a "subscribe with bloglines" option to your blog. This service just gets better and better... and it's still free!
"Meetup with other local fans of Movable Type to discuss changes and plug-ins, offer tips, and gush about this customizable publishing system." Cool!
If you're looking for XHTML 1.1 compatibility, then only minor changes are needed to your default Movable Type templates. I had the most difficulty with the comments form on the individual entry archive.
Palm has announced the Tungsten T2.
Sony has announced the the PEG-UX40 and PEG-UX50.
Handspring has announced their latest PDA/phone combo, the Treo 600.
SprintPCS appears near to finally releasing the long-rumored SonyEricsson T608.
Credit cards, checks and debit cards allow the tracking of our every movement.
Many grocery stores have customer loyalty cards which exist more to track our purchases than offer us savings. Think about it - who would offer you discounts if they didn't get anything out of it? Sure, there's a bit of loyalty, which means it's not a complete lie - but the true advantage comes in finding out what you are purchasing, how much you'll pay for it, when you like to purchase and how often you make purchases.
As I was finishing up the initial release of the blog, I decided that I wanted to do something different with the "add a comment" function. While it was clear enough that you selected the "no" button to keep from saving your personal information, the information was removed just by the clicking of that button!
Andy Warhol once said "every person will be world-famous for fifteen minutes". This phrase was truly prophetic. Some 20 years before The Real World, and 30 years before Survivor and Fear Factor, well before we ever heard of Darva Conger, Regis Philbin or Simon Cowell, this eccentric artist predicted it all.
