Stop Embarrassing Yourself

Now I know why it was so easy to get my domain name.
 

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

If you haven’t watched it already, you need to check out Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. If you have watched Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, then you need to check out this video of Alan Tudyk interviewing Nathan Fillion (that I found at DoctorHorrible.net). Oh yeah, if you don’t know the connection between Alan Tudyk interviewing Nathan Fillion, you need to check out Firefly and Serenity.

Like many people, I wasn’t able to make it to Comic-Con this year, so here are two ways to follow Comic-Con live via social media.

There is a Comic-Con room on Friendfeed. Friendfeed is a social media aggregator that lets you combine your blog, twitter, digs and 40 other social media sites. A room is a feed that allows a group of people to share posts on a more specific topic.

You can search TwitterMap for “comic con”. TwitterMap is a live twitter search engine that lets you search the latest public tweets from twitter for a word or phrase. My first Twitter experience was following the San Francisco torch relay via TwitterMap and CNN. Twitter had more up to date and accurate information than CNN because there were a couple dozen people tweeting along the route (some to protest and some just to watch). There were even a few people tweeting while stuck in traffic due to the streets being blocked along the alternate route.

If you have any others let me know by leaving a coment.

If you enjoy words you’ll enjoy Wordle. If you don’t enjoy words, why are you reading this? Wordle creates tag clouds from whatever text you give it then lets you adjust the color, font and maximum number of words.

I put in the complete text of “Romeo and Juliete” and got this.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is download day. Download Firefox 3 tomorrow and help set a world record.

I just uploaded the first version of the site redesign. It still needs some tweaking, but over all I’m happy with it. The layout is nearly perfect, but almost all of the graphics are going to be tweaked or replaced. I’ve spent way too much time over the last few days working on the design and not enough time writing content.

And on the subject of content I’m going to add a Jargon File word of the day sometime next week. I’ll probably put it in the sidebar (which has already grown a little long) and make it available through an RSS feed.