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Re: No Sex, Please; We’re Sony

shadowfirebird — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:48:48 -0000

Betamax was the cooler name.

Re: No Sex, Please; We’re Sony

shadowfirebird — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:48:48 -0000

Betamax was the cooler name.

Re: Google Maps Hits the Streets

shadowfirebird — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:24:07 -0000

Doesn't work for me. No blue outlines, no "streetview" view.

Re: Appeals Court Rules Cops Can Steal Cars and Lie to Victims To Conduct a Warrantless Search

shadowfirebird — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:15:29 -0000

Well, from the heat level here this is going to do exactly no good. But for the record:

These people were not drug dealers. They were *suspected* drug dealers.

You don't have to deal drugs to have the police suspect you of dealing drugs.

Unless, of course, you think that the police never, ever make a mistake.

When you see a story like this, maybe you should think that someday something similar could happen to you.

Re: Told or Known (or Tumbled) - Tumblr Tip: Help Search Engines Hold Onto Your Posts

shadowfirebird — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:30:02 -0000

I have this on my site but it only works for text posts. So, not for links, quotes, photos, videos, and audio posts...

I'd be very happy if someone proved me wrong.

Re: Told or Known (or Tumbled)

shadowfirebird — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:06:15 -0000

I don't know about anyone else, but it scares the sh** out of me...

Wait, wait. Bruce *Schneier* has a blog where he talks about security and privacy? The twofish guy? ...oops; yes, I'm a cryptography fanboy...

Thanks for posting this...

Re: Told or Known (or Tumbled)

shadowfirebird — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:50:25 -0000

I guess that's a valid point. Except that I can't think why I personally would want to do that.

Now maybe if we had a ranked list of the most followed tumblogs, that would be useful.

Re: Told or Known (or Tumbled)

shadowfirebird — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:28:25 -0000

Especially if you want to take into account people like me who "follow" tumblrs via google reader...

Re: Alex Iskold Personal Blog - What I want my Tumblr to be

shadowfirebird — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:14:25 -0000

Well said sir.

Re: Told or Known - Gullible

shadowfirebird — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:33:56 -0000

I was gullible enough to look.

Of course, it's not true.

Re: Told or Known

shadowfirebird — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:28:55 -0000

No, sorry, doesm't work for me. Very pretty, but not friendly.

Images suddenly filling the whole page and then shrinking to the size of a postage stamp; one-post-per-page doesn't make browsing easy, although in this age of RSS readers I suppose that that is not important; and the first time I saw a video post it obscured the arrow bar, which basically meant I was stuck. Shame, because the *content* was really interesting.

Really, though, I could tell it was a non-starter because there was a little "?" in the bottom right corner to explain how to use the site. Any application where the user feels they need to explain how to use it up front or you will not get it, has failed already.

My take would be "shows great promise; needs more work".

Re: Told or Known

shadowfirebird — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:34:05 -0000

No.

Should people have the freedom to post what they think without their relatives or current (/future!) employers finding out that they are gay / atheist / left-wing / whatever? Obviously yes.

Re: Just Passing Through

shadowfirebird — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:16:46 -0000

Obviously designed by someone who's been watching a *lot* of Star Trek.

(You said you wanted a comment...)

Re: The Reblog Button

shadowfirebird — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:25:17 -0000

I'm afraid I can't agree. It's just as easy to hit the bookmarklet than the reblog button; arguably easier, since that's what you do with non-tumblr sites. That makes the feature an also-ran, at best.

In the same way, it is considerably more convenient (for me at least) to "follow" someone by adding them to my RSS reader than to click on the "follow" button.

When I see "you have n followers" or "n people reblogged your post" in the Tumblr dashboard, I know that the numbers don't mean much.

Re: Things I tripped over on my way to the internet.

shadowfirebird — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:44:26 -0000

The problem is, you'd need at least two to have any fun at all. Unless you just fancied peppering random passerby with sweets, that is.

Re: 4 Secret Societies You (Probably) Don't Know About

shadowfirebird — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:58:20 -0000

In what way are these *secret* societies?

We know their names and histories. Surely in order to be a secret society, they would have to be, well ... secret?

Re: Told or Known

shadowfirebird — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:30:40 -0000

Also, those reasons only work if you care what people think.

Personally: I try to keep a Tumblog that I think people will find interesting. But other than that if people want to jump to conclusions about my blog, I don't give a monkeys.

If someone wants to comment on something I've written I would hope they would have the sense to click through from the dashboard to see if I have comments installed. If they don't, then they don't.

Re: {mfg: white is the new blue collar} - Tumblr feature request

shadowfirebird — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:54:34 -0000

Just being able to search natively through posts would be a start. I know we have the archive view, and I can google text posts 'cos they have a title, but...

Re: roamin

shadowfirebird — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:27:45 -0000

Forgive me for saying this mate, but your actual web page is incredibly hard to read. Light grey on a picture that is mostly dark grey with white splashes? It's like trying to make out text scratched onto your windshield while driving at night.

Granted, most people will read you in their dashboard, but I thought you should know.

Re: http://roamin.tumblr.com/post/33634641

shadowfirebird — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:57:13 -0000

Not that I am making the assumption that you agree with this just because you are posting it, but: that's one of the dumber things I have ever heard.

The only way I can understand that anyone could believe this for a second would be if they had an incredibly limited definition of the word "music".

Taken over all music, it's clearly possible to prove it nonsense. (Beethoven's 5th? Handel's Messiah?) Taken over, say, pop/rock tracks of the last 20 years, it's subjective and therefore meaningless -- there can't be a "perfect song length" because it depends on the preferences of the listener.

Re: http://roamin.tumblr.com/post/33634641

shadowfirebird — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:41:37 -0000

I did skip-read the article and got a little annoyed that it assumed every reader would think of "music" as "pop music" (or however you want to describe it). I don't listen to classical much myself, but it just seemed dumb. I do like the longer rock pieces.

Also, I'm old enough to remember when musicians were forced to limit the length of their songs to under 3 minutes or they just wouldn't be played on the radio.

Mathematics in music is a fascinating subject. I just wish it had been addressed more intelligently by Wired.

Re: New feature: Tag filtering

shadowfirebird — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:55:20 -0000

Nice. Really nice. Ta.

Re: Things I tripped over on my way to the internet.

shadowfirebird — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:42:53 -0000

You mean, "What did the lion have for breakfast?"; and "Why hasn't he eaten the driver yet?"

Re: Things I tripped over on my way to the internet.

shadowfirebird — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:07:31 -0000

Well, you know, before TV, they had to find other ways of entertaining themselves. Everyone had one of these. Then some idiot added a lion and everyone else had to get one too -- after all, they didn't want to feel left out. Someone finally went too far and added a giraffe, though, and that's why drive-in movies were invented.

Good job too, with all those dizzy lions wandering around, causing a health hazard.

Re: my socks don't fit — Poll : What do you think about the Tumblr radar?

shadowfirebird — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:18:50 -0000

Actually, this makes sense to me. I don't like the radar because it's cliquey.

The old radar just posted stuff at random, or posted everything. That was cool. (Although, people are now posting more NSFW stuff, which is presumably why that folded.)

But what's this new radar? Who chooses what it posts and what it doesn't? I have no idea. It very much looks as if the Tumblr staff do. Well, it's their site, they can do what they like with it. But I'm passionately uninterested in what they think *we* should do with their product.

(Logically the radar should post the posts with the most reblogs. Maybe it does. But they don't say.)