Archive for February, 2012
Well, you heard it here first, folks, but now it seems like everyone else whose editors will let them use the word “poop-lube” in print is finally running the Story of the Disappearing Santorum: Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land has the most thorough examination of the Google changes affecting search results. Yahoo! News raises [ READ MORE ]
BREAKING NEWS? NEW: Updates below article. So far as I can tell, Googling “santorum” no longer returns the familiar Spreading Santorum page, though the page itself is still live. It’s very odd. The page’s associated blog, at URL http://blog.spreadingsantorum.com/, comes up on the Google search, and from there you can get to http://spreadingsantorum.com/, but Google [ READ MORE ]
You can blame my buddy Joe for this one. He didn’t like the boring layout (I like boring), and finally bullied me into at least trying some changes out. I thought about making today’s appearance neon pink on black, in his honor, but dutifully restrained myself. I don’t know if the new look will be [ READ MORE ]
I made one rule for myself when I decided to be a writer. Well — two, if you count “never read the comments.” But mostly just one: Don’t quit your day job. Wisdom for the ages (especially the ages of 21-25 or so, those awkward post-college years). But as of last Friday — or a [ READ MORE ]
I don’t actually find divorce itself hilarious, I swear I don’t, misanthropic namesake notwithstanding. But the guys who advertise divorce aid just continue to make my day. Nothing will top the broken home giraffes, of course. (As far as I know that ad is still up at the zoo, too.) Still, this little sidebar ad [ READ MORE ]
Remember when this was a “writing blog”? Yeah, me neither. But that was the idea, way back in the day when MA101 was the biggest writing obligation I really had. Actually landing some writing jobs, and some other jobs, has changed that a bit, and someone recently commented on a slightly more “political” flavor lately. It [ READ MORE ]
Hey look at that, it really is 11:00 as I’m writing this. Of course that means actual post time will be a little later. But hey! Welcome to the grassroots. I subscribe to Details magazine out of professional necessity. It is, theoretically, a fashion magazine, and I am from time to time a fashion writer, [ READ MORE ]
Now I know a dozen eye-rolling bronies are going to jump on me if I don’t clear this up right at the start: yes, I know you can watch all of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic online for free. Why I wound up searching for it on Netflix is a long story with little [ READ MORE ]
Every once in a while a good hoax gets a second lease on life. The Onion‘s old “Planned Parenthood Abortionplex” story bounced back up on Facebook (and snagged a U. S. Congressman) a couple weeks ago when the Susan G. Komen debacle had everyone frantically Googling “planned parenthood abortion omg” and similar terms. Eugene Shepard’s [ READ MORE ]
You remember way back like a week ago when I quoted A. A. Dornfield’s old line about “if your mother says she loves you, check it out”? Turns out that there are still some real-life journalists, or at least people whose paychecks say “POLITICO” (which is almost the same thing), that need to internalize this [ READ MORE ]
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