10 Commandments Remixed

May 30th, 2006

I found this by way of some blog reading the other day and thought people might find a YouTube video based on The 10 Commandments kind of funny.

Did you see the Hanzo ad in Lost last night?

May 11th, 2006

In case you missed it last night, you should go to www.sublymonal.com (I had forgotten all about it until I saw it on Monitor Duty today.)

Share Your OPML (aka You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me)

May 10th, 2006

If you’re not an RSS junkie or a Web 2.0 slut, you may have missed the debut of Share Your OPML (share.opml.org) from Dave Winer. For anyone that doesn’t know, OPML can be boiled down to an XML format describing a tree of data (an outline as XML). Currently, this is usually used as a list of your RSS feeds. Most RSS aggregators will allow you to import/export OPML and there are even some interesting utilities like Grazr for looking at your OPML. Anyway, I have been waiting for a while now for someone to come out with a really cool, feature rich OPML site to make people sit up and notice the promise of OPML.

Nope, this isn’t it yet. Before I’m going to really care, I want features like the ability to keep a shared opml in live sync with my newsgator feed list so that I can just subscribe to a list of feeds. Right now, it just feels like it is a place for hosting OPML files with some stats built into the site. That being said, I’ve got a lot of hope that features like this are coming at some point.

If you go to the site, there are 2 main features: Most Prolific Subscribers and Top 100 Feeds. What’s interesting is on Sunday night (of minor note is that at the time, I was eating a cinnamin roll … I love cinnamin rolls … they’re like crack, just cheaper), I went to the prolific subscribers page and out of 100 spots, the highest # of feeds for any one person was 1441 and the lowest was 122 (if you’re interested, the list that I use with Newsgator is about 150). What prompted this post was the fact that the #1 person on the list now “subscribes” to 8808 feeds. How is that possible? (More importantly, why aren’t I subscribing to that many feeds?)

The Top 100 Feeds section is what has probably gotten the most press at this point. Some people (like techcrunch) think that it will become the new hot site list. I don’t know if I’d go that far. Right now, it’d only take 100 subscribers to get into the top 100 list. More importantly, the list is heavily skewed toward tech sites (as evidenced by the fact that techcrunch and engadget help lead the pack). Taking that into account, there are a lot of good sites in the top 100, so I’d recommend taking a look.

Really specific movie genres

May 4th, 2006

I was flipping through a really thick movie guide in the breakroom at work (I was waiting for a hot pocket to heat up … yum … hot pockets), and I ended up looking through the genre section. I decided to look and see if there was a Time Travel section. Sure enough, there was a fairly substantial time travel section. What was odd was that at the top of the listing there was a reference that said

See also: Rescue Stories Involving Time Travel

I wondered if this was overkill, so I went to the listing and discovered that there were in fact 17 movies that fell into the subgenre. Who would’ve thought?

Tables are so 2002

May 1st, 2006
Recently, I’ve been playing around with CSS and structured XHTML as a part of reworking this blog and keeping up with “web stuff”. Therefore, I’ve been eagerly anticipating CSS Reboot Spring 2006. It’s mostly a bunch of people who think that HTML should be valid, well formed, and styled using CSS that decided to update their web sites, blogs, etc. and unveil them today. If you’re a fan of this sort of thing (and how could you not be), I’d recommend going over to the reboot site and visiting whatever sites catch your eye. Since I’ve been trying to figure out the design of the zibblog, I had a lot of fun browsing through and picking up ideas for various features and styles of blogs. One of my favorites (and a blog that I enjoy reading), is If..Else which you should really take a look at.