What’s Fluid Imagination’s Carbon Footprint?
From Slate’s Green my blog.: “Jonathan Koomey…has now estimated how much energy it takes for one gigabyte of data to travel over the Internet….on average, between nine and 16 kWh of electricity to transmit a gigabyte of data. What does that mean for your personal blog? In terms of direct pollution, the impact is likely [...]
This Pajama ‘Blogster’ Knows A Quotable Quote When He Sees It.
From a comment that someone named Drew Fetherston left on Timothy Egan’s NY Times Op-Ed Save the Press: “During the several decades I spent in newspapers, my favorite quote was the one the Scripps-Howard papers used (and still use) as a motto: ‘Give light, and the people will find their own way.’ Give heat, as [...]
Introducing ReCaptcha
First of all, hat tip to Julian’s Twitter message for this one.
Now, maybe you’ve noticed that the comments on FI have been a little slow lately (not to mention the posts themselves). At first, I was thinking that no one was commenting because, well, no one was really writing. But then I remembered, a few [...]
Links for May 18, 2007
Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?, by Chalmers Johnson: “I believe that there is only one solution to the crisis we face. The American people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name and the huge (still growing) military establishment that undergirds it. [...]
Check out my Puppy Blog
Hi Fluid Imagination readers, Josh here. I’d like to invite those of you who know Jody and I–and those of you who don’t–to check out our new Puppy Blog. It’ll have semi-regular updates about our puppies learning to be good productive members of society, including pictures and videos. We’ve got puppy class Thursday night, will [...]
Fluid Imagination Page Graph
This is very interesting representation of the code that creates the Fluid Imagination main page. This tool is the creator. You can see the graphs for other websites by going here.
Heres the color key.
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: [...]
A Mixed Bag of First Impressions
In A Mixed Bag of First Impressions by Democrats at Blog Rendezvous, the NY Times discusses how the politicians courted at the bloggers at YearlyKos, a convention for liberal bloggers held in Las Vegas recently. “Steve Soto, who writes The Left Coaster blog, said that the Democratic leaders running the campaigns to win the [...]
Some Site Updates
I’ve added some nifty little plugins to the site today, and I want to make sure that y’all notice them, because I put in the time, and damn it!, someone better recognize.
The first plugin is for post ratings. You see those stars underneath the title of this post? Well, that lets you rank the post [...]
New Theme
Well, I’ve decided on a new theme for Fluid Imagination. It’s called Tarski. I haven’t tweaked any of it yet to fit my taste. Please bare with me for the next few days while I figure out how to get this thing looking right.
Feel free to leave a comment about what you think. And remember, [...]
Committing MySpacecide
Wired News thinks you should Commit MySpacecide. I don’t have a MySpace account, but it brings up a kind of depressing question: What would happen here on Fluid Imagination if I died tonight? Would someone leave a comment about it tomorrow? Would you make it funny, sad? Would any comment be ghoulish? This is a [...]
