Category: Random

On The Air

If you happen to be sitting at a computer around 12:30-1:30 pm today, please hop on over to WVCW and take a listen to yours truly as I make my radio debeut. So you know, the music will be whatever the computer tells me to play and I’ll really only be talking between every three songs or so but that’s a whole 30-90 seconds of my lovely, soothing voice you’ll get to enjoy. Can’t beat that with a stick.

So have a listen and if you do please let me know what ya think.

First Show Down

I think it went well. I had a couple folks sitting in the booth for the first half-hour or so and there were no problems there. Had a pal IM me over the last 30 minutes or so. Everything seemed to be fine except for that I’m pretty monotone and rambled a bit. But, hey, first show, I’ll work on that overtime.

Same time next week, folks.

Dogs decide to end it all

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12448213-13762,00.html

At least five dogs have thrown themselves off the historic bridge at Overtoun House in Dunbarton, Scotland, in the past six months.

The bridge, which spans a 13m drop into a stream running underneath, is fast becoming known as Rover’s Leap because of the lemming-like approach it seems to inspire in apparently well-adjusted family pets.

“Dogs do not commit suicide. They have a strong fight-or-flight response,” Doreen Graham, of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told The Glasgow Herald.

“The incidents at the bridge are of very great concern to us because we would like to understand why they are happening.”

Ian A. knows why: “I bow-wow before no man! My life is a waste! I can only sit and shake for treats! I will not let the man roll-over me again! Good-bye, cruel world!”

Radio Free Jason Update

Training is done, folks! I am now a radio personality (or something like that) at WVCW (go listen even though I’m not currently on).

“But when are you on, Jason ?” you may be asking.

Good question.

Tuesdays at 12:30-1:30 pm will be my hour of format playing. Which means I play what pops up on the computer and talk once in a while.

So now a whole lot of me to begin with, but it’s a start. Once I prove myself I can get a specialty show. Which will be all me, baby. Oh yeah.

So go check out WVCW now and be sure to tune in Tuesday at 12:30 for an hour of ME!

Cause you love me.

Right?

Right.

Boondocks Passed For Bush Drug Jokes

The Comics Reporter uh… reports that Aaron McGruder’s Boondocks was not run in the Chicago Tribune recently because of references to Bush’s potential drug use on Feb. 28 and even a less straightforward on that ran Mar. 1, the second one even going so far as to just make fun of the reports.

So, in the name of fighting back or whatever it is I am doing, I shall share with you all these evil strips:

I, personally, have no problem with Bush drug jokes. Probably because I’m a “lefty”.

Who Owns Your Desktop? You Do!

So there’s been a bit of an uproar lately over a new Google Toolbar feature that adds Auto-Links to websites, making titles of books happen to link to their Amazon listing, restaurants link to their addresses, stuff like that, whether the original author of the site meant for it to happen. And now there are scripts all about to kill this feature because, well, as a webdesigner you design and link as you see fit, who is Google to tweak your page?

EFF: Deep Links says bah and fooey on this hubub:

When I visit your website, and you send me a page in response, I should be able to do whatever I like to manipulate it on my end. Display it in purple, suppress images, block pop-ups, compare prices from other vendors, whatever. In the words of my colleague, Cory Doctorow, “it’s my screen, and I should be able to control it; companies like Google and individuals should be able to provide tools and services to let me control it.”

Of course, we have to make sure the butler doesn’t try to take over and act like a jail warden (i.e., monopolists forcing you to take a butler). And we don’t want the butler to sneak into your house when you’re not looking (i.e., spyware). But Google’s Toolbar seems to be a pretty good butler — it’s not like he hides his presence, and you can fire him anytime you like (it’s not as though Google’s leading position in search gives it much ability to force its butler on you; you can choose from lots of other “toolbar” apps that can submit searchs to Google).

And I kinda agree with this.

Now it’s one thing if folks start making money off your site when you don’t want them to, like in the case of the Amazon book links, but it is an added service to a potential reader. You’d probably be better off creating those kind of links yourself and using the associate feature Amazon offers. And getting to maps is pretty handy too.

But as the possibility of adding links to competitors exists, there should certainly be a way for websites to block Google, which there is.

I don’t think this is entirely EVIL of Google, nor do I think it was malicious. They think they are offering a great service to people using their toolbar and I have to agree. It might be a pretty handy feature to play with. Websites can opt out with the script, sure, but otherwise, let me the user play with what I have available. If that tweaks your site and makes it more accessable to me and my wants, awesome.