On Beyond Zebra

In no particular order:

Scrape sites: The sheer amount of time I spend on DMCA takedowns should require an equal amount of time by the perpetrators in a similarly distasteful and frustrating task… like cleaning out a septic tank with a straw.
My gym’s total lack of basic grammar and spelling in their promotional materials: I pay […]

As you know, I work for Massively, which is a division of Weblogs, Inc. which is owned by AOL / Time Warner. Yep, we’re sucking from the corporate teat. Guilty as charged. Gotta pay the bills, and as I’ve said, I love my job.
That said, we have only the teeniest of contact with Corporate. Most […]

Here’s an NPR story on “Facebook Backlash: Anti-Social Sites Flourish.”
I have more to say on this, but anything that makes fun of MySpace is just fine in my book. That place makes me think of the infant web, when everyone was designing web pages like StrongBad.
Any website where that much ugly lives should be nuked […]

This weekend marks my “elevation” to a full-fledged Raid Lemur* for my guild. I’ve done assist before many times, but this is the first time I’ve been left all alone on my own to herd quite that many cats at once. To say it’s a bit nerve-wracking is an understatement. I just hope I do […]

I’m not a huge FPS person (Bioshock being about the extent of my FPS gaming, currently) but I couldn’t help laughing myself silly at this. After all, anyone who’s been connected to gaming at all knows about Valve’s titles and characters.

Epic win, I’m telling you. For the full text of the 9 year old’s fanfic […]